Oooooo! I haven't played anything like this since 1983, when [Crush! Crumble! Chomp!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush,_Crumble_and_Chomp!) came out for my C-64!

Raaaaaarrrrrr!!

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If I understand how this all works (and that's a mighty big "IF") it seems to me that the core of the problem lies in the keys themselves.

It would seem that the fix for Dev/Pubs would be to either stop issuing keys or expect that they'll need to spend X dollars/euros/etc each year in determining whether a key is fraudulent or not and then rolling that into the asking price of the game.

If the devs want to sell games through their own site to individuals then they could sell actual digital downloads only---wouldn't that remove them from the key market entirely?

If someone like Humble Bundle wanted to sell the dev's game, then Humble would license the right from the devs to also sell actual downloads. If Humble wanted to sell versions of a game that could be downloaded within Steam, then similarly they would need to take that up with Steam in addition to obtaining the right to do so from the dev/publisher.

Maybe we're seeing the beginning of the end of the key reseller market entirely. A system that sprung up to fill a niche until another (largely criminal) system obsolesced it.

But like I said, I don't understand this whole thing very well. This is just what I'm able to glean from what little online reading I did before writing this.

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Are there any rumors that D9VK might be adopted officially into Proton/SteamPlay?

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Quoting: FaalagornSteam Controller Controller :)

I kinda wish I'd have one though – I prefer KB+M over all the controllers I tested so far (Xboxes, Playstations, Gamecube, Switch, reto consoles or the generic ones…), thouhg I'd love to give Steam Controller a try. I kinda hope they will get a huge sale like steam links someday, maybe with the release of v2 if it ever comes to it, as the price and shipping from Valve is really expensive and no local retailers have it anyway.

It's worth it when it's only on a "minor" price break of $34.00, especially if you're a K&M person. I pre-ordered my first controller and I've put literally thousands of hours of playtime onto it since then.

On one hand, the Steam Controller is the best controller available in terms of configurability and precision, it will never be quite as precise as a proper mouse. On the other hand it will always be way more comfortable on a couch than a keyboard.

When you finally get your Steam Controller (one of us! one of us!) be sure to download Kozec's fantastic sc-controller [External Link]so you can use your SC whether you're using Steam or not.

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Happy Birth-versary! I'm gonna leave it at that right now and reserve a spot as early as a I can in what will surely be hundreds of congratulations. I don't even want to read the whole article just yet cause I'm betting a page or two will fill up in that time. Ooo I better shut up and post this!

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Quoting: lowpolyinteractiveBy showing us your interested (via the wishlist) we will have an idea how many of you want it and we can plan accordingly.

Wishlisted! I love the graphic design! (Especially popping bodies like blood baloons with a single blow! SPLAT! Thumbs up there.) I do wonder, though. Liam says it's an action RPG, but I don't see the RPG tag associated with the game on Steam. Is it an RPG, afterall?

Thanks for giving Linux some love. What we lack in market share, we make up with Liberty, so that's pretty nice. :D

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The only reason I upgraded my 960 was to play Just Cause 3, and that turned out to be a problem with too little RAM more than anything else. So now I have a 1070 in my Linux box and I don't see replacing that for many years yet. At that point I'll consider an AMD GPU. I always do. (The only reason I've ever steered clear is the number of issues reported on /r/linux_gaming seem greater on AMD than NVidia ... but that seems to be changing.)

I've never had problems with the Nvidia drivers working that I know of, except they don't work with Wayland and some bug that Nvidia patched shortly after release. And the hardware has been rock-solid for me, at least from EVGA and PNY. I've passed my original 660 and 750ti on to my Bro in law and they're still chugging away for him, no probs.

Buy well, buy once. That's what I say.

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I like that Mint does these mini-comps, though I'm too cheap to ever consider purchasing one. I've upgraded my original build over the years. Total it's cost about what the cheap Mint Box costs, but my box is much more powerful and I can continue to make incremental improvements pretty much forever. But that's on me, not Linux Mint. I'm sure it's a great little machine for what it is.

Re: Snaps. I give them a mighty "meh." They're fat, lolling imbecilic creatures that have no place in the speedy and efficient Linux ecosystem, imho. (I've yet to find one that can even see my data partition, let alone access it.) I like Flatpak the most of the three distro-agnostic package systems, but I like repos or Git sources the best of all.

It irks me so much that I have to investigate every item in the Software Center that I'm thinking of installing on my system, to make sure it's not a Snap, that I use Synaptic or cli almost exclusively. Ironically, the only thing I do install via the Software Center is Flatpaks. XD

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I can't get through a week without a really solid act of irreversible Stupidity, so I'm inclined to give them a pass. I've made several attempts to get into the game but the build system is just so klunky, and the control schema seems unnecessarily complicated---I'll try again, to be sure, but multiplayer play won't be missed at my house.

Their decision to release the game for free strikes me as sincere mea culpa and is appreciated. I'd absolutely love to see them release the source code as I can imagine the Community transforming this game into something quite spectacular.

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Generations of crop-eating insects have come and gone in my veggie garden in the time I haven't looked at this game. It's grown up so big and beautiful now. Thanks Bearded Giant for thinking of Linux and shining some love on us! :)

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