Triptych Games? Hope the development does not take forever. :P

And since I have already done the customary DNF joke, can people keep themselves from making the furry comments please? We all know it happened with Lugaru...

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Linux does not have too much of anything, we just need more of others.

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I guess it is a question of sales versus maintenance. How much work is it to get the titles on there may I ask?

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Quoting: edgleyTrue, we will never know for sure what their full agenda was -- however, Linux was such a minor competitor and generally speaking regarded as only something for hobbyists, I can't imagine that they would have pre-emptively tried to strike it down *on purpose*.

Linux was being viewed as being a potential threat by Microsoft for years beforehand (and it was, especially in the server market where MS lost out) so it is conceivable that Apple could have had a side motivation to side-line Linux, although I definitely agree it was not really what they set out to do with those commercials. 

This idea that Linux only recently became interesting or a source for potential for growth that seems to be asserted by your posts is not true at all however. Yes, Linux has grown since then, but we are actually not in that much of a different position than we were back when those advertisements were posted. We are just as interesting now as we were then, so if we did not matter then we do not matter now. It certainly has not changed much over the many years I have been using Linux - we have always been there just off the radar, on the cusp of something great. Realizing that has just been harder than many people would have thought, at least on the desktop space.

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Considering Dirk Dashing 2 is already on the service, do you have any plans to put this new Special Edition of Dirk Dashing on Desura?

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The thing is this would not be the first time that a Kickstarter were to fail for having too high an asking price to be suitable for the platform. I am thinking of Interstellar Marines here, which got a lot of money and a lot of contributors but threw it all away by having too high an asking price. Certain games take a lot of money to develop yes, but there is only so much one can reasonable expect to get from Kickstarter. That is my fear with this, but they still could hit it if they get the word out enough.

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This was actually mentioned on GoL before in August 2011, but things went up in the air with it. Glad to see they are committing to a DRM free release as for awhile it looked like it was going to be Steam only. The goal is a little high though, but they probably will still hit it.

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Still says "FEATURED PC GAMES" for the Windows listings though... *sigh*.

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To be fair, it was not so much trolling as asking a question. There is a difference. I would not head the Twitter comment that much as everything on Twitter is borderline troll by it's very nature, but that was definitely not the way his thoughts were presented on reddit.

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Carmack is discussing things with businessmen though, which part of the problem. See the quote I highlighted. Taken in those terms I can understand why he has decided upon the direction he has taken, even if it makes me dislike the Zenimax acquisition even more. I can also understand even more why TTimo jumped ship.

Still, as a side note, has anyone else here read David Kushner's excellent book Masters of Doom? I think that should be required reading for anyone before they attempt to make a character assassination of either Carmack or Romero.

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