A tiny fluctuation, virtually meaningless. And still not polling Big Picture users, SteamOS or otherwise.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: adolsonObviously, I hope it finally does release, even if I won't play it much. However, if it doesn't release with that update, I hope like hell that this is the last time the game gets a post on this site until the release actually happens. It doesn't deserve all this attention when there's never anything solid to actually report.

Like now, if I feel there's something worthy of reporting or some supporting evidence I will post about it.

A game with tens of thousands of players coming to Linux, that sure does deserve attention in my book.

Edit: Spelling error.

When was the last ACTUAL news? There's been nothing besides delays reported since the first "it's coming to Linux" announcement. This post isn't even based on anything except your suspicions. Or, you have inside info and are dressing it up as intuition.

Like I said, I do hope it's actually going to release this time. But how many other times has it been posted that it was coming soon, just a few weeks/months now, any day now, it has to be here soon, and on and on?

And if it doesn't come this time, guess what? We'll all keep having this same discussion every time it's posted about, until the time that - hey, whaddyaknow, it finally released, at which point you can say, "see, I was right! [This time.]"

All this hype has historically lead only to more waiting and disappointment. The waiting isn't even that bad. It's the insurmountable fanboy hype I see all over the place (not just here, and not just you). It's everywhere. And thanks to that, my expectations initially shot up way high. But after the umpteenth delay, the hype propelled my expectations too close to the sun. Now the wax has melted and the wings fallen off, and it's due to crash through the floor any day now. One more delay ought to kill that last tiny bit of care I have for this one.

But then, I'm not much of an online gamer to begin with, so... It is what it is.

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I haven't used SteamOS in a long, long time. For a short while, I was dual-booting it. But there were games that I tried to play and they would fail because of missing Java, or AIR, or some other dependencies, and SteamOS didn't automatically handle that. It's not very console-like when you have to switch to a desktop and then hope that what you need is in the repos, and when it's not, start hunting around the internet for a solution that works... Back to just using Debian on my TV-PC.

It's unfortunate. I wanted to switch to SteamOS. I kept waiting for the Netflix and YouTube apps. I waited for the DLNA media player. We got a [very limited] music player - great. They've made a lot of good progress with the Big Picture redesign. But it needs so much more work. And that's just the interface - has nothing to do with the underlying OS, really.

From what I read in the subreddit, virtually all of Valve's Linux devs have exited the company, and the few that remain are focused on VR. I think it's safe to say that we're where we don't want to be - on the backburner of the company who has the biggest backburner in the history of backburners.

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Oh, they're also the devs behind the Patchwork adaptation, which is also on Greenlight: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=740513495 [External Link]

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Obviously, I hope it finally does release, even if I won't play it much. However, if it doesn't release with that update, I hope like hell that this is the last time the game gets a post on this site until the release actually happens. It doesn't deserve all this attention when there's never anything solid to actually report.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: adolsonI hope it does well and some day we can get Agricola and/or Caverna digital versions (with Linux support), too.

Ask and thou shall receive (Agricola): http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=740451199 [External Link]

Amazing! Though this is like Agricola lite, but I'll take it!

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I hope it does well and some day we can get Agricola and/or Caverna digital versions (with Linux support), too.

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Goat Simulator is just as stupid as this. As Liam said, amusing for five minutes, then you never touch it again. And if you do, whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?

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Quoting: RaycatRakittraHave anyone had experience with this? This has always been in my peripheral vision but I never tried it out.

I have used it a lot in earlier days, back when I had more free time. I made a couple small games with it (Santa Sniper [External Link] and Hiddan Ojbexx Retchro [External Link], both are on itch.io), and many more unfinished projects. I LOVE the engine, especially since it's open-source under the MIT license, and it's up on Github. I even contributed some code to it (again, in the earlier days), including the original fullscreen implementation for Linux. It's made leaps and bounds of progress, especially on the usability front, since it first went free. I'm so happy this exists and the community seems to be strengthening and contributors growing.

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Link [External Link] to highlights in 2.1 release.

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