Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: x_wingPeople will really piss off for having such a huge number of stores in order to have their games. All this stupidity will just benefit console gaming in the end...

Number of stores is not a problem (or do you prefer oligopoly?), as long as they won't start pushing the sick exclusives approach.

Number of stores isn't a problem, but number of store clients is. In an ideal world you would be able to use a single FOSS client to install and update all your games (plus install mods, connect to multiplayer, achievements and other social features, etc) regardless on who you buy it from. But we are far from that reality. Buying a game on GOG often means missing out on mods only available on Steam, for example. Buying from some stores means terrible DRM and launchers. And so on.
Also, if the stores are filled with exclusives, the competition is severely limited - you can't choose who you want to buy each game from, just what games you want (which is competition between developers, and shouldn't be the competition between the stores...).

Regarding this new Epic store... this company has a single product so far, which isn't available on Linux. I would not call this promising for us.

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Dungeon of the Endless, yay! One of my essential games to run through wine, now officially supported by valve. Hope the other games by the studio (Endless Legend and Endless Space 1 and 2 ) also make it eventually.

Also excited about steins;gate, lack of Linux support has held me back from buying and playing so hopefully this might be one of the first proton games where I count as a Linux sale (so far I have only played games I already owned, mostly from before I switched to Linux full time).

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QuoteThat's a little worrying, but it doesn't mean they will suddenly stop having Linux ports of their games

Well, not suddenly. inXile had a solid track with Wasteland 2 and TToN, but with Bard's Tale 4 they already stopped developing for Linux and decided to make a delayed port, despite the crowdfunding promises. Obsidian has released games without Linux support before.

Anyway, Microsoft might not be very invested in sabotaging Linux gaming, but we certainly can't hope they will be supportive. Things like DirectX, Xbox live and the windows store are probably higher in their priority list than "helping that insignificant competitor".

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Hmm, Civ 5 works perfectly on Linux for me (faster than on Windows, even). I had some issues with mods, but the base game was great. I didn't know that people had problems with the port. Civ 6 is unplayable for me on Linux, but my integrated graphics is bellow minimum specs on Windows and unsupported on Linux so I can't really complain.

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I saw this on my feed right after a post about the game finally getting a release date and got really hopeful that this time it would be day-1 Linux support. Alas, it was too much to hope for.

Well, considering it will be many years before I get a PC that can run a recent Total War game, I don't really care for the delay.

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QuoteThe Windows version is still on schedule for the 18th and then all hands are on deck to get the Mac and Linux versions out as fast as we can.

This is a very positive way of saying "we failed to develop the game for the platforms we promised, we can't say how long the port will take".

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Surviving Mars.

QuoteAll computers I ever owned ran Linux. I had some computers running Windows at home, but they were Microsoft's. There was also a Mac, but I think it was the Mac who owned me.

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