I don't consider eON bad, actually the opposite is the case, and doing a d3d/ogl native wrapper (that's what it is), or "abstraction" layer is a pretty though thing to do, and a neat thing to have if optimized properly.

I just think they should have optimized and tested it better in the first place rather than releasing it in the state it was, which is a common mistake in gaming (and obviously desktops, say hi to my favourite desktop KDE :D).

I personally think it's good they are still working to improve their product, if done and optimized properly it could be a viable option to port older games and engines. Future engines which base upon DX12 or OGL4 won't need a layer like this though, since they'll very likely make use of more hardware-close interfaces in the two "new" versions.

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That's a good thing, I certainly didn't think they were even remotely close to breaking even.

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My hope goes for Dishonored.

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Never played BL2 or The battle for Wesnoth, but 0AD and Civ5: well earned.

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I personally see increasing issues installing linux as well, on ubuntu, on arch, even on older hardware wherr it used to work without issues I have more and especially manual steps to do (modeset for having an integrated 915 and a nvidia card - did not have to do that in the past, and seems to me like a regression in kms).

The out of the box installers get worse and worse, so I set up arch again (if end up struggling with things like that I can simply use arch again as well).

But the issues he writes about are mostly the non-issues of our current linux situation. And yes, by that I mean our unreliable graphics stack and never ending regressions in intel drivers etc. is a bigger issue.

But well, his decision. I guess it won't be much missed, I still think the reason is not a good one. Frustration on other things I would have understood very well.

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Have this on my radar since the developer marked he may port it. I am excited it is going to happen now, I love city builders (I like Hearthland as well, has a lot of potential still being early access).

I guess the port will still take some time, but as soon as released it's a must buy for me.

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Shogun 2 Total War ...

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Still too few, I miss Mount & Blade warband :) .. so I won't vote :D

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Sad, because my powerhorse in the living room running as "steam machine" is a windows one for the reason that I do have Windows only games I care about, and I only use in-home streaming for playing on my linux laptop (which really works surprisingly well).

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I got the problem that I got a quite powerful windows machine in house connected to my TV, playing most of the games using in house streaming (which works very well, I'm surprised) or on the TV directly.

I even went from playing native to in house streaming. In case of TW2, it's even performing better over network than native ;-).

I think buying games on linux (+start them) and still stream them will do the trick. I'd love more proper linux AAA titles, but until then, I'll use this solution.

Last but not least, kudos the developers of in home streaming at valve - whole DA:O and ME2 playthrough without crash or lag (though, it sometimes stated it had lag, but I didn't feel any :D).

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