Shmerl, how do you feel about the revelation that your anti-DRM stance is so vehemently articulated and you're so immovable in your views that you're actually encouraging pro-DRM behaviour from others?

I'm massively anti-MS and I'd be extremely upset to learn that I was so fanatical about my hatred of them that I was actively encouraging my friends and colleagues to use or defend it more, instead of my intention - from them to discover and hopefully try Ubuntu.

That would encourage some harsh introspection, surely? It did with me. As Tim Minchin so eloquently put it in his Commencement Speech to the University of WA, you should define yourself by what you love. Don't get dragged down by the things you hate. Even if that means taking a knock or two on the way. God knows, MS knows how to hand out a punch, sadly, but I try not to let those define me. I can vouch that it's a much healthier way to live.

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Can't wait to buy/play this! Very happy to see this happening... I began to doubt if it would come, so this is great news!

Just need Astroneers to keep their "Q2 2018" promise too now, and I'll be in gaming heaven!

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Yeah, I bought the Warhammer games out of loyalty, but absolutely zero interest in Total War games. They must be popular/sell well, though, given that Feral have been pretty loyal to them.

I'll stick to the big AAA single-player games they churn out, like the Tomb Raiders, Life is Strange, Hitman and Deus Ex. Goddam, it's so good to have stuff like that on Linux.

Sometimes it just hits me too. "THESE GAMES ARE ON LINUX". I mean... LINUX?? Holy crap! Remember just five years ago, we were excited about a new Humble Bundle that had a Limbo port! Look where we are now!! Incredible.

I mean... seriously: https://www.feralinteractive.com/en/linux-games/

Mind-blowing.

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Given my backlog of unplayed games, epic learning-curves like DOTA2 will also put me off. Also, unless the multi-player is co-op, I'll tend not to play. This sounds like it might be cool, but if it's behind a sub, then nope. If it was a one-off payment, I might be tempted. Maybe. Still that massive learning curve though.

What's it at these days? 110+ heroes? How many items are there? And each hero has, what, five abilities? Just mental, the hours you'd have to invest into this game to be effective at it.

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Yep, have to acknowledge reality. Even Switch will wait for certain ports post-launch. They'll always focus on the biggest market first, then Mac and Linux can only hope for a release later on.

I'm cool with that. But then, since I rarely ever play multiplayer games, I suppose I can afford to be.

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Quoting: monkygamesPlease do not promote games with Illegal Loot Box Gambling such as Dota 2.

Is it illegal? Or just immoral?

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Quoting: F.UltraThe idea is to let his patreons pay for the porting, so what he is saying that he will port your game for free if you let him (and you are a game publisher/developer).

I'm one of his patreons and I somehow missed that in his fairly regular updates! Nice. I'd love if more devs actually offered him the chance to work on games. It seems weird to have what is literally a legendary porter putting his services free gratis, and he's not getting any offers!

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There are plenty of indies out there that would probably benefit from a pro like Gordon, but can they pay? I have no idea of the costs involved in freelance porting work like this. I'd say that Gordon's best bet is to leverage an outfit like Humble to hook him up with the indies that have a project they can use him on, and publicise his fees up front.

Would love to see him getting involved in some of the smaller indies with the bigger titles - Subnautica, Scrap Mechanic, A Hat in Time, They Are Billions or The Solus Project.

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Quoting: dpanter

Quoting: scaineIf someone told me they'd perfected a pint of beer, and then told me that I could try it for £5.50, I'd say, sure, why not? Even if I don't like it, it's just over what I'd pay normally, right, and what if it's great?

PS. Love the beer analogy, I'm a beer man myself. :) Most expensive one I had was a tiny halfglass for about 10€. It was quite likely the best stout I've ever tasted. Limited brew of only 1000 bottles that was not sold publicly. An impossible love story!

I only just got into the beer scene about a year ago, but really I just used it as an analogy for something that we tend to spend a fair bit of money on without a second thought, but games get this uber-scrutiny which is usually wildly disproportionate to the effort that went into making it. On the throwaway side you have coffees, beers, pizza/kebab/chippy and magazines while on the over-analyse side you have games, books and to a certain extent, art.

Some of the IPAs that come out of the smaller breweries are about £6 or £7 for a 330ml can. Sure, they're like 7% or 8% alcohol, but given that I'll usually sink between 4 and 8 cans if I'm having a night in, I tend to stick to Brewdog or Beavertown IPAs to keep things sensible!

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Ha! It's funny isn't it, the way we put value on things? If someone told me they'd perfected a pint of beer, and then told me that I could try it for £5.50, I'd say, sure, why not? Even if I don't like it, it's just over what I'd pay normally, right, and what if it's great?

But I'm the same as anyone else when I think about whether to sink just over £5 on a game. I wonder... is it really worth £5.50?? Somehow the price of lager and some change suddenly become meaningful.

No idea why that is, but I tell you that if you buy this game in a half price sale, you're getting an absolute bargain.

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