We don't need it. Just ditch all that garbage that had Denuvo.

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Paradox head of sales talking about Linux support (08:15): https://play.acast.com/s/theparadoxpodcast/Buzzsprout-1340245 [External Link]

He brings an interesting point, that Stadia can help them continue supporting desktop releases due to cost being covered. That what I think will impact developers a lot more, than people using Wine / Proton and etc.

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Wine, dxvk, vkd3d and etc. are anti-lock-in tools. They are undermining MS's grip on the market. So it's a good thing.

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I'd wait for functional OpenHMD + Monado support, before buying anything of this sort.

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Regarding demand. Developers have no clue about it, if you don't buy from them and just keep silent. They have no access to stats from other developers. The stores have those stats, but they aren't public and not shared between developers.

So if you want to demonstrate demand - reach out to developers directly, create polls, wish requests, vote / comment in existing ones, and etc. Show developers that enough people want to see their games on Linux. That could work.

Examples:

* http://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=652719 [External Link]
* https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/bloodlines-2-for-linux.1162040 [External Link]
* https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/cyberpunk_2077_on_linux [External Link]

Saying "I don't buy from that developer to show demand" makes no practical sense really.

So, again - reach out to developers. As ZED creators put it in the recent interview:

I think the future of gaming for Linux is looking good, hopefully I can help! The quality of hardware support is the best it’s been and game engines are bringing stronger and stronger support. Just need to keep being vocal so game devs keep putting in the small effort to port

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Quoting: Sir_DiealotOr there are fewer games for Linux released now that SteamPlay is around. Who can say with certainty? Historical data and statistics probably can. Who is going to dig in?

Hard to say, but I've seen examples of developers using such excuse (inXile/Krome used it, not to release classic Bard's Tale trilogy for Linux).

I doubt though, it plays a significant role in the global sense. Those who want to release for Linux will, Steamplay or not. Those who don't, always will find another excuse.

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When are they going to start supporting XDG base directory spec? $HOME/.dosbox really should retire already.

And they should switch from Sourceforge to something more fitting the times.

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Great interview, thanks! I backed the game and wait for the Linux version to get to GOG.

This part though was a bit strange:

Platforms like Proton and Lutris are beginning to make WINE obsolete.

Wine is really the base of Proton, and without it Lutris won't work with Windows games either, so it's hardly obsolete ;)

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Interestingly, if you read the announcement carefully, they write that they'll be able to continue to support Ubuntu officially, but they didn't say they'll continue recommending it as the first choice for their users. So would be interesting to see what they'll recommend.

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Great to hear about Valve working closely with more distros! And especially backing efforts to improve desktop experience. I suppose the recent KDE/KWin work announcement is related to that.

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