I would think of Linux not being Day-1 but to a later date completely okay, even stating Linux on Kickstarter.

But turning it to an "if"... is pretty much fraud. But due to the terms of Kickstarter, there isn't anything you can do about it.

Though, I will remember that if they don't release for Linux, and I'm very picky when it comes to this kind of things when buying future games.

Quoting: TuxeeGot my Kickstarter funding back from them. Despite being complete pricks with their communication "policy" this worked without any hiccups and in a rather professional manner.

Going to consider doing that too.

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This answer makes me a bit angry. What ever the reason this happened (I bought it when the SteamOS banner was up, never got it refunded), I think they or Valve owe me an explaination there. Since they happily took my money on wrong advertisement (by the way, european company, I could sue them over this by european law, and with this answer I am thinking on actually going for it).

As much as I like what they are doing and their out of question well done game, this communication department they should just get rid of.

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I think just CDPR was complaining about bad press because they probably had planned a SteamOS version.

Since they're not on DX12 they could never have hoped for Vulkan. The reason would be interesting, not judging if the port was done or not, but their decision base (financial, talent, ..) would be interesting. They're certainly not short on money after TW3, but they've to plan 5 years ahead.

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Sad, TW3 is a really good game. But I have to say that CDPR always said they will be looking into it especially since they use their new engine version which is "a lot better portable", but never confirmed any plans.

I'm sure they could afford a port. My personal guess is that they planned not to do it in house, and after the experience with TW2 and the bad press, they stepped down from their plan.

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Quoting: ExpalphalogI love 4Xs but real-time combat is a deal breaker for me.

I love the fact that as a Linux gamer I can actually afford to be picky now.

Real-time combat is the deal for me. Was missing games with real time combat...

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My guess is that if it wasn't Linux, we'd see BSD in the spot Linux is now.

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What the hell are they statically linking to the linux binary? That's insane :D.

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Linux main issue after Vulkan, if they do a Vulkan port, is Input and Window Management.

There are quadrillion solutions for that, if they fail on that, they are a fail. I doubt that. The work for proper scene creating and input management shouldn't take them more than a week. If even. At least if their engine is a bit designed for abstraction, which I'm pretty sure of.

The hard part is quality testing. Vulkan, even in our drivers, evolves fast. Okay, SteamOS may not be the issue, but we've to face it: Majority is Ubuntu with historical binary drivers (if we talk about Vulkan), that's an issue.

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Quoting: Nel

launch/9/executable: DeusExMD.sh

337001/encryptedmanifests/domesticated_mac_linux_sync/encrypted_gid_2: 973A3491BA8BBFE16CAF17F204300E1B

...Feral spotted... lol
You guys are so predictable. :P

Oh that's ... a really good find.

Though, no official note they are allowed to release on Linux. But that's certainly a good find.

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That would be really huge. I have to tell my wife to hide my wallet <not>!

Though, often that's just tests they're doing, which get published with the rest on SteamDB, but never actually get released. Like engine tests for SteamOS/other platforms.

Though, Deus Ex is one of my favourite sequels, that would be HUGE .. for me.

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