Quoting: liamdaweOf course, benchmarks only tell a tiny part of the story. I personally never put too much faith in benchmarks, considering you need to have the exact same hardware and software setup to see my scores. The question is, how does the game actually feel to play? Hopefully I will answer that and more below!

The numbers are absolute. They are objective facts. The issue is that a lot of people don't know how to interpret them properly and how they translate into subjective experience. People don't understand what the numbers tell us, and what they don't tell us. For one thing, they don't tell us anything absolute about the all important input latency, although it tends to decrease with increasing frame-rates.

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Quoting: hardpenguinBut most of Linux users use Steam in English.

I doubt this.

I did as well, but then I checked which language my Steam install was. I use it daily and I didn't even realize it was in English. :)

No English is not my first language nor is it the language of my Ubuntu install.

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Quoting: g000hI think what annoys me about this news is the fact that most of the copies of Windows being used in China are pirated. Previous news stories estimate 90% of Windows in China is pirated. A few years ago, Steve Ballmer stated it being the case. It is clear that Chinese do not want to pay for software, probably because typical earnings are not great and probably because they can get away with it without fear of repercussions.

The thing is... They could be using Linux instead, and for FREE. And no WannaCry or other malware that has gone through Windows installs over there. Imagine the boost to Linux if all those Chinese had not been pirating...

This is also why Windows 10 plummeted and Windows 7 made huge gains. Pirates just seem to prefer the latter.

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Quoting: SkinnyrafWe need PUBG on Linux, period.

I don't see that happening. M$ is all over it trying to take it to Xbox and making it M$ exclusive.

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These numbers will all go back to normal soon, becouse Chinese government wants to ban PUBG.

http://www.pcgamer.com/pubg-faces-china-ban-for-deviating-from-socialist-core-values/ [External Link]

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@ Mountain Man, Rutine and everyone else quoting me with counter arguments:

Don't want to sound harsh or pick a fight, but gullible fans like you are the reason publishers can keep up manipulative schemes like this.

You say you can skip the expansions and just stay with the free patches? I've tried this and the game gets more broken every time it's patched unless you buy the expansion. The base game is basically a demo, for which they are charging you 40€.

You say it's okay to split expansions into two or three DLC's (gameplay, graphic assets, music). Did you realize that just the gameplay package costs 20€ alone? This doesn't seem to be in line with the rest of the gaming industry. I can spend 10€ on a Arma 3 DLC and get gameplay, art and music assets and that's not even discounted. The price of EUIV expansions are not justified IMO. They aren't comparable to something like Arma 3 Apex in scope. They are more like Arma 3 Marksman or Helicopters DLC.

This is going to be somewhat related to the last section. You say they often have discounts? Looks to me like the 75% discounted prices are in line with what other companies would charge normally without any discount. If they discounted everything, which they never do at the same time, it would still be 60-70€. As a comparison, The Witcher 3 GOTY with all expansions and content is normally 50€, without discount. The latter provides way more content.

That's it for now I guess, but do you see how you are being manipulated?

Edit,
Just a little TL,DR:
They know exactly how you are thinking and what your buying habits are, and they are using it to their full advantage to make maximum profit.

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As much as I love these games, I despise Paradox for their DLC strategy, which is designed to milk every last penny out of us. The base game currently costs 39.99€ on Steam, but that is just a shell of what the game should be. To get the full experience you have to throw another whopping 279.74€ on DLC. It's the same disgusting thing EA did with The Sims.

Edit: They don't even have the decency to sell a complete expansion. Instead they split every expansion up in two pieces, one with gameplay mechanics, and another with art assets. How disgusting is that!?

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Quoting: lvlarkHmm, I do have a dedicated GPU, don't know why it wasn't listed. Fixed that now though. However I still expect my system to struggle, as it does with other strategy games whenever there's alot going on.

A 7850 uh? Should be enough the get the game running and playable I guess, but don't expect to max out the graphics settings. To be honest though, the graphics aren't that great anyway in my opinion, so you might not be missing out on too much by lowering the settings to suit your system.

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Quoting: lvlarkHells yeah! ..Except there's no way my machine is going to handle this, look at all the stuff going on. I need to upgrade...

It ran okay for me back when I had Windows and an FX-8350 paired with 16GiB DDR3-1333 and a R9 290X.

Looks like you don't have a dedicated GPU though, so that's going to be an issue.

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Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTThe paradox titles are more round based strategy, aren't they?

They are technically real time but they play a bit like turn based strategy because you will be using pause a lot while micromanaging things.

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