Yeah, not rolling the marketing drums is definitely a mistake if you do plan on actually living off indie game development.
I'd guess that spending an hour or two each day to spread the word, go into communities, etc. is a necessity.

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Now I can get bored out of my mind by a complete lack of gameplay on Linux, too!

:wub:

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: GuestAfter watching this trailer I decided not to get this game due to woke propaganda.

What propaganda?

Good question.
I'm usually very aware of publisher's wokeness for virtue currency and avoid a product if it is too preachy, but in this trailer I just don't see anything.

But for some people a female narrator, dyed hair (even if that was always a Wasteland thing) and the word "patriarchy" (for what is very literally a patriarchy in the game, one of the factions, which you can even join!) is enough to get triggered.

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Quoting: KohriasDuring their campaign they promised: "Simultaneously releasing to Windows, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.". It is still up on their fig page [External Link].

You must be new to crowdfunding.
These goals are always just goals, never promises or anything they'd actually be liable for (as long as they can prove they at least tried to fulfill the goals, at least KS works that way).

You can't plan a project ahead by multiple years so well that reality won't be able to throw a few wrenches in your gears.
Crunching your team or releasing subpar versions are worse alternatives than delays.

Still, I'd always release all versions at the same time if anyhow possible, it just makes the most sense due to the release buzz. OS-specific releases never generate any real buzz.
They might have specific deals for the Windows/Xbox/PS4 releases, though (including marketing), making postponements of these barely possible.

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Does it actually work on Windows?
If not, the use of it will be really quite limited.
Cross-platform only for Android & Linux isn't exactly a common use case.

Looked it up, no it doesn't. Desktop is Linux & MacOS only. At least on desktop, that's extremely limiting.

Also...
You either develop a UI for desktop, or you develop a UI for mobile. Or you do both at the same time, but you can't just use the same layouts for both, or the result will be severely suboptimal on one of the platforms. I'm sure we all used some mobile->desktop or desktop->mobile software that was just terrible to use on one of the platforms and you could see where it came from and why it doesn't work well on the other platform.

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Imagine going to some store that sells video games and movies and you ask "Do you have Hammer Dongers?"

"Uh.... dude, we're not THAT kind of movie store".

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Quoting: ageres

Quoting: BeamboomI try avoiding to do more "custom modifications" to my system than absolutely necessary.

Proton-GE doesn't affect the OS, it's just one folder Steam uses to create another folder with a game's wineprefix. Delete it, and it's gone. I also use Boxtron for playing DOS games on Steam, quite handy.

That's true, of course.
But it is still another additional step to do when the goal should always be to reduce the amount of steps one has to do.

Not that it can be helped much, given the nature of ProtonGE.

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Quoting: ageresThere is proton-ge-custom-updater [External Link] that checks if an update is available, downloads it, unpacks and delete the downloaded archive.

That's really helpful!

What's the relation between GE and Valve? I really do wonder why some of these fixes are in GE but not the official Proton.

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: Perkeleen_VittupääWhat's good too, is that it's not an actual kernel driver with root permissions?

This driver seems running in user mode so it thinks it is in the kernel, but actually in a user mode process.

It can also be seen as bad. This effectively means that EAC is being kept happy while it's not being able to what is happening on the system. If it is now possible to create some sort of cheat outside of wine, then it would essentially an exploit. If this is possible on Linux, it would be possible on Windows as well. At best EAC would try to fix that. At worst, they decide that they might switch to more drastic options. While it's pretty cool that they managed it this far, I'm still not hopeful for the future.

I feel the same.
From a technical perspective, this is pretty amazing.
But it really doesn't solve the problem in a way that would make EAC happy, does it? It isn't hard to imagine Wine keeping EAC happy, while you run something else neither Wine nor EAC has access to on your machine.
In the end, it would probably only serve to increase the pressure on anti-cheat devs to either fully support or fully block Linux.

And I don't think any of us would like the result of that decision, at least not at the current market share.

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Quoting: PatolaSo... Aspyr is alive? Aspyr, where's my Borderlands 2 & The Pre-Sequel High Resolution pack, and that DLC?

It is still very much alive.
In your hopes and dreams ;)

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