Quoting: Guest

Quoting: TheSHEEEPNo time to test it?
Well, that speaks volumes...

Yep, 99% of the market trumps the 1%.

Quoting: MotionshotThen why don't they release it as beta then on Steam? That way, Linux users who bought the game can help them test it while enjoying their pre-order.

You mean, so the Linux community can slate the developer for "only doing a beta release which is full of bugs and runs like sh*t, lets all tell the developer to die" ?

Sorry, while i respect your past work at the same time i ask you to justify properly your passive-agressive remarks and your attempt to discourage linux users. In my humble opinion this community is full of good people who don't deserve this, so please stop trying to "punish" a group of people whose only common trait is that they prefer an specific piece of software.

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This one and Yooka-Laylee are currently my most wanted games as soon i have some money. Looks seriously great.

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Quoting: GuestPeople continually compare eON with Wine. A lot of things are similar, but the big difference is Wine is trying to be as accurate about how it implements Windows as possible. eON does not do that, it's behaviour is tailored to how games work. If we find that we can get away with emulating a particular API function in a way that makes it faster, but doesnt 100% match Windows behaviour - as long as the game functions correctly, we'll do that. We even have a few specific behaviours in places which we can turn on/off at compile time to suit.

This actually sounds pretty good. Thanks for the insight.

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Quoting: damarrin

Quoting: libookamiWhiny and demanding wall of text

And here's why we can't have nice things.

I ask you politely to explain yourself and to state your points clearly so we can discuss them properly. I don't think i did anything to deserve being attacked like this, my first guess is that it's a misunderstood.

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To jaycee:

I have some questions. In the thread on reddit that points to this article you made an interesting comment [External Link]:

The first guy says:

This is the same company whose employee on twitter insulted Linux users and then set his twitter profile to private.

Then you said:

Blame me, not the company. It was my private Twitter, and my own opinion, not the company one.

Then you quote:

Also the same company that blamed Linux kernel devs claiming they had a grudge against proprietary software when in fact they had written code that was one half of an exploit that had been reported and fixed in the kernel.

Then you said:

Again, me, not VP. I retracted the comment. Linus Torvalds himself later came along and said "We should not have broken userspace behaviour".

The following may sound aggressive but what i want to say is, in this comments you seem to:
1.- Ask people to not blame VP for your own words.
2.- For people to consider that you accepted and corrected a mistake.

You ask people to not blame the whole VP, a company where you was an employee and where it would make a lot more of sense to take the word of one of the key employees as the word of the company.
-¿Then do you consider valid to ask people to take your words when you're an employee as only yours but it's not valid for people who happen to just like linux to ask for not being blamed for the words of other people of a crowd they most probably has never meet personally?¿What is the reasoning behind your answer?
-¿How does it made feel you that people blames VP for words that are supposed to be only yours? ¿Do you think is fair?
-¿how would it make you feel if people blames you for what VP does despite you not being in charge of the decision that made people upset?

The thing is that if what you're speculating may be true then whoever is in charge of deciding if porting or not is punishing a lot of people who didn't had anything to do with the harassment.

I cannot talk for other people and i know there's just too much people that doesn't deserve to be defended because, if i do it, then i also i also need to justify their actions. however i'm talking because i think is fair to see the other side of the coin and even more if you consider that even now there's people talking against that kind of behaviour. Ask yourself the following: ¿I'm filtering only the bad posts and ignoring the people who raised it's voice against the harassment? ¿Do they deserve to be treated like this?

Also please tell me if you think that the people who was not involved in the harassment deserve this:
-¿What about the people who was a linux gamer back then but didn't knew or was interested in the Witcher series, so didn't even knew about the harassment?
-¿What about the people who doesn't like to talk a lot or doesn't want to involve themselves in problems? ¿Do they deserve to be punished due to a situation where they don't have any control or even interest in participate?
-¿What about the people who was a Windows/Mac gamer back when the incident happened and then decided they liked linux and are now linux gamers?

Also. ¿What about the people who was angry back then and was vocal but later they retracted or feel bad about what they said? Yes, they have a fair share of the guilt. Remember that the internet and anonymity enables people to say and do things they'd not dare to do in real life due to the heat of the moment. No, there's no excuse and much less for stupid things like death threats, however you also are asking for people to forgive what you have said in the past and to reconsider that what you said back then doesn't necessarily reflects what you think today. If we assume there's people among the crows that hurt you back then that reflected on what they did. ¿Do they deserve to not be forgiven forever?

I know how being bullied feels and i'm pretty conscious on the kind of sequels and consequences it can have. I don't blame you. Despite i don't have any responsibility on what happened the only thing i can say is: i'm sorry. I'm sorry about what happened to you and is something that should not happen to anyone but i hope you understand that controlling other people is impossible, the most it can be done is to enforce rules and moderate the same way Liam is doing, but this is not possible everywhere and i hope you understand this.

I know you don't work on VP any more and that you don't have any influence on the port. This post is not about the port but about you because i'm worried about your words and because i feel you're hurting yourself and people that doesn't deserve to be hurt more than the ones that actually hurt you back then.

Thanks for your attention and believe me when i tell you that is not my intention to attack you.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: KimmoKMthe backlash at the time was 100% justified

People emailing me personally saying they hoped i would fucking die was justified?

The answer is: of course not. Consider this is not a hivemind or an organized group. I understand you have hard feelings towards a group you now perceive as hostile but also mind that the people who hurt you is just an small fraction of the people that is part of the linux users that also play games. You cannot control a crowd the same way an individual that happens to be part of that crows but that is not participating in that bad behaviour cannot control what other people does.

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