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Is there a legal basis for crowdfunding? I looked around a bit but couldn't find anything.

Say, how does it actually compare to classic VC? What are the rights and obligations of both the investor and the investee? I remember this, I think it was with Peter Molyneux, interview. It was said that just to reach the funding goal -- because it is all or nothing -- they started promising effectively BS. Where does "risk" end and intentional misinformation start?

Is it legally on the same level as a lottery? You throw some money in and maybe you get something? Because that's what it looks like to me. Just gambling.

I've been staying away from crowdfunding and will probably continue to do so.

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Quoting: morbiusIt's almost certainly Hitman, I'm afraid that game is not really my cup of tea. I'd really like Valiant Hearts: The Great War or something from Capcom or SquareEnix.

Hitman is from SquareEnix and Eidos Interactive. Both Linux friendly publishers. :)

I think it could actually be the current Hitman part. Similar to Deus: Ex. Wow.

These are not my favorite games either. But it is absolutely great to have such grandiose spectacles on Linux. Must have played in any case. Next year I will update my graphics card. These games look just great have a cool story and so on. They are like movies. It's all about this.

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It's almost certainly Hitman, I'm afraid that game is not really my cup of tea. I'd really like Valiant Hearts: The Great War or something from Capcom or SquareEnix.

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This must have something to do with World War one or two:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Kremlin-Bic%C3%AAtre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_de_Bic%C3%AAtre

(You have to copy&paste the links)

Company of Heroes 2 and Verdun are already ported to Linux. What else is there and how does Maggie fit in? I'm not hoping now that they will port Battlefield 1. ;)

Maybe Company of Heroes 1? Would fit. I think it's is the first part of Company of Heroes. Maggie is a Baby. :)

I think it is wonderful, but I am surprised that such old games are ported. I've already purchased all of this via Humble Bundle. There was a strategy pack with Total War, Company of Heroes and Warhammer 40k. I bought it at that time only because of Total War and did not believe that the others will be ported. Is fantastic but is it worthwhile for the publisher and Feral? Most people have already bought these old classic games I think.

However, it makes Linux as a gaming platform much more attractive if someone can play such old titles naively. The one or the other Linux user has been around for a while. ;)

EDIT: Now I saw that it could be Hitman. Games from this publisher (Square Enix) have already be ported and they are top sellers. This makes more sense than Company of Heroes.

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So, TL;DR check if develover delivered a linux port of his previous work.

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Oh, I wanted to find some of these threads yesterday and completely forgot about it. So, it's official: the multiplayer in Dying Light WORKS at least between Linux and Linux, confirmed. Probably also works between Windows and Linux, a player joined me a couple of days ago and he was on Windows, I think.

Looks like you need to forward a bunch of ports as the game doesn't allocate its own port but instead seems to use Steam as a proxy. I couldn't find any "dying light port forwarding" answers in Google neither could I find an open port in netstat. It opens 20111/udp but on a random interface, so if you have VPNs it can listen on it instead of eth0. It puzzles me why they don't just go with 0.0.0.0. It's also not used for the game as I didn't forward it but my friend still connected just fine.

So, the only advice that helped me is forwarding the Steam ports, namely 27000-27050, udp. You also have to have an external WAN IP on your router, i.e. ISP NAT wouldn't allow connecting to you. I still can't join strangers (however, a stranger connected to me a while ago), even those who already play with someone. Probably they're using some sort of VPN like Tunngle and aren't available from the outside.

We plan to play through this game together, two on Linux, me being a host, and another one on Windows.

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Quoting: Asu

Quoting: wvstolzingAssassin's Creed Unity

Ubi porting a game to linux? Nonsense.
(I hope you're right tho lol...)
(ugh which is not true, just checked steam, they have 3 games on linux...)
(huh most weird experience today lol...)

Yeah, none of those are uplay games though. They also have several titles on GOG.com (Assassin's Creed 1 included), no uplay of course.

I'm not expecting any uplay titles on Linux, so I was just joking (since the infamous Sade was known to have been a patient in that hospital).

About AC: As 'games' they're mediocre at best; and as to story & writing they've jumped the shark many, many times over. But just for the environments, and the 'virtual tourism' they enable me to do, I absolutely love them.

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Hitman was being talked about last year... https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/hitman-looks-like-its-coming-to-steamos-linux.7384

So is it Hitman? Certainly a possibility, could well be the most logical one.

If pigs were to start flying and all kinds of things previously thought impossible happened and Zenimax started wholeheartedly supporting Linux... Well, if Skyrim came to Linux it'd be nice if it brought the CK with it.

