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This was pretty unexpected for me. I thought for sure they had written porting their existing games to Linux off.

I enjoyed AI Wars back then and I'm sure it'll feel right at home on Linux. Can't wait to see all the changes they've made since I last played.
It's too bad about Tidalis, though I'm not very surprised. Casual games are pretty enjoyable and it's a shame I'll be missing out on it.
I'd like to give Valley Without Wind another try, I thought it was fairly fun.
Bionic Dues looks completely uninteresting to me. I'm not a huge fan of turn-based games, though.
The rest of them I don't really know anything about.

I think Arcen has a pretty nice lineup, but the complexity of some of their games and the lack of apparent publicity seems to hurt them.

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Quoting: OlpxexDon't buy it til the linux versin is out. Game will be credited to Windows, am I right?

No. You are not correct. http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/295cyy/mount_blade_warband_now_downloading_on_linux/cihy8rg

It's probably a bigger deal for when the port is not done in-house, in that case the porting house might not be registered in Steam's system to receive the revenue. Personally, I'm waiting for official releases so that I know that I count correctly and the appropriate party receives the revenue.

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Downloaded it after it appeared in my library, enabled the Linux beta and it runs just fine!

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Quoting: DeformalBut if these ports were made by the same team, it doesn`t matter where you bought this game (Interstellar Marines was ported on Mac and Linux by the same developers, that made it for Windows - Zero Point Software). Sorry for bad english, I hope, You understood this.

I'm quite sure it matters anyway. There is still a manager counting the Windows and the Linux copies sold and comparing the revenue of the (non-Windows) platforms with the money spent for the ports. And he is going to decide if there will be more ports in the future or not.

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Quoting: BeamboomSeriously guys, you NEED to buy this game if so it means installing 64bit Linux on your box. You should have done so long ago anyways :)

Well, I already have it and it runs on Windows, but knowing that in a 64-bit Linux it would run... and with all these new games being ported to Linux.. this could be the day when I :

1) Switch to 64-bit Linux
2) Definitiley forget about Windows. I mean.. X-Com, Civilization V, soon M&B : Warband, perhaps Civilization IV, Crusader Kings II, Europa Universalis IV, soon more games to come from Feral, and others... that's just a dream.

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Can't believe CD Projekt RED threw all that good will away while Feral and Aspyr are swimming in it like Scrooge McDuck swims in his savings.

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Quoting: esmithferalThanks for all the feedback everyone, I can't reply to every comment but we are reading the replies, if you have anything you want to tell us directly please send us an email to our Linux support support email. All feedback positive, negative or indifferent is welcome. :-)

Thank you for the awesome port. Honestly I did not even expect the game to run on the RadeonSI driver in Linux Mint 17 but the game launches and works fine. I still get a crash with the driver but I'm sure that will be sorted out in time (bug already reported it seems). My only request is for Feral to work together with the Mesa devs (Intel, AMD and Nouveau) where possible to make sure that future games run fine on Mesa and any bugs in the drivers are fixed well in advance. Keep in mind that all Intel users are on Mesa and many (most?) AMD users are using Mesa as well.

Overall though...good job Feral.

Thanks, If you read the article you would see we already have logged and worked with the Mesa driver team for Intel as Intel only support the open Mesa drivers. :-) For AMD and Nvidia we have worked with the driver teams on the closed source drivers on XCOM, for the open source drivers we highly recommend you log issues the Mesa drivers, if the driver team know the issue exists they are better placed to be able to improve the drivers in future.

Thanks for your feedback and ideas on what we can do even better in future!

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XCOM is awesome.
Port is awesome.

There is only one bug:
1. Start playing at 8pm
2. Play for two hours
3. It's 5:30 in the morning ;)
I'm not entirely sure how it works :)

Great job guys!

IMHO 64bit only version is a good choice. I don't understand why Valve made STEAM 32bit on Linux(and they are trying to create "console" with it...). They had chance to get rid of this living fossil and they didn't take it. I can't imagine 32-bit only hardware capable of playing these days games...

Ps. Sorry for my English, I'm not native and I'm mostly a "reader" not "writer".

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Seriously guys, you NEED to buy this game if so it means installing 64bit Linux on your box. You should have done so long ago anyways :)

No but in my not-so-humble opinion this game is safely rooted in the top3 Linux games list, I am having a serious blast with it and it runs like a charm. A little bit screen tearing here and there can be found, but other than that it's silky smooth. But most important: It's just too damn fun.

