If I remember correctly, Paradox were talking about Linux support for their grand strategy games before Steam was even on Linux. Also remember the lead developer of Victoria II posting guides on how to run the game on Wine as far back as 2009. Pretty cool guys.

If I had to bet on one company (other than porting houses like Feral and Aspyr) to deliver reliable day-1 Linux support, it's Paradox.

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After playing Wasteland 2 for a while, I've gotten to really like the CRPG genre so really looking forward to this :).

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Quoting: SupayYou just described me perfectly. Combined, I think.I have around 2500 hours in EUIV and CKII. Paradox supporting Linux is what gave me the final impetus to drop my Windows partition and go full Arch. Haven't regretted it once in a year and a half.

Similar story, haven't had Windows for a long time but EU4 was my first Linux game on Steam. Probably have similar hours if I include Victoria 1 and 2. When 3 is released hopefully next year, then I think it will be the only game I'll play :P. Never got too into CK2, but maybe I just haven't discovered that "depth" to it yet, need to keep trying.

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I still don't get the fuss about BL2, just seemed like another generic FPS where "story" is just going from one place to another and given random objetcives. Dunno, don't get it.

Quoting: SupayA shame the Paradox games didn't get more love. They've been supporting Linux well and run fantastically.

I'm happy EU4 did as well as it did. It's still a niche though, for strategy fans with OCD. Maybe HOI4 will stand a chance in the strategy category thus year if it does well.

Should we do as other sites do and only let editors nominate?
Should we limit nominations per-person?

I think one nomination per category per person. Nominations should be limited to games released that year in full for Linux (ie. Bioshock Infinite could be nominated, and so could BOUT2 when it comes out of EA). The exception could be a nomination for best EA/Alpha game of that year for games to necessarily released on EA that year, like KSP or Project Zomboid if they're still in EA but have had major updates that year. I would also email/tweet/carrier-pigeon developers once they get nominated. Also, would be great to see more community involvement, maybe some kind of award ceremony livestream would be fun!

All in all though this was a very good initiative, I'm glad it's being done and that it's worked well. It's completely needed, and hopefully it will be even better next year. On a side note, I really like the image used for the award, it looks very trophy-like. Only change I would do to that is the font.

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I'll pass on giving DF money before they're finished with something again. If it runs and is in some way improved from the original, then I'll get it.

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Quoting: thelimeydragonOne of the devs latest tweets was:

"It's getting Linux to run that's hard. Once that works, support in the engine is pretty easy. But Linux breaks. A lot. It's costly."
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Yup, exactly. It's why almost every company uses it for servers, to run systems, stock markets, etc. Because it's costly and breaks all the time. This guy may be on to something here.

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I just realised that this is the engine used on one of the worst games I have ever seen. Vinesauce did a let's play of it a while back, it was pretty hilarious:

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Yeah, no big loss really. This is worse than air control.

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I don't see how a platform which is overwhelmingly used in every single application (other than home PCs) can be considered to be inferior. My experience with web developers using Windows servers who say Linux is inferior (have met a couple), it's because they don't know how to use it and don't want to be made to feel inferior themselves.

Quoting: valczirFYI, the developer that called himself an "expert" (I assume he means it in the same way that Apple Store employees are "geniuses" ) tweeted about his inability to install ubuntu on a computer after a full day of effort.

My girlfriend (who I would consider an entry-level user) managed to install Xubuntu on a computer with no help at all and running into no issues. Guess she's more of an "expert" that him.

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Yeah, I'm wondering what they've done to the left pad too. Looks pretty interesting. Wish they would just release it now, it's holding everything up. I really wish they had waited a bit or been a bit more strict with the OEMs considering there's already two "Steam Machines" out there on sale running Windows. If this doesn't quite go as planned, then I think that will play a big part.

Fingers crossed though that it's a huge success. I'm getting the controller either way.

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Quoting: liamdaweI have been playing this online with Samsai, and with a nicer UI it will be one of the true kings of Zombie games, easily.

Yup, the UI and the controls (combat mostly). Keep wanting to play this, but every time i just stop after 20 mins.

Once gamepad support is up and they get rid of all those Gnome 1 style windows, then I can see myself easily putting in over a hundred hours of play time.

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