Well, a lot of people here seemed to think he was too honest.

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Meanwhile I've put 20 hours in Faeria since they went buy-to-play and have been enjoying it. They have a lot more single-player content than when I first tried the beta, which is exactly what I'm interested in. The tactical positioning makes it more interesting to me than straight cards-on-a-table games.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Mountain ManAnother scam from a scam developer. I knew this game was a bad bet when they blew through their initial Kickstarter and Early Access funds in two-years with nothing to show for it and then asked customers to double-down with a second donation so they could start again from scratch. Anybody with any sense will stay far away from this trash.

How exactly is it a scam ? They have simply discontinued Linux support.. but they havent taken away the existing Linux builds.
Or are you just throwing abuse at the developer, which um.. is exactly what he's complained about?

How is pulling support for a platform that people have paid good money for not a scam? Whatever "abuse" he has received for his history of unethical business practices is fully deserved.

Every game stops getting support at some point, though. There's nothing dishonest about it. Considering this is an online game (if I'm not mistaken), I'm pretty confident their terms of service state something to the effect that they are not liable for the availability of the service at any given moment or for any specific duration. That's an inherent risk/finality to any kind of software that doesn't run fully on your own machine.

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Quoting: SalvatosPain and suffering? Because a video game isn't getting proper support? Really?

Well, I did suffer a bug and went through a pain of downgrading my Nvidia driver because of their lack of concern for testing. ;) Who said it has to be physical?

All I did in that post is shown definitions relay on the point of view and the literal treatment of words so there's no point picking holes in what somebody said when the general understanding is enough. Besides, I made part about concern bold for a reason. Don't focus on the small print.

Excuse me for being anal-retentive about definitions, but it's part of my job. If you only care about the bold part, the word you're looking for may be indifferent or uncaring. You can't just take out the part about causing pain and suffering and say it still applies. And while I'm not arguing that suffering must be physical, I certainly reckon that the situation at hand has little chance of causing any level of distress to anyone.

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Quoting: cprn

Quoting: F.UltraThere is nothing toxic with that, second class citizen in computer speak only means that it's a lower priority, it's not a derogatory term.

Lower priority is a derogatory term.

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I am personally disappointed in Liam Dawe for his statements against those that have been victimized by Garry over a number of years.

No one has been "victimized", do you even understand the meaning of that word? No one has been singled out and Facepunch aren't being cruel.

Really? The whole platform has been singled out and has been mistreated for years. Three years of no QA?

Quoting: dictionary.comcruel /krʊəl/ adjective
1. wilfully causing pain or suffering to others, or feeling no concern about it.

Pain and suffering? Because a video game isn't getting proper support? Really?

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Yeah, I'd be a lot more pissed about a company selling a game with no guarantee that it works and will work for the foreseeable future. As far as I can tell they did the sensible thing here, regardless of why they can't or won't support the OS, which is entirely up to them as far as I'm concerned. Of course I'd probably make some kind of announcement and offer a refund to the people who bought it for Linux specifically shortly before they removed that guarantee, but I'm sure it's easier if those 17 people make that request themselves if they deem it necessary.

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Quoting: buenaventuraIs this free or what? I never figured that out. My kids undoubtedly will be happy about this.

No it's not free.

OK, but there is one version that is? When I installed ArchLabs, it offered to install minecraft for me, I didnt say yes, but I got to thinking... Is there a free version or what?

Curious. Could be related to this git issue [External Link] from March 2017 but the link it cites is essentially dead, so I don't know.

There's a free and open source clone, though, called Minetest [External Link]. Always sounds like the name of a test server to me, but anyway.

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I'm getting all kinds of mixed signals from that trailer, but most of them aren't positive, and it doesn't look like a half-a-million-dollar project compared to others I've seen launch with less than 100K. With that and the development time, I just have to peek at the recent KS comments.

Quoting: Corey Cole on October 4, 2017As for funding, we've been out of funds for two years. Everything since then has come out of loans, and Lori's and my retirement accounts. It's safe to say at this point that we've personally spent as much on this project as we received from both Kickstarter campaigns.

Ah, so it's one of those projects. Pretty crazy. Good luck to them for recovering that investment.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Oh i agree I also dont believe the ones that dual boot to play hl3 will stick around once hl3 gets boring it would take a sustained program of platform exclusives to keep people on linux.

I'd say it's fine if they don't stay on Linux. Just getting hundreds of thousands of people to hear about Linux and some of them to try it out first hand, no matter the reasons or for how long, is good publicity. There are countless people in the world who would be interested in something like Linux but have no idea that it exists or haven't really been shown what it is, so they stick to what they know. Anything that increases awareness at a large scale and puts an open OS in people's hands is a step in the right direction.

Case in point: I'd been mindlessly using Windows all my life because, well, that's what you do with a computer, right (unless you want a Mac as a status symbol)? At some point my uncle showed me Ubuntu, which he happened to be trying out at the time, and gave me a live CD after extolling some of the things it did that Windows didn't (he was particularly enthusiastic about the desktop cube, but I don't remember the rest). I gave it a shot, but it didn't really stick. But later on I started dual booting it, probably around the time XP was reaching end of life. Then it became my main OS and I tried out other distros. Then I deleted my Windows partition.

In short: it's a process, and anything that gets people started on that process is a win in my book.

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Bonus points for listing Linux as the first OS in their features ^_^

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