That's bad. On the other hand, it was already bad when Rock Paper Shotgut got aquired by Gamer Network in the first place; I'm not sure the site can get any more ad- and sponsored-article-infested. It's been already dead for years now.

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Quoting: PyrateThey're the only Dev team in this infiltrated industry that make sensible and genuine ports/remasters, not for making quick buck over people's nostalgia

I was involved in several talks where they proposed contracting people for porting works... and naw, Nightdive is definitely in for the quick buck. The bottom line is what they care about, not the games.

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Typical Nightdive move. They continue to suck.

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If you run, you gain one. If you move forward, you gain two.

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Quoting: MilaniumOne developer, so many engine ports. It seems very fishy

You misunderstand how DREAMM works. It's not an engine port like ScummVM, it's more like DOSBox with additional hooks for each game (*). That does mean it needs considerable less custom work for each game.

(*) This is an analogy. I'm not saying he's literally using DOSBox.

While I disagree fundamentally with Aaron Giles about most of what he does here (including the closed source nature of DREAMM), you are way out of line with that accusation. There's nothing fishy about the project at all.

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Quoting: Liam DaweIf it was financially worth it, they would do it and they would have kept it up with other changes in the background

So I guess I shouldn't have said "you're wrong", but "that's the wrong point to make"? Because, yes, if we had a higher market share, they might have done that, but it's still the wrong thing to do. Heck, I don't want them to do that.

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I could write a whole book on what I think about what Apple is doing, but for the sake of my mental health and inner peace, I'll abstain :P

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but the ultimate reason is pretty much the same as always — Linux and Steam Deck together hold a less than 2% user share on Steam

Sorry, but no, that's wrong. The reason is this:

due to the Linux version being on an older version of the PAYDAY 2 engine

I.e. a terrible development environment, the developers being bad at their job.

That quote right there, that tells me that they kept the Linux codebase in a separate fork. That's bad praxis, that's objectively incompetent.

Forking the codebase to put in support for another platform is fundamentally wrong, and we see, time and time again, that this leads to the codebases growing apart with the developers not being able to keep up keeping them in sync, and then abandoning the other platform. 90% of the time were we had Linux support being wiped away was because of this very reason. Why aren't people learning? You don't do that.

Instead, you need to make portability a feature of your code outright, you need to make the same single codebase run on all the individual platforms. No forks, just one portable repository that can run everywhere. That's not new knowledge either, we've known that for decades!

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Sure, the main campaign is weak, but the two expansions are great.

And then there's so many good community made modules

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Yes, the Linux client was released in 2003. They originally said it's going to be ready for release in 2002, but that got pushed back. I remember waiting for it

And then the Linux client came and it didn't play any of the videos, because they were Bink files and RADGameTools had no Linux Bink library at that time. The community came up with an LD_PRELOAD hack that hooks into the game and starts mplayer. Of course, you had to re-encode that videos beforehand, using Wine and the RADGameTools toolset. Fun times.

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