Quoting: KohriasYakuza0 doesnt start due to "The server is not reachable, check your internet connection and click "Retry"."

Sounds like you've been Denuvo'd.

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Is it possible to activate The Division key in a web-browser, without installing Uplay?

Quoting: LinasThe combination of missing Linux highlights, inclusion of games from Origin and other closed platforms

Wait for more games this year for Bethesda launcher and Epic Games store to promote them.

Quoting: g000hHumble's Monthly Subscription works out better if (a) you favour Windows, and (b) do not own an excessive number of games.

(c) if you don't buy games and Humble Monthly is your only source of games.
I try to not buy games elsewhere because if I do, they get into Humble Monthly eventually, very often before I beat them or even play them. I bought Overwatch and Metal Gear Solid 5 last summer to try DXVK, and both appeared in HM soon.

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Quoting: ageresI'll be waiting for Proton improvement as well. I hope more games which aren't playable with Proton or Wine now will be able to run on Linux

It's pretty amazing as is. As of today, 3400+ games are gold or platinum ranked, and the funny thing is most games I'm using Proton for are bronze or silver ranked, so think of how many of those (probably another 1500 or so) are good too. So probably almost 5000 Windows games are playable right now, in addition to our how many native? 3500 or 4000? That's a LOT of games!!

I'm not so lucky, and many gold or platinum ranked games don't work on my PC. Some games have big problems, like sound in Skyrim, some games are prevented to run by DRM, like Uplay games, some games can't be played online because their anti-cheat systems don't work in Wine. Overwatch is always computing shaders or something, so it performs bad almost all the time.

I also hope Wine/Proton will get better DX9 support. Modern DX11 games perform better than old DX9 games now.

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I'll be waiting for Proton improvement as well. I hope more games which aren't playable with Proton or Wine now will be able to run on Linux. For example, Resident Evil 2 remake whose Crapcom Engine isn't Linux-friendly.

Also, DUSK. I finished it today, and it's definitely the best game of 2018 for me. The devs confirmed Linux and Mac support coming this year.

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Quoting: Guesti also wonder what online support they would need to offer in an igavania game?

It is going to have co-op and versus modes (unless they cancel them too lol.)

Quoting: Guestthe triforce of false promises and bulls*** business practices
yooka laylee

What's wrong with Yooka-Laylee? I played a couple of hours and like it so far.

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Quoting: elmapulsitch is fucking profitable and with its short life time it already surpassed the instal base of linux and its only going to grow in the next few years.

If the devs were so slow so WiiU and Vita died during the development and Switch appeared, that doesn't mean they can break their promises. Linux and Mac bases were profitable enough to raise money on Kickstarter, but not enough for making a port?

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Quoting: vlademir1My operational assumption until I have more info is that they chose a piece of middleware that was promising Mac and Linux support "soon" when they chose it (probably because the dev team already knew how to work with it), and which has meanwhile failed to deliver said support or dropped it because Proton or other reasons.

They didn't explain what kind of middleware had let them down. How convenient is that their middleware supports Switch so they could add it to their list, right? Anyway, with $5.5M they could have spent some resources on another middleware.

Quoting: vlademir1Denuvo rarely goes into small project games like this because their baseline initial license fee is reportedly quite high ($15 mil USD) and one only very rarely hears of them willingly negotiating it lower (and even then not lower than $10 to $12 mil USD). Unless they've been picked up for publication by a big AAA publisher, Denuvo seems very unlikely.

Where did you get these prices? I never heard what does Denuvo cost, but $15M seems too much. Many games won't even get profitable unless sold at few millions copies.

Also, there is 2Dark, another crowdfunded game which promised DRM-free, Mac and Linux versions, but then its developers consorted with a bad publisher, put Denuvo into the game, cancelled Mac and Linux support as well as DRM-free release and started to sell it overpriced. This case was covered here on GoL: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/2dark-released-without-a-linux-version-despite-promising-it-during-crowdfunding.9299
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Quoting: orochi_kyoJust reading comments on kickstarter page, some people could be right... this middleware could be DENUVO and Im pretty sure their next announcement will be delaying the GOG version or even cancelling it.

That would be strange, given that GOG already lists the game. It means they agreed to release it DRM-free there.

Some games became one year exclusive to Epic Games Store while having Steam Store pages.

What middleware could it be if not Denuvo? If they were actually planning to support all platform, they would have chosen cross-platform tools. That means, it's either Denuvo, or they never intended to support Linux, Mac, Vita, etc. I don't know what is worse. Reading updates on Kickstarter, I always suspected Iga has been spending backers' millions on resting on a yacht with hookers and cocaine.

Look at Hollow Knight. A metroidvania too, 100 times less budget, all Kickstarter promises were delivered, and the game is excellent. But that one is definitely a scam. What version gets cancelled next, Windows or Xbox? They don't even refund.

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Quoting: DuncAll I'll say is that the idea that only certain man-made things qualify as Art is a very recent one in the scale of human history.

Is Linux art?

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