Quoting: LinasIf the game actually needs to be hacked to work in Wine or Wine needs to be hacked to make the game work, I think the effort is better spent making an actual native port instead.

End rant. :P

I would want to claim that these are somewhat distinct scenarios (well, they could both happen at the same time, but conceptually). If the game needs to be hacked, depending how much, sure, point taken. If Wine needs to be hacked . . . then the result is, after the game works Wine is a little bit better. If enough people do that, Wine might be quite a lot better. Da power o' open source in action.

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QuoteThere's nothing I have more than walls of text

That's OK, it's your job to produce 'em. Or did you mean "hate"?

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Since I am also what you'd call incompetent at this sort of thing, my pinch-hitting for the AI might not help much.

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Quoting: ShoNuffSome of you are full of it. IF this game works on wine and gets similar FPS to windows install, I guarantee you will buy and play in secret all while claiming NATIVE ONLY (in nerd voice).

Think you're using the wrong pronoun on just who is full of it. I've used Wine for some things (notably Starcraft), I've been known to use a Windows partition for some things, although I'm not doing either just lately. But unlike some, I am not so insecure as to lose it and ooze spite when I encounter someone whose commitment to some ethic is stronger than mine. Sorry, but there really are some people who are willing to endure inconvenience for a principle, and it is the mark of a very small person to pretend they are lying in an attempt to bring them down to one's own level.

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If I were a game developer, and the physical sales were an undifferentiated shmoo, and I were trying to figure out how much money I made from Linux sales, I would get the percentage of Linux sales on Steam, assume that the percentage for physical sales was roughly the same, and count the cash as if that assumption was correct. Same-same for any other sales method I didn't have platform breakdown data for.

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Quoting: Niavok

Quoting: Stupendous Man

Quoting: Stranger... You don't have a speed limit ...

Not even the speed of light? ;-)

Still, with a fighter you can reach very high velocities, more than 1000 m/s, but there is no reason to try it, other than fun. Even if ennemies won't be able to hit you, you won't be able to hit them back, and collisions become much more dangerous.

Huh. So, you can't accelerate to relativistic velocities and drop solid slugs which will strike enemy installations with massive energy yields? Um, just as a random for-instance.

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Quoting: Stranger

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceHopefully they plan a DRM free version

Well it is open-source, so... Duh. :)

I'd just like to correct this : the game's code is open-source, the full game isn't. Basically we're trying to be as open as possible while still selling the game on Steam (and possibly GoG). So the sources are available, it won't have DRM, people may be able to rebuild the game to mod it - but technically the game isn't really open-source.

It's a bit weird, I know.

Not weird at all. Richard Stallman himself says that it's reasonable to copyright art and so forth for games, because art and stories and such are a different kind of thing from, say, recipes and computer programs.

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Quoting: razing32Was that Mozart or is my knowledge of classical music off ?

It's Vivaldi. I believe it's even one of the Four Seasons, but I can't remember which one.

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1. These people seem really cool.
2. More game developers should go with great classical music soundtracks rather than competent-or-worse original music.
3. I love the way everything sort of glides past . . . but it makes me feel like, is there some way to get it to play the Blue Danube?

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Quoting: Bumadaralthough its nice they still working in Dx11 and such, its pretty clear that the whole Steam thing has slowed Wine down on some fronts. The big thing here though is their Office 2013 compatible now (or pretty pretty close), those are the things that keep none-gamers on windows :)

Yeah, Office is a big deal. We're gamers, but other areas have an impact too. For all their supposed newfound fondness for Linux, the day Microsoft port Office to Linux, Satan will be skating to work. Unless or until Windows desktop market share drops to levels that put Linux oldtimers in a post-orgasmic haze, not gonna happen. And until then, it's a real barrier to a whole lot of people across almost every industry; if Wine makes current versions of MS Office work flawlessly that alone would justify its existence.

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