Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: MicromegasMaybe it's necessary to create a small section on this site where incidences like this are collected and listed and easy to find so that people can quickly check whether a developer ever dropped the support for his games? If there is a sales section there could also be a "commemoration" section for games and developers who "left" us.

A certain maintainer of a certain site might just be doing that. :D

Edit: Ugh. Too slow!

Edit 2: It's not properly linked in the wiki "Games lists" though.

Nice! That link gets a very accessible bookmark in my browser, for sure!

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Maybe it's necessary to create a small section on this site where incidences like this are collected and listed and easy to find so that people can quickly check whether a developer ever dropped the support for his games? If there is a sales section there could also be a "commemoration" section for games and developers who "left" us.

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Very nice that it might come to Linux! I wishlisted it a long time ago and engaged in the thread mentioned - so it's very cool to see that the devs will try a Linux version now.

I still prefer playing native Linux games as it's still confusing on Steam whether a game is officially supported on Proton. It's nice that Proton exists but I'm using Linux now for 10 years and that made me accustomed to things working right out of the box.

I repeat that last sentence: As a Linux user you just don't need to fiddle around with your system if you use the right distribution. You can and you want to "hack" stuff for trying things out, but as a normal user you absolutely don't need to - less so than on Windows. I'm just not inclined to spend time to fiddle around for making videogames run therefore I prefer every bit of clarity and official guarantee that a game will work on my platform.

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I'm finally playing a game of Stellaris long enough to arrive at the end phase with controlling a large federation reigning over more than half of the galaxy and best friends with 90% of the galaxy - except the fallen empires. So I guess some kind of end game crisis will arise soon. It was hard work. I need a weekend now to relax. Oh, wait.

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I'm back playing almost only Faeria again. They transitioned really well from "free to play" to "buy to play" (from a player's perspective who already had the free Faeria in his library and didn't have to pay for the "new" Faeria).

Now I try to get all those lore pages for all the cards in the game (which only give you a small story about the characters, nothing game deciding). You have to play certain cards a number of times to get their lore pages. It's deck building madness. :D

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Quoting: liamdaweAnd also, Valve did ask people to send issues to them, not the game developer.

Important information, I think. Perhaps worth to be added in the article and maybe even to be repeated in every article about Proton? Just to prevent that developers get really annoyed of Linux players. :dizzy:

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Rimworld is one of my favourite games. I'm so glad it's available on Linux.

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Quoting: Doc Angelo

Quoting: TheSHEEEPWhat safety? If the maintainers of some project decide to drop linux, there's nothing you can do about that, either.

Of course you can.

Situation A: You are using closed source and proprietary software. The dev of this software is stopping support for it or is removing features you depend on. You can't do anything about it, nor would it be allowed.

Situation B: You are using FOSS. The devs of this software are stopping support for it or are removing features you depend on. You are now allowed to take the source code and maintain your own fork of it that doesn't remove what you need.

That a FOSS project removes functionality people are using is already less likely to happen. But even if it happens, you are not without options. That is a really, if not the biggest, argument for FOSS in businesses.

Quoting: TheSHEEEPdo you truly want to place your products in the hand of some hobbyist who might just drop the whole thing again due to lack of interest or free time?

If people wouldn't do exactly that, we wouldn't have gaming on Linux.

I totally agree with Doc Angelo here. If a FOSS software is important enough for enough people there will be people who will fork the thing. I witnessed it myself with my favourite Linux distro "Mandriva" (a commercial Linux distro back in the days).

The company building and maintaining Mandriva went out of business and the community took the ashes of Mandriva and formed the now totally community driven "Mageia" distribution. Mageia could make use of many tools developed for Mandriva and is now completely independent of any other Linux distribution (no Ubuntu derivate e.g.). If the community is big enough, then software maintained by that community will be safer for the end user to use because of it's independence from the whims of the commercial world and it's up and downs.

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I will buy it as soon as it is out for Linux.

No Windows here (my last Windows was XP). I consider buying a new game which is only available for Windows but currently runs via Wine as too risky. Any new game update might break it on Wine. No thanks. So for new games I only buy native Linux versions.

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Looks absolutely lovely. I hope players get extra points for identifying the painters of the original pictures and the depicted persons, scenes, landscapes and locations! Finally education would pay off! :D

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