Well, as they already have the Demo on Linux, they know what they are doing.
I think the PS4 announcement helped boosting the funding to reach the first stretch goal a lot sooner than without.

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My list of games, where a Linux port was announced, secretly hinted at or at least were hopes for:

- Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
- Gas Guzzlers Extreme
- Evolve
- Elite: Dangerous
- Darksiders and Darksiders 2

But I'm afraid none of these are going to happen anymore. Too bad, so sad.

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Quoting: liamdaweI've adjusted that one bit

Thank you!

Quoting: liamdawethe rest of the editorial stands. G2A built a business around key reselling, they know fully well this is a big repeating issue.

Key reselling would not be a big earner if it was just legit sales. I will never buy from G2A and I stand by my thoughts on them.

I'm wondering, as G2A states, they don't take a share of the price, just the commission they get from their payment providers. This could be not the truth of course.
So it's just the mass of sales. And those are probably quite high, when the prices of the games are cheap.
On the other hand that would also work with completely legit keys. Sad that the credit card system allows it so easily to do fraud and the scammers win.

I'm just thinking about it... isn't there any law that forbids knowingly selling stuff that is stolen? Like dealing in stolen goods? There has to be a way to get justice for tinyBuild!

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Wait a sec... imho it's okay to point this issue out, but putting customers on the same level as scammers goes to far.

What's the problem of blacklisting those illegally bought keys? If they show up in a keystore, they won't work and the keystore has to deal with it. Immediately their reputation goes down and automatically no one buys anything there anymore.

Of course it would be nice of G2A if they would help tinyBuild in this issue, but it's up to them. If they don't check those keys, and they are working... why should they bother? For them it seems to be a correct key. If the key doesn't work, they have to deal with it and refund the customer.

Is it a problem to blacklist those keys? I have no idea, so I'm asking.

As far as I am concerned, I've never heard before, that G2A is selling illegal keys intentionally. And I know this store for a while now. There was a similar issue with Ubisoft's Far Cry 3, but this didn't affect only G2A as keystore. So the article should be rewritten, with a warning that this issue exists with this particular game/developer/publisher, but not accusing customers of G2A being no better than scammers in general! Let the readers judge for themselves, just from the facts.

edit: after having read tinyBuilds article, they do the same: "Make your own conclusions"

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The information about the steam summer sale leaked already a while ago, as a dev or publisher didn't care about Valve's NDA :-/
http://www.vg247.com/2016/05/16/steam-summer-sale-2016-dates-leaked/ [External Link]

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It's for quite a while true, that about 8 of the 10 most played games on steam are available to Linux/SteamOS. Already about half a year already, if not even longer. And among them are always about 3 of Valve's own productions. That's quite cool, but it didn't help increasing the Linux share on Steam (yet?).

For getting LoL run on Linux, check out this link: http://metaphysical.zz.mu/league-of-legends/lol-on-linux-the-three-ways/ [External Link]

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Really great news.
But there is a drop of bitterness for me... as a german customer I can't buy the Dead Island series through the steam store. So even though I own the original games, I can't get the advantage of the discount :-(

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It would be interesting how many people in total are getting the survey. I would guess it's a percentage of all users chosen randomly. So probably a lot of Windows and Mac users also don't get the survey. But maybe they aren't eager for it. I remember the times, when I got annoyed by the survey on Windows :->
Now I would be happy to get it on Linux.

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Looks like SteamOS or also Valve's approach to Linux is... solid. It's not blasting through the ceiling as many of us wish. Sure, the facts show we get more and more games for Linux via Steam, Humble and GOG. But still are some of the popular AAA titles missing, which people really want to have.
Many of the Linux gamers, including me, maybe are getting used to the situation, that we already have a lot of good games on Linux. But we want more, and we are getting to a point, where we don't want to wait.
And here is the problem. Valve's progress is a slow approach. They are continuing support as we see it, but they are not hyping or pushing it. (We are responsible for doing the hype! :D)
Also a fact is, that most of the games don't get a day 1 release for SteamOS/Linux. Atm I can only think of XCom2 and Stellaris, there maybe more, but most games get ported afterwards.
And so the people mainly see the growing number of delayed ports, canceled ports, abandoned ports... and are starting to doubt. Also that VR is atm not officially supported is a bummer, especially as we all thought it would be supported on the official release date.
We still are treated as second class gamers, with delayed ports and mostly with ports which are not as performant as on Windows. But we are getting our games, and they are fun to play. So don't get me wrong, I'm happy with most ports, as I don't care if I have more FPS on this OS or the other, as long as it is well playable. But I understand people who say, they want to have the maximum performance possible their hardware offers.

Our patience will be tested for a while more, but it looks good that it's worth to wait.

Meanwhile, as already mentioned, make sure your purchases are counted as Linux purchases. This shows the devs and publishers the market is alive and interested in their games on our platform.
Also I think, it's better not to try convincing people to use Linux, but to show them the advantages and possibilites Linux offers... which might help them to overthink and get them convinced by themselves.

Don't stop gaming (on Linux!)

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Beware, this game is quite tricky. You have to decipher the hints, which makes so much fun if you succeed!
This game reminds me of Mc Pixel, but where you mostly use trial and error in Mc Pixel, you can use your brain in PDTA.
The endings (25 of them!) you can discover are funny, suprising, horrifying or all together. Decorade the wall in the background with pictures and light up all 25 lamps.

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