Woo! \o/

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Quoting: dxmnGiven that only two of the plethora of DLCs that Paradox have released for EUIV have at least mostly positive reviews on Steam, I'm not getting excited just yet

I would be a bit cautious simply going by the summary on any title but especially Paradox's DLCs. There have been periods of people protesting the DLC and pricing policy by putting up a negative review. If you look at e.g. Dharma you can see that there are several negative reviews that only boil down to "$20 is too much! Greed, I say!".

I would not dismiss those arguments as they are fair critique with regards to the pricing, but they don't really reflect on whether or not the DLC itself is actually good or not. Unfortunately it can be quite difficult to find the genuine criticism for the DLCs as it is usually buried in the Paradox forums.

There have been some really rough spots especially with the last two which had poor launches, and Leviathan in particular had a disastrous launch which has yet to be fixed. Fixing it turned out to be hard so hot-fixing one thing broke another which had to be hot-fixed etc. They wisely stopped and put their focus on taking their time to release what will be the November 11 patch. (Hopefully to much rejoice.)

Quality has taken a bad turn now and then, and I've certainly had my fair share of criticism with parts of a DLC, but the overall picture is not as bad as the reviews would have potential new-comers believe.

For instance some people will throw a lot of nasty words at certain DLC because they change a function or dynamic that in turn made it more difficult to speed run a world conquest using the same strategy as before. You can still do them, you just have to change your strategy. As for why that changed it is generally for multiplayer balance and to make non world conquest runs more interesting. World conquest is a minority playstyle but with some very vocal individuals unfortunately.

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Quoting: BielFPshow feasible is it to run KDE wayland in an old notebook with pentium T4200?

I think it would be pretty feasible. If you have to run graphics acceleration through llvmpipe on a T4200 you might get better results in X11 though. Plasma in and of itself isn't very heavy.

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Looking really good I have to say!

We've come a long way since the options were bilinear or super sai!

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Final Fantasy XIV... about 150 hours worth...

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Summary:

• Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
• F.E.A.R.
• Final Fantasy XIV
• For the King (co-op with friends)

I had planned to devote myself to Europa Universalis for the coming weeks but then Leviathan happened... So instead I have been playing through F.E.A.R. on recommendation from Vifon. It was pretty good!

Otherwise just "For the King" with friends every now and then, as well as working my way through Baldur's Gate EEv again after all the talk about it on IRC got it gnawing at the back of my mind. Still good.

Also really got the itch to chat with my old friends in Final Fantasy XIV so I got back into that amazing time sink. Most of my friends were still around!

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Hmm... Looking at the split it makes me wonder though.

Default split for $25 according to the GIF in the article is:
$21.25 Publisher
$1.25 Charity
$2.50 Humble

With the more charity option being:
$20 Publisher
$3.75 Charity
$1.25 Humble

It doesn't really speak much for the idea that HB is in financial trouble, it seems to suggest that publishers didn't like the ratio of "publisher to charity". And while that would seem on the nose for game publishers, we really need more info here.

As a side-note: Did it always say "Publisher", didn't it use to say "Developers"? Because those are not the same thing.

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Valheim and the ever present Europa Universalis 4 have dominated my gaming life recently. :D

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Quoting: STiATHmh, I could not find why they forked it from wine. As a dev branch to be faster paced than wine or is it for technical reasons?

I know wine is quite conservative, but was that the reason for the fork?

Most likely for organizational purposes. Doing a fork gives you a clean environment for bug reporting, pull requests, branching etc. It can then easily be turned into a pull request for merging back into upstream.

It is a very common way of doing development. And is often the recommended approach.

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Quoting: x_wingthere is a chance that a third party can exploit this backdoor and create a business around it that will definitely simplify the steps that a user has to follow in order to get their games for cheaper.

Correct.
This is a basic property of free market capitalism.

The solution to this is for publishers to lower prices to the lowest common denominator. If this leads to their products no longer being profitable, then the product is unsustainable and they will have to either lower production costs or pick a higher price and focus on a different subset of the market.

One example of the former is indie-games, an example of the later is Apple.

Quoting: MalHonestly as a European I don't dislike the single market. The implementation though is sloppy in multiple ways. But it would be unfair to deny that it improved over the years and it will likely improve more in future.

Agreed.

For anyone unfamiliar with EU, a lot of the mess comes from it being a democracy. Don't get me wrong though, democracy while not perfect is the best we got or as Churchill put it 'Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.'

Here is a rough diagram:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Organs_of_the_European_Union.svg

Basically everything is a compromise between different member states (recursively), with "EU" as a concept being represented by the EU Commission.

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