I'm currently downloading the game after watching the trailer which instantly made me laugh.
"Do you have problems with zombies? GhrhhYeehss!" ^^

EDIT:
0Bytes Download :(
So lets wait...

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And this is exactly the reason why I would never buy a Windows game even if it has platinum status for Proton.
There is just no guarantee that the game will still work in a few weeks / months / years and if you get issues in the future you are left in the rain since the game was never made to be run on Linux.

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I haven't read through all of the comments but in case it wasn't mentioned yet -> here [External Link] is a list of Steam games that shows how well they run with Proton.
The graph on the second table is very interesting: 59% of the games are either stable or completely stable. Pretty impressive amount.

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Quoting: SamsaiSo you think that a good way to encourage publishers and developers to support our platform is to file nonsensical negative reviews of their products for which they do not offer any kind of Linux support?

No I neither said that nor do I support this but it is the way people react when a game doesn't run. No matter if we like it or not. Windows gamers do it too but since Linux users are a smaller group we stand out more. Have a look at 1-star Amazon ratings. You can see on first sight that the product the people got delivered is defective and just should be replaced but they write a bad review anyway. We can't do anything about it.

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Valve did a really clever move here to force game developers into cross platform development. Publishers will now have to make sure that their games run on all platforms Steam supports, no matter if they intend it to run there or not since the games were made available everywhere. Even though players get a notice when starting a game via proton I guess quite a few will still down vote a game that doesn't run on Linux or OSX, so the Publishers have 3 choices:

1) Do nothing and get a bad rating that affects their future sales of the game.
2) Make sure their game runs with Proton on all operating systems that Steam supports and hope that a future change in Proton doesn't break the game.
3) Do a proper cross platform port or develop future games with cross platform in mind and have control over the game's performance on Linux and OSX.

I guess the third option is the best choice.

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When I joined Itch and Gamejolt, I noticed that a lot of "free time indie games" work very poorly if at all on Linux. Mostly because they are missing a dependency or were compiled for 32Bit. When ever I see such a game that looks interesting I contact the developer or write a comment with the (possible) solution to their problem and the feedback I get is very positive. Surprisingly most games, even successful ones don't get any comments on their game pages. By leaving a supportive comment with a solution for technical problems other developers visiting the page will also notice it.
On Itch and Gamejolt, where everyone is able to upload their games Linux gamers are also very helpful to get attention. I released my very first hobby project yesterday (see the link below if you are interested) and the sheer mass of games getting released per day makes a single entry vanish from the "Recently added" page very quickly. But by supporting Linux your game stays in the first row of the "Recently added" + "Linux" category way longer, so you get a lot more attention in the days following the release.
Looking at my statistics the ratio is as follows (one day after release)

Downloads on Itch:
Linux: 11 (50%)
Windows: 9 (41%)
OSX: 2 (9%)
Android: 0 (funny since it is basically a mobile game)
https://wend1go.itch.io/sakawochi [External Link]

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This is interesting. I got the game from the Humble Bundle but didn't know that we are allowed to tinker around with it.
Would be interesting to see how much effort it is to port it to enigma-dev game engine.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeThere is a Diablo 3, it just isn't good... like at all. About the only thing I would mark it as good are the graphics. Past that it is way too easy.

To me the biggest let down wasn't the difficulty but the lack of freedom.
In Diablo2 I had lots of fun creating new characters and experimenting with different skills and spells. One of my favorite characters was an assassin skilled in traps alone. I had the luck to find a unique item meant for a mage that gave me lots of mana regeneration. It was extremely strong -> open the door -> place 3 traps -> wait -> all enemies dead.
In D3 you can't even assign any skill points and the spell system is meaningless since about any distribution of spells works. And if not just reset everything on the fly and try something new.
One thing I liked in D2 were the necro and druid pets. I put lots of skill points in them so that they were able to fight on their own and I just had to cast some damage spells / curses against champions and bosses.
In D3 I am forced to use pets as tanks and do the damage myself. Playing as WD it took 3 of my hounds about 3 seconds to kill a single zombie.
D3 was the only Diablo game that I had to force myself to finish at least with one character. And with finish I mean killing diablo in the basic difficulty level. Blizzard calling the first run a "Tutorial" is just ridiculous since after that you already know the whole story, so why bother playing the game again in higher difficulty when there are hundreds (sic!) of other games in my steam library waiting to be played?

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Quoting: GuestI don't like this attitude of developers who shun Linux and ask us to grovel in order to be able to give them money.

Maybe it is just some kind of PR to make Sites like GoL write an article about the game to create attention. Otherwise I'd agree that it is a stupid move since developers can already see in their steam statistics how many potential Linux customers have put the game on their wish list.

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Am I the only one who can't see the pictures in the article?
What numbers do they show for Linux downloads?

Quoting: TcheySteam still has one big advantage left over the others so far : you can get a refund.

GOG had the refund policy right from the beginning.

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