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Re: Humble Indie Bundle 9 released

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Post by ekianjo »

shmerl wrote: post #82
ekianjo wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah but GOG clearly said they do not want to support Linux distributions anyway, so I'm not sure what you are hoping for. I prefer supporting Steam which in turn helps more ports to Linux, rather than waiting for something that may never come from GOG.

I won't start using Steam while they drive DRM proliferation (i.e. being very conductive for DRM pushing publishers), it's a deal breaker for me at least. As for GOG, they didn't say that they don't want to support Linux. They clearly said they want to, but the way they planned it for themselves makes it complex and takes long time to research/develop. While we can disagree with GOG's approach, it's up to them to dec…

> As for GOG, they didn't say that they don't want to support Linux. They clearly said they want to, but the way they planned it for themselves makes it complex and takes long time to research/develop. While we can disagree with GOG's approach, it's up to them to decide how to enable it. So let's wait and see what they come up with next year.

Seriously the position from GOG is plain BS. If they really wanted to support Linux, they could easily package most of their old games with Dosbox and 90% of them would run fine this way. This is the large majority of their current catalog. And I have a very hard time to believe it would be difficult to support a few key distributions. Or they could take the approach "we support only Ubuntu officially" just like Valve does, and let the Community support other distributions.

So, as much as I love what GOG does, their position regarding Linux was a great disappointment. Especially coming from a developer from Eastern Europe, where Linux is clearly stronger than in other PC markets around the world. I don't see CD project porting Witcher 2 to Linux either, and they haven't made any announcement in that direction for the upcoming Witcher 3 either.

Supporting "Non-DRM" software while running on a DRM friendly environment (Windows/Mac) is a very strange place to be, honestly. I expected way more from GOG.

Re: Humble Indie Bundle 9 released

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Post by masterzora »

larrik wrote: post #66
masterzora wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps it's just my personal feelings towards the relevant companies but I felt like it was a totally different affair than the Origin bundle, though you are right that it was different from the original ethos. The main similarity to the Origin bundle was that only DRM-full copies were available and, again, this was definitely a departure. On the other hand, while THQ was technically a AAA developer/publisher as wel…

The Origin bundle was entirely for charity, though. Kind of hard to consider it "selling out." AND EA let them post Steam keys for some of the games, even though the whole point of the bundle was to promote Origin. I'm not happy about them not having Linux games, but it's hard to really feel bad about buying that bundle. At least for me.

It would be one thing if it felt like EA had decided they wanted to do a charity event out of the goodness of their heart or at least like the charity was the point of it. As was, it felt more like EA didn't think they could get away with positive PR by actually making money directly from the Humble Bundle but they didn't particularly care since their point was getting buy-in.

I don't mean to say anybody should feel bad about buying it--I don't think they should feel bad even if EA had gotten all the profits--but backing EA's attempt to get market share does feel like a major shift for Humble Bundle.

Re: Humble Indie Bundle 9 released

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Post by jsilence »

ebroder wrote: post #47
nollidge wrote: post #33

Trying to buy with credit card, and get a message from Stripe saying "you passed an empty string for iovation_blackbox", as if that means something to me. EDIT: Nevermind, just had to pause Ghostery. Not sure what script was messing it up.

Sorry about that! Has to do with some anti-fraud tools we've built into Stripe Checkout. Should be fixed now, so you shouldn't see that again, Ghostery or no. Feel free to let me know (evan@stripe.com) if you (or anyone) still sees it.

Awesome response time! Glad you are coming to my region. Hoping shops will pick up Stripe as a payment method.

Re: Humble Indie Bundle 9 released

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Post by ewzimm »

masterzora wrote: post #92
larrik wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Origin bundle was entirely for charity, though. Kind of hard to consider it "selling out." AND EA let them post Steam keys for some of the games, even though the whole point of the bundle was to promote Origin. I'm not happy about them not having Linux games, but it's hard to really feel bad about buying that bundle. At least for me.

