Quoting: BeamboomUser "reviews" are usually just a description on how they perceived the game. Furthermore you don't even know if the writer has understood the genre at all, nor if they have the proper experience to have anything related to compare with.

Quoting: EikeThe only problem left is judging if their fun will be my fun, too.

Exactly. That is the problem. And with that problem, it renders the chatter they call "user reviews" pretty much worthless.

Quoting: EikeWhen I want deeper information, I read game magazines.

And that is a suggestion I fully support!

(edits: Typos, typos. Always typos.)

I take Ark as an example... every time an update comes at least 50% of the haters are going to say they want their money back...
Ark really is the best example on how toxic a community can get if it grows too big.
Yes, there is a lot of things wrong with ark, especially for linux. But if you see the hate reviews on a timeline you will always see a release date followed by a lot of hate.
And there are a lot of other games too with hatereviews.

If I look at a game, I first sort reviews on positive to negative to get a clear view of the nice reviews. Then I go into the community discussions.
I only look for 3 things: 1) positive reviews, 2) abandon were messages in the community, 3) linux problems.
If I have to look at the negative reviews I'd rather go outside for a walk. <salty>Most people are too stupid to enjoy a game</salty>.

Edit: typos.
And one more PS:
I sometimes get so fed up of hate reviews (not negative reviews, but hate reviews), I just sort them on negative to positive, sort out the hate, and mark them as not useful.

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Quoting: Purple PuddingI'm sad about it, Ark seemed to be a great game. I don't own it yet, I'll wait, for Ark or for another great game with dinosaurs (can you suggest me one beside the old but great Jurassic Park Operation Genesis, which is probably playable on Wine?).

I love ark so much I see through it's current state. But the current state is that I do not recommend it to linux users.
If I can recommend ark to linux users, I will be punching liam to try it. But then again, he would probably have tried it.
Anyway: still 1.5 months to go before we are at release + 2 months.

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Quoting: ArdjeDid no one get that crash on EAC? It crashes for me when it tries to do ssl negotiations. I can't find a log about the crash though. It just stops.

Now and then, but it goes away.

I needed to use the hotfix posted in july to make it work again. That was actually the last time I looked at it. And that is all *your* fault due to giving it a good review ;-).

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Did no one get that crash on EAC? It crashes for me when it tries to do ssl negotiations. I can't find a log about the crash though. It just stops.

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The season pass is also full price even for those that already bought scorched earth. I would at least expect them to discount the season pass if you already bought scorched earth.

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Quoting: TheRiddickOh another Unreal engine based game gets removed from the Linux list, WHAT A AMAZING SURPRISE THAT I NEVER SAW COMING... /sarcasm...

As far as I know all UE engines have linux support. The first engine even had glide support next to opengl. And the glide support (or glide itself) was superior to opengl.

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Ah, I nice showcase of how much better vulkan is according to Epic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnKu7MLB7vQ [External Link]
Actually they don't show anything really, but they do say some important stuff, like with vulkan you can keep everything in the gpu.

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I have it, but then I realized I need friends to play it with.
And the first 2 or 3 years it would not even start on my pc.
So I've taken a plunge and walked through it. And that's it.
The time has come that I can choose not to buy multiplayer-only games.

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Quoting: Ardjethe T-Mali series should be vulkan capable, but I fear it's just a lack of drivers.
To be clear: all samsung t-mali based phones from 2014 are/should be vulkan capable due to having the correct drivers.

Meeh... it's a definitive should, but android never got that vulkan upgrade.
https://developer.arm.com/graphics/vulkan [External Link]
My T760 is hardware capable of conforming to mali, but without drivers no mali. Maybe that's the reason the gear vr sucks on this note 4 compared to the S8+.
But yeah: https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-products [External Link]
those are a lot of vulkan conformant products, but since GLES is already lowlevel, UE4 will probably use GLES.

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Quoting: LeopardBecause not every users gpu's are Vulkan capable. For example ; even some cards on Amd supports OpenGL 4.x but they're not compatible with Vulkan. Being only Vulkan games means they will be outcasted.

That's not really true. You are confusing vulkan capable with having drivers conforming to the vulkan API. Vulkan is lowlevel, the driver should give enough handles to be able to use the hardware. the T-Mali series should be vulkan capable, but I fear it's just a lack of drivers.
To be clear: all samsung t-mali based phones from 2014 are/should be vulkan capable due to having the correct drivers.

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