Quoting: Guest

Quoting: oldrocker99No complaints here, except for Steam defaulting to GOL for me to know it's even available. As usual, Thanks, Liam!.

Yeah, same for Grow Home… not a trace of it on Steam’s home page… sigh.

I thought you knew. The Steam webmaster is a monkey.

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While you all are worrying about other releases, my big question is: How do I transfer my beta saves in Magicka 2? I found the save location for the beta, but it must be different for the final release.

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Quoting: flesk

Quoting: melkemind

Quoting: fleskOutland was self-published by the developer, Housemarque, on PC though, so Ubisoft didn't have anything to do with the Linux version of that game.

Ubisoft still owns the rights to Outland. Housemarque couldn't publish it on Linux without Ubisoft's consent [External Link].

As far as I can tell that only implies that they own the intellectual property. That doesn't mean they had any say in publishing of the PC versions.

But that's exactly how publishing works. Having signed a few publishing contracts in my day, it was the same for me. When a publisher owns the copyright to something, you absolutely must have their permission to publish the material anywhere, even if you wrote it. That's what "All Rights Reserved" means.

In this case, the developer might have already had a clause in their contract that allowed them to port it to Linux, but it would still belong to Ubisoft. When you start the game on Linux, the Ubisoft logo comes up. Therefore, by definition, there is a Ubisoft game already on Linux.

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Quoting: fleskOutland was self-published by the developer, Housemarque, on PC though, so Ubisoft didn't have anything to do with the Linux version of that game.

Ubisoft still owns the rights to Outland. Housemarque couldn't publish it on Linux without Ubisoft's consent [External Link].

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Quoting: reaVer

Quoting: wvstolzing

Quoting: reaVerGuys, I think we're all ignoring the fact that the sky just came falling down...

Why, what happened?

The publisher that recently took a firm stand against PC users (and Linux users) is now actually publishing a Linux game.

Maybe in the future, hell will freeze over (again) and we'll see a Blizzard game for Linux too. One can hope.

I have a Ubisoft-published game called Outland, and it's actually one of the better Linux ports I've played in terms of performance (not bad gameplay too).

These publishers only speak dollars and cents. If a developer, even one of their subsidaries, can demonstrate that a Linux port will yield a good return on investment, they'll sign off on it even if they don't know what Linux is.

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If nothing else, this has the whole world talking about Linux gaming. I never thought I'd live to see the day. :D

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Wow, I had Escape Goat 2 in my Steam cart last night and fell asleep before I could checkout. I'm glad I did now!

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This is usually not my thing. The game looks good though.

Square Enix doesn't have a lot of Linux support, they appear to have something to do with Wakfu, but are not listed on the Steam store page. I think Avalanche Studios has no Linux supported games yet. So I'm not getting my hopes up.

Yes but Mad max [External Link] which is officially confirmed for linux is also developed by Avalanche Studios, though the difference there is the publisher, so there is still a chance!

Is it officially confirmed?

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On my wish list.

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I just barely made it. I ordered October 16 and just got an estimated delivery date of November 10.

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