Quoting: neffoRE: this thread. Why in fuck's name are people so upset about getting a great fucking game on Linux?

Have you actually read any of the comments on it? If you did then you would know.

The performance is utterly laughable due to not being a native port and it runs better in Wine.

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100+ comments holy cow.

Copying what I said in the Steam forum topic on it since a VP developer has been posting in there:

I never get the "I'm not a PR guy" reasoning. If you do a major release then have a PR guy ready, that shouldn't be a secret key to success. That should be a bit of common sense.

If you don't do some form of public testing then crap like this will happen, I tell this to every developer who doesn't do a public beta and then sees posts like this.

I've seen the "no houses around to test for Linux", as pointed out the LinuxGameCast (Venn) do a fair bit of testing and could have helped, there's also http://www.gamingonlinux.com [External Link] which could have helped test...but nope neither crew where approached to even do minor testing. Again no outside testing was done AT ALL.

Having THE top end newest generation Intel i5 and an Nvidia 560ti and I see crap performance on LOWEST settings is bloody unacceptable to me. That instantly tells me along with the multitude of other people seeing the same issues that the testing before-hand was utterly flawed.

There are also reports on the Steam forums that some of the people claiming to have great performance are level 0 Steam accounts (meaning a brand new account), it's starting to sound fishy to me: Found one here [External Link], level 0 and hidden profile claiming it's on par with Windows.

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Quoting: wleoncio

Quoting: liamdaweSeems it's not actually a native app guys. The porting looks like it was done by http://www.vpltd.com/services/ [External Link] who use "eON" which is a wrapper since they don't need source code access.

Looks like it wraps windows files into a Linux native binary somehow. A bit different to wine, probably somewhere in-between wine and Valve's "togl" library.

I agree this is a bit disheartening and actually feels a little bit like cheating, but at least it's going to count as Lin... sorry, SteamOS usage, whereas running through Wine or PlayOnLinux would count as Windows usage, right?

Pretty much.

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Seems it's not actually a native app guys. The porting looks like it was done by http://www.vpltd.com/services/ [External Link] who use "eON" which is a wrapper since they don't need source code access.

Looks like it wraps windows files into a Linux native binary somehow. A bit different to wine, probably somewhere in-between wine and Valve's "togl" library.

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Anyone gotten it to work with a game-pad yet?

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Quoting: plazmathere is no linux logo on the game steam page, i wrote 2nd time first one is deleted.:dizzy:

Of course there's no Linux logo, it's not out.

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Quoting: Anonymoushope that releasing it just when steam discount is on won't seem bad for linux.

I really do wonder why people think like this.

Discount != bad. Discounts are awesome.

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Just FYI it really did exist: https://twitter.com/arrowheadgs/status/469150777672728576 [External Link]

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I've emailed them for clarification.

Their store tagline still mentions Steam Machines though, maybe it won't be day 1 support now.

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Quoting: plazmachecked on steam and no linux logo and system reqs. the game page. where did you get this ?

Hmm that's odd, they have now removed the icon and system requirements.

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