Update #76 - "Development News and the Team at Work"

I'd completely forgotten there even were supposed to be Mac & Linux versions of this game, originally. This news came out of left-field, but thankfully it doesn't affect me.

I understand the paranoia that others might be feeling about version cancellations, but I don't think any more are going to happen.

RichterB
I remember that fish from Guardian Legend!



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You can still use Bootcamp, if that still exist on Mac to start up and manage PC files. Linux however, I dunno. Linux seems very advanced for the right user, and maybe fans will make so Bloodstained can run on it. Who knows.

Anyone else notice all the Xbox controllers in the pics, as well as a piece of paper with part of the map layout visible?

From the Linux front. Wine is horrible to use to play most games, particularly more modern ones. Yes, it can be done, but there are a lot of caveats and the experience is rarely, if ever, as good (read as terrible) as native platform support. Just imagine bad asset rendering,e.g. a broken menu layout, because the game uses some obscure/undocumented DirectX API or quirk or it uses a newer graphics technology that Wine hasn't implemented or is a work in progress; looking at you DX12 and Windows Vulkan.

On a more related note. While I am saddened to see them dropping support but if it means that there is a slight chance that the Windows and other platform versions will be more polished. Then I can live with that... for now. Should the opportunity occur, I would love to purchase (re-purchase?) a Linux version/port a couple of years down the road. I'll just borrow my wife's gaming laptop or play the Switch version in the mean time.

I want to point out, like djtanng did, some stuff i saw in the pictures, color-coded.



Xbox Controllers.
A Excel table.



Apparently, the animation of a demon.



That character doesn't exactly look like Miriam. Can be someone else, or maybe Pure Miriam?

The bars, specially the health bar, seems way longer than the demo.

A piece of the Castle layout.


Castle layout.

I'm a Linux-only user since 2002.
I don't own XBox neither PS4, but I did own WiiU.

I'm not used to "tricks" to play windows-only games. I just don't play them (because I don't care).

I backed this project due to WiiU release promise and I'd like to play this game style again.
Switched to Linux when the Nintendo console version was (understandingly) canceled.

Now Linux and Mac was canceled due to bad design/platform/programming choices, and I hope you refund me – that would be to show some respect to whom believed in your project.
I'd prefer help to fund Shenmue III if I wasn't to play a backed game (just to know how would/will that game story go).

Seven promised plataforms while on campaing (Windows, Mac, Linux, WiiU, Vita, Xbox, PS). Only three left.

Disappointed.

FanGamer mail I received:

Cale Bootcamp was free when I used Mac many years ago. I wanted to play some old game on it, and it worked.

djtanng Xbox controlers are used frequently even on PC gaming. Didn't take much peak at the images this time. Map is a surprise for me until I have fully expored it (or at least thought I have fully explored it).

ssokolow Yes, research some more. I think the violation is only a thing during a campaign, not after its done / closed, I have no clue really. Because you know, there are a lot of placeholders in this and many other projects because they are usually pre-developed and hard to value. Many have already given the chance of a refund, this was however earlier.

The platforms I have that are even minimally relevant are Linux, an original-version Wii, a 1000-series PSP, a "fat" Nintendo DS, and a couple of retro-gaming PCs that don't go newer than Windows XP. I have no plans to buy any newer consoles or Windows versions and one game isn't going to change that.



I said it on Kickstarter and I'll say it again here. I know that and I was prepared for the eventuality that they might botch things so badly that no game came out at all, or if they ran low on money and made something greatly inferior to what they promised.

This, on the other hand, is clearly a case of "They should have sufficient money to refund me... even if they have to give me an IOU to be repaid out of post-release sales."

I never pay more than $5 US for Windows-only games and I take it as a personal affront when I get tricked into doing so.



Yeah, I heard about that over on /r/linux_gaming. A partial refund, months late is adding insult to injury. (Given that game keys cost nothing to "manufacture" and that a backer who receives only a partial refund is going to be unhappy enough to be unlikely to buy later, it's nothing but an unusually stupid way to rack up bad PR.)

If they decide to give me a partial refund and it's not "Here's a gift key for a platform you didn't want and a partial refund for your trouble", I may start looking into more serious options. I doubt I can take a Japanese company to small claims court for the rest of it, but maybe 505 has a business presence in my jurisdiction that I could go after and, if not, I'll do my best to cost them at least that much in lost sales and bad PR. (And Bloodstained might become the first game I did pirate as a matter of principle, rather than not pirating as a matter of principle whether or not it even works in Wine on Linux.)



Except that the promised product was an IGAvania called Bloodstained in DRM-free form for Linux. The law doesn't just let you nudge it to whatever interpretation is convenient for you.