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Quoting: RandomizedKirbyTree47Every single campaign I backed either delivered everything they promised, or is in the process of doing so and making steady progress. A few projects I backed were delayed a few years before eventually delivering the rewards. I have never been ripped off by a Kickstarter I backed.

I can say the same for my nine backings...

Quoting: RandomizedKirbyTree47I have never backed a crowdfunder for a video game and I have no plans to do so. There are so many ways it can go badly and so many already-existing games I can play that I just don't want to take the risk.

... which are all video games supporting Linux.

That's good. Maybe my worry about video game crowdfunders isn't entirely reasonable.

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I have backed 48 Kickstarters (just on Kickstarter: I'm not counting crowdfunding on other platforms). I've backed tabletop games, comics, novels, music, film, and live theater.

Every single campaign I backed either delivered everything they promised, or is in the process of doing so and making steady progress. A few projects I backed were delayed a few years before eventually delivering the rewards. I have never been ripped off by a Kickstarter I backed.

I have never backed a crowdfunder for a video game and I have no plans to do so. There are so many ways it can go badly and so many already-existing games I can play that I just don't want to take the risk.

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I wish there was a way to look at a Steam curator and filter out all the games without native Linux support, the way you can already do in advanced search.

I hope the adoption of ARM64 will prompt them to improve the UI around filtering searches: if I get an ARM64 desktop I'd like to be able to filter out games without ARM64 support (once ARM64 games become more common).

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Destiny 2 is not supported for play on the Steam Deck or on any system utilizing Steam Play's Proton...Players who are not accessing Destiny 2 through Windows and attempt to bypass the SteamOS/Proton incompatibility will be met with a game ban.

As I don't play online multiplayer games, I'm going to ignore the main point of the article and rant about one of my pet peeves:

That is not what the words "not supported" mean!

Let's look at a real example of a software developer not supporting something. Mozilla does not support building or running Firefox on FreeBSD. Mozilla employees do not test Firefox on FreeBSD. Mozilla typically does not make any changes to their code with FreeBSD in mind. If Firefox works on FreeBSD, cool: Mozilla doesn't care. If Firefox doesn't work on FreeBSD, too bad: Mozilla still doesn't care, because it's unsupported by Mozilla.

(On the other hand, the FreeBSD developers do support running Firefox on FreeBSD, and if it doesn't work, that's a bug you can report to FreeBSD.)

If Sony truly didn't support Destiny 2 on Linux, they would not test Destiny 2 on Linux, and they would not write any code that is specifically intended to apply to running it on Linux. It might be possible to get the game running under Proton, or it might not, but Sony wouldn't care if they were truly "not supporting" Linux.

But that's not what's happening. Sony isn't merely ignoring Linux. They are paying their programmers to do more work to write code specifically to break Destiny 2 on Linux. They are paying people to actively test Destiny 2 on Linux to make sure it is broken. Sony is supporting Linux, with the explicit goal of making it not work.

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I used to obsessively play the Flash game Pitsweeper [External Link], which is also a cross between Minesweeper and a roguelike/dungeon crawl. Pitsweeper still works today thanks to Ruffle, but this game looks much better polished and more expansive.

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The important part is that I can use the KDE Dolphin flatpak to view the directory structure of the Dolphin emulator flatpak.

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Thanks both of you, those explanations make sense.

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Disclaimer: I only buy creator-owned indie games with native Linux support, so I was never going to get this game to begin with.

With that said, I don't understand what's so bad about requiring an account? I understand that it makes the game unavailable in regions without PSN, but if you live in a region which does have PSN, what's so bad about logging in to an extra account?

Do you need to log in every time you launch the game (making it unplayable if and when they discontinue support)?

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Multiple users have claimed this package offers "convenience" over gzdoom, but is that actually true for Linux users? Flathub has packaged GZdoom+Freedoom as a trio of pre-configured apps:
Freedoom: Phase 1 [External Link]
Freedoom: Phase 2 [External Link]
FreeDM [External Link]

All of which automatically use the latest GZDoom. Is buying this bundle really more convenient than `flatpak install flathub io.github.freedoom.Phase1`, or the equivalent on your distro's software manager GUI?

I could see an argument that this paid bundle is more convenient for Windows or MacOS users, but if you are on Linux and on a distro with Flatpak, I struggle to see how the paid version is actually more convenient.

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I'm quite fond of Klots [External Link].

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