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Maggie sucks a pacifier... Something French... Maybe a France-related game that sucks? But BioShock Infinite is already on Linux. Remember Me then?

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Were there any video game kickstarters that needed funding for a freeware release? Just curious, because it'd be more about art and not business.

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Quoting: AnxiousInfusionCrowd funding is no place for consumers. Consumers will have to wait until after the product comes to market.

Sorry, but that's complete rubbish. Crowd-funding was invented -specifically- as an alternative to venture capital or similar means of funding.

I dunno, it kind of sounds to me like your example proves his point, a venture capitalist, even if he is a regular joe on kickstarter is someone who is proactively investing in something, whereas a consumer is just waiting passively.

Maybe just a misunderstanding of terminology?

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I would also add a point when a game has Linux port as a stretch goal. They are basically making people risk pledging to reach the stretch goal. That means if you pledge too soon and the project won't reach the stretch goal you just pledged on a non-linux game. For example System Shock Remake did that, even though they eventually shown Linux demo, making ports as stretch goals does feel shady, because it's afterthought and bonus and those get cut first if problems happen.

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Who are the winners? =)

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Quoting: camocelticI have to say, if this does turn out to be the new Hitman, I'm not supporting it. Ignoring the "I hate always-online DRM" argument, I have satellite internet. It's naturally a bit spotty, and some things just don't work, probably thanks to the latency. I'm not going to pay for a gimped version of the game, seeing as how progression seems to be locked if you play offline. Hitman would be the perfect game for me if it weren't for that major decision.

On a lighter note, here's one of the branches.

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The game has an Offline Mode, which carries over achieved suits and weapons, you just can't see your score or do elusive targets =P. You can alos do the story completely offline if you really wanted to, you just need to be online to Unlock anything.

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Very interesting talk by David Airlie at linux.conf.au 2017 where he discusses the development of this driver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynyO3O3zd3E

Interesting stuff at the end about valve hiring Samuel Pitoiset to work on this driver and their focus on getting steamVR going on it. The also sent Dave a HTC vive.

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Quoting: GuestCrowdfunding to me just makes no sense from the consumer's standpoint.

I agree. Crowd-funding places all the risk on the consumer with no guarantee that they will get a return on their "investment" and little if any practical recourse if they don't.

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Quoting: KimyrielleSorry, but that's complete rubbish. Crowd-funding was invented -specifically- as an alternative to venture capital or similar means of funding. Its very point is to allow regular customers to band together and fund projects that otherwise might not get funded by traditional means. People don't seem to get the idea that crowdfunding is nothing but small-scale venture capital funding. It involves risk. There is no guarantee that you will get anything back. And if you can't afford and/or stand the thought to lose your pledge then you need to stay away from it, indeed.

This. I wish more people realised it.

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All I'm saying is that if anyone pays into a crowd funded project and expects a 100% guaranteed chance of return, that person is kind of an idiot.

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Quoting: AnxiousInfusion

Quoting: GuestNever have and never will do crowdfunding. Don't do pre-ordering either. Crowdfunding to me just makes no sense from the consumer's standpoint.

Crowd funding is no place for consumers. Consumers will have to wait until after the product comes to market.

Sorry, but that's complete rubbish. Crowd-funding was invented -specifically- as an alternative to venture capital or similar means of funding. Its very point is to allow regular customers to band together and fund projects that otherwise might not get funded by traditional means. People don't seem to get the idea that crowdfunding is nothing but small-scale venture capital funding. It involves risk. There is no guarantee that you will get anything back. And if you can't afford and/or stand the thought to lose your pledge then you need to stay away from it, indeed.
But for many of us, it has worked nicely and will continue to do so. As Liam's article pointed out, the art of crowdfunding from the customer's perspective is proper vetting. Telling projects with good chances of success apart from the doomed ones. That's really the gist of it.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: FireBurnGentoo User here, I had to copy some libraries from ./ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ to ./steamapps/common/ShadowOfMordor/lib/x86_64/

I didn't have to do this when I first got the game, I'm not sure if it was caused by the Mordor update or a Steam client update, or simply the libraries on my system being too new now

To be clear the STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled so it should be using the provided libraries rather than the system ones (which are now too new to be compatible)

It could be caused by the recent change in the way the Steam client handles the runtime and local libs. I have no idea what they did, but setting STEAM_RUNTIME_PREFER_HOST_LIBRARIES=0 reverts to the old behaviour.

