Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTCorrect me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know only Steam Sales played on Linux will be count as a Linux Sale. At least by Steam. I had the same question when I was considering buying boxed versions of games. For sure, this system sucks.

Steam stats can accurately show the devs how many people buy and (separately) play the game on Linux, but that's beside the point. What you wrote (only Steam Sales played on Linux will be count as a Linux Sale) matters when Win and Linux versions have different publishers - then the stats are used to determine which company will get the money from a given sale. That's nort the case here either. Shadow Tactics have a single publisher, and also the same publisher for digital and physical copies - so the money will always find their way home. I was just wondering if and how they count physical / out of steam purchases as far as Linux stats go - I just want to make sure we're properly represented in the coloured tables they will analyse when deciding on future releases. ;-)

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Well I buy most of the games on steam, because Valve deserves their share, too - for helping Linux gaming to get where it is now. But sometimes the game has a nice physical edition and it's always nice to have a tangible map, artbook or other collectibles, so it would suck if that automatically counted as a "Windows purchase" just because it's not tracked.

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I actually bought it on steam, proud to be part of the stats. ;-)

But I have a question. I will probably buy Shadow Tactics from a retail store, as it comes with some collectibles. Since it's an in-house multi-platform release, the money will go the right way, but will they know to count it as a Linux purchase? How does it "work" when companies release multi-platform - do they count "Linux sales" (as reported by stores) or "Linux players" (on Steam) / "Linux downloads" (on GOG) to know the numbers?

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"Not the most exciting of releases" - say what?! Day-1 buy for me!

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Quoting: pbI wonder how many hours of training goes into playing as shown in the update trailer. I played for 18h and still play like a total noob.

18h? That's nothing in this game ;)

I know, thus I wonder.

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I wonder how many hours of training goes into playing as shown in the update trailer. I played for 18h and still play like a total noob.

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Quoting: GBeeMicrosoft's App Store.

Apple's

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Quoting: buenaventuraGOG also has a big sale, I am tempted by Anodyne

I have Anodyne on Steam - it was fun while it worked, but I haven't been able to run it for the last two years (SteamOS, Debian, Arch...). No idea when exactly it stopped working or how to fix it - also don't know if the GOG version is also broken, but I think you can get a refund if the game doesn't work and they are not able to help you fix it.

[edit] From what I see, Anodyne on GOG does not list Linux as supported platform.

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Tomb Raider may not be particularly scary, but it's pretty gore, so it would fit I guess.

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Ironically, Disney/Pixar games are nowhere near Linux.

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