What a tremendously stupid idea.

[edit] If the game turns out *good*, I can easily predict people buying several dozen copies, then dying a million times so the game is pulled from the store, and then selling these copies with 200%+ profit. So I hope the game turns out really bad and nobody cares about it.

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I have mixed experience with gaming on TV. I had big hopes for playing strategy games, but titles like Civilization V, Crusader Kings II, Empire: Total War - all have really tiny text in 1920x1080 resolution, so I have to size it down to the point that everything barely fits on the screen, for the text to be readable, at which point it's a much better idea to just play on my laptop at 1600x900...

FPS and Arcade games, on the other hand, are a prefect fit. In Talos Principle, even though there's lots of reading on the terminal, the text is perfectly legible from the couch. Borderlands 2 - similarly, the text size is just right at 1920x1080. I really hope that new releases (esp. strategy games) will be better adapted to Steambox & couch gaming.

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"trying to juggle with multiple projects and platforms" - LoG2 coming to Linux? :-)

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Quoting: PeciskI personally think that's coincidence - or just Microsoft trolling Valve big time (Fallout 4 was featured *very* visibly during XBO show). They also roll out their own DRM, so it might even be that they will deny Steam access to Fallout 4.

But Fallout 4 is already on steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/377160/ [External Link]

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Quoting: nitroflowHerp derp disable enhanced steam.

Ah, so that might be the reason I guess.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: adolsonIt has been this way for a long, long time. Visit Steam in a browser, and it's still Tux.

No it's not, that's your cache keeping the tux icon. Do a hard refresh.

Screenshot after ctrl+shift+r in Firefox: http://s1.zrzut.pl/f6GiOdD.png [External Link]

Also you didn't discover anything new, maybe you just switched from Firefox to Chrome?
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/2y07g8/did_steam_just_switch_the_tux_logo_to_a_steam_logo/ [External Link]

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I'm disinclined to buying Civ:BE until they add a strategic view akin to that in Civ5. Sure the gfx is nice but I don't play strategy games to admire the views.

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But the dev's review is just one review. If I'm not sure about the game. I just wait until a dozen or more reviews appear, it's not uncommon that a game has 100% positives out of 1-2 first reviews and then goes to 50% after more people give their opinion. So in my opinion it's good to write an article about a new game, share one's first impressions, give some opinion, but to center the article around the fact that a dev left the first review? Not really.

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It's really childish to judge the game based on that a developer wrote a review on it. Especially if you're not even sure if it was a developer's review in the first place.

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I just hope he will price it right this time, so that he's not disappointed with sales numbers (not only Linux).

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