Looks great. Like a decent Magic:The Gathering digital version. A quick note though - it's £18 in the UK, but my understanding is that you're paying a slight premium to play the EA version. As noted in the article, it will be Free-to-play (estimated around September this year) but your £18 will buy better gear at that point than the tenner's worth you're getting now.

Not sure how accurate that is, but it seems to be the summary I got from reading the updates and reviews.

[EDIT: forgot to ask - is it Multiplayer only? I'd rather just do single-player campaign play, ala Card Hunter]

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Well, it's possible the dev did pay for them, but the "freelance artists" on upwork stole the work. Original dev should reluctantly, but swiftly comply with the take-down in that case. The art itself looks like it's well documented work by Alex Mosolov on his devblog/website.

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Yeah, they pretty clearly promised Linux support during their Kickstarter - GoL actually covered this back in 2014! Article here.

This makes my blood boil. The developers are either lying fraudsters, or utterly incompetent. Not sure if the second constitutes fraud, but there's a reason I don't back Kickstarter any more and developers like these guys. They use Kickstarter as a springboard to canvass money from a platform group (whether that's Linux, consoles or Mac), then completely do them over when the ball is in play. Project Cars did it to the Wii (and us) and countless projects have promised Linux support only to renege when the chips are down.

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Quoting: ripper

Quoting: KimyrielleBoth AMD but also NVidia have to get their act together eventually and release something that installs with one click, you know...like in Windows.

Actually, one of those companies is working hard on something even better, something you don't even need to install, which works out of the box. The second one isn't. Guess which is which :)

True, but working hard on something you intend to deliver at some unspecified point in the future isn't going to help sway Windows 10 refugees when they want to dip their toe in the Linux lake and test the waters.

AMD has been promising "something better, soon" for... years?

I'm buying a new graphics card, probably after the summer. Time will tell what I go with, but while I'd love to be proven wrong, I wouldn't bank on it being AMD.

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My kind of game, but as a few have noted - no Tux, no Bucks. Hopefully they bring it fully up to date, put out an official statement and I'll be all over this instantly.

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This very site just ran two articles covering three games I'd never heard of - I've just bought one of them (Quest of Dungeons) and plan to buy another at the end of the month (VoidExpanse).

Steam is a bit of a mess right now regarding Linux support. It took them over a year to fix a paging issue on upcoming releases, new releases don't care about extra SteamPlay platforms being added, hardware surveys are a mess and now they're launching their entire VR strategy as a Windows only deal, ignoring their OWN platform.

It feels like they've really dropped the ball.

[Edit: Forgot to mention, I just got a key through Kickstarter to this (despite voting that we shouldn't be given EA at the tier-level I pledged in, as I felt it was unfair to those who paid extra for the "beta") and I'm just not interested. Looking forward to playing the finished product though, but can't be bothered with EA/beta access.]

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Quoting: adolsonI got this game and really like it, but I can't remember if I wound up getting it in a bundle or not. I find by the time we get a lot of games, they've been in bundles and so a lot of us are apt to just get what we can at the lowest price. A simultaneous launch would definitely help - and it's nice that he was told of a 90-5-5 ratio by other (I wonder who?). I also wonder if he can't tell what platform players are playing on? I thought Steam reported all that and more to the devs?

Anyhow, I think the game is great and I've got my eyes open for future releases!

I think it was you, adolson, that got me hooked on Sproggiwood after my constant ranting about Tales of Maj'Eyal on Reddit (and possibly here too...), although in retrospect, they're not really very similar. So after loving that game, I've bought this now and will give it a go later in the week. Definitely my cup of tea, this style of game, and despite a fair chunk of bad reviews, there's enough good reviews that it's definitely worth a pint of beer to make up my own mind.

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Quoting: chris200x9Hmmm it's 40% to 50% off for the next ~20 minutes, do I buy to save money or wait to show my support for linux?

Decisions decisions......

Don't buy on rumour. Besides, any time a new platform is launched, in my experience they tend to run it via sale anyway.

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A game this big not releasing on Linux will reinforce the second class citizen stereotype. So, I'm with the Boss - it's a real shame to see hype generated by news of support, only to see it pulled a couple of weeks later.

At least it's not due until May, so this isn't exactly springing a surprise out of the blue. Still, hugely disappointing, especially for a game which is meant to be "online". If the Linux delay is long enough, we'll have missed the initial buzz and face lots of jaded & high-level types on entry.

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Quoting: amonobeaxbecause now the wall is done and it's time to close the door.

Yep. The fence is finished, but it still has gates. When they close "side loading" and force only software from their store, THEN you have a walled garden. That is definitely on the horizon much more clearly with this move.

Let's see how the current generation of Windows gamers reacts. Sadly, the timing isn't great - still plenty of AAA titles are hitting Windows first, or Windows only. Combined with the imminent Windows-only HTC Vive launch, I think Microsoft's plans will be forgotten in a wavy of shiny.

Then, you're absolutely right, it will be extremely painful to retreat from walled garden. They don't call it JAILbreaking for nothing.

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