I've got this problem as well, and exporting the variable you provided fixes it.
I've got to tell that it affects all Feral games. I'll see if I can find any other workaround.

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Quoting: GuestNever have and never will do crowdfunding. Don't do pre-ordering either. Crowdfunding to me just makes no sense from the consumer's standpoint.

Crowd funding is no place for consumers. Consumers will have to wait until after the product comes to market.

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Maybe it isn't complicated, and it's just a Simpson's game.

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> Fixed: Launching Steam client sometimes causes system hang.

I really hope this means that they fixed the issue where the entire system could just hang up whenever you had Steam open. If that is the case, this is huge - I'll set up an Ubunutu system tomorrow and see how it goes. Unfortunately, the AUR package is still horribly outdated and I don't know of a way to manually install the driver in Manjaro. Oh well, still a step in the right direction.

Also, I'm really curios as to how AMDGPU-PRO does after these recent changes. The last time I checked it wasn't faster in any games (at least not by a huge amount), but it did make Rocket League playable by preventing the freezes that happen frequently with the radeon driver. That is pretty much the only reason why I'm interested in it right now anyways. :D Well, that and Vulkan support, though there really isn't a game that could profit from it right now. No, Dota doesn't really count

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I'm with rcgamer. Until there are legal protections in place for the consumer, crowdfunding is essentially e-panhandling, imo.

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My guess is it's something set in France, featuring a silent protagonist (since Maggie famously never almost never talks).

I'm not sure about teh France part, but "recent" silent protagonists that spring to mind are:

* Doom Guy (I'm not sure if the most recent DOOM's protagonist is silent or not, and Doom is traditionally set on Mars/in Hell, not France..)
* "The New Kid" in South Park games (but those are owned by Ubisoft..)
* Corvo, from Dishonored (but this series is owned by Bethesda.. although the games were developed in France, so maybe that's the link here?)
* Chell/Gordon, from Portal/Half-Life (We have these series already, HL3 confirmed set in France?!?!)
* Jack/Subject Delta, from Bioshock and Bioshock 2 respectively. (No idea what the French link would be here though)
* Link, from LoZ (Nintendo probably aren't about to release their titles on Linux when they have a new console brewing)

I'd really love to see Dishonored on Linux, but I sincerely doubt Bethesda are suddenly going to start porting their titles to Linux. They've never shown any interest in us as far as I recall. None of the other games seem particularly likely either. Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree with the silent protagonist thing.

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Nice article. Your approach to crowded funded games mirrors my own. I'm not against crowdfunding either (or early access), it's just that we see so many bad cases that I become vary of it.

I do want to clarify some things that people should keep in mind if Linux is a stretch goal, if so you should take the stance that it won't come to Linux. The only times I consider supporting it for Linux is when Linux is one of the supported platforms.

Another thing you should keep in mind is what engine they are using. Cryengine games have a history of not coming to Linux. Am I right when I say that most games that are ported to Linux are either in house engines, Unity or UE4?

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Quoting: ColomboThats all nice, but will they rework the system? I just can't play with party of characters, if said characters are not fullAI.

Well, if you are enough of a masochist you can just solo it :)

There was even an achievement for solo, ironman, hardest difficulty, path of the damned mode. A few people got it.

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Quoting: wvstolzingAssassin's Creed Unity

Ubi porting a game to linux? Nonsense.
(I hope you're right tho lol...)
(ugh which is not true, just checked steam, they have 3 games on linux...)
(huh most weird experience today lol...)

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if the tips where something related to anime, i might try to guess, but i'm really not aware about the usa culture...

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Quoting: BTRE

Quoting: ColomboThats all nice, but will they rework the system? I just can't play with party of characters, if said characters are not fullAI.

They added full party AI like two months after launch. Tyranny also had party AI at launch.

QuoteI hope that PoE2 will enable and reward exploration much more. I still cherish BG1 for this.

Funny you should bring up BG1 and exploration as an example PoE should follow. Was playing the Enhanced Edition last year and it also has areas where if you stick you nose in without being powerful enough, you get your ass kicked (old ruins and such). Despite PoE having so much combat, you only get a small amount of experience from battle - and it's only if you're fighting something that isn't completely known in your bestiary. The main way you get XP is through quests. Exploration and interacting with things (using skills) also give you XP.

Give it another go since you don't seem to have played much, you'll realize that it has more in common than not with the Infinity Engine games.

Nope. But my response has nothing to do here. If you are still interested, PM me or create thread in forum.

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