Quoting: MayeulCNow, back on topic. What surprised me about this game is the fact that the developers were  SteamOS & Steam Controller support (in Steam store's top right corner). It may very well be the first title to do so.
The game seems interesting, and I would certainly have picked it up if I wasn't too busy to play games now.

IIRC, Alien Isolation did this first. It's still nice to see it there though since that is how I originally found it.

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Quoting: raverrebelAt the moment it is available to buy in the Humble Codemasters Bundle!
Won't count as linux sale though?

Like I said in the article, don't buy before a port is out. Always follow that simple rule.

so daft question: if I buy the game but do not activate (ie hardcopy) until its out does that count as a linux version ?

If you mean a "hardcopy" that you purchased in a shop, that will not count for Linux at all. Feral confirmed this before.

Even if it did, that method already happened on Linux and IMO failed. See ID / Loki games. It's annoying to patch the "windows" version just to setup a Linux version.

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The $6 sale price seems fair enough as a Linux launch price, even if it has mixed reviews, thus I purchased it. The point of "mixed" is "let's give it a shot" or "let's do some digging to what people disliked and liked about it so I can assess it myself".

I can live with rebinding keys. Wouldn't hurt to submit a bug report on the standard layout though.

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Your site's view count != popularity

At least not until the view counter starts filtering refresh queries.

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Quoting: BillNyeTheBlackGuy$1200 for a console style computer is asinine. No one is going to pay that much for it no matter how good it is.

Why do I even see people quoting the price? It's $1000 launch price and was on sale for $900 at Amazon. At LEAST bitch with proper numbers please. I also thought I seen it was $800 at Amazon at one point.

But to your statement about $1200 machines. Well Syber sold their X line completely. Maybe you should ask those? It was exactly $1200.

I'm sorry, but those numbers means zero - nill - nothing for the console customers.
Franchises like Fallout, GTA, Assassins Creed, Call Of Duty, Battlefront, Mass Effect: That's what matters. And not one hundred thousand indie games can make up for that: They don't mean squat.

Talk about exaggeration. Fallout 4 was a disappointment in many fan's eyes. SW Battlefront is just an overpriced shiny movie advertisement (with lack of game-play and terrible gun play). GTA V's own PC users get dicked over by its own DRM (guess Steam wasn't enough DRM?). Assassin's Creed Unity was so bad it made Ubisoft hit the panic button (free DLC/updates). Should I continue? Sure, big names sell, but people have grown tired of what has been spoon fed to them over and over as of late.

IIRC, it was the developers of Cities: Skylines who made a proper Sim City game this year, not Maxis/EA. It was Rocket League (which is coming to SteamOS) that got people kicking around a ball into nets this year, not PES. Pillars of Eternity made people remember how good a cRPG can be, yet Fallout 4 forgot that it was suppose to be an RPG altogether.

Stop drinking the kool-aid.

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Quoting: mr-eggisn’t what this article is saying is that in all probability by the winter sale it will actually be more expensive ?

I'm not sure. I mean if that's the case, then I won't be able to afford it. :( I thought it was for the season pass (something I never buy)? Or wouldn't they just add it as a DLC expansion?

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I ended up passing on Dying Light because of the uncertain issues it was having post-launch. I'll take this as a sign of good faith towards Linux and will pick it up (probably during the Winter sale since the current one tapped me out :p).

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Glad to see some news on this! It's on my top watch list for Indie games along with Timespinner [External Link].

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Picked many things up in the sale. Still pretty satisfying trying to decide what to buy and not to with the current selection of Linux available games. Man I love indie games. :)

Quoting: ricki42So I'm pretty sure that during the last sale only Linux games showed up on my store front page. Now it shows also Windows-only games, and the OS list is only shown when I hover the cursor over the tile. Is that happening for everyone?

At first I thought this, but that's only for the top section that gets shown to everyone. Everything below it is Linux/SteamOS if you're on that platform. Though it would be nice if they would fix their 1st party ads to only display Linux games on our end, amongst other things.

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Quoting: KeizgonAlso, it is worth noting the developer himself who made Grow Home expressed some interest in a Linux port, but I believe wanted to confirm a way to do it with the publisher's (Ubisoft) permission. It's in the Steam forum, I'd have to search for the thread again, so don't take my words verbatim.

I think this is the main reason why games are ported.
Most times, it's probably not like:
Publisher: ... and now you are going to to a Linux version!
Developer: Oh no!?!
... but more like...
Developer: May I?
Publisher: Sure, why not...

Yes, this is speculation.

I edited my post (see link and citation). I was incorrect in stating that. But it still wasn't a negative response.

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