Quoting: PublicNuisance

Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo

Quoting: PublicNuisanceI already beat it on Windows and own it on Steam but if they bring the Linux version to GOG I'd be happy to buy a Linux copy there. Would want to have a DRM free copy anyway.

The Linux version of A Story About my Uncle included in the Humble Indie Bundle 18 [External Link] is DRMFREE.. Well.. All Linux games in that bundle are DRMFREE and I just purchase it for that reason.

Just checked it out and confirmed. Downlaoded it now. I still would buy a copy from GOG if they brought it over as I want to give their Linux version some money.

The GOG's edition of [A Story About my Uncle](https://www.gog.com/game/story_about_my_uncle_a) just added the Linux version and it's system requirements on the store page..

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: PixelPiThe Linux version runs pretty fine.

On your particular setup may be. It doesn't mean it runs fine in majority of other cases. If GOG rejected it for technical reasons, it means developers didn't want to fix some major game breaking bugs.

I found four in the native Linux version of Metro Redux:
*The gray dots in the textures.
*The incapacity for to detect the monitor's resolution, even if you edit the r_res_hor XXXX
r_res_vert XXXX in the user.cfg file for to match your monitor native resolution, the game change the values by itself for an incorrect resolution.
I have a 1080p monitor and this is what the game use, no matter what I do r_res_hor 2560
r_res_vert 1600
*They broke the benchmark tool.
*Vsync doesn't work at fullscreen. It only works at windowed mode.

That's why I want to know if the DrMFREE Windows version works on wine...
just for the sake of curiousity( I have a win7 machine).

The Linux version of the original Metro Last Light works beautifully better than the reduxes with a GTX 750ti at 1080p... FOr the reduxes, I need more GPU power.

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceI already beat it on Windows and own it on Steam but if they bring the Linux version to GOG I'd be happy to buy a Linux copy there. Would want to have a DRM free copy anyway.

The Linux version of A Story About my Uncle included in the Humble Indie Bundle 18 [External Link] is DRMFREE.. Well.. All Linux games in that bundle are DRMFREE and I just purchase it for that reason.

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Just for curiousity. Can the DRMFREE version of Metro Redux run with this?

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Quoting: constHeck, Valve could create momentum with some collectible cards and hats alone. I don't understand it, but people seem to care about collectibles in steam a lot.
Regularly annoncing to drop some in this or that game on linux on a regular basis might just generate enough interest once the ecosystem is ready.

A long time ago I suggested hidden steam achievements for playing the game on Linux, so the legion of obsessed achievement hunters will install a linux distro and play the game on it just for the sake of to get that steam achievement.

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Quoting: Nyamiou

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI wonder if someday We gonna have a final SteamOS release, so porters and developers of steam-only games will do their job focused on that final SteamOS release and not generic Linux distros...

Even the PS4 has updates, I don't see how that change anything, Valve already released the Steam runtime (the libraries on which to base your games so that it runs on everything that runs Steam) and it hasn't updated for years, so what you are talking about has essentially been fixed years ago.

You didn't understand my point...
This is not about the Steam runtime. Can I run an steam-only game developed for Windows on Steamos? No.
This is about the operative system for which the games must be developed.

"Ok, Publishers like Bethesda and Activision! If you want to have access to my more than 130 millon user base, you must develop your games for this SteamOS release, this family of CPU's and that family of GPU's"...
But they are friends of Microsoft, so maybe they will move their games to the Windows Store.

EA and Ubisoft maybe will have to make a Linux incursion too as a plan B...
But the Origin and Uplay catalogue are not so huge than the Steam one, so maybe they can make a deal with Microsoft for to include their games on the Windows store..

Valve is the one with problems here.

If there is a moment for to release HalfLife3, is now and must be SteamOS exclusive.

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I wonder if someday We gonna have a final SteamOS release, so porters and developers of steam-only games will do their job focused on that final SteamOS release and not generic Linux distros...

If Valve really want to set a true ecosystem around them, and not be only a DRM, they need to set an standard in operative system and Hardware...They have the operative system, SteamOS, but is not ready.... now the must have the hardware config.
"Ok Devs and porters! You must optimize your games for this specific Linux distro, this family of CPU's and that family of GPU's"..

Is a hard decision for the users, but convenient for Devs and porters.

Keep in mind that the new Windows distro, called Windows 10-S (I know, We think the same word with that "S")), represent the Valve's worst nightmare and a good reason for the Linux incursion five years ago; you can only run apps from the Windows store... I don't know if the Steam client itself will be on the windows store (I use Win7), but certainly all the Steam catalogue will not be on the Windows store... So A LOT of Steam games will not run.

I know, Windows S is intended for students, but students like to play videogames and most videogames are Steam only, so..
C'mon Valve! The SteamOS revolution is now or never!

At the end of the day, it seems to be true what they said:

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Quoting: ShmerlSo, was it Made to Wade or not? I don't see it on their radar anymore. For me it's something I'll again skip, since it's Steam only. I hope it's not Feral's attitude towards using DRM that's causing them to release only through Steam, but so far they consistently do only that (I suppose by picking publishers who require it).

I have to admit that I could accept an exclusive DRM/download manager made by Feral for the Feral Linux/Mac ports sold at Feral store because they must take care of their investment...
In other words, I can accept a Feral ecosystem exclusivity for their Linux ports, but I don't accept the steam ecosystem exclusivity.

Maybe their ports are subsidized by Valve... That could explain the Steam exclusivity..

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Feral must work with DONTNOD from the development stage and not after the Windows release.

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If Feral port Warhammer 40000 Space Marine they will earn some my respect...
And if they port Bioshock 1 and 2 to Linux (they ported them to mac), I will respect them more...
And if the ports are DRMFREE, I will respect them 100%.

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