ALL software should be open sourced either five years after date of first sale or no later than one year after it's last update, whichever occurs first. IP law has been so abused that we NEED an over-correction in the other direction to PUNISH the corporations that have used IP law as a hammer to beat little guys over the head with. This lawsuit only exists because Take-Two lawyers ARE BORED and need something to do.

These guys did nothing wrong. It may or may not fall into fall use under the DMCA, but they did nothing wrong.

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Awesome. This and Selaco look like they are going to be great. And great on my new 43in 4K monitor(and will be the only games I can get a playable framerate on with a 5600XT).

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Quoting: M@GOidAlso, MDK is already there, but only for Windows. Lets hope they release it to Linux soon.

It has been my understanding that Shiny suffered a catastrophic storage failure with the source code for the original MDK, so there's no fixing or updating it. This is why MDK2 got the HD treatment but not the first game.

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I was going to buy a 5700G because I can't be certain that the GTX106 that I am using will not die before I can afford to replace it, but then a friend ungraded his 5600XT and sold it to me. Was then planning on a 5900X to replace the 2600 I am running, BUT I want to upgrade to a 43in 4K Asus monitor for better video editing, and this might just be worth waiting for.

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Sweet. I've got a secondhand 5600XT in the mail to replace my gtx1060-6gb. Now all I need is a new monitor, say something in 4K that does 1440p well. And a 5800x or 59000x. And a NAS with 10TB storage. I need a lot of things.

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Quoting: DerpFoxExclusives are always bad.

We can't make a fuss about interoperability. And things not coming to Linux all the time. And as the same time cheer up when some important project like this one is exclusive to Linux because the devs "don't care". It's the exact same attitude a lot of Windows game-dev are giving us. I truly believe we are better than that.

This is non-issue here. This is being done by Linux users on Linux. Looks like they plan to release the code when they have it working, and at that point winblows users and the Apple cultists can spool up their own versions. And I wouldn't get too excited, because as soon as Spiderman PS4 is running smoothly on a Linux machine SONY legal will begin a barrage of cease and desist letters.

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And this is why I am a proponent of mandatory open sourcing for ALL published and sold software five years from date of first sale, or one year after last update with NO EXCEPTIONS.

IP Law is currently nothing more than a giant hammer used by corporate legal to beat the little people over the head with and it's their turn to be on the receiving end.

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It was always going to be this way. The AAA devs are chasing photorealism because they want the segment of the market that will just automatically shell out cash for something shiny.

The result is that PC prices are going back up to where they were in the 1980's, and nobody can afford that. The result is games that cost $100 million dollars to develop, and that is simply not something that can continue. The computer market in general is crap right for reasons that we're all aware of. AMD and Nvidia have both basically announced that there are no more sub-$300 GPUs - the gaming tier is now $350-500.

So how do you solve both problems? You go back to basics. You use a proven, well optimized, low resource engine that can run on a potato, and to make your game visually enticing you have to get creative with the art style. You have to draw players with actual gameplay instead of how realistic the particle effects are.

Selaco seems to be checking all of these boxes:

1)Beautiful art style.

2)Is that a synthwave soundtrack? It sounds like a synthwave soundtrack.

3)The AI squad seems to be behaving similar to FEAR, and that's always a good game to be compared to.

4)The world is fleshed out and alive, with all kinds of buttons to push, stuff all over the walls, intercom chatter, etc.

It looks like this is going to be a very expensive game to make by indie standards, but the money is not being wasted on trying to chase photorealism in the game engine which most people will have to dial down to get playable frame rates, instead it's being put into the game itself. I honestly am looking forward to buying this.

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Quoting: bisbyxCan we also note here:

The Linux port was put on hold while TROY was exclusive to Epic

Epic's complete lack of Linux support means games don't get ported to Linux as well (Because why would you port a game to Linux if there is no way to ship the build or launch it, due to contractual obligations that says distribution must go through EGS which doesn't support that).

Steam's solution sucks for Feral (and anyone doing porting) but at least we get the games running on Linux.

I'm at the point where I just won't buy a game that was an Epic exclusive. I've still got half of my Steam library never installed, so I'm not lacking for new games. If they are going to block me from even playing it, the hell with 'em.

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Quoting: emphyStill peeved at the forced install of that shop to be able to play the game. I'll keep skipping it.

Yes, I can hold grudges for a long, long time.

I bought an X800XT just for HL2. Then on release day I bought both HL2 and Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines at the local Best Buy. Got them back to my dorm room and immediately grabbed HL2 while my roommate installed VtMB. I was one of the people affected by Steam's release day bug and could not log into my account. So, I fired up whatever file-sharing I was doing and grabbed the RAZOR1911 release with the Steam emulator and played the game that way multiple times for three or four years. I finally logged by into Steam for the first time to claim my copy of "The Black Box" for buying another ATI card, and finally discovered that I LIKED Steam.

It was okay. I mean, I wasn't really blown away until Episode 2. I LOVE Episode 2(then I played Portal not knowing anything about it, the same way I saw The Matrix, hadn't even even a trailer). I've recently replayed BLACK MESA now that they have the Xen levels complete, and honestly I can't remember if I was more frustrated with the original HL or with BM, mainly because I haven't played the Xen levels on the original since my first playthough in late 1998.

VtMB on the other hand is something that I've replayed through the years more times than I can count. Love it, but I haven't fired it up since I switched from Windows 7 to Ubuntu. I should probably do that. I just played through Far Cry 4 now that it's working correctly in SteamPlay.

My point is that you should learn to forgive. :)

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