Well... As far as I have heard, the distribution cost is about 30% of the game's price nowadays.

And it was much more in the 90s. Like 50% minimum, with some sources saying in extreme cases up to 90%, if my quick web search was not lying.

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... which makes the market opportunities insanely worse for publishers

Well yes, but... How exactly does price increase help in this context? Will this help "supply x demand" equation? When market is saturated you have to compete with competitive price, unless you're dealing with luxury items. Which brings me to this:

...but maybe for a great game?

Maybe? Just maybe. Once, when the game is objectively THE bomb, the hot stuff, the perfect match. In that case I might make an exception. But every C-suite thinks their game is exactly that and it justifies the higher price tag. And I don't feel like supporting this general price increase to put more money into managers' pockets is my jam. If those money were transparently going to actual developers, that opinion might change a lot. But not with this pyramid scheme. I'm saying this coming from a poor background, not being rich in any way nowadays.

But I still fail to see the SCANDAL in asking for a price that in the end is less breakfast eggs than it was in the Nineties.

Let me ask you a question: Would you buy sort of mid range PC for the price of a couple years old car nowadays?

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Games usually costed 100 Deutsche Mark in the Nineties. 100 DM in say 1995 would be - inflation included - 88€ nowadays. That's 100$. How come people know that stuff get's more expensive over the decades, but do not accept when computer games do... just the same?

Well, yes, but actually no. Computers in general were expensive as hell in 90s. It had some "exclusivity vibe" and since computers were basically just for rich, those could also spend that amount for a game (or pirate it like everyone did in those times). Also less computers equals narrow market, hence the price of the games also being ridiculous.

Compare it to now, when everyone and their cat has PC and/or console. The market opportunities are insanely better for publishers. But there's also much, much, MUCH more games on the market, new and old (equals cheap), than it is physically possible to play in multiple lifetimes. So, would I pay $80€ for another generic recycled gearbox schlock? Lol, no.

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Now this game is not what I'd expect to see here. And I'm pleasantly surprised it made it! Not sure how current gamers will look at it, especially those not from its country of origin, but man... I have so many fond memories of it. Gonna buy it to support Jindřich, who is also an awesome person.

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I used CoreCtrl for a while in the past to tame my old GPU fan and it worked great. I've had no use for it since I changed gpu which is quiet by default. Still sad to see it go as it was very nice piece of SW. I wish all the best to the developer and hope he's alright.

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Well, I like Heroic functionality and appreciate it for bringing up gaming on linux on another easier level. But man... I don't like the presentation. Starting from weird fonts, icons and color schemes, ending with that new game page design. Why there needs to be three tabs (install info, extra info, requirements) when there's plenty of space everywhere? Why how long to beat "graphs" are hidden by default? It somehow feels like I'm back in Windows where I have to do like three times as many clicks as needed...

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Wow, it looks very promising. Something fresh, mixing those specific genres. Will check out full version.

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There are old games that are worth playing (or at least trying) even today, some 30 years after release. This is not really one of them and I really wonder why would anyone put any amount of effort to resurrect it. Games like Doom, Hexen, Duke Nukem 3D or Blood aren't considered cult classics for nothing...

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They should do something like ProtonDB.

They should do *exactly* ProtonDB. Just like what GOG does with howlongtobeat, when they show you "time to beat the game" straight at the product page with data taken from hltb. Steam should do the same with ProtonDB and it's done.

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"I have not since found a KDE Plasma distro I liked as much."

Try openSUSE Tumbleweed. Ofc it's not perfect, repo choices are a bit lacking sometimes, but there's packman that helps a lot (+ flatpak and appimages are more common nowadays). It's great distro overall and one of the best parts is it has preconfigured snapper built-in, which is a life saver in case somethings breaks.

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