As with Beamboom and STiAT, I'm looking forward to playing this, but don't generally buy EA games. I'll buy when it's "released" and after all the coverage GOL has given it over the years (wow... nearly five! Five years!! And four of those on Linux, it's almost certainly an instant buy!

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: FoxyFirst they ask for more money to keep up the project & now they decided to cancel it ???

Unbelievable...

The article is pretty clear that it's not cancelled, but maybe you should read the original comment to make up your own mind.

Before saying that kind of things maybe you should learn to build your own opinion instead of believing things of one person especially when this guy who was supposed to lead the project ended up by tooking the money of thousands people to play with it.

So... even though I didn't state an opinion, and simply referred you to the facts as presented in the article... let me get this straight... I need to "learn to build my own opinion". Presumably, instead of using facts.

Whoa, gotcha. Glad we cleared that up. Peachy.

At a guess, I suppose I'm only meant to this when my "opinion" (or the facts) don't align with your own. Amarite?

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Quoting: FoxyFirst they ask for more money to keep up the project & now they decided to cancel it ???

Unbelievable...

The article is pretty clear that it's not cancelled, but maybe you should read the original comment to make up your own mind.

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Huh. I didn't realise Cinnamon and XFCE was the default experience on Ubuntu. :S:

I wish developers would just support the default, out of the box experience. Really weird to hear things like "Ubuntu is a mess" when they're actually talking about various respins. Valve's official line is that they support "Unity, KDE and Gnome". No mention of Cinnamon or XFCE!

That said, they also say they only support Ubuntu 12.04, which is hardly ideal in 2018...

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So, so happy to be getting the sequel. Absolutely LOVED the first one, so this is a full-price insta-buy for me. And Vulkan! Boom!

Just superb.

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Love the look of this - and as a certified TD addict, it's an essential purchase!

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Quoting: omer666So the rampant negativity won in the end. Well, whatever...

I bought it full price despite the negativity, but I have to admit... I only played 22 hours before just, kind of, moving on. It didn't grab me. I found the low quality of tutorials really frustrating (like the elf-like race creates some kind of portal, but I didn't know why I had to create them - was just told doing so was vital... okay then). Winning a scenario tended to revolved around zerging resource spots early on, consolidating briefly, then zerging the next. So much for tactics.

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I'm looking forward to trying this. Hopefully not another eternally EA title and from the sounds of it, it's not.

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You can't beat anecdotal evidence for this stuff. I gamed on Steam from 2004'sh to 2013 on Windows and it felt like I got the Steam survey every couple of months, certainly in the mid-2000's, when Valve established Steam as more of a gaming platform and less of a "sell Half-Life" vehicle. Then, I moved to Linux on beta Steam in 2013 and since then - two (maybe three?) surveys since. Total. In around four years.

Valve engineers can tell me that this is working "as intended" until they're blue in the face. Doesn't change my experience of the system.

I only care about this because I'm worried about the picture it paints to developers. And I'm optimistic (overly so, I admit) that there's a damn-sight more Linux users out there than this survey suggests, with or without PUBG trends.

So, I love the dev interviews Liam conducts with their sales figures. These often (not always, but often) show a MUCH higher percentage of Linux sales over the established "1%". Hopefully that continues to be the case in the future.

Either way though, I've pitched my tent. No going back for me. It's the been the Year of the Linux Desktop in this household for over four years.

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£4?? Why don't I own this yet? Looks great, will be checking it out soon.

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