(04-29-2011, 06:15 PM)hayspat Wrote: Why they're dont do that? Its so hard? I think not.
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I'm so angry because I'm not a gamer. I have bought that game only for helping which makes games to linux.
Anyway thanks for supporting Linux, I wish you continued that. But this steam problem is not nice at all.
Actually it may be not that easy to automatically provide Linux versions of the game to those who bought it on Steam. I don't know the technical details, but Steam is not just an application downloader, it is the whole cloud platform with its own rules and logic.
Steam itself does not officially support Linux at all. You're probably launching it under WINE, but that is unsupported way of doing it, and you do it at your own risk. Nobody guarantees that something is going to work under WINE. So Steam is obviously not the preferred distribution system for gaming in Linux; in the case of Amnesia it makes absolutely no sense to buy it through Steam while there is an official Linux version available at Frictional store.
And I'm sorry, but I see no reason to be angry here. As a Linux user I am very grateful to Frictional for making such a great multi-platform game, which is available as a native application for my favorite OS despite the fact that Linux customer base is much smaller than Windows and therefore contributes much less to the sales income.