Excellent post.

Now, what happens if I buy my games (windows and Linux) via my Android App? If it is a windows game and I never install it, it stands to reason that they will make it count towards a Windows purchase.

However, if it is a Linux & Windows game , and I install more than a week later on the linux platform, I surely hope that it will count as a Linux Purchase.

Also, what is the stand on DLC?

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OK, thanks for the sale, I have bought the game and all the DLCs.I am looking forward to this one.

An interesting take on the rankings of Total Wars - http://kotaku.com/lets-rank-the-total-war-games-from-best-to-worst-1535642069 [External Link]

Amazingly enough, it was the only Total War game that I did not own, so there!

I even have Rome 2, which I bought in the days where I did not understand the way porting companies were remunerated. Still, as I understand it, when I buy all the DLC for a game that was ported, does this go towarsds the porting company?

Before I forget, thank you Feral, thank you for porting these wonderful games over to Linux. The Total Wars series is particularly dear to my heart.

Now that Civ, Total War, Mount and Blades and pals have been ported over to Linux, I seriously can't think of any other games that I really miss on Linux, apart from the Elder Scrolls series.

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Well, it is probably quite selfish, but I can play eON wrapper games...

As I stated in another thread, the Witcher 2 plays flawlessly, now I am using the Linux Beta.

I understand that people are up in arms because they can't play a game they bought though.

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Quoting: Linas

Quoting: GBee

Quoting: LinasI am about 60% finished with Dead Island. Great fun, and runs great, even if it is flawed in many ways. But that is not Linux specific.

It's running OK? I'd avoided it because I was hearing terrible things about the linux port.

Not sure what you heard, but it does run fine. The gamma slider does not work, but I experience that in many games. Probably because of Bumblebee.

As for Witcher 2, no the beta is not better. The input lag is ridiculous. You can move the pointer halfway across the screen before it starts reacting. Running at 1360x768 with lowest settings mitigates the problem, but it is still there. So for now sign me up for the official eON haters club.

I had the input lag too, UNTIL I disabled Uber. Then the only other thing I did apart from putting all the settings on Ultimate is go to the mouse sensivity panel in the options, and slid that bugbear right down.... Now honestly, no lag or jerking or anything.

I have an actual desktop, and I think that does play a role in how games perform, because you can have a real graphics cards on it. I used to have laptops because I had to move all the time, and was always appalled at the quality of gaming on these machines. I was a windows user in those days. I am not critisizing people with laptops of course. Life is about choices and options.

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Quoting: LinasWhen this first started, I remember eagerly waiting for news on any new Linux release. Now I am actually losing track of things. Just a few months ago it was 600, and now it is 800. I have to admit that I have a very faint idea of what these 200 are... I guess this is a good thing, right?

I am about 60% finished with Dead Island. Great fun, and runs great, even if it is flawed in many ways. But that is not Linux specific.

I have also picked up Witcher 2 during the last sale, because I wanted to experience eON myself. And holy zombie cow, it is actually as bad as people say. Framerate is sort of barely acceptable on my NVIDIA Quadro K1100M, but I get a massive input lag.

Then there is Everlasting Summer. A naughty game for an exemplary communist in you. :) I guess you have to have experienced Soviet Union to appreciate it though.

To come back to The Witcher 2 and eON, I think results may vary from machine to machine. I am playing the Witcher 2 across Windows and Linux, and I can't see the difference in framerate or even in graphics: I am playing this using the Ultimate settings, on a machine with a i5 Haswell processor, coupled with a GTX760 graphic card. If you try this at home, disable Uber, that is the only setting I had to disable.

Why do I also have it on my windows partition? Well, I played the game on Linux for 95% of the game, I am on chapter 3, but at the end of chapter one, I had to install the game on Windows and using the cloud save managed to get past a section which would make my computer crash because of a memory leak on Linux. Once that hurdle had been passed, I fired up the Linux game, synched the cloud saves, and have not had another issue yet...

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Ok, if this is the King Penguin - Aptenodytes (without feathers & diver according to Greek translation) Patagonicus (Patagonian), and we look at the Feral Game library of Mac Games, you will find these possibles, some have been mentioned in previous comments:

Batmans (incl. Legos) - the bat has no feathers and the penguin reference goes without saying.
Bioshocks - Big Daddy", a heavily modified humanoid in an armored diving suit
Shoguns - you could be called a King, but if the species had been Emperor Penguin, this would have been more likely

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Well this a Penguin, therefore a Tux, and who wears a Tuxedo?

Hitman confirmed!

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Again, I am a traitor!

I have the game already in my library, on Windows. In fact, I have c.750 games on Steam, of which c.400 are on Linux...so I am bound to have most common games if they are ported to Linux 1-2 years after release. Like many people, I have not played all of my games in the steam library..

BUT

I have actually played THIS game c.200 hours... This game is just great. Difficult day at work? Well, bashing someone fat face in with a heavy mace does the trick. Watched an epic film and want that feeling to carry on? Well load up Chivalry and get the juices flowing as you and 31 other players rush to meet in headlong charge another 32 players screaming like savages...

I really hope they allow us to have Penguin Coats of Arms. I swear with my little pinky that I would not sully my sword with the blood of someone carrying a Tux standard.

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It's a masterpiece!

Unfortunately, already bought on Windows. I will uninstall and reinstall on Linux, but unfortunately, the sales record will show Windows.

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Well, I may have an above the average gaming rig, but I am playing through the Witcher 2 right now, and don't jhave any problems to report. The same can be said about Civ 5, Xcom, but I understand that people with more modest rigs are feeling the pain.

I do hope that the drivers business gets sorted out, but as someone pointed out in an earlier comment, this is a revolution, and it will take time to grow.

Also, I would like to think we shouldn't dismiss entirely the comments of someone who was working on OpenGL like Rich. Luckily, there are still people working on this who are more optimistic as to the outcome of gaming on Linux. We have nearly 20% of the whole steam library accessible to us in 2 years, that is quite a feat by itself.

In March 2014, this was the state of affairs for games on Steam:
Linux games: 375
Mac games: 750

See! We now have as many games as Macs in March! Of scourse the number of Mac games has gone up too, but still, we should be happy about the way things are progressing.

Over and out!

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