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Quoting: esmithferalThanks for all the feedback everyone, I can't reply to every comment but we are reading the replies, if you have anything you want to tell us directly please send us an email to our Linux support support email. All feedback positive, negative or indifferent is welcome. :-)

Thank you for the awesome port. Honestly I did not even expect the game to run on the RadeonSI driver in Linux Mint 17 but the game launches and works fine. I still get a crash with the driver but I'm sure that will be sorted out in time (bug already reported it seems). My only request is for Feral to work together with the Mesa devs (Intel, AMD and Nouveau) where possible to make sure that future games run fine on Mesa and any bugs in the drivers are fixed well in advance. Keep in mind that all Intel users are on Mesa and many (most?) AMD users are using Mesa as well.

Overall though...good job Feral.

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Quoting: OlpxexDon't buy it til the linux versin is out. Game will be credited to Windows, am I right?

No. You are not correct. http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/295cyy/mount_blade_warband_now_downloading_on_linux/cihy8rg

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OK, this may actually be an argument strong enough to convince all the users of this computer to format the machine and reinstall a 64 version ("because I wanna play XCOM" was just not enough).

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Quoting: wleoncioIs this 4-gig-per-process limit the main reason people say PAE sucks?

One of the reasons. For more, read the Linus rant linked by WorMzy above.

In short, PAE makes organizing things a lot more complicated. This has of course performance drawbacks. It's a hacky workaround, but not a real fix.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyOf course it's using PAE.

And with PAE, the operating system can access more than 4GB of RAM. A single process is still limited to 4GB, though.

Thanks for the explanation, I'm just realizing Ubuntu installed PAE by itself, upon detecting all that RAM. Is this 4-gig-per-process limit the main reason people say PAE sucks?

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And pae is not a good solution: http://cl4ssic4l.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/linus-torvalds-about-pae/

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Of course it's using PAE.

And with PAE, the operating system can access more than 4GB of RAM. A single process is still limited to 4GB, though.

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Quoting: OlpxexDon't buy it til the linux versin is out. Game will be credited to Windows, am I right?

Damn it, I hope not. I just paid for it :S

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Quoting: wleoncio

Quoting: toor

Quoting: wleoncio

Quoting: drmothReally, one of the major reasons for not running 32-bit is RAM. Even if you have 4GB, your 32-bit system can only read about 3GB of it! Please upgrade people!

My system properties state "Memory: 5,8 GiB" as well as "OS type: 32-bit". My system is using all the 6 GB I'm providing it, isn't it?

It's just not possible. If you are in 32 bits you only have 2^32 possible memory adresses.

What's happening on my system, then? AFAIK, it's not using PAE or anything (I just learned of its existence last week).

It must be using PAE. Otherwise it's just not possible for your OS to address that much RAM.

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I didn't know either, thank you.

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Quoting: toor

Quoting: wleoncio

Quoting: drmothReally, one of the major reasons for not running 32-bit is RAM. Even if you have 4GB, your 32-bit system can only read about 3GB of it! Please upgrade people!

My system properties state "Memory: 5,8 GiB" as well as "OS type: 32-bit". My system is using all the 6 GB I'm providing it, isn't it?

It's just not possible. If you are in 32 bits you only have 2^32 possible memory adresses.

What's happening on my system, then? AFAIK, it's not using PAE or anything (I just learned of its existence last week).

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Quoting: wleoncio

Quoting: drmothReally, one of the major reasons for not running 32-bit is RAM. Even if you have 4GB, your 32-bit system can only read about 3GB of it! Please upgrade people!

My system properties state "Memory: 5,8 GiB" as well as "OS type: 32-bit". My system is using all the 6 GB I'm providing it, isn't it?

It's just not possible. If you are in 32 bits you only have 2^32 possible memory adresses.

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Ok, now it's done, Feral Interactive, I lurve you <3
I'll be watching your next steps very closely.

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Quoting: drmothReally, one of the major reasons for not running 32-bit is RAM. Even if you have 4GB, your 32-bit system can only read about 3GB of it! Please upgrade people!

My system properties state "Memory: 5,8 GiB" as well as "OS type: 32-bit". My system is using all the 6 GB I'm providing it, isn't it?

