You are free to "defend yourself" of course, I just took issue with you trying to muddy my name using false accusations. In you defence, you weren't aware I use two Steam accounts, which is why I came back and actually posted your Twitter message here for clarity.

You claimed I hadn't even played it, as I didn't have an achievement everyone should get. As I said on Twitter the achievements don't seem to work (I didn't know I was supposed to get one there, because you know, nothing happened). The whole point of me showing a screenshot I took of the map was to show you that I did, in fact, have the map.

Short of doing a video of me running through it to show you, I don't know how else to get that across to you. I'm not going to do that anyway, because I really don't want to play it again.

You are welcome to post of course, but don't claim I don't play something I've written about because an achievement doesn't exist on my previously public (now semi-private) Steam account.

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Quoting: babai

The itch.io store and application have come a long way in a very short amount of time.

Pick one :)

I don't get what you mean, pick one what?

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Well do make sure you report issues, they do fix them.

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Quoting: GuppyAny chance that your merging of notifications could somehow be related to the disapearing posts?

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/2468?page=1

Fixed that, let me know if you see any other weird issues. Sorry for the trouble, overhauling lots at the moment.

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Yes, notifications, emails were not mentioned.

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Update: Usernames in quotes will now be a link to that persons profile.

Edit: Although I need to work on this some more due to the way quotes work, it's not working 100% of the time atm.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Sadly the end result feels rushed and low quality overall.

Wow, and this game was in development for years.

From what I read up and heard from others, it was in EA for so long they released it to get a boost essentially, not because it was ready.

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Quoting: Linas

Quoting: liamdaweI would argue that four years is quite a while and it was before Steam was officially released on Linux.

Dirt and Spec Ops aren't as niche as this game, so they are a different story.

I don't necessarily disagree with you on that. I also have great respect for the Wine project.

What I am concerned about is that these Wine ports tend to be minimal-effort products. As in I haven't seen a single example of a Wine port where the game did not run in Wine in advance (or were not complete disasters like Limbo and Eador). And as we come closer to the current year releases, we begin scraping the line between where games just work in Wine and where they begin having subtle annoying bugs like input and sound problems, rendering glitches, broken controller support etc., while in a way they still do "work". If the game actually needs to be hacked to work in Wine or Wine needs to be hacked to make the game work, I think the effort is better spent making an actual native port instead.

End rant. :P

If a game being on Linux can be done with minimal effort using Wine when it works really damn well, what's the downside exactly? I always prefer native ports (obviously), but when it's quicker for the developer to use something that's already available and works well, there's only really upsides for us. They can also go back and simply upgrade the version of Wine used in future, with ease, to give even better support in future. It's actually quite a good solution for older games.

You have to also remember that older games won't generate much income, which is why native ports for brand new, or much newer games is more worthwhile.

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Quoting: leillo1975This dlc was released 10 days ago, and radio streams don't work.

Uh, ok? I did mention the radio streams and as for the release date...so?

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Quoting: LinasAhem... Does it really qualify as an older title by being released in 2012? I have nothing against using Wine for old games that are not economically viable to port via any other method. But being released on the same year as Dirt Showdown and Spec Ops: The Line does not qualify it as an old game in my book.

I would argue that four years is quite a while and it was before Steam was officially released on Linux.

Dirt and Spec Ops aren't as niche as this game, so they are a different story.

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