Hey, look at the bright side. There still are coming Linux games by Feral. We don't know when or if they're close - but they definitely seem to be working on giving us some joy :). Hopefully with some nice racing action in GRID :D. As far as I'm concerned at least.

For bad working ports - even TW2 worked "well enough" to me, I didn't get all the fuzz about it except for some scenes where the lightning did it's work to slow it tremendously. I do think we deserve good ports, but I as well think that the studios are working for money. It's a dog biting it's tail. We need better ports for Linux to be able to compete, but we as well need games so the people consider switching.

I have high hopes for the UE4 giving us some major blockbusters. Croteams engine was ported successfully (still some issues though), and CDPR engine seems so support multi-platform a lot better (according to interviews, don't know what that is going to be for us in real), leadworks, Unity and others support it better. The problem are mostly not games, but engines and effects. The better engines we have, linux ports will get way more likely. Even one percent of the playerbase can still be profit - depending on what the port costs. And if the engines support it well enough, the porting should not be too expensive. And game developers start to demand the platform support by the engine makers, so that's where we have to look.

Plus: Valve gave the developers a target system with SteamOS. That's what they support, plus probably Ubuntu. That's what they wanted - one target to test against - rest is on your own risk.

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Quoting: Segata Sanshiro$1 for the full game by donating to indiegogo? That's plain crazy! With most croudsourcing its the opposite, like planetary annihilation which is £30 or something. They could raise the money 10x quicker by charging $10...

The case could also be that they plan to make this FTP or subscription, in the case of FTP the popularity probably wouldn't be an issue.

They pretty much describe on indiegogo why they need the cash - to polish up the graphics since they're both programmers and no graphics artists and want better animations and better polished graphics - and want to hire somebody professional to get it done. You have the option to pay up without getting a copy of the game (which I did), so I paid them a Pizza and Coke ;-). Not much, but if 1000 guys join me they can do it.

It seems like a "hobby project" which they finally want to get out of the door. I personally think it has more potential. Seriously? GTA-Style game? Everyone above 25 will buy it ;D.

But I agree, as "early donators" they should have given the copy for 10 bucks, and the "supporter" for 1... "just to be on display".

Multiplayer-only is a big hit though, but could be fun too, especially on LAN parties.

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Early GTA? I want! <runs to vote>

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Flashout 2 <3 .. what a funny game (and the first racing game I could buy .. or sort of racing)! Reminds me on old gaming machines :D. I enjoy it a lot and if there was any use for it, I'd buy it 3 more times!
I also like Spy Chameleon pretty well.

Didn't buy the others. Maybe there is a pattern to what linux gamers buy ;).

Rust seems very interesting, had my finger above the buy button a few times. Though, I never liked survival games and have a huge backlog on games...

Anyway, I'll have to get a controller soon, I wanted to wait for the Steam one, but I'll probably get one for the time to it.

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I really hope to see GRID in Linux soon :).

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@DerRidda very interesting, thought that one was dead a long time ago... didn't know they were restarting in Unity.

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Hmh, not my favoured setting, though, I may buy and try it when it's released. Still undecided yet, I rather like to play on sides of Vampires (Bloddlines - that one I'd port personally if I could get the code).

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I am more the guy for the surprise moment :D. Otherwhise I'll keep asking myself "Will it be soon?". The "maybe, maybe not" keeps me more relaxed.

By the way, since they noted that the new engine is "designed to support cross platform development better" I'd very much expect it to come at some point, and even natively (they need to go for OpenGL anyway in MacOS, and porting to Linux is grapically not too much challange after you did it for MacOS, and Valve is working closely with the devs to sort out troubles, according to the Aspire-Interview we read).

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They still didn't say it's not coming, they just didn't announce it. The image actually suggests it will come later.

I'd guess Witcher 3 on a "real" Steam Machine launch.

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Good to hear they've more ports to come. CivV is really an amazing game (I bought it on Linux, never played it before), and the implementation seems rock solid (have not yet seen bugs, crashes or similar).

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