Quoting: Alm888Paying for soundtrack is dumb, IMO.

I usually try to extract the soundtrack from games, as you can see in some scripts I posted here [External Link] (see older pages there as well).

However, games naturally usually ship sound with lossy codec (no reason to use lossless), and I always like to get it in lossless FLAC as well, which I usually encode in Opus for playback. So I don't mind paying for lossless release at all. But I prefer it to be provided through some convenient stores like GOG and Bandcamp.

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Quoting: ssokolowThis sort of thing is the reason I stopped backing things years ago. (Though not long enough ago to pass up this game, sadly.)

I didn't stop backing, but I only select the base tier now (i.e. just the game). In the past I used to select game + soundtrack at least, but this has backfired more than once now, when despite offering the game through GOG, they don't provide the soundtrack there (or Bandcamp which I'd accept too), but through some Backerit download or who knows what other method. It's just safer to buy soundtrack separately later.

Other blunders are cases of promised DRM-free releases that never materialized (at least yet). Such as Insomina: the Ark and Underworld Ascendant.

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Quoting: iiariThere's also the ability to use Proton via Lutris as its own wrapper. So theoretically, for example, you could take another entity's launcher or store (Origin, Discord, and maybe even Epic one day, who knows) and run it USING Proton, through Lutris.

Sure, and you can do it without Lutris as well since Proton is basically a variant of Wine. But it's probably not the best idea, since Proton is too Steam specific. Using Wine with whatever customizations without Steam specific stuff is a better idea in such case.

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People don't use something because of exclusives, but because the platform offers something useful to them. Of course marketing eggheads will continue pushing exclusives, as an anti-user feature, but Linux developers should not follow this garbage approach.

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Quoting: julkipBut once again the message is: NO PREORDERS!

This isn't the message though. Backing crowdfunding is OK in general. It's not a pre-order. But the hard part is to trust these developers not to mess up things like it happened here. I suppose nothing guarantees that, it's always a risk.

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Quoting: jensI guess I wont be popular with my opinion, but I hope that Steam Play/Proton will take that much steam that wrapping Wine/Steam on windows via Lutris will soon no longer be relevant.

Not everyone is using Steam to begin with, and not everything is actually bought on Steam. So using normal Wine (either manually or through managers like Lutris) isn't going to become irrelevant any time soon.

Using Steam itself through Wine probably won't be as needed for Steam users, given that Steam now provides Proton option.

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Quoting: Guestpretty sad that a 3rd party has to put gog support when GOG themselves cannot even put out a launcher.kudos to strider for this cool release.

Normal XDG menu launcher works fine for me. What exactly do you need there? Just place a .desktop file in $HOME/.local/share/applications (providing it with what to run and an icon) and you are good to go. I make these myself for Wine games as well. I find the idea of using some extra GUI applications as a launcher to be simply too bloated, when your DE already offers you quick way to launch things.

The main benefit of clients is not a launcher (that's trivial), but incremental updating.

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Looks like it suffered from the feature creep. What kind of middleware are they using that doesn't support Linux? That must be something very fishy these days.

Good thing I didn't back this one.

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A few suggestions for trends:

1. Total number of GOL users (and number of active users).
2. Ability to turn off options in the legend, to be able to start enabling them one by one. It should help the massive examples like GPU model.
3. Some bright colors are almost impossible to see on the bright gray background. Example (note the bright salad green "In the last month"):



Better to avoid such combinations.

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I'm glad they are still working on it. As a backer of both We Happy Few and The Bard's Tale IV, I'm still waiting for both to release Linux versions.

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