Quoting: tmtvlI wonder how many of the "x most played games" are available on Linux...
That might be a bit more of a thing than pure number of available games.

I added a bit about the current top 10.

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Quoting: PicoboomI haven't tried this yet, but I loved the Battlefield series on my Xbox 360, and BF3 remains one of my favorite PVP games.

As I understand that setting up a server for a game is no small cost, so I can understand the lack of multiplayer for Ravenfield at this stage of development. But I have hope that eventually the game sees enough success to add more maps and Battlefield-like team multiplayer options, all the while maintaining the delightful toy-like look the game has now.

You could just release the server scripts and let people run servers themselves, that's generally what people do to keep costs down.

Having a master server list doesn't need to expensive either, a cheap server that receives pings from the servers setup and displays them.

All quite easy to do, in theory.

The hard part is making the actual multiplayer, dealing with sync and so on.

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Quoting: PicoboomPerhaps someone could remind me: we do get to keep our Steam copy of our game when we get the GoG copy,yeaah? Or no?

:)

Yes of course.

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I've added in the UTC time for people to not get confused.

Feral are British, they use British time, but I agree it would have been simpler to put it in UTC time.

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Quoting: sevenis this game coming to linux? it would be a great addition to our gaming library...

No mate, I covered it because it's Windows only ;)

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Quoting: Shmerl

I am a solo dev on this game, and I cannot currently keep up with player concurrency. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME RIGHT NOW IF SLOW SERVER PERFORMANCE WILL MAKE YOU REGRET YOUR DECISION.

I didn't quite get that. What kind of player concurrency? Is it a single or multiplayer game?

Yeah, it's bugging me a little now. As it claims it's single player, multi player and an MMO...whut.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: lucifertdarkWow it must be really bad for you to say don't buy it, I don't remember the last time you ended a review like that.

It's something I very rarely say, and I don't like saying it. It's just not worth it.

The 22nd of September isn't that long ago... "Waste of time"... ;-).

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/dominate-the-world-in-strategy-game-agenda-now-on-linux-heres-my-review.8150

I never mentioned how long between the last time, just that it's rare. Most games have some kind of redeeming quality, this game and that linked one do not.

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Quoting: lucifertdarkWow it must be really bad for you to say don't buy it, I don't remember the last time you ended a review like that.

It's something I very rarely say, and I don't like saying it. It's just not worth it.

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Quoting: blendi-93this is great, but why not linux - win crossplay :(.

@liamdave found a little typo "September 289h" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php
"Do not adjust your monitors, you read that correctly. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, Chaos Rising and Retribution are officially coming to Linux and will be released on September 289h."

Thanks, typo fixed.

The point about Wine was me trying to steer this away from people seemingly bashing a new port in favour of playing a game in Wine. It has nothing to do with me not using Wine (I actually do sometimes FYI).

To re-quote myself:

Wine gaming is not Linux gaming and does not support Linux in any shape or form. Some of us don't buy Windows games and I am sure plenty of us never even looked at this game before.

It's all about building up our library without having to resort to hacks like Wine, which never truly work properly.

Wine is not on SteamOS, what Valve has been pushing, it's not included in distros as a standard and it's not something developers test against. Having users just buy it, install it and run it makes Linux far more attractive than "I hear it works in Wine, you need to do this, then this, then this and it may work, but you won't get any support and it could break at any moment".

As for this:

Quoting: wojtek88And of course I agree with you Liam that even if the game runs on Wine we should be happy when the game is ported. But I also see boltronics's point, that it would be great to have port of a game that does not run on Linux at all. And such a comments are valuable, because they show the direction of the titles that publisher can focus on.

All new ports are great, whether they work in Wine or not, due to my earlier point of the fact that a lot of people do not buy Windows games to play in Wine.

Quoting: wojtek88It's easier to get more money for Linux version if it was impossible to run the game on Linux at all.

This goes yet again back to my earlier point, this is part of giving us a back catalogue of older games that people will enjoy playing, not just newer games. And enables people to not have to resort to hacks like Wine. I've already seen multiple people say the multiplayer just doesn't work in Wine, so having this native is a boost for yet another reason.

The best way to earn a lot while porting is to port a game at day one, like with the XCOM 2. I'm not saying that the numbers will be perfect, but it will be available for Linux users for much longer time, from start when it is expensive (50 euro) to a moment when it will be as cheap as XCOM:EU. And for that reason I hope newest Deus Ex will be released soon.

I fully agree, but publishers often don't care about Linux and we are a long way from getting more varied day-1 ports of big name games.

Quoting: GuestIf only there was a dedicated area to wine discussions, to avoid polluting this thread further.

Yep, please try to use it folks :P

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Quoting: riusmaLinux represents probably more than 1.1% of the market share here, as SOMA has also been ported to PS4 which is included in the 450.000 copies figure. SteamSpy show 250.000 SOMA copies sold, where Linux would account for a 2% market share. The truth is probably between those two values (1.1% ~ 2.0%), which is not bad regarding Steam's surveys! :)

This is where their PC figures came from:

@gamingonlinux Gog, humble and steam. Not counting humble monthly subscribers that use Linux.

Source [External Link]

I need to add it to the article.

Edit: Doh you're right they said that much further down in the article, so you're right.

Linux still counts for about 1.1% of overall sales though, that's across all platforms even against PS4 sales so it's actually quite good. If it was just PC sales it would be higher.

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