Quoting: reaVerEDIT: oh and also, gamergate found something: http://archive.is/tLs2H#selection-2587.0-2627.80 [External Link]
Seems to be a hoax up to some degree.

Gamergate "found" nothing. How the $450k was arrived at is explained by the developer themselves in the Gamasutra article, including that the amount assumes full price, and they have figures for the discounted sales in there too. Get off the GG train - they are anti-games, anti-gamer, anti-developer, anti-progress. There's no hoax or scandal here on the part of the developer.

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Quoting: drmothI think cross-platform development is pretty foreign to a lot of developers, because really they could automate Linux builds if they were smart

In this case though it shouldn't be since lead developer Nicholas Vining used to work for Loki. They've also been getting help from Ryan Gordon.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandle

Quoting: linuxgamerIs it worth it? The devs don't get (unlimited?) "free" steam copies or do they?

A dev can request as many keys for their game as desired.

I know a Developer creating a game they said Valve will only give them 500 steam keys.

I am a developer with a game on Steam. I have created thousands of keys thus far for various things. Never encountered any limit.

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The publisher is Techland, fyi.

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Quoting: linuxgamer

Quoting: rustybroomhandle

Quoting: linuxgamerIs it worth it? The devs don't get (unlimited?) "free" steam copies or do they?

A dev can request as many keys for their game as desired.

That's an invitation for abuse. They could create as many non-steam copies of their games as they like anyway (for testing and promotion purpose).

Perhaps. In the developer's stats panel, sales are separated into "Steam purchases" and "retail activations". The latter being any other place where you can get a Steam key - Humble, GoG, bundles, giveaways, store purchases, etc. This is why they are not limited - Valve is just happy to have people on their platform.

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Quoting: linuxgamerIs it worth it? The devs don't get (unlimited?) "free" steam copies or do they?

A dev can request as many keys for their game as desired.

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Yup, definitely pining for more of this sort of thing on Linux.

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Quoting: GuestGreat to have another MMO on Linux, as we need a lot more of those!

This is not an MMO.

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MC Hammer....

Total War: Warhammer ?

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: toorThis game has the best community I have ever seen. People are helpful and mature

But is into roleplaying or into mindless hack-n-slash / grinding? For instance WoW is the later.

When I played it was quite roleplay heavy with events frequently hosted by players. There were also a number of high level players just hanging around the starter area to help new players out.

There is quite a bit of grinding though, but not of the WoW-like variety (ie, repeating dungeon runs/raids to get gear drops etc.). It's more because the economy is player-managed, all gear is crafted, materials have to be gathered etc. It's grinding, but of the more leisurely variety.

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