Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: GuestEA purchased by Microsoft would be a fitting fate.

I sadly still have some nostalgic feelings toward Electronic Arts. Back when they had a ECA as their logo. Great games like Lords of Conquest, Racing Destruction Set, Starflight, etc. That was before they became a sports game publisher and all the other crazy money making schemes.

Not sure if Origin is as shit as G4WL though, is it?

I remember those days too... EA used to be a distributor of independent games when the industry was very young. Archon, Populous, M.U.L.E., Pinball Construction Set, plus the titles you mentioned. I still remember they used to package floppy disks (5 1/4" at the time) in a sleeve similar to record albums (I'm also old). This was back in the 80's during the time of Atari's and the Commodore 64, before "IBM compatible" became a thing and made it out of the office into people's homes.

I miss some things about those days, and I miss EA of old. Now I wonder (with glee if the rumour becomes true) which (EA or Microsoft) would get the worse part of the deal in any buyout. This type of deal would not impact linux, its not like either company would support us in any case.

But lets face it, the EA of old is long dead... the SecuRom controversy, forcing solo players to play online (SimCity anyone?) turning off authentication servers so no one can play old games, buying exclusive sports rights so no one else can compete with the crap they spew out, and killing good IP by buying it and letting it die... Westwood, Origin, and the old Dungeon Keeper game that they turned into a crappy Free2Play/Pay2Win phone game. YES, the EA of old is dead. May they merge and hopefully both die a little sooner.

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I will probably get it... It really does seem to be a great value for linux this time. Shockingly, the only one I have is Age of Wonders 3. (though I wonder if Broken Sword might be in my library from old HIBs.)

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I'm glad they are working on the big complaints...

I will give it another look when they update the AI.

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I forget, is OpenRA one of the titles that require access to graphical assets?

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: MintedGamerThese great, entertaining, games get a Linux version and then Linux gamers find excuses not to buy them.

"This game isn't something I'd enjoy" seems like a damn good excuse to me. Paradox is a great developer, but our community might very well be too small to support their particular niche at this point. I do hope they'll manage to keep supporting Linux though.

Absolutely. No one should buy something that doesn't interest them. Supporting a publisher that does not create games that you are interested in is futile. (Note: I'm talking in general here, not specifically about Paradox or Surviving Mars.) The publishers creating items that you are interested in are the ones that should be supported.

The concept of being altruistic and supporting devs for supporting linux is a valid reason to buy something... But, just remember it goes both ways... How many devs are willing to support linux for a reason other than profit?

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Hunie Pop is now available through GOG Connect. :whistle:

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While they have me intrigued, the trailers have not hyped me up to the point of needing a pre-order. While I expect Paradox to faithfully support linux in this case, IMO too little is known about actual gameplay to avoid a possible bust at launch. That is why pre-order is off the table.

Recently, Railway Empire was a game that I enjoyed the trailer and it looked like a good game to buy. I had it on my wishlist and then it was released. However, the game never lived up to it, and had many negative reviews on launch. Railway Empire is now completely off my radar, but may be re-considered if the devs fix the AI and other problems. While this is a completely different game, it illustrates why pre-orders are a bad idea... regardless of the linux support issue.

In addition, the "Season Pass" approach annoys me. An expansion pack used to be done after a game was a success to give fans a little more. (Think Diablo I & II and the original Starcraft; even the Command and Conquer series used to do expansions right IMO) Now it seems to give you an incomplete game with the idea of stringing fans along to have them pay more money overall.

And when a game has pre-planned expansions it usually is incomplete, if development on a certain feature will not be complete by a deadline, they just skip adding the feature until the next expansion. And this can happen easily.

I'll wait for the game is done before I consider buying.

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Odd... Right now on Steam, you can buy the game for $10. However, the "supporter edition" which adds the soundtrack is currently 25% off... which means adding the soundtrack is $9... which is cheaper than the base game.

Not unheard of, but unusual.

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Quoting: razing32I felt so sorry for the poor guy trying to get his hat.
Glad I bought this game.

Well it could be worse than mopping floors... He could be the one cleaning out the latrines. :)

I enjoy the game too... I'm glad it made it to linux.

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Quoting: KelsI've had the game quite a while now, and I played it a bunch at the time. But for some reason I haven't been able to get into it as much since then.

Same here... Bought it a while back... Played it over 150 hours, but not recently.

I still like it, but I blame other titles for keeping me away.

I also like the brutally hard default settings.

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