I am genuinely surprised to see BT IV come to Linux at all, after all this time. I will get it when it's out, since I backed that game what feels like an eternity ago. I will still never buy anything from them again. They have clearly shown what kind of studio they are.

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Quoting: MamboI don't like the loot box commercial model.

To be fair, it doesn't quite compare to these silly lootboxes. Because there is a big-brand game in the bundle EVERY month, while 99 out of a hundred lootboxes in any game contain just worthless rubbish. With Humble, you always "win" something. The only question is if you like the game (I am not into shooters, so this month wasn't really for me - it happens), but there is always at least one AAA game in there, and more often than not it's the "early unlock" one anyway. I have -never- had any month where I didn't like at least one game worth the $10-odd bucks I am spending on it.

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Quoting: ObsidianBlkI will be honest... I'm very tempted to subscribe to this.
Has anyone subscribed? Is it a good value for a Linux gamer? (I have no issue playing through WINE, but do prefer native)

I am subscribed to it for about half a year now, and I can't say I have the feeling not to get my money's worth out of it. Sure, at times the "big game of the month" is a Windows game which they probably wonder why I never unlocked the key for them. But often enough what you get is a total steal considering the low price, and the duplicates I usually pass on to my daughter, so even that is some additional value. And that's -without- considering the Windows stuff that runs just fine in Proton.

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So gamers spend hundreds of dollars on multi-GPU rigs just to squeeze a few extra frames out of their games - and people now expect them to tolerate completely unnecessary and completely unavoidable lag in their games, and dedicate a big portion of their bandwith to streaming a game they could play in much better quality locally? Apparently gamers don't mind spending money on hardware, otherwise they wouldn't do it.

On the other end of the spectrum, casual games run on the same low-end machines you'd still need to stream games on anyway.

I don't even get who game streaming is targeted at. It seems to make zero sense for all possible audiences.

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What a nice little gem! Good find, Liam! :)

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GOG isn't some kind of garage operation with next to no budget. Seriously, if they hired some contract devs to port the thing for them, how long would it even take, and would they notice the costs? It's not that Galaxy would be one of the most complex pieces of software in the world...

Pathetic.

On the plus side, I got Steam and Lutris, and another game management app is the last thing I need. *shrug*

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Quoting: Dorrit

you will also gain access to various sports arenas all heavily inspired by American education

This spoils it for me.

To be fair, this is first time this European-made game is showing any trace of American bias. Usually, even trying to make a city look North-American requires a whole lots of mods and a healthy dose of tinkering.

I call that fair.

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Nice update. Being able to remove old Proton versions is nice. I don't think there is a good reason to keep them around, so they are just cluttering our hard drives.

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While crowdfunding is indeed more or less a venture capital form of investment people need to know that it might or might not pay off, I disagree with the statement that the money I give them isn't funding the project. Crowdfunding isn't a donation that's given without expecting a return, it's contributing funds towards completion of a -specific- project. And if they take our money, we certainly have a right to expect whoever took it to keep their promises to the best of their abilities. Sure, these projects might fail for legit and unforeseen reasons, the same way start-ups often do. That's ok. But when somebody promises Linux support, makes people commit money to this project based on that promise, goes "Sorry, but we changed our mind, because we decided to work on more important platforms" or "Eh, we used Windows middleware because we felt like it, so we can't port the thing anymore", that's neither legit nor unforeseeable. It's willingly and knowingly breaking a promise they gave somebody when taking their money. In other words, fraud. And it happens quite frequently, hence me making my initial comment in the first place.

Underworld released on Nov 15, 2018 according to the mail I got when they sent me the key. It's May 15, 2019, with no Linux release date in sight. Maybe it's just me, but I consider that a failure to deliver what they promised. We're living in a world where a year-old game is considered old, and I didn't fund a project to deliver me an old game. Same goes for Battletech.

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I guess I might be a tad bitter after ALL my last three Kickstarter pledges either failed or released with a substantial delay after the Windows version (which I consider a fail, too). And while Bards Tale IV is correctly listed as a fail, the two others (Battletech and Underworld Ascendant) are even missing from your list, so the problem is a bit bigger than your list suggests. Battletech did release...something...after a small eternity, but if I am not totally mistaken, it's still officially a beta version. Underworld quietly removed the SteamOS icon from the Steam page eventually, but they certainly promised it during their campaign.

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