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Quoting: Cyba.Cowboythen the developers just aren't putting in as much effort for the Linux version.

(which wouldn't be the first time we've seen this)

Quoting: CatKillerIt's also exactly what you'd say if you couldn't be bothered to do something for a small audience and had necessarily-secret software to use as an excuse.

That's certainly true. I don't know enough about how it works to say whether an as-effective solution is feasible.

As far as I know, kernel anti-cheat is ineffective even on Windows, so I'm not sure what the devs are complaining about and what they are smoking.

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So, as a guy rocking the black dragon around here, I feel like I should be excited...but truth be told I've never been more skeptical of anything else I feel like. For one, I get the impression this tries to evoke the nostalgia a tad bit too much. Just from the trailer I was able to make out buildings, units, map pickups and features like mountains that are definitely redrawn from their originals. It's obvious. Heroes 3 is perfectly playable today however and I don't think just Heroes 3 with different graphics is what I want and what we need.
If they try and change things up, well, then there's the fact that I've been enjoying Age of Wonders 4 a lot lately. I think the devs need to have some serious might and pull off actual magic to compete now since the franchise has been frozen and AoW4 specifically has shown the mastery and experience Triumph accumulated over the years.

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Maybe I am just a hopeless centrist but I do believe the most prudent decision is to just wait and see with cautious optimism. It would be nice to be pleasantly surprised for a change.

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It's bizarre when I consider that Half Life 3 rumors have been with me my whole life. It's like a constant like death and taxes.

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The previous games (Men of War, Men of War Asasult Squad) have been stellar games superior in many ways to Company of Heroes (the more popular WWII RTS). So I have high expectactions for this one.

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Quoting: Eike

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Quoting: MasterSleortI say let free market forces dictate whether it is a feature that will stay or not. If people are getting burnt or don't feel the value is there, publishers will be hesitant to use the feature. After all it's also a way to get advanced negative reviews.

This is true - "advanced access" could result in negative reviews that destroy "release day" sales. Hopefully that's enough incentive for greedy publishers to be cautious about milking this too heavily.

It really depends on the number of people who get roped into this advanced access thing versus how many people wait patiently for the actual release day, and how many people in the advanced access actually refund their game. If you make most of your sales in AA and then people don't refund your mess, well, you're golden. :D

Aren't most release days sales preorders being fulfilled?

Yeah, I was taking into consideration the worst case scenario and AA is overall a slightly better idea than EA, I suppose.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: MasterSleortI say let free market forces dictate whether it is a feature that will stay or not. If people are getting burnt or don't feel the value is there, publishers will be hesitant to use the feature. After all it's also a way to get advanced negative reviews.

This is true - "advanced access" could result in negative reviews that destroy "release day" sales. Hopefully that's enough incentive for greedy publishers to be cautious about milking this too heavily.

It really depends on the number of people who get roped into this advanced access thing versus how many people wait patiently for the actual release day, and how many people in the advanced access actually refund their game. If you make most of your sales in AA and then people don't refund your mess, well, you're golden. :D

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I'm eagerly awaiting the moment in the near future when EA will complete its transformation into a cyberpunk dystopian corporation and develop an "anticheat" that will enhance your sense of high stakes and accomplishment and literally fry your brain if it thinks you're cheating. They can even call the anti cheat ICE, so it goes well with the Frostbite engine.

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Quoting: TheRiddickWe have seen this optional thing happen before then you have 99.99% of servers using it anyway forcing Linux users to play in their own little echo-system.

Still a major thorn in Linux Gaming's side, this kernel or even normal anti-cheat software.

While we can all definitely agree that it sucks when we can't play something on Linux that otherwise runs great, except for the anti cheat, there's a lot to be said about anti cheat software being flawed on a fundamental level and fully supporting such software on Linux makes next to no sense.
What is most baffling is how quickly both developers and gamers adopt them, even though their effectiveness is questionable and they often end up hurting normal paying customers more than they hurt actual cheaters.

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Modding tools are great when they're available and work, but my personal gripe with them is that the community on each game uses a different tool. It just doesn't take long for a user to juggle ten different mod managers and it gives me PTSD from using 4 chat programs to talk to different people back in the 2000's.

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