I'm assuming he's measuring the cost of the thing by porting costs and support costs. Soooo with any luck, since SM2 is not using a home-brewed engine, the porting/support costs will be low enough that the time to profitability will be a lot shorter.

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Quoting: JanneI spent waay too many hours on Uridium on the C64. Looks a little dated but still plays really well.

Now, if we could get a modern remake of Paradroid...

Not sure if it can be called "modern", but there is this http://www.puppygames.net/droid-assault/

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPThinking about this some more, Steam is in most cases used as a DRM, but there are whole lists of DRM-free games on Steam.
Guess I should have put a "usually" in my initial statement. As in: If you buy a game from Steam, it will usually contain Steam as a DRM measure. If you buy a game from GOG, it will never (?) contain any DRM measure.

That's better, but I still don't think this discussion belongs here. In most cases it falls under "off topic", which a lot of forum mods on various sites will slap users on the wrist for, with good reason.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: rustybroomhandleBecause someone will "correct" the numerous wrong things you said in your comment. This will be followed by someone "correcting" them, and someone "correcting" them, etc etc etc until 8 pages later nobody has anything to say about the article any more.

It's a religious war - nobody ever changes their opinion, nobody ever "wins".

This has nothing to do with opinions.

And yet, if I pointed out the FACT that you are able to copy and play Steam games that don't use Steam DRM without Steam, you would find some lame excuse about why I must be wrong.

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceThose that wish to see a DRM free version can vote here:

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/apocryph

how you know if the steam version is with DRM? it doesnt have multiplayer afaik, so it probably wont use steamworks and if the developers do not add any other DRM stuff then its DRM free there also

Steam is in itself a kind of DRM.

Not this again ... Can't we continue that one in the forums?

Why?
I was just correcting a wrong assumption.

Because someone will "correct" the numerous wrong things you said in your comment. This will be followed by someone "correcting" them, and someone "correcting" them, etc etc etc until 8 pages later nobody has anything to say about the article any more.

It's a religious war - nobody ever changes their opinion, nobody ever "wins".

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I vote we add a 'no more DRM "debates" in article comments' rule to the TOS so we never have to endure this tedium outside the forum again.

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Quoting: slaapliedjesince we are getting it late, they should give us a discount

No, why? Linux is just another platform release. You're not being cheated.

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Quoting: BrissePort radar suggests LiS:BtS were supposed to be released first, so I'm curious if a release of that is imminent, or maybe the port radar was inaccurate. Anyway, really looking forward to RotTR.

The port radar is meant to tease and confound. I would not trust it as a release schedule.

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They claim they are also back to making games again. Couuuuld be that they're going to try the hardware game again, but take a page out of the PS/MS/NIN playbook and do some kind of exclusives. If that happens though, I predict it'll only work if it's Half Life 3 - which they'll never make. Ergo, I predict another bomb.

Valve might not be the benevolent saints some make them out to be, but in the realm of playing dirty they are quite far from the likes of the above mentioned other companies. This is a good thing, but also the reason they will not succeed against those companies with this venture.

The general public don't care if they're getting screwed over. People *might* be persuaded to care for half a minute, for example when Facebook leaks all their personal data, but they'll quickly go back to not caring.

I think most people want shackles. They want authority telling them what to buy and what products to use. Proprietary lock-ins and such are viewed as normal. "Exclusive" is seen as a feature of a product, not a failure.

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What a coincidence, that is also the title of my sex tape!

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