Since the article doesn't explain and I had no idea I'll just leave this;

"FNA is a reimplementation of the Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh libraries."
http://fna-xna.github.io/

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I normally shy away from pre-orders, but if the $40 early access on their website covers Linux in ~8 day I may just have to do it ^^


Not sure if my rig is up for the task, according to the systemrequirements my gtx 970 is enough, but I can't for the life of me figure out the power ratio between various intel cpu's - is my ageing i5 2500k enough?

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Free-for-all is a game type where every body is your enemy, it doesn't mean the game is free (F2P)

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Quoting: tmtvl'Black Ice'? Not my favourite ACDC album, although Work's pretty good.

I'd be surprised if "black ice" is not a reference to neuromancer

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The two videos on the store page have *very* different animation quality;

"comming soon video" ( white clothed guy dancing ) - animation is ok/good

"Trump vs Clinton video" - the animation is TERRIBLE, like goat simulator terrible.

Did the original game also have such awful animations or is there hope that this title will have better animations yet?

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Quoting: liamdaweAh the dreaded "middleware" reasoning again.

Why on earth do developers not look into first and plan ahead?

So frustrating.

The answer to that is fairly depressing I'm afraid; the reason they don't plan ahead is that Linux support isn't something that is being discusses until the game is far enough ahead that the PR department starts making noise and some suit catches wind of this here "leenuks" and sends a memo to the programmers "please add in some leenuks".

And at this point it comes down to blind luck - do the various libs ( or in marketing speak "middleware" ) have Linux ports? can we exchange for another that has?

with the typical game needing libs for;

* Input
* Sound
* VFS/assert managment
* Graphics
* Physics
* Network

and just one of them not having a port is a show stopper, well there is you answer why so many games can't have Linux versions.

Hopefully with Valve creating a bit of awareness for Linux via steamos developers will keep that in the back of their head when starting new projects as to not prematurely close the door on the Linux marked. So that titles that comes out in the next couple of years will ( or atleast can ) have Linux support.

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I don't really understand the problem;

Link keys to their order id, that way if the customer cancels the order or it turns out the credit card was stolen you can cancel the key.


If they are mad that people are selling surplus keys / used games - well tough luck, the customer is well within his right to do that.

Obligatory car analogy; Just Imagine the uproar if the automotive industry tried to prevent you from selling your old car, or came out and claimed that used car dealers was costing them millions. ( by the same "magic accounting" presentent in the article they are )

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