It looks like most of the negative reviews are about performance problems and bugs. This might be one of those games they should fix on Windows first before they bother porting it.

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I've revisited the Talos Principle with Vulkan, and let me tell you, it's as smooth as butter. I was on the fence about how much better Vulkan would be, but no more. It's really a "night and day" kind of difference. We need to encourage other devs to hop on the Vulkan train.

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I remember when Darksiders was "98% done" and just needed some polish. By now it should be able to show you your reflection and tell you who's the fairest of them all. Hopefully, this game won't be like that.

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Confusing, because Deep Silver told me directly this wasn't happening.

To be fair, they told you, "We currently don't have plans for Linux versions for these editions."

So, perhaps the moment after they finished that tweet, they made plans for it and spent the next few sleepless nights making it happen because Linux gamers are that important to them. :D

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The problem with comparing Steam Machines to Xbone and PS4 is that Valve's platform isn't just SteamOS. It's Steam as a whole, and that platform spans multiple operating systems and hardware. It wouldn't be fair to only talk about one Android phone vendor and compare it to Apple's iPhone as a platform when Google is looking at the big Android picture with all the different phones under a single platform. They wouldn't call it a failure because some new Android phone vendor has a small market share. Similarly, Steam as a gaming platform is hugely successful, and its Linux arm is just another extension of it, one that Valve undoubtedly hopes to grow.

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My kids love LEGO games, but I told them about this one, and they were like, "meh". On the other hand, my little one keeps asking for LEGO Worlds even though she already has Minecraft and a bunch of other building games.

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I think we need to separate the issues here, even though they're related. On the one hand, gaming on Linux has never been better, and it will probably continue to get better. For Linux gamers, this is a dream come true.

On the other hand, for Valve, they stink pretty badly at PR and don't communicate well with their customers. For the people who have used Steam for years, they probably know that. For someone new to the scene looking to buy a Steam machine and use SteamOS as an alternative to an Xbox One or PS4, they will likely be disappointed.

For Windows PC gamers, they just laugh at the poor performance and low number of games. But since that is likely to improve, it's possible some of them will come around, especially if they're loyal Steam users.

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Quoting: InverseTelecineMeh. I totally understand why everyone would be disappointed about this, but I can't convince myself to care because my Internet connection can't handle games. But even setting that aside, am I the only one who sees far less value in online-only multi-player games? I play a lot of single player games from 5+ (sometimes 10+) years ago because I don't have a lot of time for games and there is always a huge backlog of games I want to play. But online-multiplayer games seem doomed to be played for a while and then drop off the face of the earth, never to be played again because either the players abandoned the servers and there's nobody to play with or the company abandoned the servers and the game literally can't be played. I might move soon so my Internet issue might be fixed, but I do not expect my feelings on the low value of online multiplayer-only games to change.

I agree with your points about multiplayer games. I only have the time and desire to play singleplayer for the most part. Rocket League, however, has singleplayer as well. It also has local multiplayer split-screen, which my kids love.

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Quoting: CorbenBut it feels a bit like the drive of games on Linux has worn a bit off. The "news" about Linux games being delayed, canceled or don't get updates seem to increase. Even where we expected to get a Linux version, because either it would be very easy to port (Engine supports natively Linux or is OpenGL) or the previous games of that series got Linux versions, don't get any port. Or is that just my impression?

A lot of last year's promises for Linux games were based on the hype surrounding Steam Machines and SteamOS. It's pretty clear now that Valve botched their Steam Machines debut, so I wouldn't be surprised if some publishers are just cautiously taking a few steps back (or perhaps even abandoning the idea altogether).

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Quoting: dmantione

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Quoting: dmantioneVolition now have a relation with Virtual Programming, so it would not make a lot of sense that Feral would do such a port.

I don’t think Volition had anything to do with the Linux ports; Saints Row was published by Deep Silver

Volition didn't do the work, but comments on the Steam forums indicate that people from Volition and Virtual Programming are in close contact with each other. Based on what I read there I also conclude that Volition and not the publishers own the rights to these games.

Volition developed Saints Row and Red Faction games, but when the publisher, THQ, went belly-up, they sold off the rights of Saints Row to Deep Silver and sold Red Faction rights to Nordic Games. Nordic promised a lot of Linux ports like Darksiders, which they have yet to deliver. I even saw Red Faction: Guerrilla mentioned once, but they seem incapable of following through.

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