Quoting: Guest

Quoting: BoldosYeah, my apologies for being this expressive, but when I saw the news, I got enraged.
I already supported them by buying the game when it got released on early access (with the hopes that I will get a Linux&Vulkan RTS game some day, as was promised). And of course I'm VERY glad that Stardock is willing to go this way. But they did not keep their promise; they also act as if nothing happened... So it must be stated that their behaviour is not correct and is not clean; this is what developer studios just must not do...

I can understand your point of view. I'm not exactly excited either. It's not actually that it was delayed, or that the devs said after they had a Vulkan port done. It's not even their silence on the matter previously.
What has me apathetic is their request for interest. Maybe I'm seeing it wrong, but to me it seems like the GNU/Linux crowd has to somehow prove themselves worthy of Stardock when it really should be the other way around: Stardock must prove themselves worthy of the GNU/Linux crowd. I just don't get the impression that they're taking GNU/Linux seriously, at all.

Given some of the discussions, this is all mostly just me explaining why I'm not so enthusiastic about the news. I'm not advocating anything, it's just "meh" to me. The irony though is that I already have the game in my Steam library. It came bundled with my graphics card.

I'm incredibly surprised to see this from someone I know who's as smart as you are.

When did more and more people start being of the attitude that developers have to prove themselves to us? Prove what exactly? We are a tiny platform often not worth porting to, I really wish people would stop acting like a developer is a devil for pushing us down on their list.

We are bloody lucky to have the games we do, let's not overestimate our worth. That will harm us, not help us.

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Quoting: LeopardI wonder about something Liam.

Why you have that game in your library already?

As i can see from your profile , you are not dual booting with Windows too. I can't get it.

Probably from a gift at somepoint, forgot I even had it. Do people really feel the need to query why I own games? Strange.

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Quoting: STiAT

Quoting: GuestConsidering how long it's been from them, how many times it's been pushed back, and what appears to be a lack of enthusiasm on their part....I don't actually care for this game anymore.

Well, that they will port it with Vulkan was pretty much what they stated since the beginning. There hardly was news of them on the item though.

I don't blame them, things like that take time, especially on new APIs which still are sure to have bugs in the driver-side implementation. And a lot of room for mistakes client-side to iron out.

It was pushed back for real reasons though and it's hard to argue why. The fact is they have been quite open about it all and now Vulkan is basically done.

It's great news we are still so close in their minds. I don't give a fuck about delays, as long as it's for understandable reasons. A good game delayed, is better than no game at all.

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Quoting: GuestI must say I am not quite sure why it is being assumed that because it's a first day release of Mac/Linux alongside Windows, it's assumed that the work on this is being done in house. This is not a given at all.

When you look at the Steam page, it's Codemaster's all over the place in the editors/distributors informations. No mention of Feral, Aspyr or VP. Other ports usually mention the porting studio. It's sure not a certainty and it might get updated in the coming days/weeks, but for the moment it looks like an in house port.

Jaycee has a point. Only if the contract says so. Aspyr & Feral have their names as they assume the role of Publisher for the Linux versions.

It could be anyone doing it on a contract simply on behalf of Codemasters. Ethan Lee ports for example or Icculus don't have their details on their ports as they were just contracted to work on them.

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Quoting: nishayume

Quoting: johndoe

Quoting: LeopardNext time , i will to the Feral ' Hey , yo Feral! Shmerl wants you games on GOG , because he is Polish and he has somekind of fanatizm,patriotizm about GOG so he somehow wants you to break main developers or publishers attitude. Don't mind if he is talking about other Drm-free stores ; he only cares about GOG'

Dude , enough of that your GOG loving movements. No matter what we approach you ; you're still trying to blame Feral and somehow Valve itself. Drop it off.

If you are not happy about it ; tell your beloved GOG to care about Linux by porting their titles and Galaxy , not treating us as second class citizens. Maybe after that ; our rising Linux porter Feral can consider that.

Hey Leopard,
Shmerl has an opinion and that is justified.
Please don't blame others for their thoughts/interests - this is really childish - and does not help.

Thats the normal comment here. Respect the others likes or opinions about gog or steam. In the last time i commented and give like to someway talking about the shogun 2 is a an another total car ror linux.. And now im in the naughty list and need moderation ln my comments.Is that real? For now im i retire the patreon,using the same childish logic.and will do now.Probably mi coment will be no posted

You are not on a naughty list, see the explanation here:

A side-effect of it, was that if you hadn't posted in the forum 3+ times (and the posts were approved), but you did make plenty of article comments, it would see you as having to go through the approvals process. I have since adjusted it to remove any older users from the mod queue who made at least 3 article comments.

Everyone has to go through the approvals process (as detailed in that article) a few times before it auto-removes them. To combat spam and toxic comments. You have not been manually put it anything.

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He's using an AMD card with the open source driver, while Mesa has come a long way, there's tons of performance improvements left to do. Not only that, but you have to remember this is being run in Wine and Wine is not even remotely finished itself.

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Quoting: Enverex

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: bubexelResume: you rent a computer with windows to play with latency....
So stupid...

I bet people said similair stuff about music/tv/movie streaming, now they're massively popular.

That's not really the same. Music/TV/Movies aren't sensitive to latency, they just need to be streamed from a server, literally any server. Games on the other hand are incredibly sensitive to latency and also need serious hardware to run well. Not to mention needing so much bandwidth to stream at an acceptable quality and framerate.

I'm fully aware, already answered that in another comment.

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Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: Redface

Quoting: MohandevirI didn't search thouroughly, but what is really intriguing is that Feral doesn't seem to be implicated. Codemasters is producing the Linux build on it's own? That would be something new.

Virtual Programming did port several Codemasters games too, the Overlord games and Dirt Showdown

You are totally right! Forgot about that. Worst is that Dirt Showdown is my favorite local multi-player game. Shame on me! :)

Shame? It's a good game and the port is great.

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Quoting: Purple Pudding

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: crt0megaIt's basically some sort of Steam In-Home Streaming without being bound to Steam and a client which even runs on a RasPi? Now that's interesting!

That's a reasonable way of putting it yes. Hopefully they will find a way to allow Linux to be a host as well as a client.

But the game is still streamed in the cloud and you have to pay for the cloud service, right?

Not always, you can host it yourself on your own Windows machine if you have one. Which is my point about hopefully allowing Linux hosts in future.

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Quoting: crt0megaIt's basically some sort of Steam In-Home Streaming without being bound to Steam and a client which even runs on a RasPi? Now that's interesting!

That's a reasonable way of putting it yes. Hopefully they will find a way to allow Linux to be a host as well as a client.

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