Not my genre so I won't be diving in, but the excellent Josh Strife Hayes did an amusing and informative review of this one in his always-entertaining "Worst MMO Ever?" series. It sounds pretty decent if it's your sort of thing.

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Quoting: psycho_driverFYI this is the first SteamOS update I've seen come through on Discover.

Can confirm - I was in Desktop Mode at the time retrieving some screenshots. I actually quite like this change.

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QuoteFixed an issue where after playing a game it would require extra B button presses to back out of the game's library page.

Oh thank God. That's been driving me absolutely mental!

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Quoting: whizseNow Pengling, you seem to be doing exceptionally well at these, so don't go nicking the Deck too, that one is mine!

HAHAHAHAHA! I'll do my best.

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Quoting: artixbtwWell, I'll be damned. Indeed, I was wrong. I based my estimates on the countless times I ran across people buying "mystery bundles" on other sites, and getting half a dozen <0.10 EUR keys out of them.

There are some rubbish key sites out there, but I'd have to say that Fanatical's definitely not one of them.

Quoting: artixbtwIndeed, the value is there. I suppose they were bundle leftovers, which conveniently made it viable to offer them for such a low price (but also invalidates comparing to regular store price).

Indeed, they don't appear to be garbage, some of them at least. Probably the same reason as the one above.

Oh for sure - Fanatical's clearly got the buying-power to do that. But we don't, so I don't feel that it's too cheeky of them (or me, haha ) to compare to the regular price, because that's all that we'd get otherwise!

Quoting: artixbtwStill, I find much more value in knowing what I get. Indeed, their not-so-mysterious bundles tend to provide a lot of value, and I make use of the fact quite often,

Oh man, I love those too! I've gotten plenty of good things out of them as well.

Also, their prices for single titles are very often cheaper than Steam, too. Back when I was waiting for Super Bomberman R 2, last year, I ended up pre-ordering at Fanatical because their price was a good chunk lower than the launch-day RRP and there was an offer on at the time where certain spends got you a mystery Steam-key as well. I did well out of that.

Quoting: artixbtwand don't have to deal with keys I don't need.

My rule for buying mystery-bundles is that I go for the cheap options, so I'm always likely to get at least one keeper that would've cost more than the bundle otherwise (and it's usually more than one keeper). Anything unwanted goes into a giveaway thread on the GOL forum.

Quoting: artixbtwLastly, the biggest reason why I was so negative was that it is clear that this type of bundle encourages addictive spending behaviour. I know that gambling is technically legal, but whenever I see a service employ these types of behavioural mechanics, it feels wrong to me.

That's totally fair, and I must admit that it's something I didn't think of because I'm not prone to that sort of spending myself (I was always the kid who never set out to "Collect Them All" with blind-bags, as well - I'd just pick up a few as long as I knew I'd be happy with any of the options ). I have to agree with dpanter on the below, though;

Quoting: dpanterIt goes without saying that you can't expect to win the top tier prizes, that's the lure. If it happens, happy days! But you don't buy mystery bundles with an expectation to get something specific or extremely valuable.

This is my approach, and it hasn't steered me wrong. For me, these are always "It'd be nice to get some random new stuff because there's not a Steam sale right now, and it'd be a neat bonus if I won a prize." type spends.

I can still remember how thrilled I was to get the Doom titles, too - they weren't something I'd've bought normally because I get motion-sickness from first-person games, and they prompted the discovery that a little at a time on a handheld doesn't make me queasy, which has opened the gates for me to try out more stuff than I ever would have otherwise.

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Quoting: ps3king1336I'm wondering how this will be possible to play on other systems like 3ds and ps-vita?

I'd imagine that would involve modding them in order to run outside software - that's a bit outside of the scope of a Linux-gaming site, though.

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Quoting: fabertaweThis looks great and for free too?

Is this likely to fall foul of copyright? At least it's out there in the wild now.

Quoting: Liam DaweSEGA are generally pretty great on fan games, as long as they're not for-profit.

Only Sonic, because they allowed the trademark protections on Sonic The Hedgehog to die in 1993 (presumably this is why the series is instead marketed as "Sonic the Hedgehog" nowadays) when they were looking to replace their mascot with something else only for that to subsequently not pan out. Anything else, they're just as strict as anyone else, with the most recent example being taking down the OpenBOR fan-game, Golden Axe Returns.

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Quoting: fabertaweI don't get it... are Nintendo selling official Nintendo workshop content for Garry's Mod and the unofficial stuff is biting into their margins?

The only outcome from this is negativity toward Nintendo.

I assume they figure that doing this will somehow make people want to buy their hardware and go to see their movies, even though they offer nothing like that.

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QuoteFacepunch said "This is not a mistake, the takedowns came from Nintendo" and that they feel it's "fair enough". As we all know, Nintendo do often go often any unauthorised use of their characters and IP and so mods for other games get included in that.

I do agree with them that it's fair enough (I mean, it is Nintendo's stuff after all, and I'm sure that some of these assets are just straight rips and not fan creations), though that said I also find it odd that Nintendo is very suddenly going so far out of their way to burn bridges with fans and harm the goodwill that people feel towards them.

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This is how Nintendo writes a lot of their security update notes, too. Very informative.

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