Quoting: qptain NemoI don't understand the connection some people make between reducing cuts for people making Linux ports and developers making bad ports as the result.

Laziness. Some companies already make bad ports even in the absence of incentives. If Valve offered "free money" to anyone putting up a Linux port on the store, you don't think even more companies would put in minimal effort to tick the box and take that extra cash? That wouldn't be the first time people try to game the system; just recently one of Valve's announcements mentioned "developers (...) producing 'games' that generated revenue without anyone actually buying and playing them [External Link]" by abusing the trading card system. Putting up a Linux executable that barely launches sounds easy in comparison.

There is no doubt in my mind that bad or soon-unsupported ports would (continue to) happen, which leaves Valve with a choice of either paying those companies for nothing or policing their software. We all know Valve like to leave moderation to others, but I doubt they would enjoy losing money for the heck of it either. And with Steam Play working the way it does now, a bad port is more detrimental than no port for us Linux gamers. So Valve would essentially be giving some devs a bigger cut for preventing us from playing their games on Steam.

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And they did beat the stretch goal by 25 grand.

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Quoting: subI like that tweet

https://twitter.com/retroremakes/status/1070080659887144961 [External Link]

Um, most of that kind of went right over my head. What's so great and different about Epic's store other than the lower cut?

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Quoting: orochi_kyoAlso to be competency of Steam you have to be more than just a store.

I don't mean to be an ass, but since you used it several times: the word you are looking for is competitor :)

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Quoting: liamdaweI think people need to look outside the bubble for a moment. Look at what happened with Steam, we didn't think it was really coming and it eventually did. At that time, Valve also had nothing on Linux.

Why are people instantly counting Epic out, when the situation is the same? Like I said in the article, there's no other "open" platform left - it's got to be Linux.

Ouya!

Uh.....FreeBSD!

Hmm....give me time, I'm sure I can think of something else.

The Atari thing? :)

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And cows. And nuns. And old people...

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Would be great if you can get a word with THQ, Liam, to confirm their feelings about a Linux port. This disgrace has been sitting in my Steam library unplayed for so long.

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Since no one mentioned this, a flushing point is also this:

A flushing point is a capped pipe which is accessible on the surface for maintenance. Blockages can be cleaned or flushed out. They can be found at pipe junctions or where small-bore sewers are connected to a conventional sewerage.

I don't know too much about Bioshock, but I can see how that allusion to an underworld and the art style would call the games to mind.

Any games out there that pertain to Greek sewer systems?

Failing that, perhaps the words are meant to be taken as an access point to the underground more generally, and the image might be intended to represent death/hell/hades. Something to do with the gates of hell?

For what it's worth, Hellgate: London happens to have been rereleased on Steam very recently [External Link].

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I wish I could filter out DLCs on GOG like Steam does. Four pages of mostly NWN, PoE and Tyranny addons is so bothersome to sift through.

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Quoting: KimyrielleI wouldn't be surprised if this will be the last such game we will see from Obsidian. MS isn't interested in gaming other than X-box, and the classic RPG genre Obsidian is operating in doesn't translate at all to consoles. I still wonder why they bought that particular studio, which seems to have next to no synergy with the sort of games MS is usually doing. We're probably going to see Pillars of Eternity: The Shooter, rather.

Maybe they'd want to mix some of their acquisitions to make a new series of 3D RPGs, either 1st- or 3rd-person. Ninja Theory working on the 3D and Obsidian on the writing and RPG ruleset, for example. Maybe compete with Dragon Age or something.

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