Quoting: GreenI care, I just don't care about doing stuff without merrit.

This is the way it may go:
* keyreseller.com Inc. buys a thousand keys from Steam. (Or wherever they get them...)
* None of the keys is getting activated and used for playing for some weeks. (They are still selling older keys, or people are just not buying at the moment, ...)
* All money is paid out to the Windows publisher. (Valve cannot hold back the money for indefinite amounts time, and they've got no reason to do so either. As we know, the default platform is spupposed to be Windows.)
* Linux users not aware (or, even worse, not caring about this) are buying such keys.
* They are playing on Linux.
* => nothing happens. The money is already gone. Whoever counts in whichever ways cannot redirect it anymore.

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Quoting: GreenThis don't buy windows keyes isshortsighted, for one spending more money on a game to get an honest count on our Platform is weird, the one who does the counting (or needs the counting for getting payed) should count differently... and they do.

Second, steam also looks after a few days at the player’s play time and reassigns their platform category based on that permanently. Any linux porter doing bussiness knows this and makes this part of their contracts to get payed accordingly.

When buying a key from a reseller, you cannot play shortly after the key has been sold by Steam, because this possible has been long time ago. The money has already been paid to someone else (the Windows publisher) and cannot be redirected anymore. You are losing the influence you could have. This has clearly been stated by e. g. Feral representatives. How comes you think you know more about the money they get then they do?

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Quoting: GuestHow have I never heard of The Swapper?! That looks awesome! Thanks for the heads up.. buying it now.

Two ways of discovering good games are Steam's lists by "relevance" and by reviews. Both to be taken with grains of salt, obviously, but the second one lists The Swapper on page 2:
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?os=linux [External Link]
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=Reviews_DESC&os=linux [External Link]

PS: I got it through a Humble Bundle.

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Quoting: GreenAbout buying only a key "when you are absolutely sure it counts as linux". Its just useless to pay more for a game only to promote linux. The percentage of linux games that actually pay attention to this way of buying is way to low to be significant.

The smaller the amount of people, the more significant is your part.

Quoting: GreenJust buy the cheapest key you can get and let valve do their own counting, currently their counting system is broken, i'm not going to pay more for that.

If you don't care for it, ok. But other people do care - and you might benefit from their caring. You shouldn't try to persuade them not to, even if it might make you feel better.

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Quoting: JSVRamirezWhy don't we, at GoL, start a donation thingy where we can put a pound, dollar or whatever, in every now and then and once it gets to a certain value, sweet treats of some kind are sent to porters?

I'd be in. Don't forget the Linuxers at Valve.

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Bought...
* Sunless Sea - 66%
* Detective Grimoire - 75%
* Kelvin and the Infamous Machine - 35%

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SOMA - 60%
http://store.steampowered.com/app/282140/ [External Link]

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Shadowsedge117Liamdawe, I finished Oxenfree a couple months back. It's a fantastic game. It's similar to Stranger Things, if you've watched that at all.

Well, shit, now I just have to play it.

Just when you thought buying it would be enough! :D

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Quoting: SilelmotEdit: not 100%. Stupid software for tax returns is my last reason for dual boot once a year

I don't know what country you are but there should be something similar..

As a Canadian, i use https://turbotax.intuit.com/ [External Link] ...

In Germany, I'm using "Elster Formular" [External Link] under PlayOnLinux (the only program I'm using WINE for).

PS: Don't you have to love tax authorities for naming their software after the magpie, which traditionally is seen as a thief in our and other countries?!? :)

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Quoting: ellieferalWe were so chuffed to be sent the cupcakes. Such a cool gesture. And they arrived just in time for elevenses! (Yes, we are very British.)

That's so British, I had to look it up...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevenses [External Link]

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