Quoting: adolsonIt seems like Linux support actually is a relatively high priority, considering they released it simultaneously and the fact that they even released it at all. Your final verdict seems to also indicate this, considering it's a Unity title, and more often than not, they are rife with problems on Linux; it seems they may have actually tested it, too.

I wonder where this bad impression of Unity games on this website comes from. I've played many of them on Linux (a dozen?), and I can't remember a single problem.

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Same here.

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Quoting: drmoth

Quoting: morbiusI was very much into this game until I've seen on Steam that it's a Paradox-style DLC fiesta. I hate developers who keep endlessly nickel-and-diming their customers.

Yes this statement bothered me as well. DLC is only a problem if the base game is expensive and doesn't have much content. Otherwise, it's a great way to progressively invest in a game if you really like it. DLC is also the only way a developer can keep producing content for a game post release, hence why Paradox does it, because they support their games over the long term.

I don't know how Payday handles it, but it might impose special problems with multiplayer games. If you've got less and less people you could play with, becoause most oft them get the DLCs and you don't, it might degrade you experience.

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Still not sure if it's about all accounts or only the ones they've sent mails to...

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X(

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Interesting read!
(And please nobody flame at him for using "PC" for Windows. He's taking efforts for Linux gaming!)

PS: The copy of his article at the gamedev reddit has some more interesting info of the devs in the comments:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/2znilc/released_our_3rd_linux_game_on_steam_today_heres/

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Quoting: Linux223The point of a port is for it to be native to the architecure and system. 32bit is not native.

Of course it is. You can download your 32 bit Linux here:
http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-i386/current/images/

Quoting: Linux223That is why there is no future in wrapped binaries.

I very much hope they will vanish...

Quoting: Linux223

Quoting: EikeAre you a software developer? Because, I am, and porting to 64 bit very well can be a hard task.
Here's some points that can go wrong: http://www.viva64.com/en/a/0004/

Yes I am and have ported software to 64bit before. It is not a hard task. There are plenty of harder issues you can just do the 64bit port as part of the process.

If you're minding 64 bit (or Linux) within the process, you are right. But for ports done afterwards, there are a lot of possible problems (as seen in the link). Of course, the cleaner the code, the less problems you'll get. But it's for a reason that big companies took years for (or are not even finished yet) creating 64 bit versions of their software.

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Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: liamdaweI'm pretty damn happy with it, my only issues are the textures flickering, but it doesn't happen everywhere, and the stutter when loading a new area (I'm sure a few optimizations can be done for that somewhere?).

http://forums.2k.com/showthread.php?222666-Possible-solutions-for-known-issues

Ohhh heellllooooo, going to try fix now to see if it works for me :D

Edit > Just played it for a bit, didn't notice any stutter now, cheers!

I tried around with the hints from 2K, but I still get the 1 - 2 seconds waiting when a walking to a new scene. The hints from the forums solved that for you? Which hint was it?

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Quoting: crackhashI have a question. I am in the the middle of shifting my room. It will take 3-4 days. currently it's not possible to use my Linux desktop. However, I have a chromebook. So if I buy from website through chromebook (chrome OS), will it consider as a Linux sale or otherwise? I will buy Bioshock: Infinite.

If you play it within a week on Linux, it should be fine.

But I did something else to make sure: I changed the user agent (with a firefox plugin, but there should be a possibility for Chrome as well) to something including "Linux" on my machine at office. Now I get to see Linux games by default, so I'm confident sales default to Linux as well. (I think I got the idea from someone on GoL, not sure though.)

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This was the first time I realized that nearly all BIG Linux games seem to come from 2K or Valve itself.
It seems it's not a great variety of publishers that supports our favorite system...

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