That's a good question! Do you mean as an editor's pick or as some kind of persistent thing separate to those?

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P.S. Apologies to anybody who was keen on Steel Storm or Mount & Blade for the delay in getting this post up!

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We'll be doing TME for Game Club pretty soon as well, so if anybody picks it up and is interested in chatting about the game (chances are that we'll have some of the lovely developers from Screwy Lightbulb join us ^_^ ), be sure to keep an eye out for announcements (follow @DFGameClub [External Link] on Twitter or watch the Game Club section of the Double Fine Adventure production updates index [External Link].

I also had the pleasure of chatting with developers Del and Jaco for SteamLUG Cast [External Link], way back in season 1, episode 4. Hard to believe it's been a year already!

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Quoting: AstroLinux community doesn't need other ports. We're completely disappointed in XCOM.

Astro, I think you need to let others speak for themselves. You're not accomplishing anything productive here with the way you present your opinions. It's better to say "I dislike that I can't run this game," and accept that a developer has the right to choose what they do/don't support than it is to make some of the attacking kinds of statements you've been making since the XCOM port was released.

Perhaps if enough users step forward to calmly and politely say that they are disappointed that there isn't a 32 bit version, that might show enough demand to influence things. As it stands though, claiming that Feral have lied, that they have done poor work, and attacking their employees directly doesn't do anything but make you seem like the sort of customer that any developer would be glad to not have.

If Feral considered 32 bit builds (even "unsupported" ones?) for their current or future titles, I'd personally welcome that.

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Quoting: Hamishlet alone the whole other element of potentially endorsing development for another currently viable platform as opposed to your own.

Isn't this really only an issue if you're purchasing titles that are in active development that are distributed with Wine?

I agree with your other point (although ScummVM seems to chase many disparate targets even if none of them are moving), but does that matter for this? If a game is sold as working and it works, upstream development doesn't have much impact on consumers until/unless there are updates, and GOG is presumably going to be doing QA before passing anything down to users.

Quoting: HamishEDIT: So the 30 day money back guarantee does only apply to support issues rather than as a more general policy, which I do find disappointing.

Yeah, this is pretty disappointing, but it's what I was personally expecting.

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Quoting: DrMcCoy

Quoting: Cheeseness[Wine, ScummVM, DOSBox]

One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn't belong...

In most of the ways that matter in this context, they're the same sort of thing IMO. Third party (community) developed replacements for runtimes/engines without the support (or approval) of vendors to allow stuff to run on platforms that weren't originally intended. They offer the same challenges from a support perspective and all contain lots of game/app specific cruft (DOSBox perhaps less so? I'm less familiar with that).

An argument for performance could be made, but I'm not so sure that's so relevant given the legacy nature of the bulk of GOG's catalogue (I'd love to see some benchmark comparisons of say, S&M: HTR across all three of those though).

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: CheesenessThey are (at least for Ubuntu and Mint).

My point exactly. They are providing Ubuntu 14.04 and Mint 17 support, not Linux support.

So far as the way the rest of the PC industry works, it is. Things that support Windows only support a subset of machines running Windows running particular hardware and software combinations. Same goes for developers who claim to support Mac. Sure this is a pretty darn narrow definition of "Linux", but it's still in line with how things work on other platforms, and that's what we're asking for right? To be treated the same as other platforms.

Quoting: GuestTrue*… Although they went the extra mile to explicitely state “we won't be able to offer refunds, or support, for technical issues on a Linux distribution other than Ubuntu 14.04 LTS or Mint 17 LTS.”

Of course, there's nothing (aside from bandwidth, disc space and a few minutes) stopping you from installing Ubuntu (or running it in a VM) to test/compare issues and get your refund from that experience.

Quoting: GuestReporting the problems I had on Arch Linux would be a waste of time since they don’t support Linux…

Aww, that's a little defeatist. Try them :)

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Quoting: GuestBut they are not offering Linux support…

They are (at least for Ubuntu and Mint).

Quoting: GuestAnd DOSbox is far from perfect unfortunately :(. I bought Pinball Gold Pack and there are many problems with their package.

Have you reported this? If so, I'd be keen to hear how your support experience was.

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Quoting: GuestWhile I have a problem with WINE. I'm willing to be relatively quite about it, polite when I do say something, and live and let die. But I will not be silent nor forever polite when anyone labels a Windows game as a Linux game. Call WINE, don't call it Linux.

Do you feel the same about things like ScummVM, DOSBox, Mono, Java, etc.?

IMO, if they're offering Linux users support (in the form of their money back guarantee and assistance in resolving issues), then that's Linux support, and that's what matters.

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Quoting: neffoIt will also enable you to in-home stream those non-steam games.

Or at least, it will when they re-enable that the ability to host from Linux.

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