I'd rather want publishers to pay porting houses a flat sum for the porting work instead of sub-licensing the game to them and make them rely on their own sales. This would end this discussion right here and there, eliminate the confusing "which platform is the purchase actually attributed to?" stuff, and is more befitting the actual work they do anyway (which is essentially outsourcing).

I can see this particular case as being exceptional, but generally I do not wish to pay separately for each platform I want to play a game on, and would largely refuse to. I hope Valve won't stop pressuring publishers not to adopt "per platform" sales. Ideally, a game runs on every platform on release day and people can install it on whatever OS they prefer.

Really what's next? Charging again to make the game run on a different GPU?

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I was highly critical of the "city sprawl" mechanics before Civ VI launched, but I must admit it works much better than I thought it would. One thing about it I still don't like is the tons of requirements and restrictions for building districts. Some of these restrictions are super-arbitrary and severely limit or at least elbow you into a certain way to build cities. But generally, the new city building is certainly more interesting than its predecessors.

I also still hate the childish cartoon art, but that's of course a matter of taste.

That being said, Civ V WITH the DLCs is also a great game. If budget is an issue, get whatever game is cheaper.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyHuh. I'm a Vancouver man myself. And really, Victoria? Cold in winter? Half the US is colder than Victoria in winter; I think half the time they never get a single snowfall. Or, like, maybe one or two, that stick for a day and then there's rain the next day. Even Vancouver doesn't get much, except this year which has been a total Global Weirding bizarrefest.

This winter was horrible. I actually had to shovel snow. Can you imagine! That...didn't happen in the past 10 years or so.
And I have no idea why I am mentioning that, but the US East Coast is getting hit by a blizzard while I am writing this. But WE are the frozen wasteland! Yeah, right!!! No snow here. Just rain! As is proper! *flails arms*

But...honestly? They could put us in with our special unit being a hockey team and our cultural focus being a Double Double. If they would just put us in the game. Once.

But I think I rather see another serious winter before THAT will happen. *sob*

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Quoting: KimyrielleI am utterly not interested in the DLC, but the "free" patch is nice and welcome.

As a side note, I really wonder if really EVERY country on the planet gets added before Canada does. I know, I know. We're America's hat. But still!

Canada is way too nice to be a war monger : ) I went to Victoria recently and would move there today if it wasn't so cold in the winter..

Eh, they could call the DLC pack "Canadian Winter" and make it a "Seasons!!!" pack together with the Australian summer thingie. We got at least as much snow as Australia got sun. Maybe more. And actually...Victoria is pretty warm. By our standards. I live close by. :D

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I am utterly not interested in the DLC, but the "free" patch is nice and welcome.

As a side note, I really wonder if really EVERY country on the planet gets added before Canada does. I know, I know. We're America's hat. But still!

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Graphics drivers and related performance issues are probably our biggest sore spots right now, so that's good news. I hope he won't work on -just- VR though, at least not as long as the drivers are lagging behind their Windows equivalents in general. To be honest, VR is very unlikely to become a mainstream thing in this decade, that will be a battle for another day.

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Quoting: bubexeli missed it ... sniff

Me too. I suppose most of North America was still sleeping then.

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Quoting: M@yeulCThere are some theories that proclaim that our universe works that way, with these constants, because it makes life more likely, thus more likely for us to be sitting into it.

Since that's just assuming life to be a desirable result of the creation of the universe without any tangible theory of why this would be so, that's a fairly unscientific view of things. But I guess people still need to think that they are so special that the entire universe was made just for us, even if there is not the slightest sliver of evidence to support that.

On topic, the game looks nice. Still, I somehow wish at least for the time being, Aspyr would focus on bringing more AAA titles to Linux. We need these more desperately if we ever hope to lure a larger number of Windows gamers over. Indie games we're well sorted for.

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Back in the days I liked Transgaming's approach of letting users vote on which games they should work to make them work in WINE/Cegega. Sometimes I feel something like this would help. There are games (such as this one) that the Linux community is clearly longing for, but often enough when I see which games they were actually working on, it's games I don't believe are all that high up on people's wishlists.

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Huh? Since when do new Paradox titles not come to Linux? They ported all their recent stuff, no? oO

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