Quoting: DamonLinuxPLIf someone ever port The Witcher 1 to Linux - this should be native port. Because game use old Aurora Engine and this engine have support for Linux and OpenGL API.

CD Projekt RED completely replaced the renderer, though, making it use Direct3D. They'd need to completely rewrite the renderer again, to OpenGL, because theirs uses features not available in the old renderer.

As for middleware... It uses SpeedTree. No idea if it supported Linux back then and/or if the old data files are an issue.

In short, porting The Witcher 1 won't be easily.

Quoting: KeyrockI find it much more likely that Xoreos will be what eventually allows us to play this game.

Sorry if I sound like a broken record, but we still need more contributors. :P

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Blow my mind? Virtual Corporation [External Link]. Because it's horrible, barely anybody knows it exists and even back when it was released, no one cared. It also never really worked properly.

So yeah, if someone ported it to Linux, that would blow my mind. Because why would anybody do that?

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Quoting: GuestWhat the close button *should* do is exit Steam completely.

This. I'm on e16, I don't even have a system tray. Always annoyed me that it minimizes Steam instead, and then I have to maximize it again and quit Steam using its menu.

Also, I wish I could disable the annoying console popup to install/update system packages, because what Steam suggests there makes no sense on Debian Sid.

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Quoting: tmtvlNWN for Linux? Could be good...

Personally, I really doubt that them finally putting the Linux version of NWN up would warrant such a grand announcement. So I'd say that's probably not it.

Quoting: g000hI would hazard a guess, based on what people have observed so far, that there will be released a new Enhanced Edition version of Neverwinter Nights (and maybe NWN II as well). Earlier this year Beamdog released Enhanced versions of Baldur's Gate, BG2, and Icewind Dale.

If I remember correctly, there were earlier tries by Beamdog to get an enhanced edition of NWN going, but there were licensing issues, both with WotC and BioWare.

There was also some talk between Beamdog and people in the NWN modding scene a few months back, on their forums. Their forums are a bit leaky and somehow, a bit of the thread got public. Nothing really that made sense to anybody, so it's basically just a confirmation that certain people are talking to each other. Of course, the people in question couldn't say anything when asked, so I don't know anything real either.

Doesn't really have to mean anything, because it might not be related.

So it could be Neverwinter Nights Enhanced Edition. But it could also be something else Beamdog are working on. Or it could be something else entirely.

Also, I'd thing an Enhanced Edition of Neverwinter Nights would take way longer than that. But what do I know. :)

I sure would like to see that, especially if Linux were supported. On the other hand, I'm not sure what that would mean for xoreos?

Quoting: DMJCNWN2 will not be coming to Linux

Yeah, I'd say that as well. NWN, KotOR, KotOR2 all have OpenGL renderers. But NWN2 replaced it with a Direct3D one. It also added tons of middleware: Granny, FaceFX, SpeedTree at least. I think they all support Linux now, but did they in the past? Would new versions of that still be able to use the old data files? I don't know.

The Witcher 1 also has replaced the renderer completely, so a Linux port of that wouldn't be easy either.

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Thanks for the kind words, everyone. To give my usual spiel, though, we really need more contributors. :P

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Me, I'm annoyed that there still isn't an easy way to remove a game from the wishlist.

I can add it with one click on the store page, but then instead of letting me remove the game from the wishlist by clicking the same button, the button then turns into a link to my whole wishlist (why?!?). So to remove the game, I have to load the whole wishlist (which, yes, is getting a bit long, so takes a few seconds to load), and search for the game I want to remove, clicking the remove there (which then reloads the whole list). That is a bit annoying.

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Quoting: tmtvlSeriously, Paypal has no competition when it comes to international payments.

I really wish there was proper international bank transfers. EU-wide, there's SEPA, including SEPA direct debit, but even that often isn't available in online stores. At least not internationally; it's relatively common within Germany, because we have a history of direct debit use.

North America really likes credit cards, but those are quite uncommon in many other countries. Including, again, Germany, because we have our own direct debit cards [External Link]. Also, Germans still love cash for in-person transfers.

I mean, you can transfer money between banks internationally, if you want to. You just have to go to the physical bank location. And pay horrendous fees. Well, and you need to have the proper banking information of the recipient.

Really, it's all a mess and in my eyes, it's ludicrous that something like PayPal even has to exist in the first place. And then they're shady, too, freezing accounts willy-nilly, not allowing people to receive money for "adult" material, etc.

Or, hell, credit cards really shouldn't exist either. Especially not for general-purpose money transfers. That's pretty much an ugly hack, as far as I'm concerned. Bah.

</rant> :P

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That reminds me: I still need to play Wasteland 2. I started it, got about half-way, then suspended it for a bit (RL, other games) and suddenly, there was a Director's Cut. So I need to restart from scratch there. :)

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Quoting: WorMzyBut how do you pronounce it? :O

As an English loanword in Japanese, it would maybe be pronounced "hakumutsu", with the u being rather short and farther back, more like a schwa or even nearly a glottal stop? But that's just me guessing. I don't speak Japanese, I've just seen/heard this happen a few times. I could very well be completely off; do correct me if I'm wrong.

I also have no idea if this works similarily in any of the Chinese or Korean dialects. I would guess so, but, again, just a guess.

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Nitpick: it's not "h a c k m u d", but "ｈａｃｋｍｕｄ".

The former is just the normal ASCII latin characters with spaces inbetween. This is not it.

The latter is CJK "fullwidth [External Link]" forms of the latin characters, i.e. each character takes up the space a CJK character would use. In fixed-width fonts, that would be the space of two usual "halfwidth" characters.

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