Well, it is still a bit early for anyone to get panicky yet. It is not as if Linden Labs has been hostile to Linux in the past, so I think we should just wait and see what happens with regards to everything. That being said, when I have the opportunity I might just download the few games I have on there that are not from Humble Bundle just in case, and I might just wait for a bit before buying anything new. Just in case.

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I might spring for the current Humble Weekly Sale as then I can get the Hard Times DLC for Rochard outside of Steam or buying the whole game again through their Humble Store widget for full price. Is this the first Weekly sale that is completely true to the main bundles, or were there any before it that I missed?

They also have this nice addition to their description:

Rochard was also the premiere title to debut the Unity game engine on Linux! Unity powers a number of amazing titles and its presence on Linux can only broaden the horizons for cross-platform gaming everywhere.

See, I am not impossible to please. :P

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Quoting: CheesenessThe most relevant reason for distinguishing, of course (and this responds a little to Hamish's post), is native support, which the Weekly Sales have been established as not being a reliable source for. I'm definitely not denying that Humble is diminished and made "less special" by not sticking to its guns on the cross-platform, DRM free and "no middlemen" angles, but I do think that if they want to explore that stuff, relegating it to a separate, lesser product is certainly more favourable than polluting their core offerings.

Oh, it is certainly better than pulling another straight THQ one. But it all does seems a lot like what the Molson Canadian brand has become - about thirteen years ago they had this big patriotic advertisement push, the most famous being the whole "I am Canadian!" spiel they came up with which was widely parodied. Then they got bought out by Coors, and no longer were Canadian. And yet they still play the same card, trying to pump up national pride while the money earned heads south of the border, even though a large part of their previous advertisements was playing on (admittedly gentle) anti-American sentiment. The beer is still there, and objectively the same, but the spirit behind it is soiled, and their advertisements feel like feeble protestations.

Draw whatever parallels you like between that and Humble Bundle, but I can not help but feel the DRM free side of the main bundles now feel like weak protestations. I still appreciate them being there, appreciate their products, but I am under no illusion I am buying into something greater. And considering that is the message that was originally sold, it can only feel like a betrayal. At least there is still the charity aspect...

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As to people complaining about the performance of Unity games, I have only played Rochard as of yet, but it ran just fine on my older card with free software drivers. So bad performance certainly does not seem to be some kind of rule with it.

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It was already in my Desura shopping cart, for the time someday in the future when I can actually empty it. Got about $50 worth of games I would be interested in sitting in there waiting to be cleared (with most of the cost being Salvation Prophecy).

Regardless, another fine example of why a Steam monopoly would be a bad thing to promote.

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Quoting: CheesenessThe Telltale stuff hasn't been in a Humble Bundle though (only a Humble Weekly Sale to date), which I think is important to differentiate - Too many people have trouble telling Humble's different brands apart.

I do not think the problem is telling them apart, but actually caring about the distinction. All are done under the Humble label, and that is why I find it so damaging for them to espouse DRM free gaming in one venue and completely ignore it in another. One can, and in some ways should, see how they are handling this and come to the conclusion that not even the Humble guys are really that interested in ensuring that we have DRM free games. Thus we loose one of our largest stalwarts and are made to look weak, ineffective, and uncommitted.

I know this rant is somewhat off topic, but considering the email I got from them is entitled "Get six awesome games for Steam and Android!", the whole situation seems worthy of commenting on, as they are not even willing to truly promote this bundle's DRM free nature in a message to their followers. I have subsequently unsubscribed from the Humble Bundle's mailing list. If they put something up I may be interested in I will learn it from GoL, but if they are no longer truly committed to being DRM free, I can no longer be committed to them, and as such there is no point for me to have a subscription.

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Is this game going to be Steam only, or will it be more generously spread?

Sorry for coming late to this particular party, been very busy.

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If there is a darker theme made, I may consider using it. This one does feel a tad too bright for my personal taste.

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Quoting: s_dThe porting crew at Humble have done so much publicly, with open-source engines, tools, and other goodies, that they have made it easier for all Linux devs to port and distribute games.  Heck, for the indies I'm working with, I'll be packaging up their Linux games using MojoSetup, by icculus himself!

You do not want to oversell your case there s_d; icculus was awesome long, long before Humble Bundle came along, and so was MojoSetup by the way. Much of what you pointed to there is still the result of Loki and their free tools from well over a decade ago. Even Edward Rudd was there cranking out Penumbra and Amnesia for us back in the day, a good time before he became Humble Bundles porting go-to guy. I am not disputing that HIB has done a lot for us in the past, but we do not need to change history to justify it.

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Quoting: berarmaFor me, this statistics could be seen as Valve's success/failure to sell his services to a certain kind of user that may prefer using DRM-free services like Desura or HIB.

Both of which often cater to Steam, but anyway...

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