Quoting: ShmerlThat's good. I wonder if they are going to use Vulkan in UE4 on Linux.

Another game still pending is We Happy Few.

Good shout. I'd happily buy both when they're available.

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Quoting: ArehandoroThe Witcher 3 and why did I wait so much to play it. It will still last me a good couple of moths though :D

The Witcher 2 put me off The Witcher 3. Having to drink potions before certain fights to have any chance of success is just a horrible gameplay mechanic. Well, that and all the mixed messages from CDPR about whether we were getting a Linux native build. Or was it mixed messages? I remember Valve "announced" it, that was retracted of course, but did CDPR ever say anything on the matter?

So yeah. They're not on my "don't buy" list or anything, but there are so many better developers (for Linux) that I'd rather spend my money on that even years after its release, I've never felt the urge to go there.

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Quoting: SpykerActually, I'm playing Prey (2017) through Proton, and it's a fantastic game.
The gameplay, the level design, the story, it has everything.
To me, it's the best solo story-driven FPS I've played since Bioshock Infinite.

I'd love to buy/play that, but it's still got Denuvo on it and there's a DRM line I don't cross.

I've been playing Dying Light on Steam Play - performance is indeed off the charts compared to the native build, so that's like a whole new game. It's superb.

I've also been playing a HUUUGE amount of 7 Days to Die. I'm level 45 and they're throwing the ferals at me with some regularity now. Luckily, I have my shotgun for those moments of sheer panic!

Otherwise, I played a bit of Guns of Icarus. Great game, just needs more players. You need to be patient in the lobby, sadly.

And I've been playing an hour or so of Overwatch most evenings, with GOLs Buenaventura. Fair to say we're both addicted to that game.

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Quoting: fleskIs it a horror game or just dark and atmospheric, like the The Room games?

The demo wasn't particularly dark. Well, it was literally "dark", but thematically just tense. The puzzles are vaguely like The Room, but nowhere near as intricate. You are manipulating objects, but in a much more freeform way. It's first-person for a start, so it feels more like Quern, to be honest. Like, go to the bin, pick up the can, ah! There's something under the can, pick that up, it's a picture. Rotate the picture, there's a number on the back. Do that a few times, finding all the cards, now you go to the pin board to put them in an order (based on the pictures), that's the order of the numbers you have to enter on the padlock preventing you from opening the door. And so on.

I think there are horror themes throughout, as it's based on the 7 sins (I think?). It's been a few months since I played though, so might be wrong. But as I say, the demo wasn't really horror-based as such, that I can remember.

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Loved the demo of this, really looking forward to giving the full game a try.

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So much this.

Can't tell how much I liked the Ironhide TD games. :)

Oh god yes. Bring it! This looks amazing.

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What a ride! Love it.

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Quoting: ShmerlDoes OBS use ffmpeg as a library, or it calls ffmpeg binary itself?

I think the install instructions ask you to ensure that ffmpeg is installed, so I'd assume the latter.

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Quoting: buenaventura

Quoteafter the discovery of a groundbreaking scientific discovery

Oh come on ^__^'

I might be wrong, but I think they may have discovered something.

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Quoting: mao_dze_dunI'm stunned why some people can face cold numbers and still refuse to accept reality. The Linux market is TINY which is why game sales are also tiny in percent. A lot of people like to present alternative math by which 10% of all Linux gamers on Steam will always buy any given game. Well guess what - it doesn't work that way. Nobody ports to Linux expecting a profit bar actual porting companies. All in-house ports are a work of love and mad props to developers who actually do them. But next tine a couple of spiteful people (you know exactly who you have) start spitting venom at a developer who plain admits the numbers aren't there - please refer them to this article.

You sound (weirdly) angry, despite the cool tone of the other replies here. As I said earlier, no one is refusing "to accept reality" - it's simply odd that such a popular game has such a low percentage of Linux sales when so many other very similar games do so much better - usually much higher than our "0.5%" market share suggests.

As for whether the number are there or not, that depends. If you're going to sell 1M copies, then sure, 5000 extra sales is pretty meaningless. If you're going to sell 50K, then 5000 extra sales suddenly looks pretty sweet (albeit only one dev has reported close to 10% Linux sales). If my £9 game takes in £6 profit... that's £30K in the bank. That's great, even if Windows and Mac still nets you a more significant £270K.

Either way, the devs have to do the maths. "5000" times "game profit" should, in most cases, cover any expenses related to the Linux version. Not all cases, but certainly most cases. And while you might be right that Linux support is often a work of love, love doesn't pay the bills.

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