The Final Fantasy VII Compilation games were the only ones worth playing, but either way, Square Enix is a backwards-looking company anyway, so it's never going to happen regardless...

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How much do I love you guys?

I love you as much as Santa loves beer! ;)

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: OZSeafordNow, what happens if I buy my games (windows and Linux) via my Android App? If it is a windows game and I never install it, it stands to reason that they will make it count towards a Windows purchase.

Aspyr or Feral, can't remember, said that Windows is the default.
So this would be a Windows sale.

Thanks for clearing that up!

I guess I won't be purchasing my games from the "mobile" client unless I intend to download/play them in the next seven days then... Though after reading this, it's almost discouraging to purchase games from the "mobile" client at all!

It's pretty unfair that sales "default" to Windows when purchased from the "mobile" client, particularly when you're talking about gamers whom only play using Linux-based operating systems...

Quoting: Segata SanshiroThe bottom line is that Valve needs to be a lot more open with these kings of things.

I agree - this article answers a lot of questions... But there's just as many questions that remain unanswered.

Clarity from Valve Software would eliminate that issue...

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Yeah, I'm the same as many of you guys - a year or two ago, I bought pretty much every game for Linux-based operating systems... But these days, now that the number of games for Linux-based operating systems is starting to get quite large, I'm quite picky.

Generally-speaking, I won't buy just any game for Linux-based operating systems these days... Though there are exceptions - such as when a major game studio releases a so-called "AAA" title, then I will usually purchase the game "just because it's for Linux-based operating systems" and I want to show the developer that we want games too.

I'm not going to lie - I'm not a big fan of "indie" titles and don't buy a whole lot of them... But I always check them out because one thing I do know, is that some "indie" titles are absolute gems!

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Quoting: badberyeah so 846 sales total so far, about 50 linux which means about 6%. That doesn't sound like a terrible percentage but obviously when your total sales are so low it's going to be hard to financially justify a port for a platform that makes up only a small part of them.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed this.

Back in reality, the Linux sales haven't done too badly, at least according to these numbers...

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GamingOnLinux is now one of my favorite sites... Of course, I'd love you even more if I won a couple of Steam keys for this game! ;)

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Quoting: adolson

Quoting: CybaCowboyAnd it's articles like this that prevent me from buying anything until support for Linux-based operating systems is actually offered

You're saying this like it's a bad thing... Why the hell *would* you buy anything that doesn't support your operating system??

Some games promise support for Linux-based operating systems... Only to fail to deliver (as is the case here).

That was my point - just like the author, I recommend users don't buy games that "promise" support for Linux-based operating systems, until the games actually materialize for Linux-based operating systems.

I learnt that the hard way, hopefully others do not.

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Quoting: GuestThe lab shuttered was the Operating System Research Centre. Nothing to do with their driver teams.
AMD employs people to work on the FOSS drivers. And they continue with their closed source efforts. And they're trying to combine the two.

Try again.

Regardless, their drivers are garbage and offer little - if any - performance benefits over Intel's embedded offerings...

I won't be buying a laptop with AMD graphics again, it's NVIDIA or nothing.

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Quoting: Avehicle7887They knew Marmalade didn't support Linux and yet they still dug their head in the sand and didn't care about their Linux fans and they had 3 years to think about this.

They assumed it supported Linux-based operating systems, and we know what they say about assumptions...

View video on youtube.com

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Quoting: StyromaniacI've gotten the impression that AMD's OpenGL performance is worse than their DirectX performance while Nvidia's OpenGL performance is on par with their DirectX performance.

That's always been my impression, too...

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