Quoting: cxphergmailcomActually, it's more than doubled. We're sitting at 2.21% atm for Linux usage. I follow the stats on other sites. Steam stats are not accurate.

Steam stats match Steam game sales quite nice often.

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Quoting: MaCroX95Developers don't give a shit about us, all they care about is money...

Developers are humans, too.
(I remember a company that hung up a poster with the best Linux user thank quotes - don't remember which one it was.)

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I really think watching the video made me play a little bit less bad. Which still is very bad, and yet...

PS: And the guy I've beaten was nice! :)

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Quoting: Al3sAnyway, this is the one:

Now I'm feeling like I'm just crawling around...

BTW, why is he doing the forward loops on the floor sometimes when there's no ball near?

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Quoting: Al3sI would suggest you watch some competitive matches on youtube. I was playing more or less like you and just after watching one video I realized I did a lot of things wrong. Anyway, awesome save towards the end!!

Got a suggestion for an intersting video?

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Quoting: EikeI'll continue to feed it with Bethesda, Bethesda and... hm, I'll think about the third.

Let me guess.... Bethesda? ;)

Need to think a bit more about it. But yes, Fallout and Elder Scrolls is what I'm missing by far the most after dumping Windows.

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Quoting: killyouThat's the point. The campaign usually says: we are dumping publishing company and we need X amount of money to do this cool game

I read that as "Additionally to the money we've lent from the bank/mums we hopefully can pay back if we sell lots of copies after we finished the game, we need some more money to actually create it."

If you create a game like Wasteland 2 or Wasteland 3, you know you will sell copies. It would be... surprising business behaviour not to take account of that from the strat. I guess everybody would he happy if they could do without, but world usually is not like that.

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Quoting: killyouI work in IT so I know that big projects might be tricky if it comes to time and resource management

(Me too.) Then I wonder even more what we are talking about.
I'll say it again: We don't know if...
* the financial planning included expected sells,
* the financial planning could be adhered to,
* more money was spent to make a better game due to more money flowing in.
I totally expect that the first is true and, as you said, it would be no wonder at all if the second would be true as well. I got no information if the third was done for Wasteland 2, but I did hear it for some kickstarter projects. But every single point could refute your conclusion on its own.

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Quoting: edddeduckferalIt's 100% real not just a social media fun thing, it's not the only way we decide to license games of course but popular requests are taken on board when we look at what games to license for Linux (and Mac).

That's very cool! I wonder if many people think (like me) it's just a fun thing. But either way you're getting your input. So I'll continue to feed it with Bethesda, Bethesda and... hm, I'll think about the third.

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Quoting: killyouThey crowdfounded all of their latest titles. They should be able to finish Torment as it was crowdfounded and it raised more than they were asking. They got more than they were asking for Wasteland 2 as well. So these games cost them nothing and were safe bets.

Sorry, what you are saying is totally unrealistic. Doing business - and even more so creating software - very often exceeds the planned funds. Furthermore they might go for content more if they have more funds than expected. And the planning might (and should!) involve the money you expect from sells in the first place. It's not like funding covers all expenses and sells make you rich. If you think it would be that way, please start developing great games (don't forget to support Linux!) and become rich that way. Good luck.

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