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The second ever GamingOnLinux GOTY award is now over! Thank you to every one who voted, give yourselves a pat on the back.
Congratulations to all the winners, you deserve it as voted by our readers!
This was a much bigger turnout than last year in votes, and it all went over pretty smoothly I think!
Psst, please mind any issues with the charts above, they are brand new. The graphs are made possible using the awesome SVGGraph script, with a little of my own magic.
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Quoting: BeamboomI must say I'm surprised about Cities: Skylines receiving that many votes. Apart from that it all looks fine although only one of my favourites won. :)
Me too, I recently bought the game, made a large city, and grew really bored; the game has close to no difficulty as is really just a sandbox. Oh well, to each their own.
It's a city builder. Surely it's supposed to be a sandbox. If people like city builders at all in the first place, surely most of them won't be put off by it being a sandbox.
Quoting: ripperSince when is Unreal Tournament an open source game?
The confusion might come in because technically the source is available for the engine, but yeah it's definitely not Freely licensed.
Actually there is an argument to describe Unreal Tournament as an Open Source game, since it uses an Open Source development model. It is certainly not Free Software though, because as you say, it is not freely licensed, which also conflicts with the generally understood meaning of the term Open Source, but not the development model.
Which is why both terms are terribly muddled. Free Software has the gratis connotation in English, while Open Source describes a development model that not all Free Software has to adhere to, as it is perfectly possible to develop a Free Software program in a closed fashion as long as the end result is freely licensed. Or as we see in this case, the opposite is also true.
Semantics are fun. Game of the year fun?
Last edited by Hamish on 13 January 2016 at 5:46 pm UTC
As others have said, I had a hard time voting because I have not played all the games that got nominated. I don't think there is any easy way to avoid that kind of bias. We buy the games that appeal to us and can only compare them as we have experienced them.
Quoting: adolsonInitial takeaway: Axiom Verge got robbed, and too many people use Wine.
While Axiom Verge is one of my favourite games of 2015, I recognize that Metroidvania games only appeal to a subset of gamers. I can't fault people for liking other games more! But, damn, Axiom Verge was really good...
One remark: The major category of such a vote IMHO is "Best game". I would put this result at the end of the article, not somewhere in the middle. Create some tension, some step-up! :)
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