Xbox version

Interesting that this is their first port of call when PlayStation and Switch are both bigger markets. Maybe they just have an Xbox themselves.

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I'll probably switch my HTPC to KDE Neon to use this once it's released. My desktop, however, is going to stay on old KDE until they've reimplemented the desktop cube in newer versions.

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Addendum: The only other game I own with a 'Mixed' rating that I loved is Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, but there I at least understand the Mixed rating: people wanted a horror game and got a walking simulator.

This is the key point. A game with a high review score isn't saying "this is a good game," it's saying "the Store description accurately describes the experience of playing the game." When that description is accurate everyone that wouldn't like that kind of game doesn't buy it, and the people that do buy it are the ones that would like it.

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it's a thoroughly odd selection

I suspected from looking at the list, but the bundle page mentions it explicitly: those are all franchises that have been gobbled up by Disney.

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Quoting: scaineEven if you could debate those particular reasons, the main one I completely agree with is that Steam is an unbelievably harsh audience - critical, demanding, largely uneducated and unbending. And the worst part? They get to review your game publicly, allowing for a sole developer's career to be largely ruined on the basis of, say, a similarity to Minecraft.

If Tyron doesn't have immediate cashflow issues, and actually cares about their reputation as a game developer, then I completely agree with their caution. Despite the fact that I'd really like to play this, but as I say, without Steam multiplayer, I can't see me buying this.

I think I've said it three times already, but I'll say it again just to be sure: it's entirely their choice whether they put their game on Steam or not, exactly as it should be. No skin off my nose either way. There are those (including yourself) that will be aware of the game and yet choose not to purchase it unless it's on Steam, but there are far more that will never hear about the game if it's not on Steam.

I wish the best of luck to the devs, and it seems they've created something that people really like, which is great.

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Quoting: scaineJust read the earlier comments. Tyron has made clear several reasons (on their blog/forum - read crse's comment) why it's not a priority. I want it on Steam too, but there are good reasons it's not.

Not really good reasons. They think they'll make more money - see my prior comment - and they believe that they need to charge the same price for sales off Steam as they do for sales on Steam, which isn't at all true if they aren't giving Steam keys for sales off Steam and isn't quite true if they are giving Steam keys. It's their choice, of course, and if they don't feel their game is even at Early Access quality yet that's also their choice.

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If being on Steam gets you 43% more sales than not being on Steam, then the 30% pays for itself, even ignoring the saving in hosting and bandwidth costs. Everyone's free to make their own decisions of course, but "I'm not putting my game on Steam because I'd like to make more money" isn't a terribly reality-based position for anyone EA-sized and below.

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Quoting: PenglingYep, totally agreed, though I do sometimes wonder how the desktop-environment usage stacks up. It's purely anecdotal, but in gaming circles I've seen more folks who lean towards KDE first - not that there's any way of knowing this for sure, of course!

Yeah, actual statistics on Linux usage are really hard to come by. The ones that are there tend to line up as roughly a third KDE, a third Gnome, and a third everything else. Studies for school rollouts suggest that students tend to prefer KDE to other options. Red Hat casts a long shadow on workstation use, of course, and a lot of Ubuntu use is headless.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusI think we need to start fitting an exponential rather than a straight line. :tongue:

Actually, could you have multiple fits on the plot? :huh: I don't know what the back end is like.

As someone that nagged Liam into putting the trend line on the graph, the simple least-squares line that goes through the mean is the appropriate one to use. It's just a visualisation of the data; it isn't going to show any particular function. Whether the data points squiggle around the trend line, say, or has early data below the trend line and later data above the trend line, helps to visualise what the data are showing.

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Quoting: PenglingYup - I'm on Xubuntu (I don't get on with GNOME, either, and KDE's a bit too heavy for my liking), and finally got pinged for the survey for the very first time recently, but naturally it all goes under the Ubuntu banner. :tongue:

I think it's the right way for them to have done it: it's their branding, and you're using the same software from the same repositories whichever flavour you're using or even if you eschew desktop environments entirely. And it stops the distro stats being diluted over the half-dozen or so official flavours and many community remixes. But it does make Gnome seem more popular than it might actually be.

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