THAT is beyond awesome!
And it is only the start of this week...
I really can't wait to see what will happen next.

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Personally I'm using KDE for over 4 years now. So I obviously join the group recommending it to you Liam. As far as I have seen from planetkde they are really active and plasma 5 is shaping up quite nicely. Really can't wait for the stable release.^^
For everyone using the terminal on a regular basis I recommend to try out the yakuake package (kde's version of the guake terminal of gnome) as well... ;o)

Back to the topic at hand: Just as Fraghopper wrote a separate overview of the numbers (in textform) would be great. Even though I am interested in the overall trends I mostly want to know the current values taken from the survey.

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Quoting: DCentOne question: Dead Island has been indexed in Germany and so I can't buy it on Steam. However, if I buy a Steam code at another shop and redeem it for my account, will I be able to play it in my country?

Heyho DCent.
I used to buy games from within germany through externals shops delivering the dvd (I used to collect those). Dead Island was one of them and needed to be registered through steamkey. There was no problem regarding that... If you are buying it as a steam key through a shop, there wouldn't be too much of a difference I guess. :)

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Mhmmm...To be honest: Not surprised at all.
Obviously a case of "One [platform] to find them [..]". ;)
Steam Achievement unlocked: Build an attractive environment for developers. :P

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From my point of view I see the following:

As was said before the Linux Distros are missing one thing, both Windows and OSX have. Standards on industrial Level. Standards any Developer follows, any Developer knows about, any Developer trusts in to be static and supported. Something thats not whimsical and dynamic. As TheEnigmatic said before they fear that support stops the moment a Design decision splits the Developers. From my Point of View the Bunch of Linux Distros in general are like a Cluster of Cells that constantly evolves through survival of the fittest. Thats why Linux biggest strength (and (from my point of view) advantage towards Windows (and OSX?)) lies in chaos, evolution and flexibility. Yet still the Linux Distros in general, just like a Cell, need an Interface on the outer side that won't change that much, so they still get information and nutrition. Something that secures stability while the inner parts evolve as they see fit. Isn't that the purpose of Programming Interfaces in general? As I said before I might be missing something here...

Even though I still am not at a Level to say something like this (by far :D):
Are they at fault for wanting what is established in every Industry to reduce the costs?
Or are we at fault for not providing something like that?

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Actually I'm not the type to comment on topics like this, but I'll go out of my way this time around. I'm new to this site, no native english speaker and this is my first english post in quite a long time as well so bear with me.

I use Linux OS like Kubuntu and arch with KDE for about 4 years now and am studying computer engineering. Even so, it is obvious to me that i don't quite know a lot about Linux in comparison to some of you guys. So please help me out if I am missing something here.

Reading all this I know one thing for sure:
We have to look at this from both sides of the coin...

This whole topic is not about *we* as a small community against them as businessmen. Being pissed at their decision won't get us anywhere. We are the ones who want something from them, while they are making their decisions, after all. We want more support from them, so we, as gamers, can enjoy what we want to enjoy the most: Games.

Therefore neither a flamewar nor a counter to every argument will get us anywhere. TheEnigmatic came to us after all, even though he knew something like that was coming up. Wouldn't it be wiser to analyze what was said? Actio et Reatio...

Example:
For them, this decision obviously NEEDS to be about money. It simply is their job after all. But there is much more to this: Even IF we have the necessary amount of interest in games AND the necessary amount of money to make them interested, the whole process of support OBVIOUSLY is the actual issue here.

As was said way earlier (too lazy to quote/cite this) we as a community are united AND divided. Our freedom of choice (actually the current system behind it) simply is a curse and a gift at the same time. This whole issue obviously is about the "curse" part right there.

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