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Nightdive Studios confirm Linux and macOS ports of System Shock are cancelled (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How many people contributed to the Kickstarter based on this promise? Will they receive a refund?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Yeah I'm curious about that myself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Honestly better cancelled, than bad ports.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I mean, native ports are cool and all, but are they really needed? I would assume the game runs just fine with Proton.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

There are some very vocal people who will tell you that proton is just a stopgap measure, and shouldn't be relied on for the future of Linux gaming.

That said, I know the devs have been putting in effort/patches to make sure the proton/steam deck experience works well, and I consider that just as good. All I really want from devs is actual support of the Linux platform, and if they choose to do that through a tool like proton I'm ok with it.

It's very unfortunate for Mac users though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

They are nice to have, but most of the time aren't updated as often as the Windows build.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Given that a common subset of the Win32 ABI is now a reasonably efficient virtual machine for running PC games on Linux and (soon) macOS, we can probably expect “do Mac/Linux ports” replaced with “make sure the Windows .exe runs on Mac/Linux”