Quoting: Nor MantisI look at games much like I look at music. When I was a kid I purchased records only. Then I got a car and wanted to listen while driving, so I bought the same music on tape. Then CD's came and I bought the same music again. Then MP3 came in and I paid to download. Now records are back in and once again, I am buying the same music I love.

Well, my father had records and copied his music, the one I liked, into tapes. I bought tapes for music he didn't have.

Then CDs came along and bought both music I had and I didn't have, and when MP3s started to be a thing I just ripped those to have them in MP3s.

Now records are a thing again and I use my father's one or get new ones if I feel like it. At the same time, new ones come with digital version too. But to be fair, mainly I pay Spotify monthly.

I didn't do anything illegal and I think used my right as consumer, in my opinion, better -monetarily speaking-.

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In most modern consoles, there is a thing called retrocompatibility that allows users to play games from different hardware, and OS, from the same company at no extra cost in a new machine. Companies do this in order to motivate people buying the new hardware... And keeping them as customers for the long term. And to the eyes of the user, it seems like a reward.

Some, Nintendo Switch at the moment, don't have this and users niggled loud about it. It is also true that Microsoft and Sony aren't big fans of this.

On PC, that option could be translated to buying a copy of the game and have the three versions available for us. This could seem that a company is losing money with a single purchase for them, but Linux/MacOS market is way smaller than Windows one and if they want to increase that, they should make sacrifices and give easy solutions to us users. Otherwise most of us will never make a full OS swap and much more people will never even try to change the OS at all.

On the other hand, when a company does a port of a game, in their calculations prior doing this, there should do a market survey with potential users. These should include any person with Linux interested in gaming without the copy of the game already (be this Windows or MacOS or whatever). If I already have it under Windows it doesn't necessarily mean I want to play it again now but, if given the opportunity for free, I would maybe consider it and in the long term buy more games from that company/port company.

Said this, companies interested in porting a game to Linux I believe they do it because they see money doing so. If such company, let's say Warner Bros, needs an external one to achieve that, let's say Feral, they should have a contract with them where they are paid for their work plus bonuses/extra deals if the game sells over a certain percentage. As with any other game released the risk of it succeeding should lie on their shoulders and not on mine.

Also, if this becomes a thing and they expect me to pay "twice" I will also expect the same performance, under same hardware, in every single platform, dedicated servers only for my platform if they're used and, of course, a native port and not a Wine/Emulated one.

Last; in this industry, like in any other aspect in life, if we don't fight and complain about what should be right for us consumers they will make us pay for unimaginable things (microtransactions, season pass, early access, etc)

P.S: Sorry for the rant.

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As with most remasters... I'll buy it by the time hits a big sale.

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I recently removed my more than 100 games from my wishlist to avoid unnecessary purchases... I wonder how long will take me with releases like fossil echo xD

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Quoting: Mountain ManI need to figure out how to make those games work in Wine, because the Arkham games pretty much the only ones I really miss since making a clean break from Windows (that and, believe it or not, LEGO The Lord of the Rings). Last time I tried getting Arkham Asylum to work in Wine, it failed miserably. The game wouldn't even start.

Aside of the little workaround for the controller the game worked just out of the box for me (since wine-staging 2.0). Weird how inconsistent can Wine be.

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Quoting: WorMzyAlas, the Switch. :S:

It's hella fun, particularly LoZ.

Another one here playing the Switch and LoZ. Rather surprised, in a good way, with both game and console!

On Linux I'm playing Moebius: An Empire Rising. Don't know whether is because I have a thing for Jane Jensen's work or just my understanding in graphic adventures is crap, but definitely liking it and much more than most of the reviewers.

Have The Talos Principle around 50% of completion although got a bit tired of puzzles and might leave it on hold for a bit.

Also started Batman Arkham Asylum again under Wine before the Switch was delivered... Obviously this one is on hold too.

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Cute characters... check.
Nice overall art... check.
Beautiful OST... check.
Linux chance... check.

Ok, it has all my attention.

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I backed this game hoping they will make it, sounds different/interesting enough to me and quite like the art. As in every game backed, or even bought after it's completion, there can be disappointments and let downs but that's just a "risk" as a consumer imo. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like they will make it to the goal.

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Besides certain shaders still missing (which produces transparent parts, wrong hair color and so on), it looks already pretty good, and the whole thing is fluidly playable (at least on lowest settings for me).

This is definitely good news. Can't wait to 2.4/2.5 releases when we might be able to play it almost out of the box :D

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Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTNothing, you just pay extra. I did never understood why I should be doing so. Claiming that company is dedicaded to Linux is somehow true, but also on Lenovo Thinkpads and Dell Latitudes Linux runs pretty fine as well as the overall hardware quality is much better. Ofc they don't have gaming mashines - I'm talking about business class.

That's what I thought then, thanks :)

Quoting: elbuglioneOficial Linux Support.

As in issues with hardware? Wouldn't Ubuntu have support too if it was installed on my PC?

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