I don't trust ANY big business, because every sufficiently large corporation in history has turned out to be evil. That being said, saying "sorry" goes a long way with me. It's certainly appreciated!

Let's be honest, MS won't open-source Windows anytime soon. It won't go THAT far. But with their focus now being cloud-services, they are well aware that the open source community is no longer a threat to them, because it no longer directly competes with them. On the contrary, they might even find a lot of OSS projects useful to them. Also, MS is probably aware as well as we are that they have lost the OS war. Yes, yes, they still have a near-monopoly on the desktop, but if you look at the ENTIRE devices market (which includes smartphones, tablets wearables etc.), they have a laughable market share these days.

So it makes sense, really. MS is probably better off embracing OSS these days than actively fighting it. It's the better business decision and they are a business.

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Quoting: Mountain ManWhat are the main differences between CK2 and CK3?

I'd guess comparable to Sims 1 and Sims 2? Better looks and hopefully some improved mechanics, without destroying what made the older title great! :D

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I am curious if they can really pull it off to make the game more accessible without dumbing it down. But this is definitely my most anticipated game of 2020. Can't wait! :)

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As much as I despise Epic as a company, but that looks pretty amazing for sure! Give credit where credit is due! But yeah, it'd better run on Linux!

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Quoting: Liam DaweAgain, speculation, no one knows and it doesn't help anyone to act like we know and say they have abandoned anything. Don't spread the negativity that's just not needed.

Fine. Let the facts speak, then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspyr

Fact is that Civ 6 WAS their last Linux port. Yeah, I get it, just negativity.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Mountain Man

QuoteAspyr Media, who did the original Linux port of Sid Meier's Civilization VI have been contacted about it. They've been pretty silent recently (Borderlands 2/TPS are missing updates)...

I've been largely disappointed with Aspyr. They did some good work early on bringing games to Linux and then all but abandoned the platform.

If they're getting these DLC up at the same time, as we've been told and quoted in the article, they've clearly not abandoned it.

To be fair, this is very likely because of their agreement with Firaxis covering the DLCs, so they probably HAVE to. Aspyr did NOT port any newer game to Linux since then. They did indeed abandon Linux.

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Quoting: DMGDid they finally fixed AI or it still as bad as it was in beginning and question "what else can we do" was more about "how else we can milk money from those players, without fixing the game"?

The AI will always be bad because of how complex the game is.

I don't think I can agree with that. There is no reason why the diplomacy AI needs to behave like a drunkard, yet it has been doing that since Civ 1. Being best buddies in round N, then declaring war out of thin air in round N+1? Give me a break, that's not a game being too complex, that's just a badly written AI.

If you want an example of games WAY more complex than Civ 6, and still have an AI that doesn't do overly stupid things every other minute, just go look at any of Paradox's grand strategy titles.

About the packs. I dunno. I feel that Civ 6 already has plenty of Civilizations to pick from. The additional ones won't add a lot to the game. This is indeed more about milking every last possible drop before announcing Civ 7.

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Godot is probably the most exciting OSS project right now. :)

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Quoting: Liam DaweAnd yes, some of it is an arbitrary decision. I cover things based a lot on personal interest, hence very little visual novel coverage here for example.

Fair enough.

Moving on! :)

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Quoting: Liam DaweSo people having another way/option to play games, while on Linux, is now not good news? Madness. I get not wanting to use it but it's an option and for many, a good one to play games that were previously impossible.

If you don't like it, don't read it or just filter it out in your profile settings. It's as if people just want to moan at this point and it's not productive for anyone.

It's not that I couldn't get behind the reasoning "If it can be played on Linux we'll cover it." I don't think that's the issue why some people find covering Stadia here a bit odd. It's more because covering Stadia but not great new Windows games that have, say, at least a Gold rating on ProtonDB seems to be a very arbitrary decision. If playing on Stadia is gaming on Linux, so is playing Windows games on Linux with Proton. I don't get why one is covered and the other is not.

I get the idea that GoL is your blog and you can write about whatever you and whenever you want, including writing about the weather if you so chose. But you can't really be surprised that if your selection criteria are that arbitrary, people might wonder why?

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