I was about to say "awwww, pooo!", then I suddenly realized I never play Civ in muliplayer. *shrug*

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Nice. Every time I think they have probably added everything there was to add, they come up with another idea!

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Quoting: michaDepending on GoG Galaxy means, it's using a form of DRM essentially, right?

Not as long as it isn't tied to a specific account using that platform. As long as the game doesn't care who's using the platform and the platform can be distributed freely, it's not DRM - as there no restrictions being enforced. It's essentially just a launcher in this case. Nobody would call Feral's launcher a DRM scheme either. :D

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Well, in that case, I won't do any business with them anymore, unless they reconsider. Personally I am not into vintage games anyway (I played good old games when they were young) and I guess a lot of people don't know that, but most of the games they are selling don't have any DRM on Steam, either. *shrug*

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The F1 bores the hell out of me in real life (ugly cars driving in a circle for hours, and the winner gets decided by what driver's team can change the tires 2 seconds faster than anyone else - gimme a break!), so this game isn't exactly on top of my wish list.

I get that some companies are reluctant to let Feral port their games, even if Feral would bear most of the business risk, but as some others said, if you want to make a splash, port Rise of the Tomb Raider, or any Bethesda title or really ANY MMO.

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I have no comparison, but are we worse off than the Windows version, or is it just engine limitations?

Mostly, the game seems to run ok-ish for me. I get some stutter when I load my really larger towns, but that's to be expected (I use the unlock all tiles mod, and tend to build on pretty much all of them, lol).

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Quoting: razing32I like the idea of a PvE focused MMO.
Would be nice to see.
Curios how they keep players engaged for endgame though. Maybe raids or so ?

While many MMOs are PvE focused, they still are -competitive-. People compete for open world mining nodes that let only one character exploit them, world bosses with insane respawn cooldowns people fight over the right who gets to kill them, creature spawn points people camp for loot, silly "server firsts" (don't ask me why people care about that, but they do) and so on. Even if these games disallow players to openly bash the heads of random strangers, pretty much all still make you hate the presence of other players. Which is quite silly for a multiplayer game, if you think about it.

This one seems to finally get the idea what a multiplayer PvE game SHOULD be like - cooperative. I don't normally care for zombie stuff, but I might have a look at this one, for that reason alone. And the art is kinda neat for an Indie game. 95% of all Indie games are a total eyesore, but this one is cute.

Maybe they are also the first ever MMO to get endgame right. Raids suck. lol

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Quoting: throghWell, what to say? Oh yes: Praising just more proprietary platforms helps, of course for a system based on user's freedom. :P

Being thankful for what exactly? The business decision from Steam / Valve? The half-hearted lie GOG is going to tell the user? No DRM? Very bad jokes and not the best arguments for a bright future. But yes: It's possible to praise that. Making every Linux-distribution to another copy of known paradigma.

Well, you can't have the cake and eat it. There are how many free-as-in-freedom games out there, that can even remotely compete with commercially made ones in terms of quality?

Yes, there is 0AD.

That's...it.

So if you want good commercial games on your free-as-in-freedom platform, you will have to live with the quirks that come with commercial software. No source code. No freedom. DRM. Proprietary technology. Silly EULAs. Yep, not ideal, but it's a take it or leave it thing, really. Let's face reality for a second - with our 2% market share, we're not exactly in a position where we could blackmail publishers with "DRM will go, or we won't buy it!!!" lines without making them laugh.

I am not a fan of DRM and Steam's near monopoly on games distribution either, but it's either sucking it up or having no AAA games at all. We would have exactly NOTHING if not for Steam and them pushing us.

Either you accept that or your catalogue of games will mainly consist of Tux Racer and Nethack. But if you want AAA games and then refuse buying them when they are offered, your just shooting yourself in the foot.

Pick your poison!

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Quoting: skinnyrafSure, I miss the Witcher 3 and everything from Blizzard, but 75+ excellent Linux games on my Steam wishlist is the reality.

Haha, same! My wishlist has about 25 games at this point, and I just can't justify buying more games when I still have at least 25 games in my Steam library I have yet to start even once.

Honestly, in terms of numbers we're more than fine now. There are more Linux games now than there were Windows games just a few years ago. 'nuff said.
And while 90% of these games might suck - which isn't any different for Windows games - 10% of 3,500 is still an awesome collection of good games to pick from.
I am also not one of these people who'd go ahead and buy an entire system just because they have an exclusive game or two they think they can't live without. If Windows gamers can accept that Horizon Zero Dawn isn't available for their platform of choice, we just have to adopt the same attitude for our own platform and stop complaining because this or that game won't ever get ported.

That being said, there is still room for improvement in certain areas, such as underrepresented genres (there is still not ONE AAA MMO available for Linux...), or big budget games in general, which we still generally lack despite we saw a few good releases lately. My hope for 2017 or 2018 is that at least one other major publisher will give Linux a shot and get us a much needed push in the AAA department. Yes, Bethesda, I am looking at you... :D

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Quoting: iiariI'm actually more optimistic for Linux gaming in the future than even today, as I think eventually gaming will largely be streaming, and as long as the streaming clients exist for Linux, then we'll be good. That way, if anything, we'll have an even bigger selection than we do today...

I don't think streaming games per se has much of a future. In contrast to music (tiny files) and movies (you usually watch them only once) there is no compelling reason to stream games over installing them. You -still- need a gaming capable PC to run streamed games, and the performance of locally rendered games will ALWAYS be better compared to sending data to the other side of Earth and back and keeping everything in sync. But we will probably see more client/server online games like MMOs and online FPS games. The days of pure offline games might actually end sooner rather than later.

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