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Your Sunday paper has arrived, come pick up a copy and see what you might have missed out on lately.


The popular YouTube channel Gear Seekers have announced they're going to be testing GPUs on Linux, in addition to the regular Windows testing. Really good, as we need Linux being talked about and tested by bigger faces. It goes to show how things are changing though, we've seen multiple big YouTube channels start checking on Linux more and more.

Recently, a Twitter post from a developer/publisher talking about Linux gaming did the rounds on Reddit after a user asked them if Linux was worth it. This time it was Mike Rose from No More Robots (publisher of Descenders, Hypnospace Outlaw, Nowhere Prophet and more), showing about 0.8% sales from Linux and they claimed that "Linux itself is a nightmare anyway" due it being open source and different ways of having Linux setup.

We can argue about those above points all day but that wouldn't get us anywhere. Instead, have a chuckle at the Twitter post from game porter/developer Ryan "Icculus" Gordon (one from Ethan Lee too) and they make a good point, each time this happens more developers use it to avoid Linux. Unless something big happened to the Linux market share, it's just not worth asking right now. Not all bad though, the developer of Jupiter Hell certainly had something nice to say about supporting Linux.

ProtonDB, the handy unofficial website you can use to check Windows game compatibility with Steam Play Proton recently passed 10K games reported. Worth noting though, that is including native titles.

Onto some more positivity, the developer of the free game The Climate Trail mentioned their game is available for Linux on itch.io:

The Climate Trail is a Free multi-platform game about climate refugees fleeing ever worsening conditions after inaction on climate has rendered much of the USA (and the world) uninhabitable. The game combines the adventure and play of the journey north with visual novel elements where characters reveal how and why this climate apocalypse unfolded.

The developer of Intrepid, a sci-fi escape room game, emailed in to let us know their game is available on Linux. It's free to grab from itch.io and Steam, plus the code is up on GitHub if you're interested in learning from it (built with Godot Engine).

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sub Dec 1, 2019
Steam Autumn Sale:

Anyone else got his Steam Controller purchase cancelled?

Valve just sent me a refund right now without further explaining the case.

WTF?

(Sorry for the double post)

Edit: Okay (ofc) I'm not the only one ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/e3k2a9/steam_controller_shipping_status_cancelled/


Last edited by sub on 1 December 2019 at 4:10 pm UTC
Nezchan Dec 1, 2019
Mosaic is that soon? Tempting, so tempting...
dpanter Dec 1, 2019
Great little huge Sunday Funday roundup!
Guess I lucked out and got my SC order done quickly enough, Valve just sent me an email that it's being prepared for shipment.
sub Dec 1, 2019
Quoting: dpanterGreat little huge Sunday Funday roundup!
Guess I lucked out and got my SC order done quickly enough, Valve just sent me an email that it's being prepared for shipment.

Happy for you. :)

Yet, I'm a really angry at Valve.
Not sure about the legal situation in the US but here (Germany) I'm pretty sure,
that would be a contract that can't be single-sided cancelled in that way.
I'm particularly p*ssed about the communication (or better the lack of it).
I literally just got a notification that I got a refund.
That's all.


Last edited by sub on 1 December 2019 at 7:35 pm UTC
kaiman Dec 1, 2019
Quoting: subNot sure about the legal situation in the US but here (Germany) I'm pretty sure,
that would be a contract that can't be single-sided cancelled in that way.
Not sure about the content of Valve's terms and conditions, but I would assume they say something like "the contract will be concluded by us shipping your order". At least I've seen verbiage to that point in plenty of German online stores. In which case you're not only out of luck, but also out of any possible recourse.

That said, I'm always baffled when companies don't manage to keep tabs on their inventory and either sell more than they have in stock, or keep selling stuff they've actually ran out of. Had that happen to me a couple of times, with shops both small and large. But life goes on ...
sub Dec 1, 2019
Quoting: kaiman
Quoting: subNot sure about the legal situation in the US but here (Germany) I'm pretty sure,
that would be a contract that can't be single-sided cancelled in that way.
Not sure about the content of Valve's terms and conditions, but I would assume they say something like "the contract will be concluded by us shipping your order". At least I've seen verbiage to that point in plenty of German online stores. In which case you're not only out of luck, but also out of any possible recourse.

