Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: scaineIt's literally renting vs owning.

No, DRM is about restrictions. I.e. whether you are restricted in your usage after the purchase or not. Steam requires you to use the client to install the game. I.e. they don't sanction backups according to their terms of usage (except for using their own backup method, which again involves their client and etc.).

Whether they enforce it or not is already secondary. DRM-free store should not stop you from legally making backups. And they provide downloadable packages for such use case. DRMed stores quite explicitly avoid that, because they don't want you to back anything up.

So you're talking legal restrictions again. I had a look at the Steam Subscriber Agreement, but I'm definitely not a lawyer and couldn't find anything in there that said that un-installing Steam after installing a few DRM-free games was against the subscriber agreement.

Like, I could install Steam, buy Stellaris, un-install Steam and play Stellaris forever. Or I could buy Stellaris on SteamPowered, then use steamcmd to install it, so I don't even have to install the full steam client. No restrictions, unless you can find something in the Steam Subscriber Agreement that I missed.

[edit: I see now that you've already argued this to death with x_wing. I guess we'll disagree on this point then. No worries.]

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Quoting: einherjar

Quoting: eldakingThis is just a PR disaster. ...

Yes, a disaster that affects about 0,8% of his customers. Wow :O

Plus all the savvy dual booters, pundits, Windows users who'd like to see Linux do well, DRM-free advocates... they all know a PR disaster when they see one. Some won't care, and maybe it won't affect his bottom line. But it should have been handled trivially, instead of this absolute train wreck.

And I've just caught up with the comments. Wow. People really don't know what DRM is, huh? It's not about how easy it is to install. It's not about legality. It's not about "needing an account" to download. It's not about EULAs or the police kicking your door down.

It's literally renting vs owning. Steam's model is primarily to rent, but there's lots of stuff on Steam you can own, and the fact that Valve doesn't make it obvious that this is the case, or make it easy to take advantage of doesn't stop it being the case.

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Well, finally! Been looking forward to this one. Still ages away to be honest, but it's nice having an actual release date now, at least!! Insta-buy for me.

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I'm about five or six hours in and already losing a bit of motivation to play. There are no real markers on what to do next, so I end up generally just walking around the same areas a whole lot wondering what I'm missing. On the plus side, when you do find something you either previously overlooked, or didn't have the ability to change, it's quite rewarding. On the down side, I can't really be bothered with that trial and error repetition, so either I'm ditching this shortly, or I'm resorting to youtube playthroughs to shortcut the tedium.

I'm playing at 1080p on a GTX1080 and the performance is flawless, on max, no crashes suffered so far. I might have to turn off lens flare though, since it's constantly flaring in your face when you pick up a supraball with your upgraded gun. Pretty distracting.

Lovely game though, beautiful visuals and a really fun premise. It just needs some kind of quest/hint system to keep the player interested. I'll keep my eye on Supraland 2 for sure.

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Quoting: morbiusHellblade: Senua's Sacrifice works great in Proton, and that's the reason I got this bundle, but unfortunately, the game is a disappointment for me. Both combat and puzzling failed to impress me so far. There is a lot of style to the game, but in this case style didn't triumph over substance. I understand why this game had to be confusing and annoying, it's a game about mental illness after all, but it does nothing to help me want to play it. I'll endure a bit more, maybe it gets better as I go, but I doubt it.

I loved Hellblade and completed it over a weekend in two sittings. Loved the combat and thought the puzzle elements were incredibly well done - only one frustrating experience and a "doh!" moment when I solved it. Beautiful game, great experience.

Quoting: morbiusWarhammer 40,000: Mechanicus is a pleasent surprise, didn't even know it has Linux client. Looks like my kind of thing, I spent more time on TBS than any other games. On the down side, I know nothing about Warhammer 40,000 universe.

I very recently commented that I was about to buy this game! I held off and I'm delighted I did, since this is a real gem for a Humble Monthly. Looking forward to playing it

Quoting: morbiusThe rest I'll probably just trade away. Road Redemption does look sweet, but I doubt it would hold my attention for more than 15 minutes. I'll skip the next month, not for me.

Haha! Me too. I already have Surviving Mars and I have no interest in supporting the Kingdom Come devs with even a paltry Humble Monthly download - these guys kickstarted their game with the promise of Linux support, then unceremoniously decided to shaft us... I mean, the duplicity of it was staggering. Here's their response after THREE YEARS of non-delivery, despite the initial promise:

QuoteWe have no specific information for Linux/Mac unfortunately, even the analysis of the engine would take several months to have complete.

So, they promised Linux support fraudulently to gain interest and groundswell, then admitted three years later that they hadn't even done an analysis on their engine for Linux support. Total scum, imo. They found time to add consoles though. Funny that, eh?

Just as an aside, I found it funny how convoluted Humble make it to pause your subscription to the Humble Monthly. I wasn't exactly counting, but I think they ask "are you sure??" about 3 or 4 times in inventively different ways! You'll lose your 10% discount... are you sure? You'll not have access to the July games... are you sure? Here's a $2 discount this month... are you sure? :)

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If it has a right-thumbstick, I'm in. If it doesn't... meh. I'm probably keep using my wired Xbox360 controller that I've had for about 7 or 8 years now! I think I've used my SC about 2 hours total. If it's an FPS, I'm using mouse/keyboard and if it's a gamepad game, it almost always uses a right-thumbstick (the type of games I buy, that is).

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Finished the demo today and since it's a fiver off right now, I went ahead and bought it. Now I just have to find time to actually play it, since Sin's addiction to 7 Days to Die has me adding nearly literally hundreds of hours to that game instead!

Supraland demo wasn't perfect - it's one of those game, I suspect where you can't "miss" a section and continue playing. The demo requires you to unlock all five hidden golden barrels to actually progress and it's honestly not amazingly straight forward in such a complex 3D environment. But it's beautiful to look at, slick movement and nice interaction. Looking forward to playing the full game.

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Quoting: heidi.wenger

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: heidi.wengerPossibly the cyberpunkish atmospheres i've been searching for! I hope "The Last Night" will make it too: https://store.steampowered.com/app/612400/The_Last_Night/

I don't want to dredge gamergate up again, but I'm not supporting a CEO who was part of that movement

What's that?

If you sincerely don't know, consider yourself lucky! Bit of a depressing story to be honest.

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Quoting: heidi.wengerPossibly the cyberpunkish atmospheres i've been searching for! I hope "The Last Night" will make it too: https://store.steampowered.com/app/612400/The_Last_Night/

I don't want to dredge gamergate up again, but I'm not supporting a CEO who was part of that movement, regardless of how pretty his game looks. I think he's only changed his tune recently because Microsoft have stepped in as joint-publisher and told him to apologise publicly before money is lost. But then having MS on board is another red flag for me generally, so I'm going to give this one a miss, I think. Plenty other incredible games out there. Like, Encodya, in fact!

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Beautiful artwork. I'm not usually a fan of point-n-click adventures, but I might have to give this a go.

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