It would be one thing if it felt like EA had decided they wanted to do a charity event out of the goodness of their heart or at least like the charity was the point of it. As was, it felt more like EA didn't think they could get away with positive PR by actually making money directly from the Humble Bundle but they didn't particularly care since their point was getting buy-in. I don't mean to say anybody should feel…

I'm happy to read that you're complaining about the Humble Bundle's attempt get EA market share. That's as if someone were to complain about Orval trying to get Anheuser-Bush Inbev market share because their lead brewer once said he would buy a Budweiser.

Re: Humble Indie Bundle 9 released

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Post by ekianjo »

msg wrote: post #39

I too love this bundle. Pretty awesome that the three charities are Watsi, Child's Play, and EFF. The games are all very distinct from each other and top notch. My three favorites: Fez: a perspective-altering puzzle platformer. It's cute, clever, and well designed. FTL: a real-time starship crew management game, where you assign people to stations and target your opponent's systems. You fly through randomly generated…

FTL is also described as a Rogue-like game in space.

Re: Humble Indie Bundle 9 released

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Post by ekianjo »

Zimahl wrote: post #36
cocoflunchy wrote: post #5

FEZ! Awesome! I've been waiting for this game for so long.

I'm probably the last person on HN who hadn't seen 'Indie Game: The Movie' but an entire third or fourth of it is about the development of Fez by Phil Fish. That said, I wish Fish would make a second Fez and just not say a word about it until it's maybe a month out. He'd still get hype and sell a ton of game without people pissing him off.

The only thing I don't like about FEZ is his creator. And the "Indie Game: The Movie" just reinforced that impression. What a douche.

Re: Humble Indie Bundle 9 released

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Post by ekianjo »

barbs wrote: post #62

Rumour has it that Monaco is one of the games that is yet to be revealed in this bundle. http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/monaco-whats-his-will-... Monaco's an excellent team-based heist game.

It's not a rumor anymore, Andy has announced it officially on the 24th of July.

Re: Humble Indie Bundle 9 released

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Post by WA »

phenol wrote: post #23
afterburner wrote: post #13

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You have to approach it as a roguelike, which does the same thing to you (way more deaths than successes). But I loved it. Played it many many times, but only won it twice I believe. For some of the unlockables I'd recommend looking at a walkthrough; for one of them at least I believe I decided to not pursue it since it would require too much random chance hitting all the right spots in the right order.

You totally can get good at it, it's a skill like any other. I've won like 40 games out of 200 or so, and I'd say that I win about half of my games I decide to play past the first sector. You just have to have a good feel for progression. Always fight as many ships as possible, and only leave the sector when the rebel fleet is riding your ass. Know which weapons, events, and upgrades are good, and roughly what order…

I was often in the situation that I fought every enemy but either didn't have enough cash or the available weapons were pure crap and I couldn't progress much further, because I didn't have the equipment.

Since that happened way too often and I hate it if my success depends on dumb luck of weapon "drops", I don't play anymore.

Re: Humble Indie Bundle 9 released

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Post by barbs »

ekianjo wrote: post #96
Zimahl wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm probably the last person on HN who hadn't seen 'Indie Game: The Movie' but an entire third or fourth of it is about the development of Fez by Phil Fish. That said, I wish Fish would make a second Fez and just not say a word about it until it's maybe a month out. He'd still get hype and sell a ton of game without people pissing him off.

The only thing I don't like about FEZ is his creator. And the "Indie Game: The Movie" just reinforced that impression. What a douche.

I don't see where all the hate comes from myself. Mind explaining your position?

Re: Humble Indie Bundle 9 released

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Post by barbs »

ekianjo wrote: post #91
shmerl wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I won't start using Steam while they drive DRM proliferation (i.e. being very conductive for DRM pushing publishers), it's a deal breaker for me at least. As for GOG, they didn't say that they don't want to support Linux. They clearly said they want to, but the way they planned it for themselves makes it complex and takes long time to research/develop. While we can disagree with GOG's approach, it's up to them to dec…

> As for GOG, they didn't say that they don't want to support Linux. They clearly said they want to, but the way they planned it for themselves makes it complex and takes long time to research/develop. While we can disagree with GOG's approach, it's up to them to decide how to enable it. So let's wait and see what they come up with next year. Seriously the position from GOG is plain BS. If they really wanted to suppo…

I totally agree. If HiB and Steam can do it, so can GoG.
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