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I shot off a message to my Ubisoft PR guy who has yet to respond, but why else would they add a Linux depot to Steam if they weren't at least toying with the idea eh?
We've seen other titles originally published by Ubisoft on Linux, but this studio is directly owned by them which is pretty interesting.
Taken from SteamDB:
QuoteChanged App Config
launch/1/config/osarch: 64
launch/1/config/oslist: linux
launch/1/executable: GrowHome.x86_64
launch/1/type: default
launch/2/config/osarch: 32
launch/2/config/oslist: linux
launch/2/executable: GrowHome.x86
launch/2/type: default
About the game
In Grow Home you play as BUD (Botanical Utility Droid), a robot on a mission to save his home planet by harvesting the seeds of a giant alien plant. On his quest BUD will discover a beautiful world of floating islands that are home to some rather strange plants and animals.
Grow the giant plant and use your unique climbing abilities to reach ever higher ground, but be careful…one wrong move and it’s a long way down! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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walther von stolzing 5 Nov 2015
Guys, I think we're all ignoring the fact that the sky just came falling down...
Why, what happened?
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BlindPiratez 5 Nov 2015
I don't want to be a party crasher, but I'm just gonna give my opinion on the game. I have played this game on my PS4, and while it starts off very refreshing, funny, and seemingly innovative, it actually gets very repetitive and boring along the way. You complete the same boring tasks over and over again, and there isn't much pay-off. If this game really does come to Linux, it's your choice whether or not to buy it but I would recommend not to. After a few hours or so, you'll probably just be left wondering what else you could have used your money on.
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ElectricPrism 6 Nov 2015
Man I'm spoiled, getting used to 10x post a day, where would I go look for cool new stuff if not GOL. :(
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GustyGhost 6 Nov 2015
Then submit an article! :P
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liberodark 6 Nov 2015
Have buy this game 4€ and is very cool and relax ^^
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Man I'm spoiled, getting used to 10x post a day, where would I go look for cool new stuff if not GOL. :(
Then submit an article! :P
Yes, please do! :) It's not very sustainable to rely on Liam to put out 10 articles a day in the long run, and we definitely need more contributors. On a related note, I made a forum topic a while back, asking for interest in collaborating on articles. I think it might be a good way to get people started with writing their own articles, but unfortunately no one took the bait.
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Thank god it's not a uplay game! If they said they were porting UPlay I'm not so sure I'd be happy to use it. I'm not a big fan of DRM to begin with to be honest. While yes Volvo's Steam has DRM but for the most part it's transparent aka, you don't really notice it's there and it hardly ever causes any problems (on its own).
However, my experience with UPlay has been quite the opposite via wine. Often it has dumb errors, for example claiming it can't connect due to it thinks it's behind a proxy and it's not (turns out this effects windows users too)
Also those pesky update checks on every start my good god! I have AC2, AC3 (Got them free with my graphics card) in my UPlay account (Nothing else!) I had AC2 working great with UPlay I finally got all the problems solved, UPlay worked, AC2 worked and I had a nice shortcut which would launch the game directly and launch UPlay at the same time it was great!
Then Ubisoft thought: Hey! I know! Lets force this update to everyone which completely breaks compatibility with wine thus preventing any installed games from working! Yay!
So what I'm trying to say is.. I hate UPlay and I would never use it again even if it had a Linux version!
Even Steam for me in wine has never been this bad, for the most part it has always at least started far enough to launch games.
/end UPlay rant
However, my experience with UPlay has been quite the opposite via wine. Often it has dumb errors, for example claiming it can't connect due to it thinks it's behind a proxy and it's not (turns out this effects windows users too)
Also those pesky update checks on every start my good god! I have AC2, AC3 (Got them free with my graphics card) in my UPlay account (Nothing else!) I had AC2 working great with UPlay I finally got all the problems solved, UPlay worked, AC2 worked and I had a nice shortcut which would launch the game directly and launch UPlay at the same time it was great!
