Quoting: rkfgI participated in a closed beta test of one game, the dev sent the keys to activate the game on Steam. After the test and before the actual release they were revoked. I see this as a completely legit practice, they gave it for free and took it away later. There's no way for Steam to know if the key was paid for or just given away, maybe for a limited time so I don't see why this should be explicitly disabled for all developers. Of course, if it was a paid key that's been revoked just like this it's unacceptable but it's the first such case and it must be settled with Steam support and legal means. After all, that's not the only way the dev could scam the customers, they can ban them in-game using Steam IDs or remove the game for everybody (push empty depots or such). It's not possible to prevent this reliably.

No problem with free beta keys being revoked, happens all the time, especially to me when testing Linux builds for developers.

In the case of getting a key for supporting a developer early with your money, it's absolutely mad to take it away with reasons like this.

The bit I can't get over is this:

Sorry about that, but I thought I you weren't interested in playing the game.

That's a real face-palm.

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Quoting: SolitaryI don't think games bought directly on Steam are revokable. This key was beta key he got directly from the dev as part of the Itch.io deal.

Quoting: GuestIt even makes me wonder if there are games I have that are no longer there and I'm simply unaware of it honestly.

Most likely no games are missing. You might have not noticed, but someone else would. Don't make it bigger deal than it is.

Indeed, this situation is thankfully reasonably rare, doesn't change any facts of the matter though, still rubbish.

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Quoting: sr_ls_boyWhy not expand future sales pages to include officially whitelisted Proton games?

It's something I have been thinking on, holding off on it for a while until things calm down and to see how Valve will represent it on store pages.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: flesk

Quoting: GuestOn a side note, there was a 3D game with a very similar mechanic, but I can't remember the name. Dose anyone know it?

Maybe you're thinking of Hack 'n' Slash or else Heart.Break()?

- http://www.hacknslashthegame.com/ [External Link]
- http://elseheartbreak.com/ [External Link]

Both were very good games, and this one looks very interesting too.

No, it was first person. Thank you for the recommendations though. I'll add these to "Da' List"

That would be Glitchspace, which is now free: https://store.steampowered.com/app/290060/Glitchspace/ [External Link]

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Quoting: lod

Quoting: liamdaweLiterally the first thing noted in the article :wink:

shame on me ?

Shame. Shame. Shame. :wink:

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Quoting: lodAnother interesting Bundle - 6 Linux games https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/origins-bundle [External Link]

Literally the first thing noted in the article :wink:

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Quoting: KristianAm I crazy in thinking that if you wanted to refer to the number of cores you would use the word "cores, if you wanted to refer to the numbers of threads you would use the word" threads" and if you wanted to refer to the number of cpus, you would use the word "cpus".

To me a CPU is a physical thing I can hold in my hands. Using the word CPU to refer to both that and number of threads total seems confusing to me. How can you, using that terminology, distinguish between a situation with multiple separate physical units, and one multicore unit?

That was my problem and why I mentioned it, but apparently to some of the more technical minded folk using "CPUs" is fine due to how they work, essentially.

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Well, I was regretting even mentioning the wording, but hey it sparked some interesting discussion...

Going by the poll on Twitter that's still going: https://twitter.com/thenaughtysquid/status/1053053701211017217 [External Link] at time of writing 49% of 294 votes think they mean a separate CPU. Clearly this is something that people are split on.

I really do wonder, if I literally said in the article "27% of people have 4-6 CPUs" without mentioning the wording - how many comments would we get complaining on the other side hmm?

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Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo

Quoting: GuestI always love statistics that prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that 1080p and lower resolutions still form the vast majority of desktop pcs and that only a tiny minority uses 1440p and 4k. Not only Ubuntu's but Steam's statistics are similar.

I agree..
Sure, 4K will be an standard in 10 years, but today 1920x1080 is the queen, followed by 1366x768. Developers and game reviewers must take note on that..

Well, my testing is 99% on 1080p for GOL.

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Since it's made me genuinely very curious on the whole CPU wording thing and what people think it means, I did a little Twitter poll: https://twitter.com/thenaughtysquid/status/1053053701211017217 [External Link]

Also, red193, I do appreciate your comments (same as anyone else). I've gone and schooled myself a bit to read up on any differences between multi-core stuff and multiple sockets. Turns out, I really did know very little, so hey something interesting came about from this. Gotta own up to our shortcomings right?

Anyway, the poll is already quite interesting with the replies and the votes on it, I'm clearly not alone in how I felt.

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