Quoting: WorMzyI'm still bitter about the Giana Sisters debacle. Fuck Humble.

Yeah, that's _exactly_ the bundle after which I stopped paying any attention to Humble whatsoever.

Not that I care about Giana Sisters in any way, but it was the promise that wasn't delivered that killed the bundles for me.

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Humble bundle having all-linux games is what got me to switch over to Linux back in 2012~13. Remember Linux gamers having the highest pay on average? Those days.

Didn't take them long until their games were not even _mostly_ native Linux games and they quickly became irrelevant to me. Shame.

Luckily, Steam!

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Liam, it would be nice to have the native vs proton status right next to the title name like you do in other articles.

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> pay the full €1.6m fine

Peanuts for Valve I'm sure. I wonder if the cost of lawyers trying to fight it was even worth it, lol

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I always thought about making a game with "the real map". If only I had time to make games :-S

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Quoting: pete910

Quoting: MohandevirMhm!

https://kotaku.com/unity-developer-fee-installs-john-riccitiello-sold-stoc-1850834439

If true, suspicious to say the least...

I have no idea how shares/stocks work but wouldn't that be classed as insider trading ?

Yes, hence Mohandevir's "Mhm!"

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Next, stock would be down, and a certain evil company is going to buy them.

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Apple does care about gaming. I don't own a mac or iWhatever, so I don't have firsthand data, but I know that:

- iOS gaming is *much* bugger than Android gaming
- Some developers prefer to write Vulkan apps on Mac, over MoltenVk, just because the metal debug tools are better than Vulkan's

So, no, metal was not a gimmick for their own internal use. They forced it on iOS, it has great tools apparently, and it *is* successful.

I know, it's unfortunate, and I wish Vulkan was in a better situation, but it is what it is.

So Apple may or may not care about gaming on *mac* (I would argue we don't know, because we don't have numbers from their store). But it very clearly does care about *gaming*, and they are being very successful about it.

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Quoting: ExpandingManThere's quite a lot wrong with steam's review system, and frankly I spend more of my time bemoaning it than celebrating it. However, this is a great example to show that, whatever may be wrong with it, there are huge advantages to having user feedback built so prominently into a storefront. While the fact that so many people are playing the game suggests there's another side to the story, 9% positive reviews out of 10^5 is a sure sign that something is terribly wrong. When blizzard puts the game in their own isolated ecosystem it's far easier for them to pretend they didn't do anything wrong, but in steam they're, at least somewhat, held accountable for their despicable monetization shenanigans. I can only imagine that this kind of feedback has served as an underappreciated good incentive for other developers over the years in ways that have gone largely unnoticed.

They won't be held accountable. They'll just go complain to Valve and get all of the negative reviews removed.

They can't get articles like this scrubbed though, I'd still take the win ;)

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Quoting: GroganWhen I play that tonight, I'm going to pretend every headshot is Ubisoft :-)

Or better yet, stop supporting them by playing their games?

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