Quoting: GuestI do worry that the Deck was oversold on that idea of 100% comparability.

This. People will be disappointed.

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Quoting: ixnariYeah, I had a feeling you'd be keen to look at it. That was awful, sorry.

I wish I had something to show in return, but nothing coequal comes to my mind. :D

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Quoting: HerrLange
Where is Commander Keen?

Probably in recovery after going through this shit. Thankfully, Zenimax seems to have scrubbed every mention of this "game", so Keen might get a remake yet!

What the hell did I just watch? Please tell me that's not actually an upcoming game?

Answering very, very late, but: thankfully, no. It was upccoming game at some point, but the backlash was too much (thank goodness) and they've scrapped the project.

Oh my godness, why did you make me so curious to look at this... this... THIS?!?

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I read by one developer after they released the Linux version with delay that they had fought with setting executable rights in a zip file for Linux. You might find this sad by itself, but my point is: The little indies really should ask for help when needing some to make a Linux version. Many of us a helpful and grateful.

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Quoting: GuestI'd really like to, but they lack italian localization :(

Is there an easy way to find out if some of them support the language of by little ones (German)?

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Quoting: TheRiddickHow long/big is this game meant to be? I've heard people say they beat the EA in around 4hrs which is ultra short even if its not full content yet! (heard EA was like 75% of the game).

20 hours has been mentioned as far as I remember.

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Quoting: mao_dze_dunDon't get me wrong - I am not disagreeing with you. My problem is with the community's attitude in general. It's either: "Why don't you develop a native version - everybody on Linux would buy it?", or: "We're 1% of the market - of course you get around only ~1% of sales on Linux". Damned if you do, damned if you don't...

Whoever is writing the first, is, erm, don't get me started.

The second one isn't the result to be expected either, by the way...

Say there's 100 games on Steam, and 20 of them support Linux natively.
And there's 101,000 players, of which 1,000 are using Linux. Every player buys 10 games for their system.
The 100 games get 10.000 sales by Windows users. The 20 games additionally get 500 (10 * 1,000 / 20) sales by Linux users.
So of the 10,500 sales, ~4.7% are Linux sales.
Because the Linuxers got less games to choose from, their per game percentage is higher than their player percentage.
(This is disregarding Proton, unrealistically distributing game sales and all that, but you get the picture.)

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Quoting: tohurHow does the hardware survey trigger. I been on Arch Linux for months and have never gotten the popup

It takes a small sample of the over one hundred million people using Steam actively. I'm on Steam for Linux since the beta, and did get it some times, but not every few months. More like once every one or two years. Be patient, Padawan.

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Quoting: EikeTheir comment reminds me of what has been said by the Primordia dev lately. At the moment, native Linux gaming comes mostly from people who are involved enough to want to bring their game to "all" the people and/or those that have such a long and good experience at developing multi platform that the cost is low enough to actually justify it financially.

Independently of the platform, this is quite obvious and almost a tautology if you're not a benefactor :tongue: (emphasis added)

To say it more clearly: I fear some actually support Linux despite making a net loss.

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Their comment reminds me of what has been said by the Primordia dev lately. At the moment, native Linux gaming comes mostly from people who are involved enough to want to bring their game to "all" the people and/or those that have such a long and good experience at developing multi platform that the cost is low enough to actually justify it financially.

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