I hope this makes a few people reconsider their attitude when talking to developer about the performance of ports.

Really? When people pay for something, they expect it to work (and work well). People aren't going to be thankful for a bad product. This isn't people spitting in the face of free content, this was a commercial product.

What you're doing is telling people to be thankful for any old shit - "Please Sir, can I have some more?"

Also blaming an entire community for a handful of people's actions is moronic. Are you saying I could get a friend or two together and get anything I want cancelled by pretending to be a member of the target demographic and giving a few people grief? There's obvious issues with that mentality.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: bubexelResume: you rent a computer with windows to play with latency....
So stupid...

I bet people said similair stuff about music/tv/movie streaming, now they're massively popular.

That's not really the same. Music/TV/Movies aren't sensitive to latency, they just need to be streamed from a server, literally any server. Games on the other hand are incredibly sensitive to latency and also need serious hardware to run well. Not to mention needing so much bandwidth to stream at an acceptable quality and framerate.

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They updated the DRM free build on Humble back on the 19th. Good on them for getting everything out at the same time.

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Anyone know where the benchmark feature is in Serial Sam 2017/Fusion these days? I can't seem to find it in any of the menus now.

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No, just no.

Additionally, your logic is "well someone has to pay the porters!". Ok, so why am I paying the FULL price of the game again, not just a "porting fee"? I've already bought it once - that paid the designers, the artists, the writers, the coders. You're telling me to pay the FULL price of the game again JUST for the port? No, that's greedy and they can fuck off if that's how they want to play.

EDIT: Actually I'm going to add to this as the editorial appears to be full of shitty strawmen:

Every time I see “will only get it on sale” or the instant “will it be released with a sale?!” posts I really do fear for our platform as gaming choice. Why is a Linux port worth so much less to you? It damn well shouldn’t be.

How did you go from people being frugal to a Linux port being worth less? You've taken one thing and made a massive assumption. Don't you think those people also only buy Windows games when they're on big sales because they're trying to be savvy with their money?

If Bethesda turned around to a porting house and said “Okay, we will let you 100% handle Fallout 4 for Linux, but the contact is that you sell it yourselves separately to ours”. Would you turn away from it?

Yes, yes I would turn away from it. I've already paid AAA release title price, why would I pay that again? How much, out of the total that they need to recover, do you think the porting cost? The game costs X because they have to pay a LOT of people (as well as extra work such as marketing, etc). Double dipping on a second sister-platform for people that already own a copy doesn't sit well because that person has already funded every part of that development, except for the porting, which compared to the whole would be a pretty insignificant amount of money.

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Which bit(s) were assumptions? You used the word "hacks" so I assume you meant "not really great bits of code, but at least it gets the game working" which is typically what the word hacks means when applied to code.

The bit regarding how Wine accepts code isn't an assumption, it's fact as I've worked closely with Wine for a long time. Basically nothing gets accepted until it's triple checked and even then only if it appears to be the "proper way" of implementing something.

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[quote=Purple Library Guy]

Quoting: LinasIf Wine needs to be hacked . . . then the result is, after the game works Wine is a little bit better.

This is incorrect, Wine will never accept per-program or specific "hacks" to make things work, only properly rewritten code that correctly works as Windows would. So there's no benefit back to the community in this instance.

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Quoting: noinformationhereInteresting. I have this on GOG, where I think I bought it on impulse during some sale. I have never played it, so it would be great if the Linux version makes it there as well...

Well it's literally just a Wine port, so you're better off just getting the GoG Windows version and installing that in your existing Wine setup.

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@Dreakon: ElectricPrism was making a joke...

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Good point, I assumed the person that said they were using it had that from somewhere official, but I can't find any reference of the game using it either.

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