Quoting: Speedster

Quoting: s_d

Quoting: Grammar PoliceOh, maybe you meant "game Demos" ??

You've unnecessarily capitalized a common noun, namely "Demos".

Is capitalization under the jurisdiction of the Spelling Police? I have never been Quite sure...

Proper capitalization is an aspect of word-usage and syntax, including rules regarding proper nouns, which places it neatly within the realm of grammar.  Technically, capitalization and spelling both fall under a category called "orthography", but for informal use, such as the scope of this conversation, we can colloquially refer to this as an issue of grammar.  Spelling tends to cover only the ordering of letters within words, with few exceptions.

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Quoting: ShmerlSounds great! Is it going to be sold on Humble Bundle or any other DRM free channels?

Interesting thought.  Are any recent Deep Silver or pre-closure THQ releases available on DRM-free stores?

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Quoting: liamdawe

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Quoting: Article TextThis is a proper AAA First Person Shooter folks, not even Mac has it yet, great news!

Actually, if you make your way down through the SteamDB history, you'll see that they ran a closed beta for OS X over the past two months or so, including multiple build revisions along the way.  I would guess that the Mac version is a bit further along at this point.

Mac doesn't have it yet though, so what I said was still technically true :P

Oh, no doubt, Liam!  I didn't actually disagree, I was simply being a bit of a "wet blanket" and pointing out that fruit-fans seemed to have first favor. ;)

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I'm partial to the art-style of Starbound, and the game looks to have a lot of depth to it.  It's not only pixel art, but it is stylized as well.  I will likely be interested in this title, but it will be down to a number of factors, of course.  As much as the game itself, I'll be interested in how it ends up being distributed.

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Quoting: Article TextThis is a proper AAA First Person Shooter folks, not even Mac has it yet, great news!

Actually, if you make your way down through the SteamDB history, you'll see that they ran a closed beta for OS X over the past two months or so, including multiple build revisions along the way.  I would guess that the Mac version is a bit further along at this point.

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Quoting: SpeedsterHey at least you can keep it running on future Linux versions! So it's not totally worthless.

Yeah, and you can read and learn from the sources, which is great for those of us dipping our toes into game engine sources... and finding it a vastly different world from embedded & device drivers! :dizzy:

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Sad about the Shinyloot deal, as there are games in that collection that have native ports being sold right now on other sites!  Jack Keane is up on Desura for Linux, and BoUT/BoUT:CC are both being sold on Steam for Linux.

Though, now that I think of it, RuneSoft probably can't sell the Linux/Mac versions on Shinyloot while Nordic is selling the Windows versions.  Maybe that would be too complicated for Shinyloot to divide up the money?  Has anyone here bought games from Shinyloot?  Is it like GOG/Desura/Humble where you can download all versions?  If so, then the ports would have to occupy a separate "SKU" in their store.

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Quoting: Hamish...absolves Humble Bundle from turning their backs on their principles and promoting platform-locked and DRMed content, even though it severely damages the whole case that the bundles were trying to make in the first place.

I agree;  I'm still so bitter about the current situation that you'll notice I haven't addressed the bundle (or the Deep Silver news) at all in this thread.   I'm upset, sad, and at a loss for words (for once;  I'm a wordy dude).

Quoting: Hamish...I will not contribute to a bundle unless it is fully cross-platform (including supporting Mac and Windows)...

Precisely.  How rank would be our hypocrisy if we were to limit other's freedom to serve ourselves.  I feel like an atmosphere of choice, and an unprecedented concentration of good-will, has been gravely damaged by their latest offering.

Quoting: HamishI have been playing some of my old games on Windows XP as the old laptop I am stuck on until my RMAd drive finally shows up has on an old XP partition on it.

