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Alm888: LOLWUT?
Not a typical? How so?
The game was made with "Adobe AIR"™, the technology that is universally loathed by Linux users. I see no point for Linux users to somehow specifically love the game more than others do.
What is a typical scenario then?

Wait, I know!
In order to be "typical" the game must:
1) be a Windows exclusive for some time (typically, from two to three years);
2) be ported by some third party (most commonly, Feral) by the means of "wrapper";
3) due to 2) have atrocious performance on "release" (and subpar performance/severly rised system requirements due to wrapping forever), be incompatible with AMD cards, have reduced graphics quality or missing settings (preferably, all of the listed);
4) be in the form of the "end of the road" (i.e. unmaintained) port because the porting house was paid for one time job;
5) (provided it has a prequel and/or a sequel) not have sequels/prequels available on Linux (hello, "The Witcher 2") to further diminish its value;
6) be released just after its sale ends (hello, "Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition") to force Linux users to buy it full-price;
7) (provided it has on-line mode) be not cross-play capable (and dedicated Linux servers should be poorly maintained ot shut down completely due to low demand).

Hope, I didn't miss anything. :P

Bonus points if prior to release developers actively insulted Linux users.
In this scenario, yes, we'll have ideal spherical "Linux-game" in a vacuum.
I'm not out to convince you. Obviously you use Linux and want more games to support it. I sympathize, actually. All I'm saying is that in my personal case, this wouldn't make sense. Maybe later on I'll do a Linux build as a side project and give you a copy. =) Though, the game being shitty, you probably won't like it anyway. =)
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carnival73: .
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lol

That's ALOT of rich kids.
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Barefoot_Monkey: That flood of bad games mostly came from Greenlight, which is now discontinued. Greenlight cost $100 but let you submit an unlimited number of games. This meant that a single bad game would make a loss, but submitting MANY bad games could easily make a large profit just from trading cards. There was a review process, but it was exploitable, meaning the games getting approved were mostly the ones cheating the system.

The new approach (Steam Direct) actually reduces the flood of shovelware. Although it's easier to get a game approved, you have to pay the $100 per game, so if one game isn't good enough to earn back the $100 then adding more games will cause more loss instead of profit. Also, devs don't get to add cards anymore unless the game can actually sell on the Steam store, so the "give away free keys to card farmers" scheme no longer works.

On top of that, Valve has started cleaning up the Greenlight mess by removing dozens of shovelware games.
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Lol

They're not shoveling fast enough
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blotunga: Actually, itch.io has that. Steam has only the ones that would pay $100 for greenlight and now per game.
Bingo. Of course itch's userbase is minuscule compared to Steam's, thus everyone wants on Steam.
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FTFY
Here, let me break this down to you.

Due to legal mumbo jumbo, if it involves money, you're not supposed to use it until at least age 13. Look up COPPA and similar laws.
Sadly, many crap titles on Steam are made by adults too (e.g: Digital Homicide).
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carnival73: .
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Lol

They're not shoveling fast enough
Heh, true. But "getting better too slowly" is a huge improvement over "getting rapidly worse".
They'll never do that because then those wares wouldn't get as much customer exposure and therefore sales. Or at least it would take them a lot to go that way.
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drmike: "Linux? Wasn't that one of the kids in Peanuts?" - One of my moms. :D

Been surprised that FreeBSD doesn't get any love around here.
Wait what how many moms do you have?!
Post edited October 26, 2017 by Tarm
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Tarm: Wait what how many moms do you have?!
I work for a webhosting company that caters to soccer moms.
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Tarm: Wait what how many moms do you have?!
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drmike: I work for a webhosting company that caters to soccer moms.
That's like straight out of a porno. Nerd porno. :P
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drmike: I work for a webhosting company that caters to soccer moms.
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Tarm: That's like straight out of a porno. Nerd porno. :P
Just to make you happy, we have 2 retired and an active star as customers. Had a fourth but she died of cancer a couple of years back.

I do UI website consulting for a couple of the companies. Even get a AVN ballot every year.
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Lifthrasil: FTFY
It's ok, I can live with that.
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Tarm: That's like straight out of a porno. Nerd porno. :P
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drmike: Just to make you happy, we have 2 retired and an active star as customers. Had a fourth but she died of cancer a couple of years back.

I do UI website consulting for a couple of the companies. Even get a AVN ballot every year.
Cool. Sounds like a fun job.