Plus also Tangent and Khara animation studios in recent months.

To understand a little better why it's a easier for these big companies to invest in Blender rather than to develop their own tools, here is the video of Tangent CEO explaining how they worked on NextGen animation movie and why it's a better for them to invest money and developers in Blender:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZn3kCsw5D8 [External Link]

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Quoting: titiAnd I hope all this money does not put pressure on them so that we get new features in windows only one day :S:

No. Just check this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpE2B2QSsa0 [External Link]

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Well it's not incredible at all that Blender become so big. When you use it everyday you cannot but notice how polished it is compared to any software you've ever used. They are listening to their users, accepting proposals, the code, they are improving things every single day for years. Meanwhile, development of Maya and Max is so slow and they are losing users. But it wasn't like that before 2.80. They done absolutely fantastic work with it. If you didn't check it already, just search for NextGen animated movie. It was developed completely with Blender for Netflix by some guys. One Japanese 2D animation studio switched to Blender too. That screenshot is from Spring, short movie by Blender Animation Studios. You should check it also, if you already didn't.
It's much better for studios to invest money and development time into Blender than to do everything by themselves.

And Blender is my all time favorite software together with UE4. I just enjoy every moment using both of them.

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Quoting: Corben

It seems stupid to have a storefront that supports Mac but doesn’t support a platform 5x the market of Mac.

Where does this impression come from? From all statistics I've seen, Linux is never 5x the market of Mac.

And how many Macs out there are capable of running any game at all? :D
Number of Linux gaming machines is probably much bigger than that.

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Is there still a chance to get a key? :S:

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Valve knows what they are doing without any suggestions. I felt like an idiot just by reading this. They are not supporting Linux to fulfill your wishes, but because it's a right thing to do in this moment. I'm sure we all love technologies, computers and Games and Microsoft with their idiotic OSs is just destroying every enjoyment of using computers. Meanwhile, Linux just won everywhere and it needs a help now to become widely accepted as a gaming platform. That means serious graphic drivers and a lot of Games. Right now, if you read Reddit you will realize how difficult for people to install some games they want to play. You can see how many of them are trying. When Proton is finished and when there is no more difficulties that we are seeing now, that will be an other story. Linux OS will become a very good gaming platform very soon. That's exactly what the world needed in this moment.
And, Valve knows what they are doing. They released two very interesting games in just a week. It was a mistake not to continue doing that earlier, but they will improve that. It's not probably that some Epic store will win and take the place that Valve has.

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Does anybody know when Valve will release a new Proton version?

Also, what happen with the guy who got job to work on the audio? After he got employed, we never heard about him again..

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Shadow of the Total War

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I have a strange feeling that whatever I suggest they will port again some Total War thing. :(

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Off topic... Where the like button for comments disappeared?

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