It was inevitable. Apple's success is to no small degree based on the vendor lock-in on the App Store. It allows them to control every single aspect of the market for extra profit, as they gain revenue from every single piece of software sold for their system. I am sure whenever they met for a coffee, MS executives went "Gah, why didn't we lock down our OS while we had the chance? People take that crap from Apple and every gaming console ever made, they would have taken it from Windows as well!". And since ever then they are looking for ways to move in that direction. It doesn't take a crystal ball to foresee the future of Windows, which will be just as locked down as iOS one day. Win 10 was a great step in that direction already. They took away people's control over their systems and can remote patch whatever they want now without people having a chance to decline. With Secure Boot, they technically control what OS a PC can still boot. Gabe Newell isn't a seer and doesn't need to be, he's just a guy who understands how corporate CEOs tick, because he's one of them. The "Open PC" was a fluke of history we need to be grateful for, and it happened only because IBM didn't realize that who controls the OS controls the platform's entire ecosystem. No corporation these days would do it that way again, and if the PC doesn't survive as a computing device, we will never see an open technology platform ever again either. We will have locked down computers, locked down consoles, locked down phones, locked down tablets and locked down cars. In such a world there is no need for companies like Steam and Gabe knows that.

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1. Fallout 4,
2. SWTOR,
3. Skyrim,
4. Any other AAA MMO
5. Rise of the Tomb Raider

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Exclusives are a thoroughly evil and wicked form of marketing, and I really wonder when people start to realize that it doesn't do any good for customers. The word literally means "locked out". In that case from certain games that are not available on your platform of choice for no good reason other than a goon company throwing big money at a studio to exclude you and make you feel bad about not buying THEIR product. How again is that a good thing? I am glad that SteamOS doesn't do them. We can leave being evil to Microsoft and Sony.

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Having seasonal weather patterns would have been awesome, but this is still a great addition to the game. *runs off to buy*

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Nice to see that a studio cares about the product and customers enough to release an update like that for free. HBS is turning into one of my favourite studios.

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Shame to lose a high profile port, but as things look, Arkham Knight will always be a prime example of a game failed due to developer rush and bad project management. There will be other games for us.

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I bought this game a while ago, but haven't really found the time to properly play it. I really need to!

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Awesome news. Not only because we're getting a great AAA title, but also because that would mean Square Enix moving to support Linux (which if I am not totally mistaken they didn't do so far.) SE is an absolute quality publisher, and I'd love them supporting Linux with all their games.

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Quoting: KeyrockAlso, do we need to report a "milestone" every 100 now? Once you hit 1000, maybe report milestones at 1500, 2000, 3000, 5000, etc.

This.

At this time I am less interested in sheer numbers because we're doing well enough in this regard. We have reached a threshold where it's no longer really interesting if 1,000, 2,000 or 10,000 games are available. Like with Windows, the largest part of these games isn't terribly good, so this number isn't telling us much anymore. From this point on I'd be more interested in a measurement of -quality- games we're getting. Like the % of current top 50 bestselling games on Steam that have a Linux version available. I don't think such a number is readily available, though.

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In the end, what he thinks or doesn't think isn't important to me. He's just one small indie dev who happened to make a reasonably successful game. There are hundreds more like him out there and more joining in on supporting Linux each day. I suppose they wouldn't do that if they wouldn't see some sort of benefit in doing it. I would be worried if Gary's company would be the only one making Linux games, be it's not. We see so much support these days that we can just go buy something else. *shrug*

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