Eh... I kinda am interested in this, but the whole "maybe Linux" thing puts me off. But then they complicate the whole issue by saying "It is not guaranteed these ports will ever graduate from their experimental betas. We will be evaluating the popularity of the betas and any issues they may reveal." especially the last part.

They are literally expecting me to purchase a game that I may not be able to play, then expect to use that as a method to evaluate if the game is popular enough. That makes absolutely no sense, wtf are they thinking?? That is quite possibly the most retarded statement I've ever heard from a developer.

I really hate this, if you expect me to pay full price for a game then I don't want to be treated as a second class customer -- and these guys are actually taking it a step further by saying that will just take my money and maybe give me something. Screw that.

This has nothing to do with VP, btw. This is all on the Arma 3 guys who clearly have their heads up their asses if they are using this beta as a way to evaluate popularity.

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Now -- I'm an experience linux user, so my experience is perhaps more smooth than most users... but I'm on an unsupported distro, Arch Linux. Arch makes no attempt to be compatible with any distro, although the steam runtime generally takes care of most of that. But even when it doesn't I've rarely had issues that were more than just a odd dependency. It seems to me though, that if you are running an unsupported distro you are giving up official support. Maybe others don't see it that way? I don't know.

But there are often a lot of issues I get on Linux that I just don't get on Windows. Say, for example, Guns of Icarus. I have dual monitors on my system (hardly uncommon!) but the game will not fullscreen correctly. I had to make script to disable and reenable the second monitor when I run the game. Most users wouldn't know how to do that, but then, if the game was done properly they wouldn't of had too. My understanding this is Unity's fault, but as the customer that's not MY fault. That's just an example where Linux gets treated poorly.

The end experience on Linux versions is very often just plain not as good as Windows, and I'd wager that's the result of a number of these support requests. If the user is running some kind of Ubuntu, and then running their games with the steam runtime, I can't imagine what sort of issues Linux users would be having that isn't related to the product itself in some way.

If you run something different like me, then you should understand the dev never said it would work for you in the first place and you should ask the community for help rather then the devs themselves. Dev's who have the time and energy may help you anyway though, and I've seen that a lot (Guns of Icarus devs DID reply to my posts I made on the community forums btw, I think they would of sorted out the issue if it were reasonably possible).

Short version is I guess is that if I'm running the supported setup I expect an experience like I would on windows and very often don't get that.

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Worlds most Linux hostile company drops Linux support, movie at 11.

Everyone knew the day that Microsoft bought Mojang we'd see them limit their Linux activities, Minecraft For Windows 10 etc. It would have been far more surprising if they actually went through with their Linux port.

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Well. I don't like any of Blizzard's games. So, I don't have a horse in this race at all. I'd have been nice, but even if they did great ports I still wouldn't buy any of them. But its his company, I mean, if he wants linux customers then he can get them any time he wants. At some point he probably will, and then it'll happen.

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Very nice! This is a really good game. I hope the port is decent quality!

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I'd love to see MS drop DX, but IMO, DX was invented for platform lock-in, and it destroyed cross-platform gaming for probably decade. They'll continue to push DX until its all but completely abandoned by developers, and that'll be a long time.

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I wish they wouldn't make linux ports a stretch goal. I'm not going to give you a red cent for a game I couldn't play. So either tell me I'll get to play it, or don't expect anything from me. I mean, all it does it make me wait until the linux port is reached before I'm willing to fund anything. Especially since its Unity, its not a hard port. You want my money then just commit to it from the get go.

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Loved the first two ones, especially Dragonfall. More sweet, sweet linux shadowrun? Yes please.

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I actually went to buy this game a few weeks ago, but noticed a lack of penguin. I looked into it and decided to wait and see. Yup, that was a good call. Well, if they don't want my money that's a shame but there isn't anything I can do about it.

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