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Comment Re:I am a Linux gamer, X-mas LAN party (Score 1) 503

I think your problem here is that you have no gaming machines, and even if you install windows you will get crap performance even if the games work at all.
As some other people here say, I've been running WoW with no hassle in linux for the better part of 5 years until i got so bored i didn't even look at the latest expansion.
Do you have a PC with non integrated graphics? ;)

Comment And who cares? (Score 4, Interesting) 470

Meanwhile, no matter the hardware specs, iOS will keep being more responsive and iOS phones will keep getting software updates for years after launch. Clock speed and number of cores has stopped being relevant even in phones (it's not really relevant on the desktop any more as well) already.
Note: i've owned two Android phones before switching to iOS.

Comment Re:Big difference between FOSS and corporations (Score 1) 120

"the great ones aren't likely to want to go anywhere but Google."
After the famous Marissa Meyer statements that she doesn't believe in burnout and that you can work 130 hour weeks all the time, why would anyone want to go to Google? Note that she is at Yahoo now, but those statements are from the time when she was working at Google...

Comment But if you hire great developers... (Score 1) 120

Any method will work, as long as you don't piss them off enough to leave for greener pastures.
Agile, waterfall, they will make anything work.
Unfortunately there's a limit to the number of awesome people you can find.
When someone presents a new development method that does not include the phrase "if you hire awesome people", please wake me up.

Comment So let's count their sins (Score 2) 464

Killed the Might and Magic series (especially the RPGs, but Heroes is just a shadow of its former self as well).
Killed Beyond Good and Evil.
Killed Settlers.
(Personal opinion) Splinter Cell is just a Metal Gear solid clone, and Assassin's Creed is a medieval GTA.
Used all forms of shitty DRM across the years. Everyone is complaining about UPlay, but I remember getting a free Splinter Cell disc with a video card and not installing it because of StarForce.
The result?
I don't even read news or reviews about Ubisoft games. How can I pirate them when I don't know what they have out?
And of course the Assasin's Creed lovers will pirate the game because the piratebay version actually works.
Note 1: I have 120ish purchased games on Steam.
Note 2: I own a PS3, I have a stack of about 10 unopened PS3 games waiting for me to have time to play them, plus a stack of 30+ games that i've at least ran once.
Note 3: I still wouldn't buy Ubisoft games for the PS3 for fear of what they might do to my console.

Comment Where are the open source original games? (Score 1) 580

That's right, nowhere.
All we have are multiplayer shooters (no single player, because designing a proper single player experience is hard and doesn't involve programming much), and a few clones of programming heavy genres (wesnoth is heavily inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlords_(game_series) ).
To produce a finished game you need more than a group of bored programmers working in their spare time. Although that sufficed to take over the internet - look at apache :)
So let's all bid a warm welcome to our new Steam overlords. Especially since we will probably get the linux versions of games we already own for free - as in beer.

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