Bottom line, as with other instances like this, is that a Linux version was promised and people paid for what was promised, in good faith. Unfortunately this is far too easily abused.

I was burned a long time ago with Kickstarting but learnt my lesson and will never be suckered again. Good luck with refunds, I hope you get them. I didn't.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: MayeulCNote that I had the same problem as fabertawe, with the battle.net launcher just closing/disappearing as soon as I launched it. I solved that issue by editing the Lutris configuration to use system wine.

Success ^_^ Thanks for the pointer, I changed the wine version on the Overwatch container to "default" but left the Lutris Wine version as staging.

This was after much fiddling with wine versions and configuration options and I finally got the installer to complete but then had to change wine versions back to get the game to actually run!

Played through the tutorial with what felt like a good framerate but a little jittery mouse movement.

I will now investigate using Lutris for other things, mainly emulation. It feels like a very polished bit of software.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: BrisseIt might have been misguided the first time (the gamergate tweet IIRC) and they should have learned from it, but then it happened again and again and by then they should have learned their lesson. After the third time they apologized and said "We will stick to games" but that's what they should have done after the first time. Only the future will tell if they stick to their word though.

Fair enough. I was not aware of anything they tweeted previously, only from this article. In which case I would be amazed if they didn't learn anything from this latest incident.

Quoting: BrisseI'm not sure it was your intention but I felt like the free speech dig was some excuse to silence the opposition because ironically people, especially the alt-right for some reason, like to use "free speech" as an argument to just silence the opposition. It's like "Hey, I'll have my free speech and I'll take away your freedom to have my free speech because free speech only belongs to me". I see that a lot, but maybe it was not your intention.

I've never been "anything-right", I'm usually "just-wrong" :D

My free speech dig is at the attack on free speech, most certainly not the suppression of it. Suppression is the problem and will only get worse with successive governments (in the UK at least).

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Kels

Quoting: fabertaweI'm so happy having no knowledge of Twitter and Facebook, etc, etc. Somebody somewhere will always be offended by everything. Free speech is already irreparably damaged in the UK.

GOG should have had more sense than to post that. The level of uproar and backlash however, is just ludicrous.

What level of uproar? Some people are upset, there have been a small handful of articles calling them out on it, and an even smaller handful of game companies (allegedly) withdrew from the storefront over it.

Maybe I have overestimated the "level" as I don't have Twitter etc. I'm only judging from what I've read here and that seems like an over reaction to me considering what GOG actually wrote.

Quoting: KelsIf you want a big hue and cry, just look at the "GOG did nothing wrong" crowd in this very thread going on about how unjust it is, and how free speech is endangered, and they'll never buy a game from Hinterland again, and how SJWs somehow run the whole world. There's histrionics for you.

I don't "want a big hue and cry", that's my point :) By "uproar" I meant everyone, irrespective of viewpoint. I guess I'm now part of it

Quoting: BrisseSo "backlash", or as I would put it, pointing out when someone did something inappropriate, is not covered under your definition of free speech? Interesting.

Of course it is, I never said otherwise. My "free speech" dig was aimed very widely at social media in general. My second paragraph was where I mentioned GOG and this specific incident.

GOG did nothing "inappropriate", just misguided.

Quoting: BrisseNot that this controversy has anything to do with free speech to begin with.

I disagree (to some extent). I find it both funny and sad that some people can get so upset at the silly pun that was actually written.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I'm so happy having no knowledge of Twitter and Facebook, etc, etc. Somebody somewhere will always be offended by everything. Free speech is already irreparably damaged in the UK.

GOG should have had more sense than to post that. The level of uproar and backlash however, is just ludicrous.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Wow, how time flies! I don't think you really appreciate something unless you've lived through it from the start. Those were exciting times alright.

And look where we are now, quite incredible. Like many of you I was buying up everything at the beginning but now I'm so spoiled for choice I find I'm very selective about what I buy. My wishlist hasn't moved much in the last couple of years!

Good times ^_^

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Will fire it up again to unlock the firefighter as I have everyone else unlocked. Great fun!

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: MayeulCMmm, I don't recall reading that page, but I had most dependencies... However, it seems to be working now that I installed wine-satging-nine.

I used that launcher, I think: https://lutris.net/games/overwatch/

Note that I had the same problem as fabertawe, with the battle.net launcher just closing/disappearing as soon as I launched it. I solved that issue by editing the Lutris configuration to use system wine.

So, it seems to be working more or less OK now (I am not sure whether it is because of wine-staging, DXVK 0.91 or something else), but in the tutorial, the camera always looks up. Fortunately, the FAQ you linked says it's an aspect ratio problem, so I just resized the window to make borders disappear, and it worked. Still a bit subpar of an experience, though :/ Thanks a lot anyway :)

Really... did you have to get it working? :P Now I'll have to have another crack at it!

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: TurtleSharkI really hate to be the "Did you read the manual" guy, but there are very specific things you have to install to get battle.net and overwatch cooperating...

Yes, my bad! The only thing I was missing was wine-staging, instead of Wine. Unfortunately everything hangs at "Updating Blizzard Agent..."

0047:err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x171f84 "?" wait timed out in thread 0047, blocked by 0032, retrying (60 sec)

I'm not that bothered. Just trying it out of curiosity as I had Overwatch from the Humble Monthly.

Thanks for your help anyway :)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

QuoteMy son has made great use of it to play Overwatch without the need for Windows

Aha, so that's how it's done! Ok I'll install Lutris and have a go...

Quoting: MayeulCMmm... Overwatch never worked for me with Lutris, which is a shame, as I got it from the humble monthly (by the way, destiny 2 is also free for a while on battle.net). The battle.net launcher works and updates the game, then... nothing.
I might have had to use the system Wine instead of the Lutris-provided one, also, to get the launcher running at all.

Similar problem here. The Battle installer pops up for me to log in but disappears almost immediately with Lutris telling me the game's installed This is on Arch with Lutris defaults.

View this comment - View article - View full comments