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Quoting: Mohandevir...saying that winding down SG&E makes Stadia irrelevant is a huge exageration, imo.

It deals a huge blow to Google's perceived commitment to Stadia and it reduces it to the "just another streaming service" status. Before this announcement Stadia was at point when it slowly and painfully gained some measure of credibility and SG&E was to be its main strength.
SG&E was the only way to create those innovatory big awesome games with tech that could only run in the cloud, due to its computing prowess.

The fundamental benefit of our cloud native infrastructure is the developers will be able to take advantage of hardware and power in ways never before possible. (Phil Harrison, Stadia presentation)

What types of games, well, is doubtful we'll know or see any time soon, because no sane third party game developer/publisher will create these Stadia-only compatible games, not unless they're paid huge amounts of money, money that Google clearly doesn't want to spend on Stadia.
SG&E was basically the biggest thing promised, since it was supposed to do what no one else could, and now Google backtracked on that promise, proving doubters right.

Yes, no arguments here, making games is no small feat, it takes great amounts of money and expertise, and going with third party creators is likely the best way, but they should have realize that from the very beginning.
Instead they over-promised and now (after a a botched launch) under-delivered, because "making games is hard". well, no shit Sherlock. Where was Google's wisdom two years ago when it hired Jade Raymond and all those people? Is understandable for a small inexperienced company to get carried away with big plans and promises, but Google should've know better.
Now they're again the butt of jokes in the media, and with enough bad momentum they're likely to slip back into uncertainty territory, both for gamers and game dev/publishers.

They badly need some good publicity to counteract this embarrassing blunder.

I agree, the optics are that Google doesn't have enough confidence in its own platform to fund its own Development studio. The reality may be different, but that's what the public and the developer community sees, they poached a number of very high profile industry veterans and a year later let them all go without any external results, not even enough time for a AAA game to get out of pre-production. It doesn't give any confidence in the platform when people are already extremely distrustful of Google dropping projects on a whim if they are not an immediate game changer and this just gives everyone a reason to say "I told you so".

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I'm really pleased Feral is porting this, I cannot wait!

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The game I would like most on Linux is Divinity Original Sin 2, as its probably the best RPG ever made and still feels fresh and current and still sells 2 years after release.

I would also say Cyberpunk 2077 but it's clear as day that CDPR have no interest in Linux.

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Quoting: KristianSo is Epic now enemy #1 of Linux gaming? I mean they are already effectively paying some developers and publishers to not support Linux, and now this?

Epic is the #1 enemy of gaming. Utter scumbags.

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I don't have any problems with this at all, I'd rather wait for a polished game than buy something disappointing released early.

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This looks brilliant!

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Is there any release date in sight for this game? I'd like to buy it but don't buy any Early Access games.

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"Many of you I'm sure will be extremely happy about this" You're not wrong, I'm really happy its been announced and can't wait for this and the Tomb Kings DLC.

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Quoting: NanobangFrom the beginning, everything Microsoft (why don't I see more penis jokes about their name?) has done has been not only about improving their bottom line by improving themselves and their product, but also damaging, killing, buying out their competition. [External Link]. They have done nothing worthy of anyone's trust, but perhaps trusting Microsoft to fuck people over and take away every freedom they can.

I'm glad to see so many people here saying that they left or are going to leave Github, it's reassuring to see that the Linux and Foss community are aware that Github is no more. Everything Microsoft touches turns to shit. Profitable shit, but shit all the same.

This. Microsoft is not worthy of anyones trust.

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: PatolaAnd does anyone know about Total War: Warhammer II? When will it be out for Linux?

It's never been said it is coming.

It's almost implied. Total War: Warhammer 1 is available for Linux, other modern Total War titles like Total War: Attila and Total War: Shogun 2 too, and TW: Warhammer DLCs work on Total War: Warhammer II. The two games complement each other, and the developers even said something [url="https://www.totalwar.com/blog/total-war-warhammer-ii-coming-soon"]vague about plans for Linux[/url]:
"Will It be released on Mac and Linux from release?
Plans for Mac & Linux versions will be announced later in the year."

Total War: Warhammer I took about a year to get a Linux port, Total War: Warhammer II is less than a year old. So yeah, I still think it's possible they make a port.

I still have my fingers crossed for a port, I think it would make sense as Feral have already ported the first game and got the game engine to work on Linux, they could also port TW: WH3 to recoup some of the engine porting costs, plus theres all the DLC.

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