Last time I asked one of their devs in a GC III Twitch session he said that he hadn't heard anything about them planning to port GC to Linux (about 3 months ago). He suggested to ask Brad (Wardell) though.

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTPlease don't split the gaming community Aspyr! It's already sad Feral couldn't fix their cross-platform multiplayer.

What is the reason to buy a Multiplayer game if you can't find people to play with since the Linux and Mac community is rather small? Also if I can't play with my friends I don't see any reason to buy your game. Sorry.

Honestly, the probably biggest application of Civ multiplayer is LAN, and chances are that computers in the same use the same OS, no?

Nope,...
me -> Linux
wife -> MacOS
kid 1 -> Windows
kid 2 -> Windows

Luckily the kids are out overnight on the weekend, so I can play with my wife on the weekend ;)

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Quoting: slaapliedjeSo, just to add to this... how many tiny penguins + cookies + cake will it take to get a port from Bethesda? :)

I'm afraid you'd have to learn how to do origami penguins made of 100 $ bills.

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That just made my year! ;)

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Quoting: liamdaweI still think you guys are looking at it the wrong way.

Just because a game has been ported to Mac doesn't suddenly mean it's easy to port to Linux.

Who says that checking the feasability of a port doesn't mean a ton of work has already been done? What if they have come up against major issues they are trying to solve? The word feasability can mean a great many things.

We don't have enough information to make wild claims about Aspyr dropping Linux or anything else.

If you check the "feasibility" of a port after you already poured engineering hours into actually doing most of the work then you should consider changing your approach to how you do your work. Yes, they can hit a major problem... even a major problem that needs to be kept secret... there might also be aliens and mind control involved - the problem is Occam's Razor: there are sadly very simple explanations that fit the facts much better than indulging in wishful thinking and hoping that what they say - even though improbably - is true... because that's what we want it to be.

And btw: It's not about making wild claims - it's about questioning the validity of how the situation is being presented to us as that does not match up with what we know about how such things tend to be done.

They could clear this all up in an instant by just saying "We're stuck at <insert technical problem>." or "We're not spending too much effort on it right now because we didn't even manage to get cross platform multiplayer to run and have to focus on our main market first" or whatever the actual problem might be.

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Oh well... only one? Civ V (or BE). The reason I gave up my windows gaming system.

Honorable mention:
- Creeper World 3
- Mini Metro
- Cities Skylines
- Portal 2
- anything by Zachtronics

I already played Shadow of Mordor and Rocket League on PS4 or they would have made the list, too (it's just that that system stands in our living room and playing with the kids in couch-coop on a big screen is better than playing with them on my computer on smaller monitors.

And there are so many games still in my to play queue that I expect to love once I have the time to play them for more than a few minutes: XCOM, Company of Heroes 2, Divinity,...

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Quoting: liamdawe

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.

You are really underestimating the amount of time it can take to port a game to another platform.

They however are doing a feasibility analysis and not a port.

I also think that what they say is not making any sense. If you spend two months on a feasibility analysis you must have either stalled the whole process or burned through a huge amount of engineering time without any certainty of success for an OS that will probably not make you that much money all the while your expected revenue decreases since potential customers buy the product for windows and the price you are going to be able to get for the product decreases (I saw it for 31 Euros today in a regular store - not one of the gray market shops).

It just does not make sense.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: SangreDeReptil

Quoting: Guest"Overwhelmingly positive" means nothing, and this is another proof.

The cathegory doesn't necessarily mean they're instant classics, but it's very useful to discover some excellent games, for sure.

Well as far as I’m concerned, I know more "overwhelmingly positive" games that I find terrible than ones that I like.

What does that proof? You are not mainstream ;) Or at least you are not in the target group for that game. Those that were found it to be a great game. The system fails you, but that is probably not because the system is bad since it seems to satisfy the needs of the majority (speculating) - it is most likely because you don't fit into said system ;)

As a linux user you should be experienced in this situation ;)

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Quoting: GuestThese games are too hard for programmers too. The developer thought it would be a good idea to not explain things decently and throw a difficulty wall at the face of players.

"Overwhelmingly positive" means nothing, and this is another proof.

I'm sorry to say, but I don't think any programmer who thinks those games are too hard should continue to call him/herself a programmer. I used TIS-100 to teach my 8 year old daughter basic programming skills and that's probably the most complex of the lot. The manual is IMHO also excellent and totally authentic if you ever read old tech manuals - and none of the concepts used there should be news to somebody that programs for a living or even for fun.

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Quoting: Eike

I'm playing it through at the moment, and I can already tell you that the Linux version seems to work perfectly.

Really? I think this would be the first Daedalic game for me to at least correctly save and restore options (all about four...) on Linux!

Are you by any chance trying to run an old unity engine game on an XFS file system ;) Your problem description sounds a lot like it (XFS on your home dir would suffice to break it in default configs)

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