I am sure that if it does get on Steam eventually you could talk the developer into getting Desura to supply purchasers with Steam keys. Desura plays nice that way.

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The bitching about the company "wasting time on Linux" in the comments was a little distressing though. :(

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The trailer definitely makes the game look a lot more appealing.

Still, blasting things with Tommy Guns in the far north? Were have I seen that before? :P

Not that that is a bad thing mind. ;)

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It looks a bit rough but it is being alpha funded - and I would really like to see more Indie FPS games.

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I still think that Greenlight is only a half-measure which only somewhat levels the playing field for independent developers. This does definitely show why the need for other services such as Desura and the like are so important.

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Quoting: "Hyeron, post: 7535, member: 223"Because the odds increase no one will listen to the one in the corner saying "just go with tgz and be done with it, dammit"?

Or a MojoSetup installer.... or a NixInstaller... or just like what everyone else has done.

How much trouble has multiple distros done to HIB? I can not think of that much problems that were distro specific.

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Why is it that the more developers a studio has, the more scared they are of multiple Linux distros? :rolleyes:

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Quoting: "Hyeron, post: 7528, member: 223"More seriously, I couldn't care less. Blizzard, eh? Not a cash cow, sorry. Plus they can stick their DRM where the sun doesn't shine.

What is Blizzard DRM like then? The last Blizzard title I have played is Warcraft II. :P

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For me the potential value of Steam will be demonstrated if I start seeing games that were ported to Linux for Steam become available through other services or directly from the developer. If there is one place where Humble Bundle was always a problem it was with the fact that many games disappeared after being in the Bundle; ironically enough many of these missing games may come out on Steam now. But the problem for me still persists as I want to play games on Linux and not games on Steam (which I could in theory live with) or especially Steamworks (which I can't). I have heard people assure me that this will happen and we will see something of a trickle down (to use a rather noxious metaphor) of titles appearing at other places, but 2013 will be the time to prove it.

I am glad for Liam commenting on the future of free drivers, but to be honest for me the free drivers have been fulfilling my needs for over a year. Every title I have thrown at them except Bastion (which I need to look into again) has been running great and this is all without Marek's recent awesomeness upstream or OpenGL 3. And this includes games like Trine 2, Amnesia, Torchlight, and Rochard which may not be the ultimate in graphics (well, except maybe Trine 2) but certainly are not leaving my hardware alone. For me it is Nvidia that is irrelevant, with great experiences with both my AMD hardware and my brother's Intel GMA on proper in-kernel drivers. I am certainly not interested in going back to the blobs anytime soon.

Thankfully Desura does seem to be more appealing in many ways to traditional Linux developers so it has an advantage there. It is great to see Runesoft putting in such interest for instance, and I hope that will be a relationship that developers want to continue. Desura has also not burned as many bridges as Valve has, and while Greenlight has been soothing some wounds, I do hope Desura can leverage that to keep it successful. It has certainly not been doing a bad job for itself, the need for a new proper client release aside.

We will see how many Kickstarters succeed but I honestly have no idea what will happen there. Things could go so many different ways.

So while not being all that enthused about things going in the next year, I can consider myself to be vaguely comfortable about things as matter stand.

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Quoting: "Cheeseness, post: 7456, member: 122"The thing is though, the Humble Bundle guys are probably in a prime position to assemble a translation team (in house, external, community driven, etc. - whatever method used, the ongoing/regular nature would help bring responsibility/accountability that could ensure decent translations) that they could offer/contract out to bundle participants. It would be pretty neat to see them raise the bar for indie games a bit by encouraging/requiring participants to have a minimum set of translations.

Definitely a good idea. humblebundle.fr anyone? ;)

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