However, our development team is extremely good at what they do, and we expect to make significant strides in performance improvement over the next several weeks.

So my earlier guess of "end of November" was too much optimistic. Mid-December at best, maybe? They did say "Holiday season" before.

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Quoting: SslaxxHopefully by "close behind" they mean inside of six months... Divinity: Original Sin (for just one, never mind BG:EE etc!) I'm looking at you...

Banished, Transistor and Banner Saga are pretty far up there in the "we're working on Linux, really!" club.

I can kinda understand with these one or two person shops, but wow.

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I had assumed that there would be months between the Windows and Linux releases, although deep down I'd hoped it would only be weeks. The reference to "holiday season" suggests at minimum after US Thanksgiving, seems to lean towards the latter.

I am saddened to be correct in my assumption.

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Quoting: sobkasAnd then Mike retweeted this:
https://twitter.com/Idubbbz/status/524356828210413569 [External Link]
UH?

Woah, you usually don't see so many mouthbreathers outside an aquarium.

Apparently Gabe Newell isn't actually a person? Bet he'd be surprised to hear it!

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The apologism is coming thick and fast on Mike's Twitter feed, I see. Personally, especially coming as it does during the whole GamerGate fiasco, I'd rather not see gaming accept a "boys will be boys" attitude towards death threats. Steam did right, and Mike is facing consequences for his actions which is also right.

Sure, he can turn things around in the future and in his own apology letter he seems to recognize that being the public face of a company is the wrong role for him. I personally hope he learns from all this and works to be better in the future, and not to buy into the narrative that "it's not so bad" and starts seeing himself as victim in this situation.

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Personally I would have been more upset by the awful promo art on the carousel than the "Early Access" blurb that most people ignore.

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I played it some time ago on Windows, and since I'd gotten it through a Humble Bundle I was able to just download and go with the Linux version.

They actually have changed a fair bit about the game, lots of welcome additions for sure. It is a bit weird how it handles resolutions though, doing that same freakout when you have dual monitors that a lot of other games do, and not being able to change resolutions in windowed mode. But it's still perfectly playable despite that, and the soundtrack is as great as I remembered.

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Ugh, just installed this and it won't run. Won't even pass the "Preparing to run" screen in Steam.

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Lume was incredible, so this has been on my radar for quite a while now. I'm glad they're at least working on Linux, even if it's not going to be day one.

So many games that are out already that haven't come through on that promise though. Transistor, Banner Saga, Banished, Divinity: Original Sin and the list goes on. Here's hoping Lumino City doesn't fall into that "We're working on it, really!" trap.

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Quoting: edo

Quoting: seven

Quoting: a4360825Please stop circle-jerking!!! There is cca. 15-20 good quality ports

i suggest u give us a list with games have troubles with
personaly, i think you are doing it wrong

Half-life 3 (not released yet)

Okay, now you're asking for the moon. :D

But there are wonderful games out there for Linux, and more coming all the time. Like Escape Goat 2, Wakfu, Secrets of Rætikon, Shadowrun Returns, Strata, Mark of the Ninja and Kentucky Route Zero (despite the weird mouse freezes).

Also great games in development and on the way, like Banished, Crea, Maia, Civ V, and a lot more.

It more than makes up in my mind for the ones with problems (Horde, Type:Ryder) or downright suck (Woodle Tree Adventures).

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