Quoting: Arehandoro

Quoting: Code ArtisanBe warned that this game is using romaji for the japanese part.

That's actually crap.

Just tried it out, you can switch between kana/kanji and romaji with the button at the top of the screen.
Romaji is just the default.

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There is one method to make them care about their overall game quality and this is creating "let's plays". If potential customers see that brown water and black caves they might think twice before buying it.

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A little off topic but does anyone else notice that the system gets slowed down for about half a minute after quitting steam on Linux Mint 17.3? This started happening about a month ago.
I'm also still hoping for a patch that lets me quit steam via the taskbar icon again.

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Quoting: BeamboomGOL seem to be the Linux gaming equivalent of Slashdot and what we called being "slashdotted" back in the days, when servers went down due to load after a link were posted on Slashdot. :)

I vote for the term the site has been "GOLed". Or maybe without the "e". -> "The Linux community has given the developer GOLD status for supporting their operating system" :D
It's now nine pages of "+1 for Linux", unfortunately the developer hasn't shown up anymore after the pro Linux posts appeared.

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Well the game code is open source but since you need Unity in order to compile and play the game it leaves a bad flavor in your mouth since Unity adds tracking routines that the game developers (afaik) can't deactivate.

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Would be cool if they took the assets from the new AoE-Windows10-Store-only game so that a lot more people could play it with modern graphics.

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I haven't played it for over two years.
Last time I tried, it took over 10 minutes to even load a game and crashed so often that it took me three attempts to even complete the tutorial of one fraction.
Are those problems fixed by now?
I really liked the game even though I couldn't really play it. I'm still a huge fan of Aliens vs Predator 2 which is very similar but unfortunately not on Linux (but it runs perfectly via wine).

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I fear the whole thing won't be that easy. Porting a game is just half the battle. The game also has to be supported after the port.
Even if Gordon decided to spend the rest of his life doing support for that single game one man wouldn't be enough.
If one of the AAA companies lets him do the port it would have to set up and pay a support team on their own which would probably cost even more than the port itself.
There would be a big backlash if the game was released for Linux without anyone fixing bugs later on. So I don't think any AAA company will let him do the port even if they wouldn't have to pay for it.
Big publishers could pay a Linux port itself out of their petty cash anytime.

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Quoting: haagchUnfortunately nobody cares about OpenVR on Linux.
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The sad truth is, until there is a complete (unity, unreal) and proven ecosystem, pretty much nobody will care to make their VR application work on linux.

There is hope: Godot v3.0
https://godotengine.org/article/progress-report-april-may-2017 [External Link]

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Quoting: GuestBTW GOG.com is now selling these "Pinata" things, where you get a random game. I bought 4 Pinatas and guess what: all games are Windows-only. Such a fail. Somehow did not expect that.

I wrote a message to their support asking for a platform dependent selection of pinata games. At first they told me to get a refund but after being persistent they promised me to forward my mail to their development team. Lets see...

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