Quoting: fedotixI am happy that 3000 games ...
But what i wish in that some blockbluster very popular on windows (call of duty, battlefield ...) could be ported in linux.
Can we hope for soon ?
What do you think ?

I wouldn't bet as much as a dime to see ANYTHING made by EA or Activision on Linux, ever. At least not before hell freezes over. Of the big three publishers, Ubisoft might be closest to consider ports (they actually did one...one!), but I wouldn't hold my breath for that, either. The one larger studio not already on Linux we -might- see one day is Bethesda. And even that is more wishful thinking on my part.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusInteresting that a mere two years ago, at the end of 2015, [Steam only had 2,964 games altogether](https://twitter.com/Steam_Spy/status/804072335997358084?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw), and now here we have 3,000 on Linux. :)

Though the flip side is, simply having more games doesn't necessarily mean more games I want to play, nor does it include some games I do want to play. But hey, as long as they're making someone happy, that's fine with me. :)

Unfortunately, that's true. Of the 3,000 games, roughly 2,500 suck very extremely hard. Indie development has brought us gems like Prison Architect and Stardew Valley. But also a lot of people who can barely code Hello World suddenly thought they could be the next game development star and published their drivel on Steam because nobody stopped them. That's actually a huge problem these days, because it's getting harder and harder to find the few good games in the mountain of drivel.

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Quoting: KimyrielleFallout 4

I thought you said "Quality Games"? You may have misspelled Fallout: New Vegas.

*throws a shoe*

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That was fast? Didn't we just celebrate the 2,000 milestone? oO

Other than that...yeah, I am after quality games these days. I am pretty sure I'd trade at least 1,500 of these games for Fallout 4. :D

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Not sure I am too convinced about them moving towards original games, if that's how it is to be read. Tbh, we need porting houses for major AAA games more than yet another smaller studio releasing low to medium budget titles. We literally have thousands of those available already. What we need is blockbusters.

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Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTPlease don't split the gaming community Aspyr! It's already sad Feral couldn't fix their cross-platform multiplayer.

What is the reason to buy a Multiplayer game if you can't find people to play with since the Linux and Mac community is rather small? Also if I can't play with my friends I don't see any reason to buy your game. Sorry.

Honestly, the probably biggest application of Civ multiplayer is LAN, and chances are that computers in the same use the same OS, no?

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Quoting: BreezeI hear the AI sucks. I guess I will find out. It always bothered me that the higher difficulty levels in Civ V gave bonuses because it just meant that I couldn't win earlier.

Yeah, the devs said they'd make the AI less stupid, but from what I've heard, it's anything but. The diplomacy engine still seems to make the same completely dumb "We have been friends for 1000 years? No, we're at WAR now!!!" decisions it made back in Civ I.

I remember one game of Civ V where my two allies goaded me into attacking a common enemy, so I complied. Then my allies suddenly declared that I was warmonger, became former allies, and teamed up to stomp me into the ground.

Haha, that actually happens a LOT in that game. Any Civ, that is. Don't ask me why developers other than Firaxis can make sophisticated AI for their games, and theirs behaves like a complete lunatic on crack. One should think AI is a major feature for a single player game.

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Quoting: BreezeI hear the AI sucks. I guess I will find out. It always bothered me that the higher difficulty levels in Civ V gave bonuses because it just meant that I couldn't win earlier.

Yeah, the devs said they'd make the AI less stupid, but from what I've heard, it's anything but. The diplomacy engine still seems to make the same completely dumb "We have been friends for 1000 years? No, we're at WAR now!!!" decisions it made back in Civ I.

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Quoting: GuestAlthough I do find the reviews still very mixed.

It's the recent ones which are mixed, overall reviews are fine. After DXMD I started to actually read the negative reviews, because it turns out often people rage over quite silly subjects like DLCs or preorders. The game itself could be fine.

This seems to be a total disease of most reviewing systems as of late: People abusing reviews to make a political statement against a studio, instead of judging the GAME. As much as we might hate some DRM systems or DLC practices, but criticism aimed at that has nothing to do with the quality of the game. By all means, people can mention it in the text, but they really should stay away from downgrading a game's score because of it. It's unfair to people who want to get an impression about a game's quality.

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Quoting: boltronicsI'd love to see Bethesda, Ubisoft or EA test the waters with a GNU/Linux release or two this year. To be fair, Ubisoft already did in late 2015 with Grow Home, but then for 2016 decided not to bother porting the sequel Grow Up (yet, at least). Too bad they didn't try porting a more well known title, and too bad they released the GNU/Linux port so long after Windows, so not exactly a fair test.

Bethesda is in the best position to start adding GNU/Linux ports. Surely Bethesda took note of how much interest there was in running Doom under Wine - many months after the game was released, no less. Further, unlike EA (with Origin) and Ubisoft (with Uplay), Bethesda don't have a store client. That's one big road block they don't have to contend with. Lastly, Bethesda is the most likely of the three to release a Vulkan-only game, which presumably means less QA work for them to deal with. If they released a game with GNU/Linux support this year, I wouldn't be too surprised (but would be very happy).

Despite my general pessimism, it still looks like 2017 has quite a lot going for it.

Gosh, I so wish you'd be right about that. Bethesda is literally the only publisher not yet on Linux I would love to see starting porting their games. Personally, I couldn't care less about EA or Ubisoft games (I don't own or want any Ubisoft games, and the newest EA game I have is SWTOR, which just had its 5th birthday...). I realize that having their mass-market games would be helpful for our platform in general, but these two haven't made any truly good games in a long, long, long while. What they are churning out is the video game equivalent of Michael Bay movies: Lots of explosions and no substance worth mentioning. Don't need that.

But Bethesda? I am keeping a Windows partition around just for their games. In all honesty, I don't quite understand why some of the bigger publishers are so reluctant to support Linux when they already support Mac. The economies of scale work in their favour even. Our 1-2% market share would translate into a nice extra profit for them, and for a company their size the porting costs would be laughable.

Normally I would say chances to see Beth jump on the Linux train anytime soon are a pretty close approximation to zero. It's not that their CEO had overly nice things to say about Linux. But then again...I didn't think we'd see Square Enix porting a large portion of their more recent AAA catalogue, either. But they did. So..who knows! We're about to get the single most important game of 2017 soon (Civ VI), so we had a good year already and it's just January! Let's see what else will happen. :D

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