It looks like Descent alright.

But I feel I have really outgrown arena shooters where there is nothing but the twitch reflex gameplay to keep you interested.
The latest Doom or Shadow Warrior have shown that you can spice things up and still have pretty great reflex gameplay alright.

With this, I'm sure I would play for an hour or two and then move on. I really need more than bare bones.

Well, at least multiplayer is planned at some point.

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Well, I hope they learn not to announce stuff they don't know jackshit about in the future.

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With this game you will probably have...

.... a blast!

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Quoting: dannielloCodeWeavers it is company that is mainly responsible for wine development.

Is that so?
Didn't know that, checked the website and at least they claim so.

Makes it indeed worthy to support them. I always wanted to try CrossOver, but the price pushed me away before.

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Quoting: KayKay91

Quoting: TheSHEEEPThe one thing Wine truly needs is a good UI. Prefix management, vital software installation, etc. is so far purely done on the console - and not really in an intuitive way.
Winetricks isn't exactly easy to use, either.

And PlayOnLinux is just years behind in maintaining a useful list of games.

They should really invest some time to "just make it work" or easy to use.
Right now, you always have to fiddle around with it to get anything to work.
That is the number 1 reason many people don't even try use it even if it could run their games.

Check out Q4Wine [External Link] (Otherwise known as Qt4Wine). It is a GUI frontend based on Qt4 which features a built-in Winetricks (Requires installing/updating 1st), prefix management, built-in AppDB, ability to add a library without running WineCFG for the specific executable and more. I myself am using it and so far it does a great job.

That's nice and all, but what I meant was one that comes with Wine itself. An official one that will not be left out in the desert to die if the original maintainer decides he wants to move on and do something else.
I understand the necessary separation between wine itself and a GUI on top, of course. But an official UI that would always be installed with it would go a very long way.

Integrating something like Q4Wine to make it the official one would work as well.

It also doesn't help that the wine version that comes with Ubuntu seems to be the ancient 1.6.

Edit: had a test run of Q4Wine. Not very convincing. I cannot run anything from it without it completely freezing afterwards. Freezes after running Steam, after running winecfg, sometimes right at start, etc..
And I'm on Ubuntu 16.04, so nothing crazy. Only got it to work reliably again after a reboot.

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The one thing Wine truly needs is a good UI. Prefix management, vital software installation, etc. is so far purely done on the console - and not really in an intuitive way.
Winetricks isn't exactly easy to use, either.

And PlayOnLinux is just years behind in maintaining a useful list of games.

They should really invest some time to "just make it work" or easy to use.
Right now, you always have to fiddle around with it to get anything to work.
That is the number 1 reason many people don't even try use it even if it could run their games.

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The New Map sounds interesting to me, but I'm not playing without mods anyway (it's simply too easy) so the hidden features that modders can make use of are what's really important to me.

I wonder how much money I spent on those EUIV expansions by now...
But I guess games that I have spent way more than 400 hours on are allowed to cost some money every now and then ;)

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Quoting: Alm888

Quoting: mcphail[...] [Investment -- the act of putting money or effort into something to make a profit or achieve a result](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/investment [External Link]).
I.e. to "back" a project is to put your money in hopes the product in question will be made. [...]

I don't think you understand the definition correctly. You put in money to get a profit (a business investment) or put in effort to get a result (a personal investment). I might be wrong, of course.

You are most certainly wrong here. The act of investing just means you expect something in return. What that something is, is completely open. In general, of course, it is investing money and hope for more money in return.
In case of a KS campaign, it is investing money and hope for a game you would like to play in return.

Quoting: cprnCrowd funding where some of the users get their product and some not is simply scam.

A scam is when you promise something and then don't even try to deliver, with the intention of never doing so.
That Which Sleeps comes to mind as a KS scam. Or Unsung Story.
And there are many others where people basically just vanished with the money.

But everyone putting money in KS knows (or should know) that they are paying for a dream, or some hope.
There's no guarantee whatsoever and there shouldn't be - as you said correctly, crowdfunding is NOT preordering.
If everything works out positively, the end result is the same, though.

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I honestly think the numbers of linux users are actually growing, but slower than those of Windows users.
Most likely due to Steam getting momentum in the Chinese market - which is afaik mostly Windows.
That would also explain the totally weird growth in Windows 7!

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Quoting: Jmsnz

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: BerenNetmarketshare removed their September figures altogether.

Wow...

wtf? Apple complain?

For those that are 'but the Coffee shop is full of them!' that's because most of the people who will go to buy an overly expensive coffee to feel like they are socializing, but instead just to sit around with their face buried into their computers are douche bags. And as science has proven, most people who buy macs are douche bags. :)

It’s comments like this that reflect poorly on a community.

Nah, sounds relatively accurate to me.

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