Quoting: ColomboHowever, I would say that this idea is just plain wrong. Food, architecture, clothing... all those and many others are part of culture, but no one expect to get these things for free

Not quite - and this ties closely with how currently culture is organised into intellectual property. For example, you pay for food, but it is quite usual for recipes to be freely shared (similar to, say, how theatre groups can perform Shakespeare's plays) However, literature, music, films and video games are nowadays locked away into this legal framework which prohibits copying and insists that each and everyone who enjoys them pay a fee.

Don't mistake the idea of not charging each and every person individually with actually being free of charge.
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Back on topic, notice that even with my commie view on culture (^_^), if you participate you should make sure that when you want to contribute your contribution reaches the dev, so buying at shady sites like g2a should be a no-no.

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Its an interesting discussion - as I see it, roughly speaking, there seem to be two views clashing:

One side of the argument sees video games as goods/services. From this it easily follows that if you can't pay you don't get the stuff.

The other side of the argument sees video gaming as a cultural activity. Money barely enters the equations in this view: the street artist has to perform first, then if the audience liked it they pay, or not.

For myself, I sympathise much more with the second view. It seems to be much tougher on the artist since, if you adhere (maybe even partly) to the first view, they have to compete with free copies of their product. However, in the second view, if one is enjoying the culture, one makes sure to return a favour, which in modern times is making sure there's some money going to the artist in question when you can.

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you’re not entitled to anything.

Sorry, but this is extremely offensive. Blocking off people from cultural activities because of their financial situation or location is simply wrong.

That said, I rather think there's sufficiently convenient alternatives to shady store fronts to make this point moot.

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It's a bit saddening, really. In the steam forum they're pretending to prefer to refund rather than leave unhappy costumers. At the same time log is refusing to refund kickstarter backers despite not providing a drm-free version to those backers.

Developers like this are extremely damaging to crowdfunding efforts.

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Here's a first for gog community requests:

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/remove_armello_drm_free_edition_from_the_catalog_please [External Link]

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Quoting: ColomboSo why are people bitching about the last example even here? I thought that here is bit more intelligent community. But rather than intelligent posts, all I read here is just nonsensical bitching with make up reasons why it should be easy.

It's because the (support for the) DRM-free version got degraded after it was sold.

DRM-free was promised as far back as the kickstarter and, given how competitive that is, they may even not have succeeded without it.

Edit:
Just got it confirmed; kickstarter backers will NOT receive a refund (interestingly, still waiting for the drm-free version)

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Quoting: InverseTelecineI just yesterday watched the Jim Sterling video where he plays this on Itch.io. Looked fun!

I'm an American* so the British political angle of it goes over my head though. I hope no one takes offense.

View video on youtube.com

*Meaning place of birth. I'm not a nationalistic prick like some Americans. It's sad that I feel I have to make that distinction. :(

Because it's just too amusing not to know about it, here you go:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggate [External Link]

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Thanks for reminding me; I still need to play this (among the other bajillion humblebundle games is still have...)

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Quoting: grenadecxCool thing, but I've no respect for Phil Fish after his opinion about streaming content.

Anyone not following, here's an article about it:
Fez Creator Phil Fish: YouTubers Should Pay Game Devs "Huge Portion" of Revenue [External Link]

I know he is not the one porting it, but still, I suppose he gets revenue somewhere along the line.

Meh, as long as doesn't go around dmca-ing videos I couldn't care less...

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Quoting: ziabiceFinally the Humble Indie Bundle goes back to the original spirit, I'll buy it!

Am I wrong, or "Super Time Force Ultra" does it's debut on Linux?

Their core bundles have always been in the original spirit, all 17 of them.

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