Quoting: liamdaweThanks for letting us know Scott, wish you all the best.

I really do hope this gives you guys enough resources to get more than 0 people in on your desktop client (Desurium), that is unless you are moving to 100% web based stand alone downloads?

Yes, please. I'd be very pleased if it was 100% web based with game installation handled thru a browser plugin for convenience like the gnome-shell extensions site does, but with a direct download option too. Give it a shot, please!

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Quoting: HamishIs this game going to be Steam only, or will it be more generously spread?

Sorry for coming late to this particular party, been very busy.

I hope so. Steam has already made it into Debian SID but I couldn't run it successfully past the main menu, and even if I made it I don't like the service so far. Why do big companies mess it so much while little indies can do it right from the start? Nah, I'm complaining again, though big kudos to those indies, keep doing it!

Quoting: oddworldincOne HUGE factor in deciding to port to Linux is that Unity3D makes it very easy to port to lots of platforms.

I missed this sentence and I fully agree. Unity3D has probably ported more games to GNU/Linux than anything else, maybe the second best thing after the HIB. And they did it right unlike other big names. Steam is big and influencing but it hasn't done that much yet, IMHO.

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Quoting: oddworldincNo one can deny the emergency of Linux gaming. Since Steam was released for Ubuntu, companies have been watching carefully. One HUGE factor in deciding to port to Linux is that Unity3D makes it very easy to port to lots of platforms.

What exactly do companies watch for in Steam? Is it the monthly hardware survey?

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Nice game. I'm already waiting for it.

I don't think anything has had such a big influence as numbers (money), and HIB showed the numbers favoring GNU/Linux. Before that, some developers were saying it was a bad platform for games, now we don't hear that anymore. Money rules when it comes to COMMERCIAL games.

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Aha, I should note it was the placeholder text that misguided me: "Your text here / A video or Image here".

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Quoting: liamdaweAdded more and accepted. Remember though berarma only pictures in taglines now, videos for the main post please. :)

I knew something would go wrong in my very first submission. In my defense, the text in the taglines box said I should put an image or video IIRC. :)

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Quoting: HamishIf such a thing did exist I would not be surprised if Linux had a far greater share, not necessarily because Desura has more Linux users, but most likely a greater proportion in comparison to Windows ones. If you truly would like to see one, feel free to suggest it on their forums - they have a place for suggestions just like these.

They have :
http://www.desura.com/members/online [External Link]

Linux has slightly more than 1% of the share.

Regards,

That's users online in the web, and there's an Unknown platform with ~1300 users. It's hard to know how accurate these statistics are.

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Quoting: SimmyDI dont really get the boycotting of Steam.  I am a long time linux user and i LOVE steam.  My OS is open and controllable but the applications i run on it i am not massively fussed about.

Sure if steam came out and said "you MUST use this kernel which we have added to but you dont know what it is" that would be a different story.  But they are not.

Since Steam has come to linux we have seen a HUGE surge of games coming over.  That can only be a good thing.

I wouldn't talk about a boycott but rather users not willing to agree with their licensing terms. I haven't been able to try Steam yet, and that's because they've made it ridiculously hard to install in some distributions. Still, when I can try it I don't think I will want to agree to their terms and we're free to do so. I don't think Steam is a bad thing, for me it's Valve ruling people out in the ways I've just described.

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GNU/Linux wasn't built with statistics success in mind, and that's why it is the way it is and I like that. Steam is against what GNU/Linux users usually want in a computer, control, so it would be no surprise that some don't want it. Besides, Valve hasn't made it easy to install their client on any distribution, Debian users can't install it easily yet. For me, this statistics could be seen as Valve's success/failure to sell his services to a certain kind of user that may prefer using DRM-free services like Desura or HIB.

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Torchlight has been updated too. I hope they've finally fixed the faceless bug.

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