Dead Island GOTY Now Available On Linux/SteamOS

[jsa1983]

anyone got this working with radeonSI now? I am on mesa 10.5, kernel 4, llvm 3.6.1 and it still crashes after charakter selection.

Still the same for me with current mesa, kernel and llvm-3.9...

[tomtomme]

anyone got this working with radeonSI now? I am on mesa 10.5, kernel 4, llvm 3.6.1 and it still crashes after charakter selection.

[V10lator]

Have you reported that anywhere in the steam forums so I can add a +1 there?

Or, maybe more important, to Mesa? Well, I just did (for r600g, feel free to open new bug reports for radeonsi/intel/... and cross-link them) : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85564

[gilboa]

It is a sensitive subject since digital freedom has an aweful lot of enemies ready to pounce but no, every talk I have been to by RMS has a large section on beating protections and freeing our devices if we must use them. i.e Computer bios, tablets, phones, software, everything.

I'm the last man on earth to protect DRM, I hate it.
... and yet, everybody, including RHEL has some form of it (including my company) due to pricing / licensing / support considerations.

But also, noone is really mentioning piracy here. Like I said, buy the software if you like it but only ever run the unrestricted version from torrents. No piracy involved at all so perhaps that taboo word in aid of a strawman argument should be laid to rest since it tends to derail the task of looking for a solution with sensationalism.

If it makes you feel better, go right ahead. I doubt that it'll change anything.

- Gilboa

[V10lator]

How do I buy the game if steam doesn't list it for German users?

You could try to get (virtually) out of germany by using this link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/91310/?cc=at

This hasn't been tested and Valve might permanently disable your account cause of this, so use at your own risk!

[kpedersen]

Last time I checked, neither RMS nor Linus preached in favor of software piracy in-order to "persuade" ISV's for open up the DRM used by their software.

It is a sensitive subject since digital freedom has an aweful lot of enemies ready to pounce but no, every talk I have been to by RMS has a large section on beating protections and freeing our devices if we must use them. i.e Computer bios, tablets, phones, software, everything.

But also, noone is really mentioning piracy here. Like I said, buy the software if you like it but only ever run the unrestricted version from torrents. No piracy involved at all so perhaps that taboo word in aid of a strawman argument should be laid to rest since it tends to derail the task of looking for a solution with sensationalism.

[gilboa]

Sounds right to me. RMS has over and over ranted on how the best attack against proprietary things is not to use them. He does not preach for using them illegally. The best any single individual can do is to only use your money on OSS, never use proprietary and further try to silence proprietary to death as far as possible so it doesn't get free advertisement.

RMS is surely entitled to his own opinion and I respect that.
I don't believe in a black and white approach.
On one hand, in the last 15 years I moved dozens of *large* projects from Windows server/desktops to RHEL and my company is built around OSS software.
On the other hand, I have no issues with running DRM protected software on my Linux desktop.
There's a place for both.

The OP wasn't against using DRM software - quite on the contrary - he simply cited "ideological reasons" for paying for it.

- Gilboa

[nanonyme]

Last time I checked, neither RMS nor Linus preached in favor of software piracy in-order to "persuade" ISV's for open up the DRM used by their software.
Either my English has gone down the drain or you've completely missed the point. And by that I mean, the point flew over your head at 120,000 feet at mach 3.

- Gilboa

Sounds right to me. RMS has over and over ranted on how the best attack against proprietary things is not to use them. He does not preach for using them illegally. The best any single individual can do is to only use your money on OSS, never use proprietary and further try to silence proprietary to death as far as possible so it doesn't get free advertisement.

[gilboa]

The same childish ideology that actually started GNU/Linux and ensured it's success.

If you dont like that, then you have Windows. Why are your even using Linux if you are happy with the over commercialisation and restriction of everything on a desktop? Admittedly Windows will likely run those games better anyway since the engines / drivers have been tailored to that platform for years. Makes no sense.

Last time I checked, neither RMS nor Linus preached in favor of software piracy in-order to "persuade" ISV's for open up the DRM used by their software.
Either my English has gone down the drain or you've completely missed the point. And by that I mean, the point flew over your head at 120,000 feet at mach 3.

- Gilboa

[smitty3268]

Yeah, boycotting does neither the developer or the gamers any good. Pirating over boycotting is the way to go since at least that produces very radical figures in the developer's analytics.

The only thing pirating will convince the developer of is that they need tougher DRM. Because clearly you are going to a degree of trouble in order to play their game, meaning you want it, and their goal is now just to make it difficult enough that those people buy instead.

Boycotting sends the message that you don't need to play their game unless they actually cater towards your wants. That's the only way DRM will ever end.