Quoting: HamishI would have thought that the amount of people who grew up with and still mostly play PC focused games ... would be higher.

I grew up with VIC-20s, C64s and Amigas, most action games used a joystick. I've still not really gotten the hang of d-pads let alone these little analogue stick things despite owning a Megadrive, a PS1 and an N64, but despite that I generally find a controller easier for any sort of platform game, driving games or isometric adventures.

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Quoting: liamdaweYou may be right though of course, but you may be wrong, only time will really tell.

You could get some more evidence by looking at how many people didn't tick anything for that question in the months before the "Didn't buy any" option was added. If that was close to 17% then you could be sure not many people selected Steam just to select something.

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Quoting: MGOidThis game in Windows is DX11

This game works fine with DX9, that's how we've been able to play it with WINE.

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Quoting: legluondunetIn a video game we should be able to choose the gender, race, type of creature , hair color ... we want.

Why? Many of the best videogames give you no choice about player character at all. Think about the Half Life, Bioshock or Tomb Raider franchises.

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The case-sensitive filesystem issue bites us in the ass because it appears that whatever storage system Valve uses is not case sensitive, like Windows, and the only way to change the case of a file is to rename it to something else and then change it back. This is why the Firewatch guys had to rename everything [External Link], and the Planet Explorers guys spent something like six months getting it all fixed (if they have done by now). Basically it needs to be right before uploading to Steam.

The other major thing Beamboom didn't mention that devs keep getting wrong is to not use the XDG Base Directory Specification [External Link].

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Quoting: Farmboy0After the game starts all I get is a black screen.

Did you read the post on WINE I linked to earlier? Have you made the autoexec.cfg change described there?

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They've been fairly up front about things the whole time, here is the last word about Linux (and Mac) native support for the original Consortium:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/264240/discussions/0/630802343870861177/#c530649887220207685 [External Link]

Seems like they've learned some things from their mistakes. And they at least made some effort to make sure it functioned in WINE:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/264240/discussions/0/613956964585243941/ [External Link]

I already waived my personal "no more crowdfunding" rule for this game because I already backed the failed Kickstarter which was a precursor to this Fig campaign (and so got a $5 discount backing this one). I'm rationalizing it as a re-pledge rather than a new pledge.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeThat was quick... they did their money grab then disappeared.

I think if they'd actually grabbed their money they wouldn't be going bankrupt. The game didn't sell very well but from what I saw of it on the free weekend it wouldn't have been cheap to develop, plus I assume the license would have cost something.

Dumbest thing they did was requiring online registration to play offline during a free weekend. I wonder how anyone's going to play now if the registration servers are all set to disappear?

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Quoting: Mountain ManIf your employer could nullify your contract simply by firing you then what's the point of having a contract?

The employment contract determines the mechanisms by which you can be fired. If it doesn't then I agree, there is no point to having one.

Quoting: Mountain Man"Yes, I know your contract says we'll give you $1,000,000 compensation if you're ever fired, but since you no longer work for us, that contract is no longer binding. Better luck next time."

Yeah, it doesn't work like that.

If compensation is necessary to terminate the contract then they can't terminate the contract without paying out.

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Quoting: Mountain ManNo, the contract lasts for the length of time agreed to by both parties.

And in an employment contract that length of time is the same as the period of employment. The contract and the employment cease at the same time. After the employment is over the contract is over.

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