That said, I'm always baffled when companies don't manage to keep tabs on their inventory and either sell more than they have in stock, or keep selling stuff they've actually ran out of. Had that happen to me a couple of times, with shops both small and large. But life goes on ...

First off, life goes on, indeed. :)

Yet, terms and conditions have to be legal and conform to where you sell.
Thinking a big company like Valve is OFC always in good shape with their terms would be naive.
I want to see those terms "the contract will be concluded by us shipping your order".
I know terms like "the produce stays property of company xyz until delivered",
but that's a totally different thing.

The problem I see is that this case is legally covered by distortion of competition (not intentionally in the case for sure, but still - technically).
Make a very good offer - as it was in this case - attract customers and many of them will additionally buy other products. Then revert only that offer. WIN $$$.
I guess the simplified picture makes the problem clear and why EU considers this, among others, "unfair contract terms".
It was exactly like this in my case.
I bought a game with the SC and they just refunded the SC.
Not the whole purchase.
sub Dec 1, 2019
Quoting: GuestDid they refund the purchase to your bank account (if you paid via credit card for example), or just put the equivalent into the "steam wallet"?
The latter would be very bad form in my view, but of course depends on how it was paid for in the first place.

Bank account.
Yeah, just turning it into a coupon would be outright fraud.
sub Dec 2, 2019
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Quoting: sub
Quoting: GuestDid they refund the purchase to your bank account (if you paid via credit card for example), or just put the equivalent into the "steam wallet"?
The latter would be very bad form in my view, but of course depends on how it was paid for in the first place.

Were you getting a second/spare/whatever, or never had a steam controller to begin with?

It would have been my second one.
Bought the first ~ 3 years ago.
Eike Dec 3, 2019
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Quoting: subYet, I'm a really angry at Valve.
Not sure about the legal situation in the US but here (Germany) I'm pretty sure,
that would be a contract that can't be single-sided cancelled in that way.

I'm not sure either, but I read the situation is quite complicated from a legal point of view in Germany. What a company does is the offer to make an offer, you're making an offer to them, ... so you "buying" something is still not a contact from a legal point of view. I'm not sure when the contract is in effect, though.
CFWhitman Dec 7, 2019
Quoting: sub
Quoting: kaiman
Quoting: subNot sure about the legal situation in the US but here (Germany) I'm pretty sure,
that would be a contract that can't be single-sided cancelled in that way.
Not sure about the content of Valve's terms and conditions, but I would assume they say something like "the contract will be concluded by us shipping your order". At least I've seen verbiage to that point in plenty of German online stores. In which case you're not only out of luck, but also out of any possible recourse.

That said, I'm always baffled when companies don't manage to keep tabs on their inventory and either sell more than they have in stock, or keep selling stuff they've actually ran out of. Had that happen to me a couple of times, with shops both small and large. But life goes on ...

First off, life goes on, indeed. :)

Yet, terms and conditions have to be legal and conform to where you sell.
Thinking a big company like Valve is OFC always in good shape with their terms would be naive.
I want to see those terms "the contract will be concluded by us shipping your order".
I know terms like "the produce stays property of company xyz until delivered",
but that's a totally different thing.

The problem I see is that this case is legally covered by distortion of competition (not intentionally in the case for sure, but still - technically).
Make a very good offer - as it was in this case - attract customers and many of them will additionally buy other products. Then revert only that offer. WIN $$$.
I guess the simplified picture makes the problem clear and why EU considers this, among others, "unfair contract terms".
It was exactly like this in my case.
I bought a game with the SC and they just refunded the SC.
Not the whole purchase.

In the United States this tactic is known as "Bait and switch," and is illegal, but can be difficult to prove at times.


Last edited by CFWhitman on 7 December 2019 at 12:33 am UTC
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