Quoting: Alm888Kickstarter is a wasted money 75% of the times anyways.

That figure would be 6% in my experience. With another 6-10% of projects that were run terribly or had ludicrous delays but still delivered in some form or continue to progress.

Well, I mean, you could argue that games are a waste of money, in which case my Kickstarter backings have been a waste 85% of the time :P

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Quoting: KeyrockAt this point I just assume that every single teaser Feral puts up is yet anothet Total War game.

How many of those are there anyway? I'm starting to feel that sports games have fewer iterations than this franchise :P

Quoting: KimyrielleI guess for TW games there a bit of a saturation process settling in, but it's still great to see such a commitment to our platform by the TW devs.

It would be awesome if more high-profile studios would be just as committed. Feral isn't porting too many TW games at all, there are just not enough OTHER AAA games getting ported.

Well said!

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The "reflect on it all" part can seem a little gloomy. The timing doesn't seem to coincide with a big anniversary if I look at when the studio was founded or when they started porting games to Linux. So it sounds like something is ending. But they could also be looking back at what led them to a new exciting thing.

The wording, for some reason, reminds me of the early Steam Machine teasers. Could be a new partnership with a publisher that didn't use to want their games ported. Or directly with Valve as some people suggested when Proton was announced. We know there's Mac-related stuff in it, so it would make sense.

And let's just throw an obligatory far-fetched prediction into the mix: Feral are developing their own game and it's a Mac/Linux exclusive.

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I was given a Steam Controller from a friend and I'm pretty glad I didn't have to pay for it. It feels just too big in general, with several buttons out of natural reach, and the touchpad surface chafes. PS3 and PS4 controllers would be my controllers of choice, but the last time I tried to use a DUALSHOCK4 on Linux/Steam it made games unplayable because of extreme lag. Looking at those charts, maybe I should try a GameCube controller, since that's the only one I still own ^^

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Quoting: liamdaweTruthfully, I've not always had a great experience with Lutris. The interface needs a lot of work to make it more friendly ...

Same here. In fact, though I've no interest in making videos, I nevertheless seriously considered making one of me trying to use Lutris, so the devs could see what a confusing morass the UI was for a (or at least this) uninitiated user.

That sounds like a really good way to relay that information to them. Good thought!

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Quoting: zen_xeno

QuoteWould you sacrifice your rights as a consumer for direct customer support on your platform?

This is not a right which exists, so it is not available to be sacrificed.

That sentence tripped me up a bit too, but I think we should understand it as "your rights as a consumer, in exchange for..."

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Quoting: 0aTTEven a game like Portal2 is censored in Germany. Fortunately only mild.

Whoa, what? It's been a while since I played it, but isn't the game free of both nudity and violence? Does German law have something against paint?

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceI'm not a big point and click guy but at that price I gave it a go.

That trailer doesn't look like a point-and-click at all, though

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyHis ideal it seems would be a Linux that continually improved in quality and which was treated as a first-class OS citizen, but without actually growing much in number of users so as to stay a congenial group of communities.

That's not what I perceived from your quoted text. The idea isn't that we shouldn't grow much, but that we shouldn't grow too fast. Notice, in particular, "work to artificially inflate the userbase" and "create a more attractive platform" (emphasis mine of course). I think his point is that if you just invest on putting a half-baked product into more people's hands to inflate your numbers, you'll ultimately shoot yourself in the foot by showing potential returning customers a bad experience. Whereas by prioritising your product's quality, you may not get as fast a short-term adoption as with an equivalent marketing budget, but your retention rate will be much better and favor steady growth.

We don't want everyone to use Linux so we can make it better.
We want to make Linux so good everyone wants to use it.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

QuotePlenty of doctors here still use dictation and have secretaries transcribe everything for them,

Pompous bastards.

Leaves more time for actual consultations. Waiting rooms are crowded enough as it is, and it's easier to find someone who can type than someone who can give sound medical advice.

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