At least at my workplace Microsoft is restricting volume licensed versions of windows in favor of subscription based licenses as of March 31, 2020

Being harder to "borrow" a work CD for home use might also cause an increase in Linux market share.

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I thought most of the reason big companies don't want to support Linux is they don't want to deal with the support costs of a fragmented ecosystem.

Shipping software to a managed compute environment is easier, and I bet Google is probably handling the end user support. (Google might even have paid EA some to get them to provide games too)

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My big concern about WINE was just letting publishers get away with dumping supporting their game on the community, as long as the games have a QA process and someone is fixing bugs in the game engine compatibility layer, I'm happy with this as a solution.

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Quoting: DeinFreundIt'd be great if you could help zk get into one of the repositories. Keep in mind that ZK needs to be always up to date for online play and to receive newly released content, so it pretty much needs to be self-updating.

That's rough since Debian is all volunteer, people sometimes have trouble updating applications as fast as upstream would like them to. (See for example how quickly I noticed this response)

If zero-k doesn't have complex dependencies(1), and actually ships source for everything needed(2), what might work is to work with a Debian Developer as a mentor to help build the packaging, who can then sponsor your package for upload to the repositories. (Ideally within the Debian Games team, so there might be a couple of backup people)

Sponsoring a package is usually easier and so I could reasonably see new versions hitting unstable in a day or two. Packages have a 2-10 day delay before migrating to testing.

If the zero-k versions really do need to match, there's probably no point in it going into stable. It might work to make a release to stable-backports though.

(This is based on my understanding as a Debian Developer but may vary from other developers opinions).

(1) Complex dependencies are requiring specific patched versions of dependencies in the repository are likely to cause problems. Debian prefers projects to reuse shared libraries, and this means dependencies might get updated.

(2) JavaScript applications love to ship minified copies of other javascript libraries, which aren't considered source. This makes it very hard to package complex javascript applications for Debian

(Turned on email comments so I can actually see when you respond)

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Quoting: enzI really wish top-quality open-source games like this were available in the standard Debian/Ubuntu repositories. That is still my preferred method of installing software without having to worry about malware and other security risks.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2017/10/msg00002.html [External Link] seems to suggest the springlobby package can download and run ZeroK

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Quoting: kydrosso many RTS, and the MMOs?

How many MMOs are doing well financially? I get the impression the MMO market is still contracting.

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I just wanted to say:

Bethesda, I am willing to pay approximately $60 for a Linux port of Skyrim or ESO.

I have certainly seen people repurchase games when going between different consoles or MS Windows, usually there the only discount is the normal drop from release price that happens as the game ages.

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Quoting: sasannOnly if they spend their time creating better ports than making silly riddles ...

Pretty sure marketers aren't the ones porting the game.

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Quoting: melkemindHas any of you managed to get this game running on integrated Intel graphics? My daughter wants it on her computer, and her Nvidia card died.

Just ran it on a thinkpad x220 tablet.

lspci says: "VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Lenovo 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller"

It was a bit sluggish, but certainly playable.

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