Quoting: emphyStill peeved at the forced install of that shop to be able to play the game. I'll keep skipping it.

Yes, I can hold grudges for a long, long time.

It's especially frustrating because you don't need the client to play Valves games. I've used steamcmd in the past, but for the last few years, I've just given in, and used the client.

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I love Klei! Every game except Hot Lava is worth owning and playing. Hot Lava might be a good game, but it doesn't support Linux, so I've never played it. I've got a lot of hours invested in Don't Starve and Oxygen Not Included!

This is an insta-buy for me!

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Quoting: GuestSince the big bundle for racial justice and equality I’ve been a bit wary about itch usability: do we always have to add games to our library one at a time after buying a bundle, or was it only a special behaviour for this huge one?

I can't comment about this bundle, but the Racial Justice bundle was the first time they made you add it one at a time. Really, it was probably a good thing for that bundle - it was so large, and there were a lot of things that people probably didn't want to add to their library. This is really my only comlaint about itch - too much content, and a lot of it is stuff I'll never want.

I scrolled through the Queer Games bundle, and the only things I even recognize are games I already have from previous itch bundles.

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceAt the end of the day I don't care where people buy there games or how they play them but I hate hypocrisy which is why I asked my question.

Quoting: Dorrit

Quoting: PublicNuisancedo you buy Windows games on Steam ?

If they work fine with Proton yes, as they are counted by Valve as Linux purchases.

You can wrap whatever delusion and special wording you want around it to justify it but at the end of the day you are handing money over to publishers and developers who did not put in the effort to make a Linux version. The issue I take with that is when people give GOG flak for not supporting Linux (even though they sell Linux games on their store) but then hand over money to other people who also don't support Linux and somehow want to act like it's different. Either both are fine or neither are but you/they can't have it both ways.

It isn't "having it both ways". When I buy a Windows game on Steam, I'm supporting a Developer who doesn't support Linux, but some of my money is supporting Valve. Valve definitely supports Linux. Valve pays employees to contribute to open source projects that support Linux. Linux gaming wouldn't be where it is today without Valve. Period.

When I buy a Linux game on GOG, I'm supporting a Developer who supports Linux, but some of my money goes to GOG, who has done the bare minimum in order to sell Linux games, and has really done nothing to further gaming on Linux.

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I live near a small town called Marwayne (population: 521). I initially read Marywine as Marwayne and thought what an obscure location to place this story!

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I went through this with Kerbal Space Program. I had ~100 hours into it before the final version released, and now, I've never played the final version.

I bought Valheim, and I've started playing it, but I'm not going to binge it like I did with KSP until it's done.

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I'd like to win a copy of Soldat 2! Thanks for the chance!

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Quoting: mahagrNot using AMD CPU.. I am so happy with my upgraded AMD powered desktop that I'm not going back to Intel until they have something to offer...

Ditto. I've got a Ryzen 2500u based notebook that's a few years old, and there's nothing from Intel that's very compelling over it.

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Quoting: crt0megaI'd love to see the original Thief missions recreated within TDM :/

That would be fantastic!!

It was such a ground breaking game at the time. It would be great fun to run through those missions again in a more modern engine.

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Quoting: FutureSuture

Quoting: scaineBut yeah, from a Linux perspective, GOG is just worse for everything. Worse support (do they refund?), no client, no Linux target for Devs, no multiplayer framework, no chat, no achievements, no trading platform...

Then again, it's nice not having achievements and game time tracking forced upon me. I wish Steam would make those optional...

To be fair, Steam doesn't force that on you, the developer does. There are plenty of games on Steam, including many of Valve's games, that will run without the Steam client running. Supraland is one of these, when it runs. Currently, I get a segmentation fault on Supraland, but it used to run well, even without the Steam client running.

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