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Not all of these were developed as cross-platform from the start. AFAIK, Humble actually reaches out to game developers to help nudge along ports on other platforms for the bundles (to what extent exactly I'm unclear on).

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IIRC, there have also been some complaints regarding how well the Linux versions have worked.

One or two games have been based on Adobe AIR, development of which which has been abandoned on Linux, but they will run, if poorly.

That would be Amanita's Botanicula, I believe. Also, LIMBO got some flack for not being native Linux but the Windows version in a CrossOver wrapper.

Yeah, LIMBO was running sluggishly on some of my machines. Disappointing.

Be it Wine or Adobe AIR, I think that blaming from the community is superficial and dumb. Let's focus on the actual issue -- game quality assurance. Does it install, does it work? If it uses Wine but I never notice because it all runs smoothly, then both me and the developer is a winner.

I agree, yet usage some of these technologies seem to be indicative of bad QA. Smoke, if you will.

Some time ago I purchased The Binding of Isaac which is an amazing game, but it suffered from slowdowns on my computer. I guessed that it was Flash and this was indeed the case. It’s ridiculous that a game of that style does not run properly on a modern computer. These and similar incidents have left me very wary of Wine wrappers and Flash.

There are more serious problems - like Torchlight not rendering characters heads at all - and no one seems to be interested to fix the problems - this kind of bug would be patched on launch day on windows IF it would happen - because how quality control didn't notice that equiping any item to character head makes it disappear is beyond me.

http://i.imgur.com/bUQm0.jpg

There are even worse problems. Some games crash a lot, especially soon after a sale(frequently the first linux release). Psychonauts crashed on some of the intro cutscenes, I ended up playing the windows version in wine.

Double Fine, at least, is treating their Linux customers well. The most recent Humble Bundle build of Psychonauts is from January 2013, and allegedly fixes a bunch of bugs that plagued the original Mac and Linux releases:

http://www.doublefine.com/forums/viewthread/8612/P15/#260851

And games not launching at all, too. That's even worse. That happened several times for the few first Humble Bundles. Nowadays it is usually getting better.

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