That's the problem with Early Access / Multiplayer / Linux: I already got tired of looking at it on Twitch / Youtube before it even comes out. Same story with Rocket League. It's so last year, my excitement is already over because I've seen others play it for too long.

If I'm not the only one, we'll see worse Linux sales than it could have had if it wasn't an afterthought. So, if you want to be on Linux, do it right from the beginning. Or at least give us an alpha or beta like the Thea guys wisely decided to do.
Whether SteamOS really takes off or not, I feel we're way into the area where we can and should be picky.

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Quoting: CybolicIt's a bit like saying that Steam sounds like fraud because Valve is selling their own games on it.

Yes, I can see how it appears like that, but I think it's beyond the point.

Problems arise if there's a conflict of interest about which they are not that open. Let's say between you as a citizen investor in Steam and some big money companies. Some small-printed rule that says that Steam isn't actually obliged to give you a game or even produce one in return for your money but might rather pay dividends to bank xy instead if those guys decide to liquidate the whole operation. (A lot of real-estate-credits worked like that for example). Steam being open about actually holding shares of bank xy doesn't help you then, and it wouldn't be that cool anymore.

If there is such a rule, then I don't even care about the risk of it materializing but the conflict of interest alone is enough for me to not give them a single cent before they let me download a really good and finished game. Steam, Double Fine or whoever.

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Quoting: neffoThe video calls DoubleFine frauds. I think you are blaming the wrong person for the hyperbole!

The video claims that there is a questionable relationship between Double Fine and Fig who themselves allegedly operate in a grey area. If those claims hold any water, then yes, it's within my definition of fraud.

I go even further and say that those kinds of "investment" sites are ripe with it and just avoid the legal definition of fraud by an inch at best.

However, to decide whether Double Fine is such a case, one would have to check those facts presented, maybe refute it, not throw some boogeyman ad-hominems at anyone who dares to consider it, just as if any such suspicion against the company was ludicrous, given their history with consumer's prepaid money.

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Quoting: DarthBoSeriously? Are we still pandering to the gamergate narrative?

No, we're considering and debating a point that happens to have been brought up by Gamergate, amongst many others, as well.

What's noticeable is that it all went pretty relaxed with opinions from both sides, until you, with your initial comment, tried to derail it to the emotional level with categories like "evil" that nobody here really brought up against Double Fine.

You're free to hold any opinion you want and spend your money for whatever you want.
But please refrain from throwing some boogeyman BS at those of us who are barely weighting the facts out there a little differently than you do.
Thank you.

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Yes, thanks for posting this, although it isn't really news that some studios don't need crowdfunding to get a game going but just find it too convenient to dump all the risk on the consumer and cash in all the profit. Double Fine are known to be one of the worst offenders if you follow the news

Yes, Gamergate have their gripes with Tim Schafer too, exactly for those ant-consumer shenanigans. So what? Doesn't render the opinions in this video invalid, at least if you're none of the ad-hominem folks.

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Quoting: Mountain ManThat's pretty much my gold standard for the hack-n-slash genre, and while I regularly play Diablo 3 in Wine, I'd love to find a good native Linux alternative.

What's wrong with Torchlight 2? There are a lot of reviewers who think that it actually is the better game compared to Diablo 3.

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Personally, I would totally throw moar money at them but sadly, as soon as I thought that, my sock-puppet took away my credit card, looking at me like I'm some retard who can't be trusted with money.

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That's good news because OC3D is one of the best hardware reviewers out there.
I'm sure not only to me their advice has more weight than that of a dozen of those glorified unboxing channels that are so common nowadays.

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Quoting: OrkultusGot it to load fine, however i started the tutorial, and right when it was telling how to use WASD to look around in the map, it got stuck and wouldn't stop moving to the lower left of the screen.

It's a known upstream bug caused by an old Unity version they use. They already promised to make a build with the newer version soon.

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Quoting: BeamboomMy point is that we are so small that they can't be bothered with grabbing the potential economical outcome from it. They sell their copy on the other platforms - presumably they'd do the same on our platform, had only the potential been big enough. And it's (apparently) not. Cause we're so small.

Yeah, I get you, beggars getting a free meal, served with a pitying face.
Only that there wasn't a pitying face but one of respect in our capabilities as a gaming community, like we're MacGyver or something. [External Link]

In my view it's more like a deal in this case or a challenge. Our reputation saved the day, that while we do not have the numbers, we might actually get a piece of software running on our computers that they created blindly and without any experience whatsoever.
Or so they thought. Turns out it was a pretty good shot they took. We had to do barely anything other than point out that AVPro Windows Media sucks.

To me, there's also a lesson in this: Not some hunting for Joe Sixpack ease of use number game won this uphill battle, but the very reputation as tinkerers the Linux platform already owns, that things fly here that would just plain crash on other platforms.

Read the full thread I linked to:
Linux build? - Here, have a branch, Password "IwantLinux2work"
Apple branch too? - "Nope. I have no apples at home unless they sponsor that thing"

Tell me that isn't just awesome, without any sting.

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