Quoting: kuhpunktYou can't break an NDA you didn't sign.

No but it gives Valve an easy reason to ignore me. I'm not about to burn bridges, don't try to get me to.
Anyway, since there's some rampant fanboyism going on, I shall not be replying further personally on this one.

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Quoting: kaiman

Don't miss out, try it free on itch.io.

It's pay what you want, not free. Although you'll obviously get away with paying $0. It's not overly long, but quite polished and it did exceed my expectations, so I think it's definitely worth something :-).

I'm just not sure if turning it into something bigger will allow it to retain its qualities and charm, but best of luck to the devs if they try!

Quote direct from itch:

This game is free but the developer accepts your support by letting you pay what you think is fair for the game.

Emphasis mine.

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Quoting: randylThe agreement does not state as such. Did you do some digging to find out what the agreement is or did you assume it's all private? You source the Hollywood Reporter which doesn't actually do good diligent investigative journalism and find out what the contract says. The lawsuit makes claims it hasn't substantiated and won't until it goes to court. The wording, at the very least, can be misleading, if not outright false.

Even if I knew, I couldn't say in public for certain, because the agreements are confidential. It's under an NDA last I checked. I don't know how many times in comments I need to say the same thing. The Steam Distribution Agreement cannot be shared and it is not the same as the public steamworks documentation. Entirely different things.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: ZlopezThey are saying that you can't have different prices on different platforms. So they actually dictate the price you need to have elsewhere. So if you have a game on Steam and GOG and there is GOG sale going on, you need to lower price on Steam too.

They don't.

A game dev can sell their game anywhere, at any price they want. No skin off Valve's nose.

If a game dev sells Steam keys (which Valve generates for free, just for the asking) through a store that isn't Steam, at a lower price than they sell them on Steam, then they also need to sell them on Steam at that price at some point. So, as an example, a lot of the games sold in the recent Humble sale were distributed as Steam keys at a lower price than they were going for on Steam; those prices then got lowered on Steam itself once Humble's sale was over.

The lawsuit is talking about the main Steam distribution agreement though, not the Steamworks Steam Keys agreement. They're two different things. As far as I can tell, the Distribution Agreement is confidential and so we cannot see it. This is where the MFN clause is contained.

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Quoting: kuhpunkt

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: kuhpunktLiam linked the Tweet from Sweeney (which is what the lawsuit refers to, not the contract!) and people called him out already back in 2019.

The lawsuit does not only link to that, as is made clear from the article it is talking about the Steam agreement. The Tweet was just mentioned as an example of it.

Without citing the contract and while making other false claims. So much of the lawsuit is about the 30% share and how Epic is so much better - which is not the point of the lawsuit at all.

You're making a bunch of baseless claims. The lawsuit clearly talks about the Steam agreement and MFN, as quoted in the article. They can't link directly to the agreement, as Valve (like most companies) keep their actual agreements private. This is basic business stuff.

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Quoting: kuhpunktLiam linked the Tweet from Sweeney (which is what the lawsuit refers to, not the contract!) and people called him out already back in 2019.

The lawsuit does not only link to that, as is made clear from the article it is talking about the Steam agreement. The Tweet was just mentioned as an example of it.

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Quoting: RafiLinuxIs it possible for linux users to just get the game itself and play without the launchers?

Use Legendary for that, linked in the article.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeProbably quite a lot, as it gives games a bit more marketing than they otherwise would in the now flooded Linux game space. I remember there was a time when Steam first came to Linux where I would try to buy as much as I could (as long as it wasn't clearly just garbage), but had to stop as there were just too damn many games coming out!

I remember trying to write about every single thing too, back then I actually could, now each game I cover means another misses out....

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Updated article with a note on a Linux job currently going with Intel.

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Quoting: rea987Finally, a fine review of the tool. Тhank you!

Inbox is always open for suggestions 👍👀🐧

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