Nonetheless, you someday may find yourself getting those games to work properly in Linux as well, when school isn't a primary concern.  When you do, you may be in a position to contribute the Wine settings and tweaks you used to get those old games in top-shape on your main machine.  Perhaps PlayOnLinux scripts or similar!  I feel that is Wine's best place in the world;  to be DOSBox for the next generation of fun old games.  In previous jobs, I have done porting work in which I had to have a Windows machine running for testing so that I could compare our port with the original software to ensure compatibility.  It was a fact of life, and I consider it to be a career-focused analog to your exam scenario.

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Quoting: n30p1r4t3^ That's exactly what I do. If a game has a Linux version, I game on Linux. I don't see microsoft as an evil company, after all, they didn't axe Skype for Linux. 

Ah! I misunderstood "...until I can play every PC game I want to on Linux, I will be using windows." to mean that you'd choose not to play any PC games you enjoy in Linux until they were all native releases.  Glad to hear it, and happy to be wrong, buddy! :D

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Quoting: n30p1r4t3

Quoting: Mike Frett

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Quoting: Mike FrettWhat in the world...am I the only Linux users in the world that uses Linux as my only OS?. :(

Some people have to use windows for work, word, etc. Also, Linux doesn't support all the games I want to play. So windows is a must.

I used Windows for 15 years. It's understandable for Work, but I don't feel a Game is worth losing my rights and privacy over. Call me crazy, I just don't think I could knowing use an OS with a backdoor built-in for the NSA or see myself giving money to a company who seeks to destroy Linux by funnelling money to people like SCO and forcing OEMs to place features in Hardware like 'Secure Boot' with sole intentions of impeding installations of alternative software.

Some people I know dual boot, yet spend 90% of their time in Windows. I think people like that should probably just use Windows since it's obvious they have no interest in Linux. I wonder what all those people will do when Microsoft goes belly-up and they lose their crutch, no company lasts forever. I have Games I want to play too, but I value the lives of the men and women who died for the rights that would be stripped from me if I used Windows for a Video Game.

It's not really my opinion, but as individuals we all have different views of the facts. Sometimes it leads us down the wrong path and one day we wake up with less freedoms because of our choices. Like I've always said though, I'll never understand people that use Windows. ^_^

Incidentally, we've heard this same rhetoric from THQ and Blizzard also and nothing has come from it. "I'll believe it when I see it" is a phrase that come to mind, otherwise I ignore them and their Games.

Microsoft is one of the biggest contributors to the Linux kernel. The NSA argument is invalid because no matter what you do, you're still at some risk. I love Linux don't get me wrong, but until I can play every PC game I want to on Linux, I will be using windows.

n30p1r4t3: Regarding Microsoft, from an Ars Technica article about their contributions*:

A new addition to the list of top contributors this year was Microsoft. The Redmond giant was the 17th most prolific corporate contributor to the Linux kernel in 2011. The company first began contributing code to Linux in 2009 when it submitted patches to improve the performance of running virtualized Linux guest instances on Windows servers.

It was a welcome gesture, but Microsoft wasn't a particularly diligent steward of its contributed code at first. The company had some difficulty meeting the expectations of the kernel developers and doing the work to properly integrate and maintain the code it submitted to the kernel. As kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman recently told us in an interview, the issue was eventually remedied.

Their code only enriched their own business ecosystem, and they didn't do a very good job of properly maintaining it, anyway (in a way similar to Google's kernel modifications for Android).  I would not consider this to be a noteworthy effort in improving the experience of Linux users.  Microsoft is no friend to Linux!

I agree to an extent with the NSA argument, but surely you aren't really advocating the stance that no improvement in security is worthwhile unless all risk is eliminated?  That would be absurd.

Lastly, why not enjoy playing some of your games on Linux?  Choosing to avoid it for gaming until every PC game is available seems a terribly harsh condemnation of an OS you care about.  :(

Mike:  I see where you're coming from, but I no more want my choices restricted (i.e., few games on Linux) than I want to limit Windows users from the OS they enjoy.  It probably doesn't help to denigrate them, either.  They certainly make choices we wouldn't, but we might do well to try to be inclusive of them in our community.  We'll draw more flies with honey than vinegar, in my personal opinion ;)

( * Ars Technica [External Link] )

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