Can the scenes you make with this be used in your own game projects?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: rat2000Why is everyone bashing only Epic?

Epic is coercing people into exclusive contracts with them by offering them monetary incentives. They are the source of the problem. The Metro guys just fell to that temptation and took their money.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Dunc

Quoting: KimyrielleCorporations don't want to compete...

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

- Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

Nobody wants to compete, at least not for their living, if they can avoid it. Competing is hard, and you risk losing. One of the great myths on (and about) the pro-market side of the economic argument is that if you support free markets, you must support every business in every action it takes (or at least, refrain from criticism). Smith understood that, on the contrary, businessmen can be the greatest enemy of market freedom.

That's correct. I find it funny when most supporters of unregulated free markets quote Adam Smith to support their position. Smith wrote something like (in short):

"Free markets produce optimal results... "

(that's when right-wing economics supporters stop reading)

"...in markets with perfect competition and perfect transparency."

It's too funny how these people not only don't have the slightest clue about economics, but obviously fail to even read the very book they base their entire line of reasoning on.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: GuestEpic can buy as many "Exclusives" or timed exclusives as they want. I wont use the Epic Launcher. If i want Metro i just gonna buy it for my Xbox One.

So you resent Epic's business practices and try to protest them by instead handing your money to a corporation that created one of the most locked-down and vendor-controlled devices on Earth?

*slow clap*

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: GuestThis is also all the more reason why everyone should support official Linux support by developers that's DRM-free so not tied to any one particular store.

This would work really well, since we have such an overabundance of DRM-free big box titles on Linux...

View this comment - View article - View full comments

It's not a new business pattern. Corporations don't want to compete (that's for the labor force), so they are trying to monopolize entire industries (not sure why the name Facebook came to my mind now), or when they can't, at least their own market. Like Disney pulling their stuff from Netflix to set up their own little streaming monopoly for their productions you won't get anywhere else. Or grocery chains buying other stores just to close them down, so people don't have a choice where to shop anymore. I could go on all day long. Baseline is that all sufficiently large business is evil. Which is why we'd need regulations against such practices, but they keep telling gullible people that regulations are bad, so what can I say?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I haven't deleted my Win partition yet, so I am technically not Windows free. But no, I am not really using it anymore.

On topic: THAT's a feature I wanted Lutris to have for ages. Glad that they added it! :)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

So they made a game for an already over-saturated market (how many card games did we see the past 2 years or so?), compete against a firmly entrenched product (Magic The Gathering), and in a genre they have no experience with, while about 90% of their fan-base was hoping for something completely else (HL3)...and somehow thought that would go well?

I call that optimism!

View this comment - View article - View full comments

In contrast to real life wine, this particular kind of wine is better consumed fresh rather than old, so I guess most of us are using dev builds anyway. But it's great to see that the stable version is out now, so they can once again go to work on new features and improvements! I am really curious to see what they can come up with in the 4.x series, after the giant leaps made in 3.x! :)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoBut that is the main problem with the gaming on Linux: We need true game developers and not just porters...
Porters are a second class citizens in the development world because they don't create any content, they just adapt content created by others.... Is like to compare a translator with the original writer..

Maybe, someday, Valve will pay Feral for to make a game.

I quite honestly prefer Feral porting somebody else's AAA games instead of trying to add to the pile of low-budget games we already have thousands of, like Aspyr.

View this comment - View article - View full comments