I applaud their effort, we always need more keyboards, but with plenty of variations on Planck [External Link] and Ergodox [External Link] and the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard [External Link] already available, I'm not sure where exactly they'll be able to innovate. The current layout looks very squeezed and like it would require either a lot of hand movement or cramped finger gestures, so I'm not sure what benefits over a standard Tenkeyless or (better yet) a Planck they're going for.
Disclaimer: Still in love with my ErgoDox EZ.

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And with a soundtrack by OGRE [External Link]?! Insta-buy.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt does look nice but actually I can't hack the music. I had to stop the trailer halfway through.

Same, what awful bawling that was. Muted, it's just a very slow slideshow; really can't get a feel for how this plays or what the themes are (apart from maybe something about a terrible musical karaoke night).

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Is SGX actually used in any way on a standard Linux desktop though?

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: CybolicHmmm... I'm getting the good ol' "missing executable" error when trying to run the game.[...]

Have emailed both the dev and pr team to get it sorted.

Edit: They emailed back, it's solved.

I can confirm that it is indeed solved. Thanks Liam!

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Hmmm... I'm getting the good ol' "missing executable" error when trying to run the game.

EDIT: Seems the Linux depot is empty :/

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Quoting: scaine[...] there are MANY times I've bought a (admittedly low value) game just to show the dev a Linux sale and with no intention, or even desire, to play it. That they all counted as Windows sales because Steam can't be bothered to check a user agent is really, really painful.[...]

Same here; even bought some "AAA" titles that I don't really care about all that much, but where I wanted to show that there's a paying Linux audience.
It hadn't even crossed my mind that a user with only Linux selected in their preferences, using exclusively the client for Linux and purchasing using a browser identified as running on, yet again, Linux, might actually count as Windows.

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Quoting: Liam DaweGot a reply today from Valve to clarify other sales.

Desktop client takes the initial platform, then two weeks playtime to count. All others (Android, browser) default to Windows then two weeks playtime.

So do ensure you're playing what you buy. I've personally picked up loads on browser and not got around to... so all Windows, damn.

If they detect all browser as Windows, that would be terrible for my statistics. I didn't use Steam before I moved to Linux but practically all my purchases were done through the browser ... I'm not feeling too well about this :/

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Quoting: Linas

Quoting: bingusSame as if I buy something from an Android phone... is that technically counted as Linux?

Android is not a supported platform, so it simply defaults to Windows.

It'd be wonderful if it would default to the "Platform preferences" selection, in case the user only has one platform selected (like we've all hopefully done in order to please the wishlist algorithm).

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: TheSHEEEPAt least this way, the series can still be considered flawless - nowhere near the nightmare Fallout 3 was for Fallout fans (and that was actually a finished game that didn't go through development hell).

"Nightmare"? Perhaps, for edgy sheep. For the vast majority of proper gamers Fallout 3 was a masterpiece and GOTY of 2008. Btw, i used to play the original Fallouts as a teenager day 1 back when none of you even knew what they were. They only sold around 130k copies, after all.... So don't try to sell me the "you are just young and never played the classics" crap.

Let's keep things civil, shall we? Of course many people loved Fallout 3, including many players of the previous Fallout games, but it's no secret that a large part of the fans of the first two games, to this day, consider Fallout >3 to pale in comparison. There's really no need to talk about "edgy sheep", "proper gamers" and ageism that wasn't even in The SHEEEP's post when we're talking about a known divide in a fan group. Let's just respect each other's opinions without name calling and elitism, please.

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