For those who wonder, unlike Humble Bundle you can't download a DRM Free version of the games, you only have Steam keys (that you can share with your friend if you already own the game).

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Well of all the projects I have backed on Kickstarter 15% have failed, they fall into two categories :
- The people working on the project weren't competent enough
- Some of the people behind the project just took their share of the money and go away
And they all have one thing in common, problems were never mentioned before the final update (if there is a final update, sometime it's the absence of updates for a long time that give away the fact that the project is dead).

It's most of the time hard to predict if a project will fail, my advice is that unless you can be 100% sure that the project will succeed be always aware that the project can fail and so never put too much money on it.

Also when a project fail, ask for a refund if you want one because if you don't ask you have zero chance of having one.

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This blog post should not exist, you are ruining their chances to sell a game which may be perfectly good for people who like that kind of games based on only one bad review on Steam.

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Is it only me or there is something not right with the two sentences :
- A Linux version is planned
- Don't except it soon

They wish to have a Linux version but they don't have the money to do it and Linux will never be on the top list of priorities. So I wonder if this version works well on WINE ?

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Eryi's Action not on the list !!! Everyone should check out this game (http://store.steampowered.com/app/261700/)

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Sorry but it doesn't make sense, the Virtual Programming employee doesn't have the right to tell what games they are working on but I bet he doesn't either have the right to tell the games they are not working on. So "No comment" was the only possible answer.

Also eON have problems on some graphic cards configurations but a lot of natives games have similar issues (ProTip : Linux users should all have a NVidia card).

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Quoting: AsavarTzethI have added a Controversy section on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmalade_(software)" target="_blank">Wikipedia page</a>, citing 22cans and their Project Godus, which also uses Marmalade, despite reaching the Linux stretch goal.

There is a problem with your [11] note (just after the word "unclear").

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The fact is that because Valve want a lot of games on Linux before the release of Steam Machines, games that promise a Linux version have a greater chance of being Greenlighted on Steam and so some developers may announce a Linux version and forget about it once they are Greenlighted. Some developers might also do it because it's a way to make bloggers talk about the game.

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Quoting: Skarjak

Quoting: NyamiouIt's FUD, he has probably been paid by Microsoft (or Apple / Sony / Nintendo) for saying this nonsense.

This "FUD!" and "shill!" stuff has to stop. It makes us look completely disconnected from reality. This comment thread has plenty of examples showing that it is not FUD. We gain nothing by ignoring issues.

Real arguments in the blog post :
- Aspyr having problem with all proprietary drivers except the Nvidia one.
- The Intel driver is not as good as it should be.

FUD parts :
- Few games are not as good in term of performances on Linux that on Windows > Every games are going to have less "gaming value" on Linux because devs don't care about Linux

Sadly, it's pretty clear that if you run these games on Linux your experience isn't going to be as good, and you'll be getting less "gaming value" vs. Windows. We're not talking about a bunch of little indy titles, these are big releases: [...]. My take is the devs doing these ports just aren't doing their best to optimize these releases for Linux and/or OpenGL.

We all know that these ports are really good, that the companies behind the ports are working on making it better even after it is released, so saying that this games have less "gaming value" on Linux and it's because the devs don't care is just spreading disinformation.

- It's hard to make a game that perform better on Linux

I know it's possible for Linux ports to equal or outperform their Windows counterparts, but it's hard.

Well, not even an argument here.

- It was hard to port a very old engines designed only for Windows > It will be even harder with recent engines

At Valve we had all the driver devs at our beck and call and it was still very difficult to get the Source engine's perf. and stability to where it needed to be relative to Windows. (And this was with a ~8 year old engine - it must be even harder with more modern engines.)

I highly doubt this guy don't know about Unity and Unreal Engine, so again this is just disinformation.

- Windows/Xbox developer that don't know anything about Linux are developing the ports

These devs are probably glad to just release anything at all given how alien it can be for Windows/Xbox devs to develop, debug, and ship stuff under Linux+OpenGL.

Most ports are made by people whose jobs is to port game to other platforms (Ryan C. Gordon, Aspyr, Feral), so not by Windows/Xbox dev. Here again this is disinformation.

- Valve developers are crappy

Hay, this is just a thought, but maybe Valve developers could stop locally optimizing for their bonuses by endlessly tweaking and debugging various half-broken dysfunctional codebases and instead do more to educate developers on how to do this sort of work correctly.

It's pretty sure now that this guy didn't leave Valve in good terms.

- Steam Machines is a vaporware

I don't agree that SteamOS is done just yet, but you've got to wonder what is really going on. (So where are all those shiny Steam machines they showed earlier this year anyway? Does all this just go into the Valve memory hole now?)

If this part isn't FUD, I don't know what FUD is anymore.

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It's FUD, he has probably been paid by Microsoft (or Apple / Sony / Nintendo) for saying this nonsense.

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