Finally!! But if it is like the other "enhanced" editions, it will be released with plenty of bugs, and it wil be worth wainting till they get it all sorted out.

Bit since I've never finished the original, and since it is not 100% in gemRB, this is one I'll get for sure! Also I plan to play this one fully before Torment: Numerara

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Lovely release announcement ^_^

Linux has given me so much and with that I am happy to announce that I can give something back to it. Although small and niche The Away Team grows the Linux game count by one. Something I could not be more proud to do

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I'm also big fan of Ethan Lee as some of my dearest linux games were ported by him, starting with his first port, Capsized, which I got on one of the first humble bundles, that was one of the major points into my full time Linux switch.

That said, user Crazy penguin had a point

Quoting: Crazy PenguinThat way Stardew Valley will not only be ported to Mac & Linux. (...)

If Sickhead manage the linux port well, then the console ports will be next. They also ported to the consoles (PS4 PS Vita) other games that Ethan Lee ported before, like Apotheon, Dust or Escape Goat 2.

That said, it is indeed sad that Ethan is loosing many ports recently. Maybe stepping up to the console ports too?

If a studio like Sickhead that is specialized in monogame ports to consoles, also gets experience in Linux/mac porting too, then it would have a full porting ability and that would be bad for specialized one man porters like Ethan. :(

EDIT: Spellchecking :S

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I sure would like it. Allowing natively to use another platform which games are not on steam. For SteamOS it would mean it got installed without any extra efforts of enabling desktop mode, add new repositories to install the app and then log out into steam again and add the application as a link with probably a lame icon in the store...

Just has I would love to have emulators, Kodi, Netflix and such others in the store. Basically what was needed was not having thtem as a 'game' but as a 'app'. But hey, if you have animation studios, game dev kits, programming IDEs and other software already on steam why not another game store. Also you would still be using steam seeing their game ads at launch so they'd win more than they would loose.

EDIT: Not to mention 1) the itch.io game would instantly get steam controller 2) you would get more DRM-games in steam that would could anyday download though itch.io and use on another computer and install offline if needed. ^_^

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Quoting: TheBossOkay, here's the data for anyone who wants to use it:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/golsurveyfebresults.csv

Thanks! :)

By the way I see it has a Timestamp in the "2016/03/01 11:54:21 AM GMT" format, so one could figure out a trend of survey completion from 2016/03/1 until 2016/03/14 .

I was also hyped in trying to you see what happens to this trend after the news is spread out in reddit, but there is only "this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2016" without the exact hour :(

EDIT: found on Google that if you hover the post date it tells the exact day and time. So 1456858580.0 -> "Tue, 01 Mar 2016 18:56:20 GMT"

> https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/48fwj0/new_linux_steamos_gamer_survey_for_march/ [External Link]

EDIT: how and besides being called golsurveyfebresults.csv it is actually this months march one :)

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Quoting: lucifertdarkWow a 20% drop between December & February of people who bought games on Steam, that's not a good sign for Valve.

And another thing too: beginning of January a new "Didn't buy a game" option appeared which affected negatively all other stores buy trend.

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Open data request:

Hey, are there any chances to open up the data, at least last year's one for 3rd parties to do some data analysis?

Just read steamboiler's "Three kinds of linux gamer" post where their linux gamer's survey data was used to build clusters of similiar linux gaming patterns.

> http://boilingsteam.com/the-three-kinds-of-linux-gamers/ [External Link] -

Cheers!

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I also miss media apps, but actually a few days a go I tried to put an SD card on my steam machine with FLACs and MP3s and went to the settings, added the directory and it got in the music tab (also disabled the games OST to clean it up).

Worked like a charm. I thought it would be harder and had to manually mounts the drives or something.

Today I wanted to listed again but the music button was not there... then I remembered I took back the SD card for my mp3 player...

neat!

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Also today on Kickstarter, Ghost Theory [External Link] by the makers of the linux compatible cyberpunk game Dex [External Link], announced officially that the game will be on Linux too (it wasn't clear on the project page)

* Kickstarter [External Link]
* Greenlight [External Link]

EDIT: formating

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Hey there!

Will past survey data be eventually "open sourced"? It would be cool for us data geeks out there to do some corrolations and other studies with it.

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