I am in the same boat with exclusives, I think they are a bad idea, but I seen how they can work to the advantage of the console company.

Anecdotally, my co-workers who are console gamers all own multiple consoles, specifically due to exclusivity. I've actually heard this exact conversation many times:

"Hey bro, you should go get [console X] so we can play [game y] together!"
and usually right after payday, some one comes up and says "Hey I got the console and game, wanna play?"

Now yes, they just dropped several hundred dollars for to play one game, but as calvin pointed out, they now have a system guaranteed to play every game released for that console and they are unlikely to only ever purchase one game over the lifetime of the console ("Hey bro, [games y 2] just came out, are you getting it?).

While it's just my personal experience, I can see how exclusives to work for the console company from a business point of view. I still think they are a bad idea, especially for linux. I think our user-base is too small to make it a sound financial strategy.

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Space Empires IV (wine) - The closest I can get to playing/comprehending Aurora. I really love the ship design system and the need for an actual cohesive fleet - Although Its clearly leaning toward Micro-Management-Hell as the game progresses

Dominions 4 - I've done a few random Early Age games - so much fun. Less micro than the above to the point where you feel you really are running a nation/religion

Homeworld (wine) - Works great and I love the story so far - I'm just too much of a perfectionist to stand loosing a bunch of big ships and I keep replaying the missions over and over.

I'd love to get my some of my friends into Dominions as I think PBEM with a few of them would be a blast (I'm generally not into multiplayer at all, but we all like board games and Dominions feels more board-game than computer sim - in a good way)

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Out of Curiosity, what is the actual cost of support? I was under the impression most of the builds are automated? or does it require substantial code modification to switch between 32 and 64 bit?

I use 32-bit on my HTPC - its an 10 year old laptop running Kodibuntu that we use for streaming. I suppose I could switch to a Pi3 if hardware support ended.

I have a family member who used a 32-bit Gateway PIII as a home file server until the past year or so (lasted 16+ years) so I can imagine a good number of people who use older hardware where they can't afford new hardware to play around with or replace. That was my case growing up. We had an 8086 until 1994 and I used my 286 all through school until 2002.

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Syberia via wine and some Din's Curse

Took a little while to get Syberia running. but I have it at full screen in all its glory

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Sounds Really interesting. Tell me, I've never done an online game, is this something that you can play semi-casually (Not sure if the right word - play for a short period of time every once in a while), or does it require a rather large time commitment to really enjoy?

I ask as I only have a few hours a week of time to myself for R&R and if you need a continuous session to be a few hours long (before you can save/quit), I might have to skip it until I get more free time!

Thanks!

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I've had the same issue for months on my Sparky Installation. I also have the Steam Repo in my sources. It doesn't seem to affect anything, but it is nice to have a work around!

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Quoting: IvancilloI'm not sure about this. ...

Thanks! You have a really good point. Most of the old utilities existed to fix issues with the game and it's handling of mods/scripts. I'll have to look through the project and see what the differences are as I hope that many of the well known Morrowind "bugs" are fixed so that things list merging Leveled lists, etc are no longer necessary.

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How is the mod support? I still play Morrowind via wine with a lot of mods and utilities (FPS optimizer, wyremash, etc - could never get MGE to work...)

Its a shame so many of the mods seem to b disappearing off the internet....

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Keyrock - What is your trackball? I've been looking to replace my old one, but don't want a thumb ball...

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