Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood price drop!

This makes it more in-line with LGP's prices. Wondering when we will get more from either of them out on Desura?

I bought the game on CD a few years ago (GNU/Linux version).

It's a really good game. A lot like "Commandos", with a bit of base management (and fun use of the mouse for sword/stick fighting (although I think it's optional, not sure anymore)).

I stopped at a part where it kept segfaulting. I think I did find a patch for it, but for some reason I stopped playing, maybe due to lack of time.

I might reinstall it soon to finish it. My saves should still be around somewhere.
cf here if you also encounter the segfault: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=36958
But maybe the Desura version fixes it. :)

I bought the Windows version of this game many years ago. I had no idea that it had a Linux client. I'll have to look at finishing it someday.

I've played this game on Linux (pirated) and its a great game but very VERY unnestable, so I wouldn't recommend buying it. I've tried the same binaries in Kubuntu 12.04 and it didn't work at all. Right now, I would buy it (I've been buying a lot of games recently) but only if I have a warranty that it will actually work (and without breaking)

No game will "Just Work" but the ones on Desura are updated. I'm betting any pirate version would have been an old one, also we don't support piracy here if you are going to mention it be sure not to link to anywhere.

Quoting: HamishThis makes it more in-line with LGP's prices. Wondering when we will get more from either of them out on Desura?

Hamish, I've been in contact with Runesoft (last September), and they claimed that their path forward will depend on how well Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood, and their other two Desura games (Airline Tycoon Deluxe & Cultures: Northland) do.  Those are both priced, currently, at $14.99 USD.  I got the impression that they're seeing reasonably good success in their "porting-to-Mac" business, and are ready to return to their Linux roots, but that their resources are constricted somehow.  They have stated that if these releases do well enough, they'll be bringing the Ankh games (including one which has never been on Linux) and a new Jack Keane game they're working on.

For what it's worth, I think it's their porting engineer ("rettichschnidi") on Desura who is supporting customers directly, on the game's comment thread.  He seems like a nice guy, and has posted a public bug tracker for customer reports (as opposed to a faceless contact form, or worse... nothing).[url=http://www.desura.com/members/rettichschnidi][/url]

I have no further knowledge beyond that, but they must know that these releases are long in the tooth (64-bit ports are out of the question), and that response amongst even the most devoted fans will be somewhat lukewarm compared to a new game.  I hope that information is factored in to their expectations (or perhaps they're hoping that sales of those three games would, ideally, break even on the cost of updating/patching and earn enough to pay for the porting cost of new games).