Yeah, I'd be a lot more pissed about a company selling a game with no guarantee that it works and will work for the foreseeable future. As far as I can tell they did the sensible thing here, regardless of why they can't or won't support the OS, which is entirely up to them as far as I'm concerned. Of course I'd probably make some kind of announcement and offer a refund to the people who bought it for Linux specifically shortly before they removed that guarantee, but I'm sure it's easier if those 17 people make that request themselves if they deem it necessary.

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Quoting: buenaventura

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Quoting: buenaventuraIs this free or what? I never figured that out. My kids undoubtedly will be happy about this.

No it's not free.

OK, but there is one version that is? When I installed ArchLabs, it offered to install minecraft for me, I didnt say yes, but I got to thinking... Is there a free version or what?

Curious. Could be related to this git issue from March 2017 but the link it cites is essentially dead, so I don't know.

There's a free and open source clone, though, called Minetest. Always sounds like the name of a test server to me, but anyway.

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I'm getting all kinds of mixed signals from that trailer, but most of them aren't positive, and it doesn't look like a half-a-million-dollar project compared to others I've seen launch with less than 100K. With that and the development time, I just have to peek at the recent KS comments.

Quoting: Corey Cole on October 4, 2017As for funding, we've been out of funds for two years. Everything since then has come out of loans, and Lori's and my retirement accounts. It's safe to say at this point that we've personally spent as much on this project as we received from both Kickstarter campaigns.

Ah, so it's one of those projects. Pretty crazy. Good luck to them for recovering that investment.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Oh i agree I also dont believe the ones that dual boot to play hl3 will stick around once hl3 gets boring it would take a sustained program of platform exclusives to keep people on linux.

I'd say it's fine if they don't stay on Linux. Just getting hundreds of thousands of people to hear about Linux and some of them to try it out first hand, no matter the reasons or for how long, is good publicity. There are countless people in the world who would be interested in something like Linux but have no idea that it exists or haven't really been shown what it is, so they stick to what they know. Anything that increases awareness at a large scale and puts an open OS in people's hands is a step in the right direction.

Case in point: I'd been mindlessly using Windows all my life because, well, that's what you do with a computer, right (unless you want a Mac as a status symbol)? At some point my uncle showed me Ubuntu, which he happened to be trying out at the time, and gave me a live CD after extolling some of the things it did that Windows didn't (he was particularly enthusiastic about the desktop cube, but I don't remember the rest). I gave it a shot, but it didn't really stick. But later on I started dual booting it, probably around the time XP was reaching end of life. Then it became my main OS and I tried out other distros. Then I deleted my Windows partition.

In short: it's a process, and anything that gets people started on that process is a win in my book.

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Bonus points for listing Linux as the first OS in their features ^_^

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Quoting: dpanterAww, why'd ya have to bring up Carmageddon... :'(
After all this time, that broken promise still hurts.

At least they're giving refunds for Stonehearth...

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Quoting: scaineSteam's trying to sell games, I get it. But it really annoys me that their "recently posted" section features 9 negative reviews, but the overall rating is "mostly positive"??

Even the positive reviews note game-breaking bugs, performance issues after 20 hours and AI that just doesn't work. Really weird and frustrating when I see such negativity summed up by Steam as mostly positive.

They can't just change the overall rating because of a handful of recent comments. Review bombing is a thing - that's part of why they started differentiating between recent and overall scores in the first place. When the negative reviews become a significant fraction of the whole, the rating will switch on its own.

As for positive reviews mentioning issues, the rating system can't know that. Unless they integrated some very advanced parsing engine into it that I'm not aware of, it's just a statistical comparison of the numbers of 'positive' vs. 'negative' reviews.

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Considering the initial proposition was that "pulling in users from Asia would probably help quite a lot [to improve Linux gaming]", I don't think the proportion of handheld usage in Asia contradicts that. 30% PC users in Asia still represents more people than the entire population (not gamers or even PC users) of North America and Europe combined. To me, that looks like a significant pool of potential users to try and include.

(According to figures from Wikipedia's List of continents by population

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Quoting: PatolaThe best part is that it is a more open universe system. According to [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathfinder_Roleplaying_Game"]wikipedia[/url], "The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook is a 576-page hardback book released under the Open Game License.". Which is not open-source but at least is friendlier than the usual strict copyright licenses of the gaming industry. (Note that Wizards of the Coast also started using this license again for D&D recently, maybe influenced by Pathfinder).

I could be talking out of my ass, but aren't they obligated to use that license since their system is heavily based on D&D 3(.5)? I'm not familiar enough with Pathfinder, but Fantasy Craft for example, which is also based on D&D 3.5 and OGL material, includes in its license text a lengthy paragraph describing what is open game content and what is "product identity" (i.e. protected IP--mostly visual content and anything related to FC-specific campaign settings, which may ambiguously include all spells and creatures in the manual).

Regardless, I'll have an eye on this when I finally get through my backlog of CRPGs... in a few years?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI had always assumed that games was a significant factor holding the Linux desktop back, and if it achieved something like parity with MacOS for game availability and playability (which it basically has), Linux would be freed to grow significantly more both as a desktop OS in general and as a platform people played games on. This does not seem to have actually happened so far.

I feel like the progress that has currently been made in Linux gaming may have helped people who were already on the fence commit to Linux (I would probably be on that boat myself), but for someone who's more committed to gaming than to software freedom in the first place, that progress hasn't been sufficient yet. For someone like me, you might look at the Linux option like "It has all those qualities, and it can run some games" and go for it. For others it may look more like "It can't play all my games, so I don't care what else it can do."

Not to mention that Linux is unfamiliar, not mainstream, not always compatible with what you're used to/forced to use, doesn't ship with the hardware you buy... gaming is only one part of the equation for desktop growth.

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