Quoting: Liam DaweI get the Giana Sisters situation wasn't great but as we know sometimes ports just don't work out. Humble certainly aren't the only one to fail on a port, but they definitely could have communicated it better.

Feral, VP, Aspyr and plenty of others either cancelled ports entirely, or put out ports that really weren't great as did many other developers. Linux was a different world back then, much much smaller than it is now, I see no reason to hold such things against them when they offer up good deals.

I think it's just that they were the first to disappoint, at least for me :D

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Quoting: WorMzyI'm still bitter about the Giana Sisters debacle. Fuck Humble.

Quoting: ShabbyXYeah, that's _exactly_ thr bundle after which I stopped paying any attention to Humble whatsoever.

Not that I care about Giana Sisters in any way, but it was the promise that wasn't delivered that killed the bundles for me.

I've only been in the Linux-gaming scene for a couple of years, so I missed this. What happened?

Maybe WorMzy could provide more details (as to why he called it a debacle), but what I remember is there were a few bundles with all games supporting Linux, then came one where the top-tier game (the one you need to pay above average / more than X$), which was Giana Sisters, did not have a Linux build at the time of the bundle sale, but they said it would "come soon".

At the time, Linux games were not as plenty, and apparently that was a good game or something, so pretty much every Linux gamer who bought the bundle bought it especially for that game. They kept saying they'll release the Linux build at some point, and it never happened. Hence the bitter feelings.

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Quoting: WorMzyI'm still bitter about the Giana Sisters debacle. Fuck Humble.

Yeah, that's _exactly_ the bundle after which I stopped paying any attention to Humble whatsoever.

Not that I care about Giana Sisters in any way, but it was the promise that wasn't delivered that killed the bundles for me.

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Humble bundle having all-linux games is what got me to switch over to Linux back in 2012~13. Remember Linux gamers having the highest pay on average? Those days.

Didn't take them long until their games were not even _mostly_ native Linux games and they quickly became irrelevant to me. Shame.

Luckily, Steam!

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Liam, it would be nice to have the native vs proton status right next to the title name like you do in other articles.

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> pay the full €1.6m fine

Peanuts for Valve I'm sure. I wonder if the cost of lawyers trying to fight it was even worth it, lol

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I always thought about making a game with "the real map". If only I had time to make games :-S

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Quoting: pete910

Quoting: MohandevirMhm!

https://kotaku.com/unity-developer-fee-installs-john-riccitiello-sold-stoc-1850834439

If true, suspicious to say the least...

I have no idea how shares/stocks work but wouldn't that be classed as insider trading ?

Yes, hence Mohandevir's "Mhm!"

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Next, stock would be down, and a certain evil company is going to buy them.

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Apple does care about gaming. I don't own a mac or iWhatever, so I don't have firsthand data, but I know that:

- iOS gaming is *much* bugger than Android gaming
- Some developers prefer to write Vulkan apps on Mac, over MoltenVk, just because the metal debug tools are better than Vulkan's

So, no, metal was not a gimmick for their own internal use. They forced it on iOS, it has great tools apparently, and it *is* successful.

I know, it's unfortunate, and I wish Vulkan was in a better situation, but it is what it is.

So Apple may or may not care about gaming on *mac* (I would argue we don't know, because we don't have numbers from their store). But it very clearly does care about *gaming*, and they are being very successful about it.

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