Were they selling STEAM keys at their website? Because in the humble widget I don't see a steam key, only a drm-free download (or so I presume).

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Yeah, ok, but with dots? I though they used slashes, but I guess it's not a rule:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_date#Gregorian.2C_month-day-year_.28MDY.29 [External Link]

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Why does the trailer say March 1st?

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I'm staying true to GOG's original name and only buying OLD games there, all the rest on steam (or at places that provide steam keys, like HB).

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I've bough The Following DLC for Dying Light. Not a bad deal at 8 euro I think.

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Nice, I'll be buying as soon as it officially comes to Linux.

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Quoting: KeyrockI might have to get The Last Tinker. If it's even half as good as Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun (very different genre, I know) then I'll likely enjoy it. Plus, I could use a 3D platformer to play until Yooka-Laylee comes out.

Just a heads up - it's not a 3d platformer. It's 3d, yes, but there isn't much platforming and even when you do some jumping, it's actually automatic (you just hold the trigger while running), sometimes you have to time some moves and there isn't much more to that. I only completed ~50% of the game but if I had to describe it, it's more of an adventure + walking sim + some fighting.

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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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