Day one Linux support so they got an immediate purchase out of me. Also works very well! I've actually had no crashes as opposed to a colleague playing on Windows, so I get to tease him about it a little.

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Quoting: tuxisagamerI'm not surprised. Disappointed, but not surprised. Isn't this the second or third title that Warner wouldn't let release for Linux? I think Warner wants all the AAA titles they publish to wait for the official SteamOS launch to release for Linux.

Yeah, it probably makes more marketing sense or something. "It will not have general support of Linux", now what does that mean? Will there be a switch to only allow pure SteamOS machines?

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Wow, that's kinda disappointing. Was really looking forward to it.

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The article is spot on, Liam. Exactly what I was going to say.

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Looks interesting! Added to my wish list.

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Honestly there's not much we can do except be grateful for devs (and Valve!) supporting us Linux folk. I have no trouble believing we're a very small market at this time, relatively speaking.

On the other hand, if the studio is already targeting something other than Windows/XBox, they're probably already using cross-platform tech like OpenGL and SDL anyway, so supporting Linux probably isn't *too* difficult. The rise of the Mac probably helped us there.

I'm contemplating avoiding sales from devs that give us first-class (i.e. timely) Linux releases. As in, paying the full price intentionally, just for that little extra support.

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I game on Linux because I use Linux as my OS and it's a major pain to reboot to Windows to play a game and reboot back when I'm done.

Now, why is Linux my primary OS is a much more complex question. Mostly it's because it's free software - free as in freedom mostly, but also price. I'm a software engineer by profession, so I don't believe *all* software should be open source and free; writing proprietary software pays my bills (although nowadays it's possible to make a living writing open source) and I'll gladly pay for some software (video games being one example, specialized software like IntelliJ's IDEs another, heck even Microsoft Office but that's kinda borderline because of the shady crap they pull off with their obfuscated file formats). I honestly believe humanity would be better served by the dominant operating system being free software in the long run. Obviously that's a long ways off what with Linux's minuscule desktop market share but I still feel good practising what I preach and getting involved, if only by using it, reporting bugs and talking about it.

Linux also gives me an excellent dev environment, but if it was only about that I'd probably just have a Mac.

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Ugh the Linux version has been delayed? <Vader scream>

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Overwhelmingly the XCOM expansion. Also Sanctum 2, Normality (an oldie from GOG).

Really eyeing the Darksiders daily deal on Steam ATM, since they promised Linux support...

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Very excited, plan on getting it as soon as it releases for Linux. A small delay is not a big deal for me. I waited two years for XCOM, after all.

You should really try the new XCOM, it's so so good. :)

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