On: Portal Released For Steam On Linux

[Afforess]

What? Humble BundLe totally sold out their integrity after they let THQ sell their games with the Humble Bundle brand, without linux versions and with DRM.

[1] http://www.penny-arcade.com/report/article/the-humble-thq-bu...

[2] http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/11/humble-thq-bundle-thre...

[rexignis → Afforess]

I think you're being very hyperbolic. They were very explicit saying the games were Windows only and had DRM (Steam). It was its own isolated bundle.

[Qantourisc → Afforess]

Technically, and financially it was all good. However marketing wise not a good move. Your post proofs this. And I kinda agree.

[shmerl → Afforess]

Yes, that bundle was upsetting. I hope they don't continue this kind of stuff.

[Skoofoo → Afforess]

I was disappointed about this, too; not because it's necessarily bad, but because they had set the bar so high for themselves and then totally missed it with this. On the bright side, it raised a lot of money for charity.

[lucian1900 → Afforess]

It wasn't named an "indie" bundle and it was marked quite well. I don't think it's selling out.

[scott_karana → Afforess]

Their integrity? THQ was about to tank, and they wanted to flip the games to whoever they could. I'm sure that if there were THQ-internal beta versions for Linux and Mac, they would have happily shipped them.