I have to admit I had very little interest in this game... until I read this review!... Great job on these articles!

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Am I the only one that wants Humble Store/Bundle to support cryptocurrencies?... I know most people have access to USD, PayPal and credit cards... But there's a few of us, who live in crappy, authoritarian, Banana Republic crountries that restrict access to those assets. Only cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Litecoin...) are really usable for us to purchase things outside. Videogames might be a "shallow" thing to desire, but that's why sales like these are even more attractive to us, these are the few occations we, nerds/geeks can afford to buy some games to distract us from those crappy moments in life for a few hours.

It would be really great for Steam to re-add BTC funding, btw. Hopefully they'll do it soon, since BTC fees are lower than ever. (and high fees was the reason they remove it a couple months ago).

(something tells me this might be a "controversial" comment, hopefully people will understand that developing countries are in very different situations and people really struggle to be able to buy stuff that in other countries are a few clicks away).

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Atari stated something about it missing a "key element on our checklist"

My guess is that they'll use AMDs new Ryzen V embedded processor (like the Smach Z portable game console) and they were waiting to finalize the related paperwork to announce it properly... But again, that's just my guess.

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Not a big fan of he Humble Store for my own eccentric reasons, but this is one of the games I most wanted to have... I was waiting for a sale, but this is fantastic!

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Ohhh... What a stupid mistake I made... Sorry, for some weird reason when I refreshed the page, it showed me information about 2010 stats!... I didn't notice that until now. Sorry for the stupid mistake, I wasn't trying to create controversy or anything. I should be (much) more careful before posting comments here. Again, sorry.

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Aaand Netmarketshare revised ALL the history of Linux data... now we barely pass the 1% marketshare. Ouch!

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This game and developers have all my respect!

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Here's my theory of the huge increase in just 1-2 months...

I think it's a little bit of several factors, all playing in favor of Linux.

First of all, I'm not so convinced that the increase is due to an increase in ChromeOS. Two different statistics sites that separate Linux and ChromeOS actually register a decrease in ChromeOS marketshare over the last 1-2 months while registering an increase in Linux's marketshare.

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide [External Link]

https://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp [External Link]

So, honestly, I think Linux is really growing... The reason in my opinion:

The recent events over the past few months: the WannaCry and Petya debacles were huge in the news and a significant number of people and businesses were affected, making them consider (and apparently take action) on switching to Linux. In the past (5-10 years ago), events like these might have turned people to Linux, but Linux 5-10 years ago was still to "hostile" for the average user (hello, wireless connections) and they just went back to Windows (that was my case)... Today? Things have improved A LOT. Hardware now works out of the box, driver performance and features are everyday closer to Windows levels, GUIs for programs are replacing the daunting CLI stuff... Things are getting much more "average user friendly".

So, I really think people are slowly turning their heads over to Linux... This rate of adoption will slow down a lot over the next weeks while the ransomware fears dissipate, but I still think we will stay over 3% and maybe reach 4% by the beginning of 2018.

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I tell you this, I'm from a country where almost nobody can afford games, even at ~3$ or something like that (you can guess the crappy country I'm at)... But as soon as I can (a couple of months or less), I'll pay for this game, hopefully full price and not on a sale... or even better, they could sell it directly from their site and get a better chunk of the money. I'll see what's the best way to thank those guys for such a humbling decision!... As Liam said, massive respect for the developers!

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: ertuquequenot to mention the absolutely unjustified "Capitalization Of Every Word In His News Titles".

That's how they format headlines in the US. It's common practise.

I know it is a common practice in the US, but that's a really bad habit! (and I'm very glad you guys in the UK and other places don't do that)... It's not that uncommon to stop for a few seconds trying to understand a title that says something like: "People Claim That An Apple Is Better Than Other Brands"... It would be much easier to immediately understand it if it just said: "People claim that an Apple is better than other brands"... That way you know they're referring to the Apple brand and not just an apple fruit... This not-that-uncommon problem defies the very purpose of a title, which is to give a quick look at the content of the article. I'm not a native English speaker by any means (Latin America here), the English I've learned is basically self taught, and from time to time I find myself having better grammar than native English speakers. (The same thing happens -probably more- with Spanish articles/posts). But it's frustrating to see that in what are more or less "high profile" web sites. Not to mention that when I've pointed grammar mistakes or bad habits on these sites, responses are "dismissive" in the best of cases.

Just in case, I find the grammar in this site to be VERY, VERY good, and the "For spelling, grammar and other corrections click here" button is absolutely well thought and a professional way of addressing those problems.

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