Happy birthday! Seeing what have been achieved in the last 8 years, i start dreaming about the 8 next. Maybe at that point there will be more games supporting Linux than games that don't :)

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Quoting: Stupendous ManBad news in my opinion. I hate Paradox' DLC policy.

Me too. Paradox does indeed bring lots of games to Linux but the amount of DLC they can put is just insane. The Crusader Kings II: Collection bundle cost full price more than 300€ with 61 DLCs. That's just ridiculus.

In addition, Paradox does not seem very DRM-Free friendly. Still no Crusader King nor Stelaris on GOG but Overlord is and all the Age of Wonders are.

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That's actually a pretty good news. They're right to take the time they to make a good release. Furthermore, everyone's delayed, not just Linux. It feels good to be treated as a first class consumer. Even if i already own the base game, i'll buy it again along with the DLC.

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Quoting: Sgt.Romeo9I mean come on it doesn't take two months to determine the feasability of a port, it takes two months to make the port.

Or maybe they run into a serious bug/optimisation but instead of giving up easily they try hard to see if they can solve the problem. What doesn't make sens is why Firaxys did not develop the title with portability in mind. If some devs come to see this, it is much easier to take the port into account during the whole devepement than after the release of the Windows version.

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Bad news indeed but at least they tried.

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Great! I really hope to see Desura regain the level it had three or four years ago.

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That's completely ridiculous! I pre-ordered TW3 based on this promise (yes i know, shame on me). There are companies who earn our trust by fulfilling their promises. A decent amount of 2K recent games have very good linux ports, even sometimes day one! But on the other side CDPR and GOG keep teasing us with nothing but wind ... That's not what i call customers respect. Its more like customer betrayal.

Furthermore, today there are lots of options to port a game on Linux (engines do massively support Linux, porting companies are doing an impressive work, etc). Furthermore Virtual Programming, who did port TW2, greatly improved their technology. So they could do it, they could communicate on this, they could be a company deserving our trust! But they don't. At that point it seems like disappointing customers is PR policy for them.

Based on they engagement on DRM-Free and they (false) promise to support Linux as first class citizen i was a CDPR/GOG advocate but now, i'm done being disappointed. My money is better given to companies being serious in supporting Linux and providing decent DRM-Free versions (yes Leagues of Geeks, you are customer cheaters too!).

Quoting: devlandIt's easy.
They essentially don't want to tell us anything because of the usual backlash companies get when postponing Linux releases. They want to avoid the hate that Larian got when they postponed Divinity: Origininal Sin for Linux.
It's all due to the toxic members of the community that are somehow very vocal on Linux and simply cannot tolerate release dates being pushed back.

When it comes to port to MacOS, iOS, Android, XBOX or Playstation, then companies always find the time and resources to do it! Maybe porting to XBOX can be easier because of it's similar to Windows, but other platforms are not. It is not a matter of complexity to port it but investment strategy. It seems like porting on Linux is for those companies something like: "Ok, we'll do it ... when we have nothing else to do ... if we get bored on a rainy day with all our friends far away ...". It means we are at the bottom of the priority list but they don't want to close the door to get one day our dollars. It's lame. If you don't plan to actively porting something on Linux, just don't tease it! When it's teased, it's to late to shut our mouth. Then you need to communicate and be honest. That's what is called an healthy business relation.

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What would be awesome is the opposite side. We can not say GOG is very Linux friendly. We are still waiting for Galaxy, many games that have a linux version are missing the binaries on GOG (i would have loved to buy AoW 3 on GOG but ... no tux there), updates are less frequent, etc. And once unpon a time they told something about cross-play but they are being silent about it. Furthermore what is the point of buying a multiplayer game on GOG if you can not play with the rest of the world? GOG surely have a lot of potential but as of today, linux and multi-player users on GOG are second-zone citizens.

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This is unfortunately not a big surprise :( . Does anyone heard about an automated Desura backup tool?

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