Was very hyped for this - then they decided to change the game from a "rogue like" indie to "AAA: story arc" and double the price "because consoles"

Maybe it will still be worth it but I doubt I'll be picking it up on launch

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Have they fixed the anoying virtual desktop thing when you play in a resolution lower than your desktop? IE 1920 on 4k screen where you suddenly scroll out of the game on to the desktop :|

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Blood Bowl 2
The Dishonored series
Theif series
BioShock

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Looks like it could be fun - to quote the great poet "Hulk smash!"

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Minecraft pocket edition ( though with the 1.2 update I suppose it's just 'Minecraft' now ), although playing is perhaps overstating it I seem to spend most of my time on trying to make the mcpelauncher easier to compile for newbies xD

Also I've been trying ( and failing ) to get Blood bowl 2 running on wine

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Linux as a stretch goal is never a good sign, I've yet to see any deliver on that. Worse still it's not even it's own stretch goal, it's an "EXTRA STORY CHAPTER" with "Mac & Linux" tagged on at the end seemingly as an afterthought - all of that for $100K ?

Think I'll wait for the review of the released version, because that does not sound very viable

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I assume it's paid promotion ( no problem with that, except please state it ) but shouldn't the links have referer?

I've looked at them before what ends up putting me off it is - no option for Danish or Nordic keyboard, and no option to have it pre-installed with LMDE- I mean I know I can just install that my self, but if I'm buying a Linux laptop I want it ready to go while it still have that freshly unboxed smell, otherwise it just another laptop that need to be installed

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"impossible" ... please, unless you run your severs on raw iron ( and nobody does this any more ) increasing capacity is simply adjusting a slider - even if valve hosted everything them selves you can still rent addition cpu's and ram. Hell back in 2005 IBM provided us with enough standby capacity for the servers we bought to triple the capacity with just a phone call to (de-)active them. Similarly network bandwidth should not be a problem ( neighter inside your datacenter nor into ).
As for banks - I have some serious doubts that even the dinkiest payment processer would pay much attention to the steam sale given just how much traffic they are usually dealing with.

No the reason you are getting those "try again later" pages ( served by their varnish server when ever the backends are too slow to respond ) is because they are choosing not to make the investment, and it's easy to see why - any other shop you would just visit the competition, here being no competition people simply return at a later time providing what is in it self a form of load balancing I suppose.

All that said it has gotten a hell of a lot better this year - guessing some pencil pusher has crunched the numbers on just how long we are willing to wait before for getting that we wanted to spend money ;)

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As clock work the auth servers went down, it's almost impressive that they still haven't managed to do a setup that can handle spikes. But then they properly can't afford to hire a decent network guy :P

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Quoting: Beamboom

I may need to enlist help from [...] Linux gaming pros to help make it happen though.

That quote does not sound promising though. The need for other professionals to make it happen sounds like severe issues and a fundamental lack of ability to fix them.

I'm fairly certain that quote is means they need help from Linux gamers to alpha test - a lot of developers are still very intimidated by the number of distros.

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