Quoting: Patola

Quoting: rustybroomhandle

Quoting: PatolaAnother victim of cancel culture...

Nobody who uses the phrase "cancel culture" with a straight face can be taken seriously. Off to the kids table with you.

QED. This is a hallmark of cancel culture, there is no discussion, simply personal attacks, sometimes quite vicious ones. Some subjects cannot be discussed. Some opinions cannot be uttered. This is the new, more radical form of making something taboo. It has grave personal consequences.

Stallman lost his jobs because he said something that could be considered a defense of a well known convicted sex offender. He would have lost his jobs 30 years ago for saying the same.

Losing his jobs had nothing to do with any modern day cancel culture and everything to do with our society's eternal vilification of rapist, paedophiles and sex offenders. As you said, "some opinions cannot be offered" and defending a sex offender is one.

I'm sure Stallman will rail against societies closed mindedness but he won't find may defenders.

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Quoting: berarmaPreviously, they would just release the binaries without any marketing/business fuss and it worked great that way.

This is why I don't understand all the people trying to defend them for marketing reasons. They've done it before, and it absolutely would increase sales.
I still have my retail DOOM3 CD's which are windows only, and I happily purchased it because the Linux binaries were downloadable online.

Plenty of games have released for Linux with the mutual understanding between the developers and the community that it isn't going to really be supported and anyone who buys it for Linux is basically "on their own". It's not a new concept.

Lets be completely honest, Linux's market share is tiny and a publisher of Zenimax's size will see no point in porting games to a platform that small. Until Linux's market share is bigger we won't see AAA games released day and date with Windows, Xbox or the PS4.

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