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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Steam for Linux


From: Alexander Berntsen
Subject: Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Steam for Linux
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:38:49 +0100
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On 08/11/12 11:37, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
> The problem is not Steam (and their DRM) per se, but the lack of 
> Quality Free Software Games, that I could play for weeks, without 
> getting bored.
I am not in favour of Steam. It is a proprietary platform on which you
can play mostly proprietary games. This is clearly not the solution to
the problem you are describing. What we need is more *free* game
developers, and more *free* games! I.e. games with free software, free
art and free data in general.

On 08/11/12 13:02, Yogesh Girikumar wrote:
> Those games or their equivalents would require dedicated
> programmers working full time. They need pay.
This is the core issue. Give us the money to pay our bills, and we
will quit our studies and day jobs to make games. That is after all
the free game developer dream.

Unfortunately, for a lot of game types there are no currently viable
solutions to making money. (Games that function as SAAS have an
advantage here, but that doesn't mean their roads are necessarily
paved with opportunity and void of hardship.)

So, how do we make money? I do not precisely know at the moment.
However, I do know that the solution lies within *our* community; not
via an anti-social proprietary platform such as Steam.

Please check out the Libregamewiki, which acts as a catalogue and
information portal for free games: <https://libregamewiki.org/Main_Page>

If you are a developer, or want to become a developer (regardless of
whether you want to be a hacker, an artist or a designer), please
check out the FreeGameDev Forums: <http://forum.freegamedev.net/>

For news about and related to free games, check out the Free Gamer
blog: <http://freegamer.blogspot.no/>

- -- 
Alexander
alexander@plaimi.net
http://plaimi.net/~alexander
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