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Yey?

So, happy to see it's back, as I had stopped editing Wikipedia for a while after the List of commercial Linux games that I had been working on for quite a while had been deleted eight years ago by a Java developer (without deleting all similar lists for other platforms, of course).

Then the first question would be: Should FOSS games be included in this list? The only one I noticed in the equivalent PC games list was O A.D.. Basically almost everything from List of open-source video games would be eligible for this list as well. -- Lightkey (talk) 09:47, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

They would definitely be a big fit. A big portion of Linux's gaming ecosystem is based on FOSS games. Wikinium (talk) 07:33, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Honestly, I question whether this page is useful anymore. There is no possible way to maintain a comprehensive list of these games in today's day and age. This list is missing many games including some AAA titles, clearly because the maintainers have realized that this is too much work. Time for deletion? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.239.220.72 (talk) 22:09, 14 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Release dates

Should the release dates indicate the initial release of the game or the release of the Linux version? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tambre (talk • contribs) 08:53, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Only allow games that have their own articles

Is there a way to set this rule in a template somewhere so that would-be editors will see it, and can stop using this as a catalog/directory to try and push their games? Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_directory Wikinium (talk) 20:45, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Just add "notable" in front of games in the lede perhaps?

Metacritic

Please note WP:UGC which makes it clear that user generated scores, such as web polls and audience scores are not WP:RS reliable sources and not allowed in Wikipedia. User scores should not be included in this list. Also it is very misleading to include any scores without references, and it is even worse to multiply up user scores making it even more difficult for readers to know which is which. -- 109.76.149.62 (talk) 19:00, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the claim that it was acceptable to include user voted scores (multiplied up x10), it is difficult to be sure but it doesn't seem like there were any user scores still included in the article anyway.

I've added lots more sources for Metacritic scores, any game with a high score should be rechecked, many of the scores I checked were over-inflated. -- 109.76.149.62 (talk) 19:50, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Where there were multiple Metacritic pages for different versions of the game on different platforms I have tried to use the PC version, as it is most likely to be similar to the linux version. -- 109.76.148.130 (talk) 14:18, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, but that just makes it worse. Not only is the score not objective, but by using the Windows score, you are making the score objectively not relevant to Linux. A game could run well on Windows and poorly on Linux, or vice versa, or a port could be missing content. If there are no Metacritic scores for Linux ports, I suggest removing the column altogether. inclusivedisjunction (talk) 21:24, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]