Some people - even software developers - need to feed themselves or even a family. Not everybody has the time or the ressources to wait for a successful Kickstarter campaign or have a butter yielding real job or live at mum hostel or anything. They needed money, Microsoft gave it to them, they created a game (said to be very good). That's it. Of course, a good game developer wants as many people as possible to be able to play his game, but feeding comes first.

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Quoting: anthThey'll be wondering this even before porting, and will likely include analytics software within the game to tell them this and more.

... or they refrain from doing so for legal, morale or - most likely - practical reasons. Implementing/using such software costs additionaly money and time.

Quoting: anthGiven that Steamworks will tell publishers where sales are being made [External Link], detailed player stats [External Link], how web surfers found a store page [External Link], etc, we can be sure that at the very least there will be aggregate data about which platform keys were redeemed on.

Ain't this data the one discussed on this website for years now, defaulting to Windows and not switching to any other system if not played on this system shortly after the sell? And... I wonder when this sell is being accounted for key resellers - probably when they bought loads of keys long time ago?

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Quoting: tuxisagamerWindows vs. linux keys really only matter when the port is done by an outside contractor like Aspyr and Feral.

No. For every game and every company, some boss will inevitable some day ask if it was worth supporting Linux.

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Quoting: GuestIMO:
- Merchants of Kaidan and Millie are good
- Iesabel is bad
- Frederic: too hard, made for touch screens and not really playable with kb or mouse (there is a demo on Steam)
- Violett: too illogical for me, lack of explanations/story (no text at all), but point&click fans may enjoy it. It’s often discounted on Steam for a very small price.

Violett is not a classical point and click and I found it a bit illogical and not guiding enough as well. Gave it a thumbs up at the steam review nevertheless, it's not bad. Had some fun with it inm the silent days between Christmas and new year some time ago.

About Iesabel... I disliked it from the first sight and coudln't stand it mor than 5 minutes. Dunno, the interface feels just plain wrong.

Millie has a demo AFAIR, by the way.

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Need to share: I got the Steam survey today, for second or third time on Linux over the last about 3 years. BTW, anybody got the feeling as well that it tends to popup on the first of a month?

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Quoting: Armand RaynalWhat surprise me is that there is not more microsoft bashing here at GOL, and everywhere else where we like GNU/Linux.

Microsoft is the only significent reason why we can't play on our favorite system.

The main reason I don't care too much about Microsoft is that nowadays I can play on my favorite system, and more than I actually have time to play.

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Quoting: LeonardKI still cannot grasp how such deals can be legal. If it's obvious (as it is here) that the only problem is a deal which distorts the market (especially *for* the almost-monopoly) then it should be not allowed or invalid imho.

Far from being an expert at this stuff, I'd say that yes, they are near a monopoly in terms of os, but this deal does not create any major disruption of the games market, as can be seen from the loads of Linux games available.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismNothing personal, but when a dev fails to release for Linux this is what crosses my mind

Sorry, but developers take publishers for a long time now, independent of Linux or any other platform.
For a reason, I guess.
And it's not a technical one.

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The mail I've got doesn't display right in Kmail, neither as plain text nor as HTML.
Plain text ony shows the "Login detected from: ..." line, HTML view shows nothing, only white.

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Quoting: Avehicle7887Ehhh, not sure why devs keep making these kind of deals, if they were lacking funds I can understand that but on the other side of the coin, there are alternative ways of obtaining funds such as kickstarter.

I'm sure they've had their reasons but looking at the bigger picture here they're leaving 3 platforms dry which could mean some good profit, especially from the PS4 side.

It's probably safe money versus taking a chance.
I understand taking the safe side.

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