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Quoting: CheesenessIt's also odd that the expansion appears above the original game in the launcher.

Well, the expansion integrates things into the original main story, so it makes less sense playing the unexpanded game if you have the expansions.

Depends on who you talk to, I think. I've had several players recommend I play through the vanilla game first (which is what I ended up deciding to do).

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For now we're more focused on the reception that a native Linux port of XCOM gets from Linux gamers than the sales. We are committed to bringing AAA games to Linux and making sure those games are completely awesome to play on the Linux platform; if we do a good job of that then over time we trust that the sales will follow.

It's great to see developers who're viewing Linux support for legacy (out of development) titles as an investment in the future rather than a quick money grab. As a porting house, Feral will be in a position to share this advice/perspective with development studios and publishers who are interested in exploring Linux.

My personal experience with XCOM has been pretty solid (although from what I understand, the game is a little less performant on Linux than it is on Windows). I get a little lag whilst pre-rendered cutscenes are playing, and there are a few hiccoughs here and there, but judging from existing forum threads, that stuff is all present in Windows builds.

We wrote a Linux-specific pre-game launcher for the Complete Edition of XCOM that allows you to choose between the main game or the expansion pack, XCOM: Enemy Within.

I've had a couple of people who don't own the expansion say that they see this launcher and get a crash when they try to launch Enemy Within (hoping that somebody who doesn't own the expansion can report that). It's also odd that the expansion appears above the original game in the launcher.

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Quoting: FornaxAs I was reading these comments I headed over to the steam store page to purchase it, now it's silently waiting in my library to be played ;)

Sadly, Steam locks in sales stats based on playtime within the first week. I believe it was during the Civ V AMA that it was revealed that that defaults to Windows.

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Quoting: Gran PCOne last note -- I am actually pretty blown away by the new messages I have been receiving/seeing on forums, articles like these, etc. It actually does help put things in scale. So thank you for that.

Gotta say, the article here surprised me. As somebody who is waiting patiently for the game, visiting the Steam forums to rant about it (or even to offer support, since I'm aware that you already know that I'm keen) is not really something I'm likely to spend my time on, so I had no idea that this was going on.

It's super disappointing to hear, but I'm also glad that visibility of this has encouraged those of us who had obliviously been sitting on the sidelines to step in an express our enthusiasm.

Also, fancy seeing you here :D

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Quoting: Half-ShotAplogies for not making recent events, I've been scattered all over the place recently. Shall be coming to the next events as much as possible though,

No worries! It'll be good to have you around again ^_^

Quoting: FutureSutureUnless you do things differently in Australia, your dates are all wrong. The dates are all 1 day after their respective days.

Ah, well spotted. One of the downsides of Steam not allowing event times to be entered in UTC is that I have to use local dates (Australia is of course ahead of UTC) when creating them. In this case, I forgot to change them back to UTC :D

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Quoting: OrkultusYay awesomenauts! Ok so now Cheeseness, since i am finished moving.... thank god. I can start joining events :P

Woo! Hope the move went smoothly :D

Will we see you for Guns of Icarus Online tomorrow?

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Quoting: SamsaiLinus Torvalds is in a special position. The kernel team is very exclusive and they have to have a clear authority to make sure the kernel doesn't suddenly break completely.

Is he though? IMO he behaves inappropriately. He's totally capable of not being abusive with his feedback. That wouldn't undermine the stability of the kernel.

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Quoting: a4644246You are saying that technology doesnt mater, but it does matter, very much.

I'm not. I'm saying that game devs who don't fix stuff or don't bother actively contributing fixes upstream (most don't) don't end up providing much benefit to the F/OSS ecosystem.

Quoting: a4644246My approach is healthy for F/LOSS platform it is unhealthy for corporation and developers, and if they dont care about F/LOSS platform I dont care about them.

It's not healthy for F/OSS at all, and it's super disappointing that we have prominent people who're abusive and act like bullies. Elitism breeds exclusivity, which is unsustainable and more or less counter to what makes F/OSS communities and good F/OSS development work.

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Who's that in the crew roster at 7:48?

As usual, if anybody spots me in their game, I'd love to see a screenshot of my death!

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Quoting: a4644246I dont want to report bugs for stupid wrapers I want to find and report bugs for native multi-platform tools, so everyone will benefit, gamers, non-gamers and developers!!!

How does anybody but the developer and the game's players benefit from bug reports for closed source proprietary games?

Also, what value is there in calling people names? Being misinformed or unclear on something doesn't make a person an idiot. Your post is full of the sort of thing that is unhealthy about the way people have been approaching this situation. I'd suggest following some of Wil Wheaton's advice.

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