While I agree that a bigger list makes it more attractive, if Valve need to provide support themselves for any title they endorse through Proton, I understand that they want to be damn sure a game works before they add it. As for crowdsourcing, your post got me to think that they do already have some data points that they can leverage to guide their picks of which games to consider endorsing next: they know who plays what through Proton and for how long. Even without looking at SPCR's list themselves, they could very well see those numbers and think that if thousands of people have been playing a given game through Proton consistenly for the past 2 weeks for more than a few minutes at a time, that game is probably at least playable on a number of configurations. And those that get the most playtime are likely to be the most attractive to prospective Linux converts and therefore warrant the exposure and commitment of the whitelist.

(That said, I still can't imagine that something like that led to Commander Keen making it onto the list at this stage :P )

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That was to be expected. If Valve don't have the workforce to vet every game that is added to the store in the first place, they certainly won't pay an army to retroactively test everything on even one "standard" Linux configuration. I'll be surprised if we get more than a handful of additions to the list per month. That's why I'm curious to know how they choose which games to vet first, and why I was surprised to see something like Commander Keen there.

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Quoting: g000hI'm a long term Debian user, and I use it properly... i.e. I install the packages from the regular repositories so that my system doesn't get messed up. I have tried backports and all sorts of things in the past, but generally find that forcing a later graphics driver onto the system ends up borking it.

I'm kind of in the same boat. I'm on Mint, but it's only offering me 340.107 and 390.48 so I'd rather stick to that. Didn't someone say that the newer drivers were only necessary for Vulkan games anyway, or something along those lines?

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Quoting: hardpenguinOne of the most notable titles on the list is Spelunky :) And Stick Fight The Game as well!

I was going to say "Commander Keen" instead..but that would make me feel really old..

..oh too late..darn it!

Did a double take when I saw that! I never did finish that game... Don't think I would have the patience for it now :P

Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™ is the first game on the whitelist that's in my library. Pretty excited for that, I was really happy with how they remastered the games.

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Quoting: GuestI set my OS to French without thinking a lot about it but i sometimes wish i had not. (Well, it sets your keyboard automatically).

Can't you just change it now?

Quoting: GuestNow why would someone set the system and every application to English instead of their native language? For me it’s because the translations always suck and it’s easier to understand things in English (it’s also true under Windows btw).

I did mean to ask about Steam specifically since that is the part that would influence the survey :) I can see plenty of reasons to set the OS to English. The few times I saw Steam's French interface, it seemed very well translated. Which is surprising, in retrospect, since I think I remember them crowdsourcing their translations to volunteers.

Quoting: GuestProbably some game with a bad French translation insisted on using the same language as Steam?

Ah, that issue sounds familiar, yes. I think Hand of Fate did that at launch, but with the system language. Maybe it was a different game, but I distinctly remember something giving me no reasonable way to set the language.

Though again, I don't think any of that would differentiate Linux from Windows use cases and skew the survey.

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Is there a reason Linux users would be more likely than Windows users to use Steam in English rather than their own language?

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> Distributions with less than a handful of users weren't getting factored into the total percentage.
> Boosted the numbers by several hundredths of a percent

My God, just how many distros are there? :O

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Quoting: Alm888Kickstarter is a wasted money 75% of the times anyways.

That figure would be 6% in my experience. With another 6-10% of projects that were run terribly or had ludicrous delays but still delivered in some form or continue to progress.

Well, I mean, you could argue that games are a waste of money, in which case my Kickstarter backings have been a waste 85% of the time :P

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Quoting: KeyrockAt this point I just assume that every single teaser Feral puts up is yet anothet Total War game.

How many of those are there anyway? I'm starting to feel that sports games have fewer iterations than this franchise :P

Quoting: KimyrielleI guess for TW games there a bit of a saturation process settling in, but it's still great to see such a commitment to our platform by the TW devs.

It would be awesome if more high-profile studios would be just as committed. Feral isn't porting too many TW games at all, there are just not enough OTHER AAA games getting ported.

Well said!

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The "reflect on it all" part can seem a little gloomy. The timing doesn't seem to coincide with a big anniversary if I look at when the studio was founded or when they started porting games to Linux. So it sounds like something is ending. But they could also be looking back at what led them to a new exciting thing.

The wording, for some reason, reminds me of the early Steam Machine teasers. Could be a new partnership with a publisher that didn't use to want their games ported. Or directly with Valve as some people suggested when Proton was announced. We know there's Mac-related stuff in it, so it would make sense.

And let's just throw an obligatory far-fetched prediction into the mix: Feral are developing their own game and it's a Mac/Linux exclusive.

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