Quoting: pbDoes Epic allow devs/pubs to sell Epic Store keys elsewhere? If not, why?

There are Epic codes on Humble. Whether they can be generated free of change remains to be seen though.

At the end of day, it seems that Sweeney doesn't get it or tries very hard to make it look different to what it is.

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Quoting: denyasisIsn't it a bit of an inevitability, though?

Playing devil's advocate a bit here, but, since 32 bit is no longer being pushed, Isn't it just a matter of time before it would be dropped or that future versions of libraries would have incapabilities with our beloved older games and programs?

There are two things to note here. One, by the time something is given up completely, there usually something in place to still run you old things. Dosbox for instance (or dosemu before that). Right now the only thing available is to actually have the 32-bit libs (or a VM, but that's too problematic).

Second problem is Wine specifically. Microsoft was very late in moving over to 64 bit. Windows software even later. So while most things native Linux have moved on, the same cannot be said for Windows. Which is a problem for those using Wine.

I agree that it is inevitable, it's just way too early.

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Quoting: TuxeeEven if not - not everything is doom and gloom:

https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2019-June/147898.html [External Link] (Andrew Eikum of Codeweavers)

That's obviously not the whole story. They're looking at minimum requirements to build wine. But let's say you want to run Overwatch on wine with it's braindead 32 bit b.net launcher, then you're looking at a fairly steep list of 32 bit dependencies that the wine team is not going to solve for you.

That said, even if Canonical won't reconsider, I think the packages will be built by others. Maybe they'll move from the base distribution to the "universe" or something like that, but that shouldn't really matter too much for most users.

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Quoting: Tuxee... and my 4 Wine applications seem to work perfectly ok with wine64.

That doesn't mean they aren't 32 bit and use 32 bit libraries.

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Quoting: EhvisSomehow it sounds like this announcement came late for something that is supposed to happen in 19.10. Could it be that they're just testing the waters?

non LTS releases are for testing and development, so in general 32bit support ends in 2021 and even then 18.04 will still get security updates till 2023. I don`t feel any decision could be too late for Ubuntu non LTS release.

Were almost half way into the 19.10 cycle. I think that is pretty late such a decision. And testing resistance is a good way to find out if it's worth going on with it for another LTS release.

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Somehow it sounds like this announcement came late for something that is supposed to happen in 19.10. Could it be that they're just testing the waters?

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Only did a few bot matches so far, but I've been enjoying it. But the game isn't really helping you with learning about the heroes. To be effective, you need to instantly know about their movement, attack, special attack and general role. For some of it you need to open the encyclopedia, but things like movement don't appear to be documented at all.

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Quoting: tuubiAll of the DLC for ATS and ETS2 have Linux support as far as I can tell. I don't remember any delays or omissions at any point. But this one seems to be missing from Humble even though it has been on Steam for months.

There are more missing on Humble. Seems that they're being a bit selective there. Maybe because humble doesn't neatly list the DLC for a game with the actual game.

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Quoting: NanobangIt's not like the risk is hidden ... in a way, it strikes me less as a form of investing than a form of gambling: don't bet what you can't afford to lose. It's why I never gamble.

Exactly. Crowdfunding is a donation towards the developer to show your support. Anything you get from it is a win.

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Does the game have storage buildings these days? When I played it you could only store "outside" and have everything wiped out with a storm. That got tedious really quick.

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