The steam deck discount looks nice. $360 for the basic one.

One can buy a quality 512Gb NVME drive for, what $100 or less.

So you get the $650 one for the price of $450!

Not bad!!

Although I'd have to justify gaming enough to buy one, lol 😆🤣😆

And System Shock is 20% off! That's a buy for me!

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Crap... and I just started Skyrim for the first time, lol.... Although I'm not finding it very compelling. I'll have to try it some more, maybe it gets better!!

But starfield looks interesting. I love the scifi setting and it looks like a more fleshed out version of Elite or No Man's Sky, which would be awesome!!

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Quoting: elmapulinst that one of the first games to have linux support?

The original had Linux support in 2003 after it was released. It was the prolly the first commercial Linux game I played.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyFrankly, this kind of sounds like their buyouts were leveraged from the start

Well yeah, that's how, was far as I know, almost every industry works... On credit.

When I worked in construction, our company owner would joke "The entire industry would freeze if any one actually tried to collect their bills!!"

Even small business do the same. A deli owner friend of mine remarked how he didn't turn a profit for his first 5 years and how that was the average for his industry/region. That's 5 years with everything on credit and even if he did make some profit, the debt is still there.

I'm some cases, paying off debts is considered a waste of money as you get higher yields investing that money vs the savings from paying early (or at all), especially in during our past decade where interest rates were low.

Of course, that can bite people and companies when expected investments fall apart, as it seems to have done here.

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Skyrim's a classic?? I kinda forgot it's 12 years old....

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It's a very smart looking case. I'd totally consider this for my next ITX build (if I can fit a full size GPU in there, lol)

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: denyasisI couldn't think of the right words earlier, but I think what bugs me about Itch is that it feels like they are saying to the artists "You won't make much, but We'll pay you with exposure!", which seems like a pretty big no-no in a lot of freelance/artist circles and coupling that the promo of "changing lives" toward the consumer. To me, it feels worse that just a blatant "Gay Pride!!" sale.

To be clear, it's really nothing like that. 99% of bundles on itch.io are run by the developers directly, there's only certain special itch bundles that are from them. And, on itch.io, developers can set to give itch literally nothing. Like this bundle, you can see clearly who has organised it, other than hosting it itch have nothing to do with the creation or push behind it.

Thanks for the clarification! I do see on the page where it's founded by 2 individuals. Although to the casual reader (like me) the separation from itch isn't exactly obvious (for example that you can make/host your own bundle isn't something I knew about).

So yeah, I think it does indeed remove the scammy nature of it and looking at past years it seems like last year they netted about 540USD for each artist. Which I think is pretty good.

I think one could argue the semantics of whether of not those funds are "life-changing" and the implied promises of the text, but it's certain their hearts are in the right place. And who knows, with enough sucess, this could really help out some of those people!!

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Quoting: mircalla

Quoting: denyasisI'm still all for supporting the community and we definitely need more diverse voices in games, I just wish the marketing around this was a little less... Corporate-y (or perhaps more honest)

I'm willing to cut itch way more slack on "happy pride! buy buy buy!" than I am for Pepsi, Target, airlines, etc, but I do feel some kind of way about it becoming an annual institution.

Perhaps. I must admit I think I'm a bit of the opposite; I think I cut those big stores a little more slack. They seem a little more honest (if not still cold and calculating) in that they are unabashedly doing it as a promo (and some of them actually offer products that can be kinda useful for people in those communities)

I couldn't think of the right words earlier, but I think what bugs me about Itch is that it feels like they are saying to the artists "You won't make much, but We'll pay you with exposure!", which seems like a pretty big no-no in a lot of freelance/artist circles and coupling that the promo of "changing lives" toward the consumer. To me, it feels worse that just a blatant "Gay Pride!!" sale.

I hope that makes some sense

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I've only played Hollow Knight (and it was great!), But I don't know if I'd play it again, lol. The frustrating, hard, gameplay certainly makes for a great feeling when you finally beat a section, but fills me with angst if I think about playing again.

That said, opinions on Rain World? It and Hollow Knight seem the most kid-friendly. Might be fun to play it with them.

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Quoting: legluondunetIt's important and a real step forward to represent human diversity in video games.

100% agree!!

But, reading the blurb Itch put out (quoted above), feels disingenuous on their part. If they reach their 13,000 USD goal, with 293 creaters.... That's 44USD a paid to each creator (assuming itch takes no cut, before taxes etc).

That's not exactly "life changing."

I'm still all for supporting the community and we definitely need more diverse voices in games, I just wish the marketing around this was a little less... Corporate-y (or perhaps more honest)

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