This is indeed yet another example of why purchasing a game immediately when a port is announced or hinted at is a bad idea. Stay patient, hold onto your precious currency and wait until you can actually get a product for your money.

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Quoting: cprnDo you not run Steam runtime anyway? I see no point in running native libs that might or might not work with a particular title. It's way more effective to just use what's provided and tested.

Steam runtime is not exactly a perfect solution either. It worked decently well for a while until libstdc++.so along with some other libraries in the runtime became so outdated they broke OpenGL support on open source drivers. That forced a lot of people to abandon the runtime in favour of Steam native. Then Valve went and kind of fixed the problem by preferring host libraries, with the result that stuff is broken now because now a system library gets loaded and is incompatible with the game.

I don't think there's a single winning move with the current setup. Steam runtime is in a serious need of updates and central libraries in general should put more effort into backwards binary compatibility.

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Quoting: Purple PuddingTo all the people complaining about these type of games, be smart: gift them.

Here some ideas:
-GOL staff

I'm sure Liam will appreciate any and all games sent his way. :P

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Quoting: EhvisSamsai will be delighted! :P

https://youtu.be/XzppTD1ajX4?t=27m50s [External Link]

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I counted well over a 100 normal articles (aka non-Patreon related and I discounted livestream announcements) between this Patreon article and the previous one and unless I missed one somewhere I'd say the ratio is pretty good. If an article here and there is too much then I imagine a big banner on the front page would also be too much and if neither is present then nobody knows the Patreon exists and income growth grinds to a halt despite the website possibly growing in popularity.

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Quoting: KayKay91...why is it that everytime i read comments here, feels like you guys are saying that GOG cancelled making a Linux version despite the fact that it is stated that it's "not a priority".

In fact IMO, deciding not to buy any game from em is pretty much the worst idea you can possible make in this current situation.

"Not a priority" practically means it's in limbo indefinitely, which is about as good as cancelled until they come up with a schedule that specifies when it's due to come out.

And regarding buying games from them, why should we? Some of us are really not interested in the hassle that comes with buying games without access to a client that handles updates for them and I for one am not going to keep buying games from them to "encourage" them to port the client over. That's almost like buying Windows copies of games to run in Wine to show that Linux users have an interest in them, ultimately my answer as GOG would be "Oh, they don't care that we don't have the client for them? Well, that means we can drop it down on the priorities even further!".

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No Galaxy sadly means that GOG will stay a tertiary game store (at best) for me. I might use it to get some data files for certain games that have engine replacements on Linux but it's highly unlikely I will buy anything else from there. I have a fairly sizable games library and I just will not re-download dozens of games to get my patches, not to mention having to track when these games actually do receive updates. It's a shame really, I appreciate the whole DRM-free idea but I am not willing to sacrifice that much convenience for an issue that ultimately doesn't end up affecting me a whole lot.

Oh, and not to mention the quite vast difference between how much GOG and Valve support our platform. Haven't heard of GOG hiring people to work on Mesa for example.

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Quoting: JJNovaI'm thinking SwiftPaw has ties to Full Bright.

Hey bud, could you help me get a refund for Gone Home?

Ah, allegations of compromised integrity to "counter" an argument. A classic move.

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Quoting: TobiSGD

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: TobiSGDI will believe it when I see it. We had a launch trailer already for the story mode back in 2015: http://hinterlandgames.com/the-long-dark-story-mode-teaser/ [External Link]

You really think they will suddenly pull it a day before release? :huh:

Who knows? They promised a released of Story Mode in early 2014, then it was shifted to end of 2015, then it was shifted to spring of 2016. In spring 2016, they finally were fed up with people asking them for a release date and why once again there was a promise but no release, and they shifted to "when it is 100% done, we won't tell you release dates anymore".

I bought the game for the story mode, yet they failed to release over and over again.

So, yes, I have a perfectly fine reason to say "I will believe it when I see it". I wouldn't even be waiting for this, if Steams refund policy wasn't "oh, you are waiting more than 14 days for the promised story mode, sorry, we won't refund a game you own for such a long time".

There's a lesson to be learned here, I'd say. Don't buy something that isn't out.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: ShmerlThe closest to my GPU listed is Radeon RX 480, while really mine is Sapphire Nitro+ RX 480. It uses the same chip, but its clocking is higher than stock Radeon. I guess it's not a major detail though.

It's still the 480, would be a different matter if there were models with different physical features (like VRAM).

It can matter if you compare performance for example. But for current statistical purposes, just the chip model should be OK.

Most GPU vendors do their own little tweaks to their models of the chips, I think it's pretty much just the reference models that actually use the exact clock speeds specified by Nvidia or AMD. At least both my R7 370 and GTX 760 came with factory overclocks. And keeping track of a dozen variants of each GPU model seems quite inconvenient.

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