Normally I am quite forgiving in these sorts of cases. As they say, shit happens.

However, this is a big project that has also had funding from other sources and is likely to profit well after release. There's enough high quality porting services available which should be well within budget to have only a small impact on profit margins (or even easily break even on fulfilling the pledge).

The second major problem is with the lack of a refund option. Shit may well happen, but one should not leave ones mess lying around. This project did handle their (imo, much more understandable) wiiu version cancellation properly. There's absolutely no excuse for not just copy-pasta-ing the message they used for that case, with the proper modifications.

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Patiently waiting for the drm-free humble version to be updated...

Edit: woohoo, it got released, downloading now.

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Quoting: GuestThis is a strange move, these companies predominantly make PC games that simply wouldn't work as well on console, they can't be buying them to make xbox exclusives, asking them to make xbox exclusives would be like asking a man to dance on one leg. These companies also only make games that wouldn't benefit at all from using apis like dx12 or vulkan, they're just not that graphically intense.

I'm not seeing their plan here, I'm not seeing a lot of their plans these days and it makes me a little nervous.

It looks to me like they are going for the "throw stuff on the wall to see what sticks" method: buy lots of studios in the hopes a few of them will produce console sellers. For that, it doesn't really matter that these companies' current games don't really fit consoles; the same could be said for fpses (control scheme) back when Microsoft acquired Bungie, after all.

I expect some major pruning in a few years, with most of these acquisitions getting axed, leaving the few success stories in place as producers of console exclusives.

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Quoting: Maweki I think we have the culprit. The Facebook page states an Xbox-Release. So additional Microsoft money is quite a possibility.

The culprit is still the dev and not M$. - They only offered a deal, it's the dev who took it.

Wait a second. This is hypothetical! Let's not produce fake news here.

There's enough games released on both xbox and linux that this theory can be safely relegated to the list of fairy tales.

The dev deciding to spend their resources on xbox development instead of linux, on the other hand...

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Very interested; not only the aesthetics and the mechanics, but also that is a "small" jrpg (less than 10 hours, if I understand correctly). I just can't finish the "normal"-sized ones...

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This game has been an absolute delight to play even without all the added stuff. I love devs who, when they meet success, give back royally to their community.

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Quoting: Narvarth

Quoting: emphy.

Could you please stop being so negative on EVERY VCS article ?
We understand your point of view, but all this negativity and this sarcasm are a bit boring...

I'll stop when atari's own updates stop being bollocks...

Just kidding ^_^, it's just that I see a train wreck coming and I'm annoyed that it's going to damage the credibility of linux gaming with yet another failed linux console project. I'll tone down.

Edit: typos

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Quoting: PhlebiacTo be fair, there can be numerous iterations of prototypes before the final product; for example, the Steam Controller:
https://www.wired.com/2013/11/valve-steam-controller/

None of those are such a technical downgrade as shown by this atari team; they went down from a claimed functioning prototype to an amd provided dev board, which is not a prototype at all.

This would not have been a problem, except that they should have selected the concept stage and that they know fully well that they'll not be able to get the thing into production in the first quarter of 2019.

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Let me get this straight: the specifically went into the indiegogo campaign claiming they had a working prototype (it was in their indiegogo description and it was the stage they selected), but now they admit they are, in reality, still in the concept stage?

Starting a campaign without prototype is allowed on indiegogo, but one has to select the right product stage:
https://support.indiegogo.com/hc/en-us/articles/221613968

Quoting: hummer010I still don't get the Bristol Ridge decision. Raven Ridge seems like a much better choice. I might be willing to actually buy it if it was Raven Ridge...

Most likely, the decision was purely financial, possibly getting a very nice deal on chips few other companies would want.

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Quoting: GGLucas...

Personally I've always been a big fan of pay-what-you-want models, although sadly the idea hasn't really caught on as much as I'd hoped.

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Heh, probably too late for this (and would require extra work for you), but itch.io has this option. If I understand correctly, another upside of selling there is that they also take a lower cut of the sales.

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