For anyone who might have read Softpedia, no it will not support AMD GPU as mentioned in the article. Softpedia have it wrong.

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I saw the invisible texture issue only once this time, after I wrote this up funnily enough. It went after i died and came back. Better than before for sure.

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Quoting: WorMzyThat's nice to see. Didn't both companies involved just throw up their arms and say "not our problem" just a couple of months ago? Would be nice to see which company is actually showing some integrity and pushing out these updates.

Yeah, noted here, weird since the games are being updated.

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Quoting: XpanderGLCore renderer has graphical issues for me when steam overlay is enabled. blinking white screen and weird polygons on the screen.
disabling overlay makes it work just fine and it looks really good indeed

Possibly still a Unity issue, a fair few games have needed to go back to the old OpenGL system to overcome issues.

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@Aurelien, another reasonable voice, nice to have you here!

@buenaventura, since when do people having more money mean they should pay more for the same hobby as everyone else? Richer people already pay higher taxes (usually, apart from the dodgers, but that's another story for another day). Developers set their prices, it's not up to rich people to pay more for the same thing.

Edit: and by posting your article, you help people purchase things legitimately, no matter who they are. But you also uneccesarily and unfairly make them (potentially) feel bad.

I hope it does help people buy legitimate copies. I really don't care if this articles makes pirates or people who buy dodgy keys feel bad, it's helping to educate people on my suggestions of best practices. If anyone feels bad, well then, they should know they are part of the problem already.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: rkfgThis is not exactly true. Backers have only given $483k as of now and $1700k come from Fig itself. This is an unusual scheme for crowdfunding.

D'oh!

Found the info: It's the little ⓘ next to funding progress bar.

You're right, that wasn't clear at all, thanks for clearing it up. Still, the result is the same. It's going to get funded :)

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Quoting: darkszlufhttp://steamcommunity.com/app/324800/discussions/0/343785574529270965/

it's an official statement and it says that the mac and linux verions will come after launch.

As far as I can tell though, that forum topic was not made by a developer or a member of the team?

Regardless, their backwards and forwards in this doesn't fill me with confidence.

I sure hope no one has purchased it already.

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1. I critisized Liam for the way he unfairly chided average people for not buying games at full price (when we should since we want to support linux gaming) with the following arguments, roughly:

To make it clear, I am in no way demanding people always pay 100% full price as you are suggesting I am @buenaventura. I've not said that anywhere actually. I've repeatedly talked about waiting for sales rather clearly.

I am suggesting, because that's what all of this is, suggestions, not demands, that people use legitimate websites and not dubious resellers.

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Quoting: buenaventura

Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: emphy

you’re not entitled to anything.

Sorry, but this is extremely offensive. Blocking off people from cultural activities because of their financial situation or location is simply wrong.

Why? It costs 60-80 USD - often more - to go to the most popular concerts today. By far no all can afford that. Is that offensive too? Or the movies. Or theatres. They all cost, and for many it's too much. Is that wrong? Do they have the moral rights to break into these arenas if they can't afford the admission fee?

I could go on. TV channels, streaming services, DVDs, you're not entitled to any of these offerings. But with video games it's different? Get out of here. Real life doesn't work that way.

Why yes, I would say it is quite offensive that we have to pay private entities lots of money for what could/should be seen as common goods, such as culture, especially when there is no scarcity (you can make infinite digital copies of a game). It is strange, that people consider it "just so" that people should be discriminated based on income, yet balk at discriminating them based on skin color or gender.

I guess you have nothing against DRM and such, so why not make technology recognize your income and take a fair share as a price for games/video/whatev. That would be cool.

Offensive to pay private entities? How are developers supposed to survive exactly? Pay them in exposure, a handshake? Be realistic. This is the world we live on, money driven, let's not get carried away with star trek visions of a no money future.

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: emphy

you’re not entitled to anything.

Sorry, but this is extremely offensive. Blocking off people from cultural activities because of their financial situation or location is simply wrong.

Why? It costs 60-80 USD - often more - to go to the most popular concerts today. By far no all can afford that. Is that offensive too? Or the movies. Or theatres. They all cost, and for many it's too much. Is that wrong? Do they have the moral rights to break into these arenas if they can't afford the admission fee?

I could go on. TV channels, streaming services, DVDs, you're not entitled to any of these offerings. But with video games it's different? Get out of here. Real life doesn't work that way.

I'm really glad you're here, it's refreshing to see someone with a firm head on their shoulders.

So much entitlement it's crazy from some people it's crazy.

Quoting: buenaventuraI have to agree with a previous comment about bashing people who cannot pay. I have two small kids on one income, I cannot justify to myself buying any game at full price - I wait for sales, and even then it is a long period of anxiety and worries to part even with 5 dollars for a game I'm not even sure I will enjoy or have time for. At the end of every month, we have essentially always (including all our savings) 0 dollars in our accounts, and I am fully employed and not a hobo, just normal vanilla poor - we spend everything on good food and other bare necessities for the kids+rent+car, literally. Yet I LOVE games (and GNU/Linux)!

I have a family to support as well, so I can understand that element. Yet, I still refuse to believe that having a family or being on a lower income entitles anyone to games like what we are talking about here. I have zero savings, often short on things, but I manage to hold off on things I cannot afford.

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: cxphergmailcomI actually practically kicked smoking to support the Linux games initiative.

Now that's collateral benefit! :)

Amazing, I personally gave up drinking rum almost every night to buy more games.

Quoting: kingofrodeoI just wanted to say this:
I own about 300 games for Linux on Steam and about 50 more on GOG. I only buy and play games on my Linux machine (the only pne I own other than am Android tablet). Currently I can afford to buy games... hell I even buy games I know I won't play.
I used to pirate when I was young and poor, and that's why nowadays I like to support many developers even though I have little time to play. I don't feel ashamed really. What was I supposed to do? All my friends were playing with the cool stuff, so should I be looking at my room's white walls just for the sake of it?
Sure, if you can afford but pirate or buy stolen keys then you're a prick.

Rather than pirating games or staring at white walls, there are so many other things people can do. This is again entitlement issues. So your friends were playing games, which must mean you should too right? That's childrens false logic.

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