Regarding the "contributions of many" argument, I'd like to remind you of a dark time when Liam temporarily gave up actively participating in GOL and we went volunteer-only for a couple of days. While there definitely were contributions and many tried their best to pitch in, it was at best a hectic mess of chaos and destruction. So yeah, Liam is kinda an important figure here. Not to mention that the rest of us know perfectly well what kind of compensation we can expect when we write stuff. I for one have gotten way more than I could have ever expected.

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I think it's kinda funny how these discussions always tend to have at least one guy go "yeah, but I am poor and cannot afford games so I get them illegimately because human rights". Yeah, it's not like there are any free games out there that could potentially last you a lifetime. Nah, just gotta get those cool games and not settle for anything less.

Edit: Sorry, forgot some </sarcasm> tags there.

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Never ever buy games early. You are just potentially cutting into the profits of porting teams not to mention likely casting your consumer protection right out the window by doing that nonsense. Sure, you might get a "good deal" but at the same time you are not helping more games come to our platform and you are taking an unnecessary risk because we have NO IDEA how the game will turn out to be in the end. Even if you have absolute trust in the porting team's or developers' capability you are still taking a risk and sometimes even the good guys fail, so please just stop it.

Also, just to get them clicks, here's an article I wrote specifically about this nonsense.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismI skimmed the video and couldn't figure out what it is still.

Q: Would this say popup a notification in Gnome when GOL Steaming goes live or sit in my Systray? or

B: Is it just to show a funding goal on the streamers or my screen?

/Confused

It shows alerts on the livestream, so viewers (and the streamer) can easily see who followed the channel, subscribed or donated. It's essentially a way to reward those actions by giving the viewers a bit of screen time. You'd be surprised how much it seems to matter to some people that they get their username to show up for everyone watching.

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Hopefully they don't suddenly "forget" about Linux during the development process and end up with a massive amount of incompatible Windows-only middleware that destroys all chances of a Linux port in the end.

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Also won't be pledging. I usually don't pledge even when a game promises a Linux version as the main goal but a stretch goal is even more sketchy. Hopefully it ends up happening so that I can buy it as an actual product.

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Quoting: reaVerIn the Netherlands there's voices for a Nexit, in Denmark there may be a Dexit. So Samsai, is your country working towards a Sexit? :D

There's a joke going around that it would be called a "Finish". However, that nonsense isn't happening if I can prevent it.

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Quoting: wojtek88Is it a mandatory military service or are you the army men by choice?

Mandatory service with an option of serving without a gun or doing civilian service (basically just working for a lowered salary for a year).

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Quoting: reaVerNo a market place contains sellers and buyers. A store is one seller who owns the to be sold products (until sold) and a market place owns nothing. A store can sell to a market place. G2A owns none of the games. They are providing the market place, which is susceptible to the same problems of any real life market places. The organisation that facilitates these buyers and sellers with a means of meeting eachother by creating a direct online link or by allowing them to enter the market floor irl; is not responsible for each buyer/seller's actions.

Here's the thing, a marketplace is responsible for the stuff that is being sold there, even if the sellers and buyers are separate from the marketplace itself. Stolen or otherwise illegal products are not allowed to be there. It's the same thing with e-marketplaces just like with any and all websites ever: the website is responsible for all content on it regardless of the source, be it a webmaster or a random user.

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Quoting: qptain NemoAs far as I understand the process is roughly as follows:
· The scammer purchases a bunch of keys with their fake credit card.
· They get the keys.
· Only then their rigged credit card returns some kind of "oops, not really" response to the bank of the developer/store/whatever, effectively aborting/reversing the transaction.
As the result the scammer now has working keys for free.

There are also scammers that pretend to be game reviewers, livestreamers and youtubers and sell the promo keys they get. This likely only accounts for a small fraction of the fraudulent keys entering the market but it hurts people like us in addition to the developers.

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