Quoting: pogofe

Quoting: Teodosio1) This is why we should always ask for Native releases; Proton is just a fallback, marginally better than post-development ports;
2) Keep in mind that Steam provides a "Review" feature.

This will only happen when enough PC users change from Windows to Linux systems. And that will only happen when people feel like everything they need is on a linux system with easy access to it and great user experience. That's why things like proton/wine exists in first place.

Other than that, I don't get why they don't want to support linux, since Roblox is available on Android, which is a linux based system and is more close to SteamOS than Windows is. I don't think a linux port would be that hard to do, unless the armv8/x64 differences are the main problem to tackle.

I would guess it was probably recommended by their anti-cheat vendor. There is a stigma around linux that that's where the cheaters are, and that it makes it easier for "hackers" to attack the game. Honestly it's pretty similar in thinking that cloud storage companies intentionally don't release clients for linux, because there is a stigma that linux users are more likely to be heavy users. Frankly, there is probably at least a little truth to both.

I hate to tell whoever needs to hear it, but at least with cheaters, if they're good at linux w/ cheating they're going to be good at cheating in Windows too.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: IzaicThat's how these changes generally seem to go. "Oh we broke wine? Oh well. But don't worry!" And then later after release: "Oops, time to worry! We justbwont be supporting Linux at all."

This doesn't sound like they accidentally broke Roblox on Wine, but, rather, they intentionally stopped it from working.

I believe I read that on another site actually. It's not that anti-cheat simply won't work but apparently the new update intentionally blocks running through Wine. Which, as nobody would fail to notice knowing that, their "official response" skirts around entirely -- the fact that they're outright blocking it from working. Thankfully, I have never been a fan of the game and haven't allowed my kids to play it for years now due to how toxic and exploitative the game is (though my original reason for blocking it was primarily how toxic it was when observing my kid playing it on occasion).

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I tried it today, before I saw this article actually, and the monetization severely put me off. It seems like a fun game from the little bit I played, but I'll absolutely be removing this from my library due to the lack of a one-time purchase option (for a reasonable price).

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderMan so many free games I will instantly forget about cause they are on GOG and not Steam.......

Amen to that. Though, perhaps not that oddly, the recent Windows 7 Steam announcement will probably get me to revisit a bunch of my GOG games. I still use a laptop with a 32-bit processor that can't upgrade to Windows 10 because of that, so games that were working just fine before will eventually stop working for me on that laptop. Except the GOG versions, which should continue to work fine.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRum

Quoting: rcritNot that I have a lot of sympathy for Windows users but dropping 7 is going to be hard pill to swallow for some. The 10/11 compatibility with some games is apparently pretty bad.

This is that moment, you sit back and notice: You have better "Windows games" compatibility on modern Linux than modern Windows. :huh:

That's not a new thing either, Wine has been pretty magic like that for a long time.

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I honestly don't know why people recommend Ubuntu over Mint, or some other long-established-well-maintained fork.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeThere was some talk about this for Launchbox (emulator front end) to be ported to Linux, and the developers have mostly said that the Linux development tools just aren't as good... though I tend to think it is more like 'it isn't as good for the language that we chose to write things in', as development tools under Linux have always seemed superior to me over Windows.

I believe the issue with Launchbox is it's written in .Net and specifically WPF. WPF in particular is very much windows only. Dotnet GUI applications are pretty much garbage on Linux, you can do it, but you have to develop and plan for it from the start, and each major Dotnet version changes what that means entirely.

There are plenty of good ways to develop cross platform things with GUIs, but not really if you're a .Net WPF developer.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeBut did they make the game not 'meh'? Ha, everything I have heard online about this game makes me think the writers of the dialog were angsty teens.

Yeah, that's what I've heard too. The trailers did a good job of making it look like exactly that, and initial word is... it is exactly that.

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These games are great. If anyone is considering this, doesn't already own them, and likes old-school point and click adventure games do yourself a favor and get these. It's downright criminal how cheap the bundle is for what you're getting!

To note, not only do they have native linux versions, but WadjetEye hired the dev that did the linux ports in a post-proton world where he absolutely did not need to do that.

To note #2, ScummVM also semi-recently added the AGS interpreter -- which is what these games are made in -- to ScummVM and you can play most if not all of these games in ScummVM if you'd rather for some reason.

Primordia and Gemini Rue are some of my personal favorites for this type of game, and I pretty much always recommend them whenever Point and Clicks come up.

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: dibzI wonder how many people still actually pay for these

It's true that in some months the filler games outnumber the desirable ones by a fair margin...

That's actually what I was talking about. I wish they'd stop including blockbusters and raise the quality of the filler instead. Typically when I pay for choice, I only want one or two games from it, then I try and give the rest away. Keyword is try, because friends and family never want that crap either. Typically I can only ever off-load one or two keys to someone else, usually it's if there is desirable game I either have zero interest in or already have. Pretty much everyone I know is "over" adding junk to their libraries...

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