HeroCraft PC announced that due to licensing Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf is set to be delisted on October 11th, but you can grab it discounted on Humble Bundle along with a bunch of other games. It has a Platinum rating on ProtonDB so it should work great on Linux.
Thankfully even though it's being delisted there's the HeroCraft PC Complete Collection going with it included (in the lowest tier too). To save you clicking around below you'll see the expected compatibility for each title on Steam Deck and Linux desktop, along with any ProtonDB rating and noting any Native Linux versions available (if any rating exists). Plus each is a Steam link, so you can go see more info on each if you need to.
All games in the bundle:
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf + 6 DLC
- ProtonDB Platinum
- Anvil Saga
- Deck Playable
- ProtonDB Platinum
- Catizens
- ProtonDB Platinum
- Organs Please
- ProtonDB Gold
- Revival Recolonization
- Tempest: Complete Collection
- Deck Playable
- ProtonDB Gold
- Gravewood High - Complete
- Deck Playable
- INSOMNIA: The Ark
- Deck Playable
- ProtonDB Gold
- King of Dragon Pass
- ProtonDB Silver
- FootLOL: Epic Soccer League
- Linux Native
- 80% off - Odysseus Kosmos and His Robot Quest
Check out the whole bundle here.
This doesn't happen with movies! If a movie is made by a studio using some other company's IP, you don't see those movies suddenly disappearing from distribution once some license expires. If this happened, I'm sure that Super Mario Brothers movie from the 90s would have disappeared a long time ago, but it didn't. All those Uwe Boll movies, that butcher the IPs they used, are still available.
Why do video games get abused this way by IP holders? This bothers me greatly.
The way licensing is handled in video games bothers me greatly. To build a product that you want people to enjoy and play but using a license that can either expire (putting a timer on your product) or be pulled on a whim... why do this? It's one thing if the developers, themselves, choose to withdraw their product, but for the IP holder to have the power to do this seems absurd. You either let developers create their game with your IP, and then, there it is, or you don't.+ Click to view long quote
This doesn't happen with movies! If a movie is made by a studio using some other company's IP, you don't see those movies suddenly disappearing from distribution once some license expires. If this happened, I'm sure that Super Mario Brothers movie from the 90s would have disappeared a long time ago, but it didn't. All those Uwe Boll movies, that butcher the IPs they used, are still available.
Why do video games get abused this way by IP holders? This bothers me greatly.
Not only videogames suffer from this, the whole Netflix and Marvel fiasco comes to mind. Daredevil never got the finish it deserve and the episodes are not available....
Equally weirdly, the special edition of Space Wolf at Fanatical - see https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/warhammer-40-000-space-wolf-special-edition - is down to a mere £1, but only comes with 4 DLCs (one of which is, yep, the Exceptional Card Pack). It's really swings and roundabouts as to which set you buy, but there's less than 2 weeks left to do so in either case...
Last edited by rkl on 29 September 2023 at 9:41 pm UTC
Meanwhile, I'm saving up for BG3. After all, ol' "Uncle El" is my avatar!
the whole Netflix and Marvel fiasco comes to mind. Daredevil never got the finish it deserve and the episodes are not available....
FWIW, they made it available again, on Disney+.
the whole Netflix and Marvel fiasco comes to mind. Daredevil never got the finish it deserve and the episodes are not available....
FWIW, they made it available again, on Disney+.
I search for it and will be pass by the Disney grinding machine... A new season without two main characters, more PG approve, more episodes... Good for the actors I think, bad for the rest...
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