For those interested in Arx Fatalis, be aware that the GOG version is only available in English while the Steam one is in 6 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish.

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As much as i understand their statement, they didn't say it won't have Linux support for "The Bard's Tale: Trilogy", but only support will be via Steam Play which is fine if they commit to guarantee Platinum. As long as they do QA on Linux and fix Linux issues, it doen't matter if they prefer to release a native build or a Steam Play one.

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Seems like MegaMan isn't it? I would also very much like a key ?

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Even if officially Feral only supports Ubuntu, when I had issues on Arch they always did their best to help. They even managed to find the reason of some crashes was my keyboard! That was very impressive. Remember to take it from the Feral store.

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This is really a shame because Galaxy is required for some games, usually the multi-player ones. At this point i find it safe to say they just don't care about us because we are not a big enough part of the market share. What really disappoints me is they were not honest. Why saying "comming soon" and then "in progress" for 5 years??? I think the game upload process is even different for Windows/Mac than Linux.

I understand gamers who say they don't need a client but installing and keeping up to date a game with 5 to 10 DLC and frequent updates is a nightmare! It is even worse considering most Linux games don't release patches but require a full download for every update. For example, "The Long Dark" is updated frequently, which is very nice! But every time it is a 5GB download ... On Steam i have more than 200 games installed and updating is a piece of cake. On GOG i have only 30 installed but it is a nightmare to update. And there is no cloud saves!!!

GOG as a DRM-Free store is nice, that's the reason i still buy games there but i'm sick of their "We care about each customer" because is so obviously false! If only they could be honest and say they're just interested in money instead of claiming they are the "customer centric" store, as least it would be showing us some respect.

The truth is simple: the only ways for a store to compete with Steam is either to have a massive financial and commercial power like the Evil Store or to be on a niche. Itch's purpose is "everyone can publish on Itch" which is wonderful for game jams and experimental game development. And GOG's one is DRM-Free. Actually i think GOG is stuck: if they would stop being DRM-Free they would be vaporized by Steam and the Evil Store but at the same time being DRM-Free is keeping them out of the mainstream market.

I do think people behind Itch have values and believe in what they do. Actually i think it is also the case for Valve. Of course it's a big company with all that comes with it. But Valve does a really good job in offering value to gamers and they do an even better job at improving gaming on Linux. But GOG, the more i look at them the more i see a store pretending having values they don't have.

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I haven't played the Tyranids yet but otherwise the game is excellent and runs flawlessly on Linux.

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Quoting: EhvisThe financial argument for supporting Linux only works if you don't have something else lined up to work on.

From a technical standpoint, it may be wise to do an official Linux port for Stadia. Many devs had trouble porting their game to Linux. It will be even harder to port to Stadia. So porting to Linux first may be a nice first step in process of targeting Stadia. I get that from in incompetent-manager point of view, only the size of the market share matters, but from a wise-manager perspective, optimizing the chance of success is also a strong point to address.

Many devs underestimated how hard it would be for windows-only-minded company to target a different platform. There are a lot of absent or broken Linux builds because this is a platform devs are not used to. They won't become magically experienced in targeting Linux because it is Stadia. Take Feral, they are now very experienced in targeting Linux. The quality of their port is excellent! But it did not come from free.

Linux gaming is indeed 1%-2% of market share, but strategically, we may worth it.

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If you found it a little easy before

The bots were already very deadly, especially at long distance. It made my first approach of Ravenfield quite frustrating until i discover the ultimate feature: slow motion :) Then the game became a lot funnier, i stared to love it.

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Linux sales are very important to show developers who did make the effort to target Linux (natively or via Steam Play) that it's worth it. The best example of that may be porting companies like Feral, Aspyr or VP. Those companies (developers, publishers and porting houses targeting Linux) support Linux Gaming. Some of the developers who stop releasing Linux native build did so in favor or Steam Play. That way i'm ok with it as they're still targeting Linux: i can still send support request and they still make their best to make their game run on Linux (hopefully). I feel legitimate to send those support request.

But Valve has also been very clear that issues on games via Steam Play have not to be sent to developers but to Valve. It clearly means if game is not meant to be compatible with Steam Play, then the developers are not responsible for any issue. How could we blame developers for not supporting what they never planned to?

The exact same can be said for native games. Look at the Rust news, The Banner Saga, Human: Fall Flat, Phoenix Point, Heroes of Newerth and so on. There's a number that removed Linux support and just because a game is native, does not mean it will continue to work. How many times have I written about a game being updated and then broken on Linux? Too many times, in reality Steam Play is no different in this regard.

That's precisely the point: those developers who released on Linux committed to support it. It means we are legitimate reporting issues to developers, it means they have to test each release against the system requirement and of course we are also legitimate complaining when they break their word. But with developers who never meant to support Linux but whose games magically started to work on Linux thanks to Steam Play: they do not owe us anything! We have no right to expect them to take time to investigate issues. We have no right to ask them not to break Steam Play compatibility.

It is basically the same think as buying a product with a warranty or without. Even if the product is the same, the services are very different as without a warranty: you can only rely on luck!

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If really their problems comes from third parties, then as sad as it is, we can not blame them. What we can expect from developers is spending some time (1% of their time because we are 1% of the market share) to fix issues, but in case it is not enough third parties are to blame.

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