Quoting: razing32What are you talking about ?

Well, I'm talking about a (hopefully) very small but very vocal part of the Linux community that is nearly blind due to ideology and principles and can't even see anymore when they get presented with a gift.

I'm truly happy and grateful when I'm behind my Fedora box with NVidia closed source driver and able to enjoy games like Hitman, Tomb Raider or CIV VI etc. purchased and started from Steam with just a few clicks. It is close to unbelievable that this is now possible on Linux. But instead of being very grateful to the companies and people behind it for making this possible and letting the market slowly grow, I'm constantly reading arguments that the parties that made this happen but obviously also want to earn money are evil and hostile against Linux:

- Steam is bad, they offer a closed source distribution platform
- Steam is even more evil because they seem to have lost they Linux focus and won't bring VR to Linux
- Gog is hostile because the abandoned their plans for Galaxy on Linux
- Nvidia is bad cause they don't open their driver and don't participate in upstream development
- Publishers are bad because they don't port game x or y
- Porting Studios are bad because because they use kind of wrappers and haven't yet completely embraced Vulkan
- Smaller Studios are bad because they don't want to deal with Linux support
- Newcomers on the complex Linux platform will be openly attacked when they can't get everything right the first time.

I could go on and go on :(

Really, I think Linux had they peak regarding to gaming. I sincerely hope that I'm wrong, but I fear we are shooting our self in the foot due to not seeing our chance and due to completely unrealistic demands for such a small market.

Coming back to the article this is about. It is actually fantastic news that some employees in the background of the big player EA do consider Linux in the future. But the overall response here is mostly: they are evil due to actions in the past, I wont buy from them, full period. I wouldn't blame the people that fought internally within EA to have some resource freed for Linux to throw the towel in the ring and give up on Linux entirely after reading this.

Please, just be a little bit grateful when companies and people behind it are reaching out a hand.

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Quoting: BeamboomGeez, a lot of religious fanatics here.

Thank you, exactly my thoughts. The big boys are very carefully exploring our market and we are burning them immediately at the stake instead of welcoming them with open arms :(

I would definitely buy an EA game if its a game of my taste. No matter of Steam, DRM, always online only, Nvidia closed source only, I don't care what. I wish that people would only want to play some cool games instead of fighting a holy war and hunt for every disbeliever.

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Quoting: NanobangHmmm. I'll go ask Time. Time will tell. ;)

Time will tell even very soon since it's in the very soon lane :)

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To quote myself from https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/2904

Strange indeed. I would still go for F1 2017 since that was just released to Mac.. but I hope that I'm entirely wrong and that I soon have to spend some money for F1 2017 _and_ something very cool I don't know yet :)

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Quoting: TheRiddickHalf the YT gamers support G2A and embed ads to them, the other half think their the spawn of Satan. Honestly you can't win, I will use G2A if I miss a special on something, and from what I have seen most games are fine on G2A its just a few developers that get hit with credit-card fraud and charge backs.

IMO those keys should be forcibly invalidated and then G2A will need to provide a new key, this is doable if you pay via paypal because there are big repercussions if they don't deal with it correctly.

I would guess that deep inside you know that you are not doing the right thing here.
I can't blame the studio's if they are turning their back on Linux if the market is already that small but people are still feeling the need to use questionable sites just to safe a few bucks. Greed is sad :(

PS: But thanks for being honest and letting this discussion happen in the first place.

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Quoting: KimyrielleI was about to say "awwww, pooo!", then I suddenly realized I never play Civ in muliplayer. *shrug*

Same here. Cool that it is coming and I'm glad that I had purchased it (as Linux sell of cource ;)). It's a cool game!

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Quoting: Lakorta

Quoting: jensCurrently available on Linux it would be Dirt Rally, currently available on all platforms I would say Assetto Corsa.

How about Grid Autosport? Is that any good?

It's not that bad if you prefer fun above realism. It's types of races, cars and tracks are closer to Assetto Corsa but handling, feeling and realism of Assetto Corsa is better imho. Dirt Rally has a feeling and realism like Assetto Corsa but stays in the rally world, thus rally tracks and mostly races against the clock. Note that you actually need a good wheel, Logitech G25 in my case...

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Quoting: Xpander

Quoting: chancho_zombie

Quoting: STiATFav car game? Dirt Rally ofc!!

agreed best racing game ever we need Dirt 4.

DiRT Rally is best racing game indeed, not so sure about Dirt 4 though, seems like more arcade and with lots of weird stuff and boring tracks.. but still would play ofc :)

Currently available on Linux it would be Dirt Rally, currently available on all platforms I would say Assetto Corsa.

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Quoting: Marianotl;dr GOG is not a crusader and Valve is not the devil, both are businesses

Exactly ;)

I agree (based on what I read here, haven't followed myself) their communication could have been better. But being "hostile" is something entirely different.

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Quoting: TheRiddickLike I said they are HOSTILE towards Linux, don't know when that will change.

This "If you are not my friend, then you are my enemy" attitude usually serves no one. Why is it so difficult to just accept and respect that different people value different things in life? Really, this is no declaration of war from them. They just decided (most likely after a lot and long of internal discussion as it happens with strategic decisions in companies) that their business is elsewhere. That's all.

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