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  • #51
    Originally posted by madjr View Post
    Agree with this, like overdose is doing:

    http://www.indiegogo.com/overdose?a=537463
    Could you please stop posting about this unless they actually pledge to release a Linux version? The ideas behind the game are sound but unless they actually do the reasonable thing that many other crowd-sourced games are doing and commit to a Linux version I could not care less.

    Going back on topic, I personally have never had a problem with the quality of titles in the Humble Indie Bundles. My only complaint is when certain games and certain developers tend to get preferential treatment. In fact, I would say that the HIB guys are getting a bit too trendy and are focusing too much on what games are selling the best elsewhere or what is the most well known.

    I would rather for the HIB to be more like they appeared to be initially: an easy way to bring attention to lower key cross-platform developers. I do not have anything necessarily against including more well known Indies, but the way they fall over themselves for certain titles while ignoring others that really want to get in is kind of disquieting to say the least.

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    • #52
      Originally posted by johnc View Post
      If you want to donate to charity, then donate to charity.

      But don't give $0 to the game developers and then play their games.
      I like giving to charities, I want to give to charities.

      But I am not going to give $1 to developers of proprietary software.
      Sure if they make it open source, I'll pay.
      But wont pay for closed source proprietary software.

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      • #53
        You aren't taking the high road doing that... you aren't forced to take these people's work for nothing to donate to charity, you can fund the charity directly.

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        • #54
          Originally posted by Vadi View Post
          You aren't taking the high road doing that... you aren't forced to take these people's work for nothing to donate to charity, you can fund the charity directly.
          If I pay for proprietary software, then I am just a loser consumer.
          I don't want to pay for proprietary software.

          If I pay for open source software, then I am enabling further development and contributions to the community. That is a good thing, its what I want to do.

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          • #55
            Originally posted by uid313 View Post
            If I pay for proprietary software, then I am just a loser consumer.
            I don't want to pay for proprietary software.

            If I pay for open source software, then I am enabling further development and contributions to the community. That is a good thing, its what I want to do.
            Right.

            And it follows that you wouldn't use that proprietary software at all.

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            • #56
              Originally posted by johnc View Post
              Right.

              And it follows that you wouldn't use that proprietary software at all.
              I actually have to agree. This is not really making that much of a protest otherwise.

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              • #57
                Originally posted by uid313 View Post
                If I pay for proprietary software, then I am just a loser consumer.
                I don't want to pay for proprietary software.

                If I pay for open source software, then I am enabling further development and contributions to the community. That is a good thing, its what I want to do.
                People like you are why DRM is infesting this planet...

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                • #58
                  Originally posted by smitty3268 View Post
                  People like you are why DRM is infesting this planet...
                  uh huh...

                  So, DRM didn't exist before the HIB apprently?

                  All the companies involved agreed to the terms, they've started putting games from previous bundles into some of the newer bundles, if I've already got the game why should I pay them twice? When I see weak bundles I don't give a tip to the HIB and I don't give any money to the Child'sPlay charity as I see the money going to the EFF to fight shit like SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, UEFI locked bootloaders, etc is a far better use of that money.

                  Take Psychonauts in the current bundle, I bought it when it orriginally came out for $35. Why should I pay again for a game that I already own just because I'm getting the ability to play it on a different platform? The game itself is identical, there is no new content in the Linux version.

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                  • #59
                    Originally posted by Kivada View Post
                    Take Psychonauts in the current bundle, I bought it when it orriginally came out for $35. Why should I pay again for a game that I already own just because I'm getting the ability to play it on a different platform? The game itself is identical, there is no new content in the Linux version.
                    You shouldn't have to. Which means you can slide that number down to $0 if you wish.

                    But if you're going to play any of the other games, you should at least offer some kind of money IMO.

                    It's a lot of hard work making games like that. If people aren't going to be rewarded for their work, they just won't do it... and the talent will be lost.

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                    • #60
                      Originally posted by Kivada View Post
                      uh huh...

                      So, DRM didn't exist before the HIB apprently?
                      Apparently you didn't exist before the HIB?

                      I see the money going to the EFF to fight shit like SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, UEFI locked bootloaders, etc is a far better use of that money.
                      Which is exactly why they accept direct donations.

                      Take Psychonauts in the current bundle, I bought it when it orriginally came out for $35. Why should I pay again for a game that I already own just because I'm getting the ability to play it on a different platform? The game itself is identical, there is no new content in the Linux version.
                      I don't take any issue with format swapping. But is that the only one you are playing for free? It certainly didn't sound like it before.

                      Edit:
                      I dislike proprietary software as much as the next guy, but if you think it's ok to violate their copyrights, you are also arguing that it would be fine for them to violate the GPL. There's no difference. In that direction, lies the Chinese system, where manufacturers violate the GPL constantly, just like they all pirate Windows and other software.
                      Last edited by smitty3268; 18 June 2012, 11:48 PM.

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