What you think of Desura?

You're in for some tough competition, I wish you all the best!

It is certainly interesting and I hope it will succeed and do well.

i love the concept of it and it is a game changer but im still curious as of how the games/ mods will work would we need to buy or have the game like in steam to play the mod?? or will this be fully for mods and able to play or buy the mods with out having that certain game?

I voted game changing but maybe my opinion will be different after using it.. it looks and sounds promising though!

Game changing. It sounds really exciting. I would vote "Desura?" first, but I have a habit of checking out what is the poll about, to make a vote that has a point.

Interesting looking interface. I just hope it isn't clunky as **** like all the other ones.

Its cool, it will make searching for stuff alot easier.

I voted Desura? andthen I checked what it is. Some kind of community, looks pretty good.

Sounds great

there is something i believe that is similar called crosus but imo it doesn't work very well( tried it several times but not lately)

Isotx.com

I intrigued but we will see. Good luck and lets see what you guys do.

google anyone?

I can hardly wait to try it! But, alas, I must. V_V

An elite site for mods... sign me up! what'll be the requisites for a mod to be allowed in such a place?

Posting here just in case no one reads this on the other:

"If you can find some way to make it so that players can see who is playing one of these mods or how many people have it installed and generate some type of system for organizing games on the older mods, I can see a future for this, otherwise I'm fine with sticking with Moddb."

Otherwise it just seems like another attempt to make something that links people to games that is extraneous and simply eating up HD space and memory that we could be using to get slightly better fps.

Didnt hear about Desura until today.
Dont have any opinion yet about it.

I'll stick with steam.. sorry :/

just another platform to make some money
rip off of steam
i support u guys on moddb but ill stick with VALVE any time
they do so much free content for us its crazy not to

i hope it will be indie games and mods only, otherwise it would be just a steam rip off and if its indie only it would support the developers because most of them cant get thier games on steam

Yah the compotiion is strong atm but i think if you make this so anyone can upload there mods/games to it and sell games but you recieve some royalties i think this would be really popular.

Desura FTW

Desura? What is that?,what does it mean?

Well I wouldnt say its game changing, but it sure is great if its aimed at the indie and modding community primarily... So what if its like steam?
Linux is like windows, Linux just open and free, and windows ripps you off... soo, while steam ripps us off, let desura be open and free =] sure it may not reach the popularity steam has, but there will be the faithfull few that will support it all the way =]

I for one prefer mods and indie games over AAA games, too few AAA games worth my play time, and then indie games and mods are always fascinating, so im leaning towards it, Id like to see this become something worthwhile...

All the best to you guys!

I will go for Desura on linux as an alternative to steam. But on windows steam will remain my primary way of getting games.

I like the GUI, and I love the mod support, but I'm sick of the different Digital Distribution programs and accounts. One thing I loved about the idea is that I would be able to just log into one account, and have a nice way to launch games. But now that there's so many, it's an even bigger hassle as I have to log into the right thing, etc. So right now I'm only using steam and don't bother with non-steam games (unless it's something really big). So my vote goes to "not interested". But best of luck with it.

I hope it's better than the extremely sucky Steam.

I'm not sure it's gonna be exactly "game changing", but def. interesting!

It's been a long time since I last visited the site, so I guess I am a bit out-of-date...

i voted before i got to see desura -.- should have picked game changing =(

This could mean a lot for developing developers who want to market their games...
aka me...

"gah, not another one" as in: not another poll i have no opinion on.

Interesting, it does focus on things which steam doesn't and if it doesn't do things which are quite annoying at steam it will be successful.

I think we all know that we can trust in moddb to put a lot effort into Desura, making it one of the top platforms. Flexibility, compatibility and the support of the communities can bring Desura to great success.

Perhaps Desura comes with a sleep function. You can start the sleep function manually or when you start a game over the Desura interface it will minimize to a try icon and disable the rendering of websites/flash animations plus everything else that isn't needed, things as checking for updates, downloading news/files. Manually disabling the sleep function must also be a option.

I picked interesting because I have yet to try the program out so I can't really say it's game changing. The summary of it sounds good though.

It is look very interesting.

For anyone that thinks Desura isn't a great idea, read this please.

I think some people are missing the point of Desura. It's not there to replace steam, with it you will have automatic downloading of patches for both mods that valve haven't yet decided are worthy of Steamworks, and for mods that don't use the source engine.

For too many people (myself included) patching all their multiplayer mods is a very tedious process in the long run, automatic patching will just make a lot of mods more popular.

Also, I'm pretty sure I read a comment somewhere that said Desura doesn't have to be running while the game is running. This would mean that you could start Desura, which will then download and install the patches automatically, and then you are free to quit the program, run the game from the desktop or from Steam if you want the in-game overlay. You choose.

I think its pretty great, there are plenty of mods that require some tweaking and kicking to get it to work on your game, but desura completely skips that **** and installs the mod, patches (hopefully) and any other addons in a single operation so you just need to select the mod you want and bam, desura delivers and all you need to do is play it after its done installing.

Not to mention its going to be a collection of ready and released mods, aka the gems, the top of the crop that you usually search moddb with filters and such. And as they have a crew evaluating the works uploaded there, they will make sure you wont download any crap on the way or stuff that doesnt work.

And on top of that its an awesome chance for modders to get their work there since its all about high quality and it will be very visible and presentable in desura, just like in moddb, but with extra coolness and higher value.

All hail desura! : D

Desura looks interesting in my opinion.

Well i have to say you guys should be proud of 2 things
1. Creating somin that might Give Steam a run for its money

and 2. Being able to keep a secret project SO secret that 50% of the community doesnt know what the hell ur talking about

lol

props guys ♠

there missing 1%?

WOULD THAT 1% HURRY UP AND VOTE!

Trying to compete with Steam? Uh oh. Didn't Windows Live, try that?

this is gonna be ****(in a bad way),im sure of it
50% dont know about it eaven after the big reveal
and another 6% say "gah not another one"

Never heard of it.

Okay, so Desura will just redistribute the mods?
What's the point?

@hardriver

not right now...its 100%

It just seems like Steam but for mods - even though Steam already has the ability to add your free mods if you talk nicely to Valve.