Quoting: wolfyrionbtw today a miracle happened believe it or not...

For the first time after 2 years on steam with Linux I got my first Steam Hardware Survey!!! :D

YES!
That should be 0.0000008% more Linux users next time, if I calculated it correctly! :D

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Quoting: Segata SanshiroYeah, that's a pretty good assumption and it appearing in the library has usually been a sign of it being right round the corner (at least in the next couple of weeks).

... with the prominent exception of Bioshock, lingering around in my Linux library for months.

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Quoting: ValsacarThanks for the update, hopefully they sort it out before the sale ends. In my case, I probably won't get it if it doesn't as it's a game I was only partially interested in trying. 10USD is generally my cut-off for those types of games, and seeing as I already have over 100 Linux games on Steam I have plenty to play through (humblebundle... sometimes I hate them).

I'm trying to move on to gift what I won't play anyway, but there's still too much which I'm trying out but give up on after half an hour (e.g. Unepic)...

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Quoting: tuubiI don't mind more VP ports of relatively old games that wouldn't otherwise get ported at all. I might have to skip this one though. War games rarely float my boat.

I don't know if it makes a difference for you, but as I've heard, this is an anti war game, unlike most other shooters.

I probably will skip it for VP though.

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My statement, 75% to Valve, seems wrong according to my own link, where they state that 25% goes to the modder (which is by far not enough) and the rest would be shared between the makers of the game and Valve.

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Quoting: XzylWell it seems that 75% of the purchase goes to the developer

75% is the share of Valve.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/04/23/steam-workshop-lets-users-sell-mods-but-only-shares-25-percent-of-revenue/ [External Link]

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TotalBiscuits thoughts about it. Worth hearing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGKOiQGeO-k [External Link]

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Quoting: evergreenthis port would bring mass of people to linux!

... like all those ports of big games before did!
Erm...

BTW, when Steam for Linux went public, we had 2% of Linux users, now it's 1. :-(

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A game with an incredible 99% of positive Steam reviews...

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Quoting: mr-egg

Quoting: fishxzi hope its not. the performance in bioshock was terrible compared to windows. i refuse such "ports"!

what? the performance is amazing for a wrapper.

Yes, the performance is amazing - for a wrapper.

Quoting: mr-eggat this point Eon is so good that im not bothered if older pre 2014 titles are ported using a wrapper. It gets the games over and as people have more and more GPU power to spare the 10 - 15fps difference isn’t noticeable on all but the most extreme 4k setups where every fps counts

Yes, Eon is so good that old games can be wrapped with it so we get a chance to play them at all. Games older than Bishock probably will run fine on average modern hardware.

But...

On my GTX660, Bishock Infinite has got breaks of say half a second when loading new parts of a scene I'm walking through, which breaks immersion for me. I did try the tips of the 2K, to no avail. It did much better on the very same PC when I still used Windows.

Such wrappers must not become the standard way of "porting" games to Linux.

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