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Thanks for all the feedback everyone, I can't reply to every comment but we are reading the replies, if you have anything you want to tell us directly please send us an email to our Linux support support email. All feedback positive, negative or indifferent is welcome. :-)

Quoting: AstroAfter that incident when I've been deceived by Feral and bought their game as many other people because there wasn't any words that says XCOM dosn't run on 32bit OS, I'm gonna be more careful with purchases from now on. And I think that many people will go that way.

Our minimum specification said Ubuntu 14.04 64bit as the minimum OS required from release, I recall speaking to you on Steam forums when you asked about this explaining that the game wasn't 32 bit and even giving you some advice about requesting a refund from Steam as you didn't meet the minimum specifications.

I am sorry you are obviously very upset that your OS isn't supported however as explained we don't support 32 bit OSs with XCOM for a number of reasons. I understand the frustration when you can't play a game you want to because your software doesn't support it but please understand we can't support all distros and hardware so that means some setups won't be supported.

Quoting: Astro

Quoting: SpeedsterThis is an interesting interview, please ignore the haters lurking at reddit!

That exactly what they do - ignore everyone who doesn't cheer them. They say something like "They're loosers and we don't want to talk with these loosers who bought our game." It's my first time when I ran into that kind of disrespect to their customers.

We listen to everyone's feedback, negative or constructive feedback can sometimes be more useful than positive feedback and we take all feedback seriously. As you can see from this reply and all the ones we have posted on the Steam forums we are very keen to see what the community thinks and wants on the Linux platform so we can make the best Linux games possible. :-)

We use this philosophy of listening to our customers feedback to get ideas on how to improve our games when we started on Mac and it's something we bring with us to Linux.

Astro, If you would like to explain in detail your thoughts on Linux XCOM please send an email to our support address for the attention of Edwin and I will make sure I reply personally.

Thanks again to everyone for all your thoughts and feedback.

Edwin

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Quoting: wleoncioI'm wondering, has the majority of people really been running 64-bit Linux OSs for years, even though only a few years ago those had many compatibility issues, or has everyone but me just reinstalled their whole OS when multilib went stable?

I started with Linux in 2006 with Ubuntu and installed the x86_64 version. I have never used 32bit on the desktop! There were problems initially with things like Flash but nothing serious and certainly nothing that dictated I go 32bit. By the time I moved to Arch in 2009 the only need I could see for 32bit OS was for older hardware like my EeePC.

Anyway, back to the article... that's a fabulous attitude from the devs and I think the number of positive comments is appreciative of this. I just bought XCOM and the DLC and though this isn't the type of game I normally play I really like it and can get into it easily.

I will certainly be inclined to buy anything else they produce for Linux with such a supportive and professional attitude.

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Quoting: SpeedsterThis is an interesting interview, please ignore the haters lurking at reddit!

That exactly what they do - ignore everyone who doesn't cheer them. They say something like "They're loosers and we don't want to talk with these loosers who bought our game." It's my first time when I ran into that kind of disrespect to their customers.

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Don't buy it til the linux versin is out. Game will be credited to Windows, am I right?

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Quoting: drmothReally, one of the major reasons for not running 32-bit is RAM. Even if you have 4GB, your 32-bit system can only read about 3GB of it! Please upgrade people!

I "only" have 2GB of RAM, so, not really necessary for me ;)

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Quoting: WorMzyhttp://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/?platform=linux
I expect that the true percentage of users on 64-bit Linux OS' is easily that value, if not considerably higher.

Thanks for the link !

Quoting: wleoncio

Quoting: DrMcCoyAlso: I'm actually shocked that there's still so many people running full 32-bit installs. I had thought that pretty much died out around the time I got a 64-bit system...

Think about people like me, who back in 2010 wanted a stable Linux system, went to www.ubuntu.com, read "we recommend the 32-bit version", installed it and had just been updating that same machine since then.

Same here. I even tried to switch to 64-bit, but I had some serious issues so I switched back to 32-bit. I'm not sure now, but as far as I can remember the issues wer with java and flash, which by the time were necessary to me. Anyhow, X-Com will be my new reason to test 64-bit again.

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Do we know if the Linux version will be available on GamersGate ?
I own it on GamersGate, and I could buy it again on Steam to support the developpers for their Linux port, but I'm kind of short of money these times, so...

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