Quoting: TheSHEEEPYou can blare about FOSS and idealism all you want, but if you have a choice between a small FOSS project that does what you want, but has like a handful of people developing it in their free time - and a closed source alternative that does the same thing and doesn't cost a lot, then you pick the closed source one if you can afford it and the support is known to be good.
Because that gives you access to people who are paid to aid you in your requests - while FOSS gives you the chance that nobody does anything about your issues or the whole project gets dropped.

To this, part of me wants to argue that I can pay anyone I choose to work on the FOSS solution if and when needed, if I'm going to pay anyway, but you would be right to counter that in many cases that would end up more expensive than a subscription/license-based model where the cost of development is shared by a number of customers. I still think it makes sense in several scenarios, though. When it comes to government entities, when you consider that it helps protect citizen data, creates local jobs and contributes to publicly-accessible software (i.e. added value for the entire population beyond your specific office's needs), preferring FOSS over proprietary solutions seems almost like a no-brainer and I'm eager to see more governments make the switch.

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Considering how much press the game got, that must have been one hell of an expensive porting job to only make back 25% of the cost without it even being properly finished. Too bad they didn't go with one of the more reputable porting houses.

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I wish I understood the gameplay from watching the trailer, but even at half speed I have no idea what's going on with that dial... :dizzy:

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Quoting: razing32Humm
Never knew my country had a games industry.
Well , even an indie one.

I do believe they mentioned other developers existing in Romania, perhaps even Transylvania itself, at some point. This particular team is originally part of a mobile-focused company, though, which I feel is a market that's probably easier to get into for small companies in atypical countries than console/PC gaming dev (since mobile games usually have a smaller scope).

Quoting: NanobangI imagine that the devs of this parody are intimate with his work. Straight, so called, 'Lovecraftian' games almost universally fail to convey the deeply unsettling 'otherness' of Lovecraft's world, but I could see a parody set in a Lovecraftian setting being wildly enjoyable, especially to the fan of good 'ol H.P..

Oh, they certainly are. They've made plenty of references to his works, sung songs about Chthulu and cited it as the main inspiration for the theme. But as far as I can tell this will be a comedy/parody above all, so I wouldn't really expect it to be actually disturbing.

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Backed it, they had a Linux demo from the start and I liked the style they had going :)

It's been a real passion project for them and I hope it does well after the countless extra hours they've put into it.

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Gotta love French animators :)

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This is tough. I'm not that big on puzzle games, but the aesthetic and sound look extremely nice and remind me of Epistory [External Link]. Will wait for reviews.

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Well, a lot of people here seemed to think he was too honest.

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Meanwhile I've put 20 hours in Faeria since they went buy-to-play and have been enjoying it. They have a lot more single-player content than when I first tried the beta, which is exactly what I'm interested in. The tactical positioning makes it more interesting to me than straight cards-on-a-table games.

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Quoting: Mountain ManAnother scam from a scam developer. I knew this game was a bad bet when they blew through their initial Kickstarter and Early Access funds in two-years with nothing to show for it and then asked customers to double-down with a second donation so they could start again from scratch. Anybody with any sense will stay far away from this trash.

How exactly is it a scam ? They have simply discontinued Linux support.. but they havent taken away the existing Linux builds.
Or are you just throwing abuse at the developer, which um.. is exactly what he's complained about?

How is pulling support for a platform that people have paid good money for not a scam? Whatever "abuse" he has received for his history of unethical business practices is fully deserved.

Every game stops getting support at some point, though. There's nothing dishonest about it. Considering this is an online game (if I'm not mistaken), I'm pretty confident their terms of service state something to the effect that they are not liable for the availability of the service at any given moment or for any specific duration. That's an inherent risk/finality to any kind of software that doesn't run fully on your own machine.

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