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I guess none of the games on computer stores at shopping malls on my city aren't AAA then, zero.
The ones that release on consoles too for less than $50? Yeah, none of those are AAA.
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The ones that release on consoles too for less than $50? Yeah, none of those are AAA.
Today I learned that games like Sea of Thieves, Fortnite, Hitman, GTA, Assassins Creed aren't AAA because they are too cheap according to your price table.
Fortnite - F2P, so different enough business model that you have to take that into account
Hitman - $59.99 on console
GTA - $59.99 on console
Assassin's Creed - $59.99 on console
Nascar Heat 3 - $49.99 on console
Are you still going to pretend that you don't see the difference here?
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Today I learned that games like Sea of Thieves, Fortnite, Hitman, GTA, Assassins Creed aren't AAA because they are too cheap according to your price table.
Sea of Thieves - $59.99 on console Fortnite - F2P, so different enough business model that you have to take that into account Hitman - $59.99 on console GTA - $59.99 on console Assassin's Creed - $59.99 on console Nascar Heat 3 - $49.99 on console Are you still going to pretend that you don't see the difference here?
There was an interesting thread on Reddit [1] the other day which did a breakdown of the state of gaming in terms of native games and games that can be run easily via Steam Play (aka 'Proton', Valve's in-built WINE+DXVK layer). The results were quite interesting and, as one of the replies pointed out in another breakdown, Linux now competes with (and in some ways beats) gaming on macOS in terms of size of catalogue.…
As someone who has just released[1] a first access game across Windows, macOS and Linux: 10 years ago developing on linux as a game developer was way worse than windows and MacOS, now there is no real difference at all. I speak as a long time UNIX user, Linux was terrible for C++ devleopment, debugging and asset creation/viewing (compared to the others) making gamedev tougher than it needed to be. 10 years ago linux'…
I currently use Linux and it is much better than Windows (although I didn't like the desktop environment so I uninstalled it, but customizing the system is what I do regardless of what operating system).
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Sea of Thieves - $59.99 on console Fortnite - F2P, so different enough business model that you have to take that into account Hitman - $59.99 on console GTA - $59.99 on console Assassin's Creed - $59.99 on console Nascar Heat 3 - $49.99 on console Are you still going to pretend that you don't see the difference here?
So $10 difference according to your table makes a AAA game, while I can get all of them around here between 30 to 40 euros, whatever.
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As someone who has just released[1] a first access game across Windows, macOS and Linux: 10 years ago developing on linux as a game developer was way worse than windows and MacOS, now there is no real difference at all. I speak as a long time UNIX user, Linux was terrible for C++ devleopment, debugging and asset creation/viewing (compared to the others) making gamedev tougher than it needed to be. 10 years ago linux'…
> It's still a PITA to deploy a compiled app on Linux with unclear glibc versions and amazingly it's worse than MS DLL hell of MSVC redistributable shambles. One option is to statically link against musl libc [1]. The kernel ABI is about the only stable thing you can rely on (which is something you _can't_ rely on for macOS or Windows). [1] https://www.musl-libc.org/
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> It's still a PITA to deploy a compiled app on Linux with unclear glibc versions and amazingly it's worse than MS DLL hell of MSVC redistributable shambles. One option is to statically link against musl libc [1]. The kernel ABI is about the only stable thing you can rely on (which is something you _can't_ rely on for macOS or Windows). [1] https://www.musl-libc.org/
Note a program compiled with musl can't use shared libraries which were compiled with glibc. I wrote my own tiny x64 C standard library which, unlike musl, is compatible with other glibc libraries: https://github.com/procedural/c_stdlib
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Chromebooks sound amazing except I don't want to be locked into Google or give them more of my data...
Personally I choose Debian, but if the alternative is getting locked into Microsoft and giving them more of my data, then I choose Google.
If you don't have specific Windows apps, I'd be tempted to try a Chromebook these days. Around 2 years ago I got a cheap Chromebook and it was terrible. I think it was $250. Fit and finish and keyboard kind of sucked. I found one of those HP Chromebook 13 g1 boxes, which Woot had refurb for half off at just under $500, and it is much closer to the hardware experience I'm used to with Thinkpads, for 1/6th the price. N…
Goodness, two vpns?
I'm writing this from my XPS 13 using the latest Ubuntu and once I've spent a few hours configuring everything, it works almost perfectly. There's still a few bugs, like Ubuntu not remembering the audio settings.
I'm curious, are you using the 18.04 LTS version which come with the system or the latest 18.10 version ?