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The reasons are twofold. We had as many different issues with the build as testers. With each flavor of Linux came different issues. As you know we planned to launch Linux port at the same time as Mac port. However, the bug fixing for Linux took us two weeks longer than on Mac. Right now everything indicates that Linux port would be very high maintenance. This is a serious problem for a team as small as ours.
Then there is the Proton. Turns out that when we set native port live Proton stops working (which, in hindsight, was to be expected). We had cases where the game worked perfectly for some Linux users on Proton while native port struggled with issues on the same machines.
This is why we decided to focus our efforts on supporting Steam Play and Proton. This will both enable you guys to play the game without any performance loss (as far as we can see) on Linux and will let us have fewer code and deployment branches. Which, as a result, will mean more time spent on making the game better.
We hope to get whitelisted for official Proton support on Steam as soon as possible so you can play without any hoops. However, for this, we will need your help. Steam whitelists a game when enough players wishlist it for Linux.
When you say it would be high maintenance, what do you mean by that?
As for Steam Play, you say you will support it, but how? What are you going to do to support the game when run through it?
https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1475356649450732547
so for me there is much difference between native game and proton game, at lest at the current state of proton.
huge studious say they have to invest a lot to change their pipelines to fit linux support also.
small studious say they dont have a team big enough to support linux.
its very sad situation that only few teams have their pipeline originally crossplatform (including valve, whose games run flawlessly on every system), and now proton thing makes studious forget about native linux games, that is painful.
Thanks for the reply.
As LiamD mentioned above, you don't have to support ALL distributions. SteamOS would be sufficient and, at most, you can add Ubuntu to that. Would this make easier to provide a release?
Yes Proton would not be bad as a last resort but if you were to provide an actual release you would gain in expertise and we (customers) would get a better game and love you more for it!
Im agree, that at most, any dev should only support Ubuntu and Steam OS, nothing else. Sorry for Arch and other distro users but the Linux market isn't enough big for taking time for the niche of the niche. Also moving into the latest LTS release of Ubuntu should be a must, so devs can concentrate their efforts on that version.
We ran limited tests on players and even with a small group every player had at least some issues that took us from day to three days of work to fix. And even within that small group some players tried running the game on unsupported distros and were unhappy that we really don't support their distros or reported issues like they were happening on Ubuntu even though it was Arch ;-)
We spent far more time on Linux port than on Mac port. Shelving it was a very difficult decision for us because we do believe in Linux gaming and for the last month we felt that we were "almost there". However, our regular development was getting seriously hampered by Linux port efforts and it was time to make a tough choice.
Proton is not perfect but it's working well with Book of Demons. Actually, our native port was much slower than the game played in Proton (as I mentioned we had performance issues with OpenGL renderer). By "official support" for Proton we mean that if issues specific to Proton occur we will work on fixing them, not just write them off to "well it's a weird emulator on Linux we don't support that". The main issue here is that Book of Demons works in Proton and releasing the native port would disable Proton for BoD. So people playing the game now on Linux wouldn't be able to do so anymore if the native port had any issues on their machines.
Last but not least, we are shelving the Linux port, not outright killing it. This doesn't mean we won't do it after the launch. We really sacrificed a lot of time on that port and we too would love to see it happen. Especially if Proton turns out to be more problematic than it seems. However, the port can't happen this year, we simply don't have resources for that with early access exit around the corner.