Quoting: skryThey offered me a refund. Still, I'm really, really disappointed but let them keep that 15USD just because the game itself deserves it.

I don't know what the game deserves, but the community deserves to at least have people who pull moves like that pay back the money. If nobody goes and gets their refund, the message is you can pull stunts like this and keep the cash. I think your sentiment is misplaced and would strongly hope that others will not "let them keep that 15USD".

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Quoting: burnallGood, but where are all upcoming games that will support Vulkan now? The list still looks quite static on wikipedia, except some Android games.

No, I think the order goes the other way. First, the spec becomes available and whatnot. Then, you get tools for using it and the graphics card drivers make it even work on people's computers. Sub-step: The drivers and tools reach the point where it runs well and fast.
After that, people writing games will start to think it could be worth using it in their game. There's no point using Vulkan in your game if that means buyers won't be able to run it. So, news like this represents important steps. Only after a few more steps of this sort will it be worth asking where the games are, because right now doing a game using Vulkan is an experiment, not a commercial decision.

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Quoting: liamdaweNo, this comes direct from Aspyr Media as linked to in the article. They have also commented on reddit now too:

QuoteWe are still investigating the technical feasibility of it. I say that because we will NOT bring a substandard version to Linux, no matter how much we want to see that happen.

Huh. I wonder why they want so badly to see a substandard version on Linux, and who's stopping them. ;)
(I mean, they say they want "that" to happen)

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As Edmund Blackadder once said, "I think it rhymes with 'clucking bell'"

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Quoting: EhvisIt's difficult what to make of the reviews. This game has a pretty low rating, but most of the reviews on the front page are positive. Which contrasts quite a lot with "Valley", which has a very high rating but quite a few bad reviews on the front page.

Word of advice: Ignore amateur "reviews", read real reviews to make up your mind.

Why?
Sure, real reviewers are on average more practiced at writing well and analyzing gameplay elements and so on. But if I'm an average gamer, it's also the case that the ratings of average gamers may be closer to my experience than those of reviewers, who are not average gamers but rather jaded aficionados and so may, for instance, put a higher value on novelty than I would and generally like somewhat different games.
Not only that, but professional reviewers generally have significant systematic motivations other than giving the most honest or objective reviews. There definitely seems to be, for instance, a serious skew towards over-positive reviews of big hyped AAA games.

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Quoting: Mountain ManI still wish Valve was more proactive about promoting Linux/SteamOS. If you're particularly cynical, you could strike the word "more" from the previous sentence.

It's not ready yet. You don't get a second chance to make a first impression.

Steam for Linux has been out for nearly three-years. It's long past the point of first-impressions.

Very true. And yet it's also true that it's not ready yet, which brings us back to your previous point about wishing Valve were (more) proactive. If they got the lead out, it would be ready.
My best hope at the moment is, they're waiting for Vulkan to become widespread; then they'll go for it, slot in the multimedia support and such that Steam Machines need, and do a relaunch. A bit forlorn though.

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Quoting: skinnyrafLast Saturday: a survey on my Debian box, yay! The previous weekend: I had to launch Steam in desktop mode on my Steam Machine to repair it and, yay, a Steam survey on SteamOS :)

Yay! Um, except I thought SteamOS didn't display at all on the survey. So your response got lost in the ether I guess. That's another unknown: Would Linux be noticeably bigger if SteamOS were included? (Probably not, to be honest, but Valve are certainly playing their cards close to their chest on that)

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So it's a futuristic top-down mech shooter. Well, that's nice, I was so sick of all those medieval-setting mech shooters.

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OK, so here's a question, and maybe an article: At the current rate of growth in number of games for Linux and for Mac, how long before Linux has as many games as Mac?
(Assuming they're converging at all. If Linux and Mac are getting games at roughly the same rate, you'd see a situation where Linux has a larger and larger percentage of what Mac has, but never gets to 100%. Although, even if that's how it is now, I agree that Linux is likely to start overtaking in future if trends continue--like, if and when Vulkan starts seeing serious uptake, Mac ports/versions will be noticeably harder than Linux ports. And Apple does tend to be pretty stubborn about their NIH syndrome)

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Quoting: RadialAppsOur site is facing the GOL Effect! The primary site is dead due to huge traffic from here :D

Well, that's pretty cool! Wonder if Liam ever expected the site to have an "Effect"?

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