Then Ubisoft thought: Hey! I know! Lets force this update to everyone which completely breaks compatibility with wine thus preventing any installed games from working! Yay!
So what I'm trying to say is.. I hate UPlay and I would never use it again even if it had a Linux version!
Even Steam for me in wine has never been this bad, for the most part it has always at least started far enough to launch games.
/end UPlay rant
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The publisher that recently took a firm stand against PC users (and Linux users) is now actually publishing a Linux game.Guys, I think we're all ignoring the fact that the sky just came falling down...
Why, what happened?
Maybe in the future, hell will freeze over (again) and we'll see a Blizzard game for Linux too. One can hope.
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The publisher that recently took a firm stand against PC users (and Linux users) is now actually publishing a Linux game.
Not very long ago they reported PC is second place in their sales, less than PS4, but more than Xbox 360 and Xbox 1 combined. They are depending on PC.
Last edited by Eike on 6 Nov 2015 at 12:19 pm UTC
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The publisher that recently took a firm stand against PC users (and Linux users) is now actually publishing a Linux game.Guys, I think we're all ignoring the fact that the sky just came falling down...
Why, what happened?
Maybe in the future, hell will freeze over (again) and we'll see a Blizzard game for Linux too. One can hope.
I have a Ubisoft-published game called Outland, and it's actually one of the better Linux ports I've played in terms of performance (not bad gameplay too).
These publishers only speak dollars and cents. If a developer, even one of their subsidaries, can demonstrate that a Linux port will yield a good return on investment, they'll sign off on it even if they don't know what Linux is.
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walther von stolzing 6 Nov 2015
I have a Ubisoft-published game called Outland, and it's actually one of the better Linux ports I've played in terms of performance (not bad gameplay too).
These publishers only speak dollars and cents. If a developer, even one of their subsidaries, can demonstrate that a Linux port will yield a good return on investment, they'll sign off on it even if they don't know what Linux is.
I was about to say the same (Outland, etc.).
Ubisoft released Mac versions of Assassin's Creed 2 and Brotherhood (though they were considerably underperforming). IIRC, this took place right around the time there appeared a 'Mac App Store'; presumably they didn't keep up with Mac ports, because the Mac App Store didn't yield the returns they hoped it would.
So it's conceivable that they might try something similar, if they think the new 'market' opened up by Steam Machines has some promise.
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Outland was self-published by the developer, Housemarque, on PC though, so Ubisoft didn't have anything to do with the Linux version of that game.
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Outland was self-published by the developer, Housemarque, on PC though, so Ubisoft didn't have anything to do with the Linux version of that game.
Ubisoft still owns the rights to Outland. Housemarque couldn't publish it on Linux without Ubisoft's consent.
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Outland was self-published by the developer, Housemarque, on PC though, so Ubisoft didn't have anything to do with the Linux version of that game.
Ubisoft still owns the rights to Outland. Housemarque couldn't publish it on Linux without Ubisoft's consent.
As far as I can tell that only implies that they own the intellectual property. That doesn't mean they had any say in publishing of the PC versions.
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Outland was self-published by the developer, Housemarque, on PC though, so Ubisoft didn't have anything to do with the Linux version of that game.
Ubisoft still owns the rights to Outland. Housemarque couldn't publish it on Linux without Ubisoft's consent.
As far as I can tell that only implies that they own the intellectual property. That doesn't mean they had any say in publishing of the PC versions.
But that's exactly how publishing works. Having signed a few publishing contracts in my day, it was the same for me. When a publisher owns the copyright to something, you absolutely must have their permission to publish the material anywhere, even if you wrote it. That's what "All Rights Reserved" means.
In this case, the developer might have already had a clause in their contract that allowed them to port it to Linux, but it would still belong to Ubisoft. When you start the game on Linux, the Ubisoft logo comes up. Therefore, by definition, there is a Ubisoft game already on Linux.
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