Quoting: jens

Quoting: TeodosioThis is NOT the way to support GNU. Compared to this, we would be better off with Valve's Proton indeed.
The game should have been programmed from the start to be cross-platform.

Please be a little bit more reasonable. Its not like Civ6 is the classical multi player game and is absolutely useless in its current state. Single player worked very well from the start on. I think Aspire did/does a very good job here considering the low number of Linux player. I prefer quality over rushed releases.

I never played Civ multiplayer, I care about the patches.
I hope they develop their next game with Vulkan instead of trying to patch GNU support after the damage has been done...

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Quoting: Kohrias

Quoting: TeodosioThis is NOT the way to support GNU.

I like how you call the operating system GNU instead of GNU/Linux or just Linux.

Yes, the mainstream propaganda has been very effective in basically banning the word 'GNU'. There are many young, innocent souls out there that may get wrong ideas if they think about GNU too much, better keep them safe!

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Quoting: PatolaThis seems to be an enormous development hurdle with likely lots of traps and unexpected behavior due to the small differences involved in calculations of different libraries. I just hope the knowledge that these people have accumulated due to this task is not lost being confined to the proprietary source code of this game. It would be nice if they published a document or book with 'lessons learned' from this programming experience.

It's not Valve by themselves, they are pushing developers to get on board too. First of all, by using Vulkan. Step by step, the developers themselves need to be on GNU. Third party ports are always going to be late, buggier than the original, slower, or all of the three.

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Quoting: Xicronic

Quoting: TeodosioThis is NOT the way to support GNU. Compared to this, we would be better off with Valve's Proton indeed.
The game should have been programmed from the start to be cross-platform.

While it's not ideal, I think having the developer officially support their own product on Linux (even by way of a porting company) is superior to the "maybe it works" Proton offers - and it's not like Valve is going to expand the whitelist to 1,000 games tomorrow.

Proton releases officialy supported by Valve (just a handful of games at the moment) are probably going to be better than most third party ports. And in the first case the developer gets directly involved.

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This is NOT the way to support GNU. Compared to this, we would be better off with Valve's Proton indeed.
The game should have been programmed from the start to be cross-platform.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: gustavoyaraujoWhen will they starting developing exclusive titles?

Exclusives are just bad, no one wants them. They push platforms, sure, but they lock you into things.

How do you get locked in an OS that is free and open?

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It's 'caveat emptor' guys, task ownership of your purchase choices.

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Me too!

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Surviving Mars for me! :D

One Windows and one GNU sysadmin enter a cafe with their laptops. They just received an alert: everything is down and immediate intervention is required. Money is being lost!
They both rush to power on the laptops. Every second is precious.
One of them says: "Hey wait, my computer says it has updates to do and a couple of reboot!"

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I love DRM free games!
And I love Freedom in general!

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