IMHO, these statistics are very unstable right now. There probably will be up & down until we have more games (especially AAA titles). I believe that steam statistic is based on play time, if it true that good Humble Indie Bundle probably means positive impact to numbers.

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Quoting: s_dThis is a very strong indication that Nordic Games (i.e., JoWooD Entertainment) is responsible for this.

So what?, they do what they want.

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I guess later better than newer. Still It would be nice to hear something more than "hopefully".

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Quoting: HamishA lot of people promoted the arrival of Steam to people like us by saying that we would get other non-direct benefits from it, but so far it seems like we received a whole bunch of games we can not play unless we bend our principles,  which has actually caused a lot of people to do just that, including game developers, which is the greatest shame.

You know The Linux Game Tome will shut down on April 13. Yea because actually nobody care even maintaining one of DRM-Free game site. It's easy to blame game developers, but you need remember that they programming not for hobby but for living if they fail - they bankrupt, lose jobs. Even greatest HB sales would be nothing to AAA game company. To be fair how many money people in most cases spend on HB.. yea not much mostly lover than 10$ for let say for 5 games. What I trying to say DRM-Free in gaming industrial never really existed. Yea there was some exceptional cases but mostly because A) They were small and want free advertise (DRM-Free is great marketing buzzword) B) They really don't care any more, because game was launched long ago so it basically nothing to lose (who wanted game - already purchase or pirated). And no.. there no "C)". If you ever think that game company made game DRM-Free because of morality you are very wrong, or too young to understand how business work (hint: there no such thing like morality in business). Now if we take a look to greatest hobby-based games (I'm talking about open source games) like tux-racer it still sucks more than "crash bandicoot racing" (13+ years old PS1 game). That means that open source games evolving freaking slow. Easy to guess why.. because lack of donations, people just don't bother to spend money for game which they can download for free.

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