Community MetaSteam | May 2021 - Wallets Gone
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I've had an expensive week or 2. If I never post again please report my murder & that my wife did it because she didn't get enough shoes to offset my purchases.
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is a really cool puzzle game. Wishlist it!
is a really cool puzzle game. Wishlist it!
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Microsoft explored reducing its Xbox store cut to shake up console gaming
Microsoft had wanted to cut fees to just 12 percent
Important part that the verge headline doesn't put any emphasis on :Microsoft explored reducing its Xbox store cut to shake up console gaming
Microsoft had wanted to cut fees to just 12 percentwww.theverge.com
That's far from healthy, systematic or even realistic given Mixer's fate.
I don't think Xcloud and Mixer are comparable at all. Mixer was a tech startup without a working business model that just didn't turn a profit even after MS bought them. Xcloud is just part of the Gamepass ecosystem and has a clear cost to it from the get-go.
Ah, that kind of streaming! Either way I think that those sort of deals are not really the same as lowering the cut and I'd argue even worse given that it spells doom for "neutral" streaming platforms offering a full VM for instance.
It's actually much worse, come to think of it. I hate how virtualized hardware is being put in the same category as "streaming", it's horribly vague.
I guess I was right except for PUBG (which I didn't know it was on sale)I already have a pretty clear picture of today's top 10 chart (in terms of what's inside) but with the sale and the one is missing, I don't know what positions do they take
Games in: Nier Replicant, Automata, It Takes Two, VR Index, CS:GO, Rome total war remastered, Death Stranding, Valheim and Resident evil village.
One left, no positions yet
Quite a few weeks doing this so I know more or less how to read the data even tho not always I know the positions ^^
It Takes Two having a better leg than a much newer game, Nier Replicant. That's quite something.
I was really hoping to like the Resident Evil 8 demo, however, virtually everything I hated about 7 is still present.
Will probably wait for a deep discount on this one.
Will probably wait for a deep discount on this one.
From that article it sounds like they are fixing the most common symptom but not he disease. I run into the same issue from time to time, but when I disable/enable monitors briefly, not when my PC goes to sleep. I wish I could just tell Windows to ignore what happens to my monitors and keep my window layout as-is unless I specifically request otherwise.
It's almost like timed demos are a bad idea Capcom should have seen comingCapcom:
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Was digging through some old crap and found this insert inside a physical Skyrim box.
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poor baby JawmuncherWas digging through some old crap and found this insert inside a physical Skyrim box.
...waitWas digging through some old crap and found this insert inside a physical Skyrim box.
Prey 2 was gonna feature a generic ass balding white dudebro?
Canceling it was for the best...
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Returnal Norway PSN price and standard retail price is 859 nok.
Atm, 859 nok is 103$.
Returnal Norway PSN price and standard retail price is 859 nok.
Atm, 859 nok is 103$.
Uh, really? I'm guessing your tongue is pressing hard against your cheek
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I would have just given up video gaming if I had to pay those prices.
Someone posted an inflation calculator in defense of the pricing. Spoiler to you youngins: we rented games back then.
It was a late 2000s game, it was required by law to have a bald white marine as the protag
Can't wait till 70 USD games start hitting PC and I get to see what
Microsoft makes like 50$ billion every year in pure profit so ofc this shit is meaningless to them. They can lower the cut to like 1% and it wouldn't effect their bottom line. Gamepass will be their largest earner in the future anyways.Microsoft explored reducing its Xbox store cut to shake up console gaming
Microsoft had wanted to cut fees to just 12 percent
Its funny how so many want the cut lowered but at this point if someone like Valve or Sony lowered the cut to 12% they would kill off almost all the immediate competition. No developer will ever give a shit about GOG, Epic or Itch again in any way if Steam provides that type of profit margin with its audience. Competition would actually be dead.
Steam lowering its cut to 12 percent will kill every third-party key selling site as well. Even if Valve keep free key generation, third-party sellers will basically be forced to also reduce their cut to 12%. With just a 12% cut, they can't really offer discounts out of their own pockets and nobody will have any reason to buy from them.
Even Microsoft's portfolio team calls it Balan Wonderland.
Doc source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.364265/gov.uscourts.cand.364265.551.21.pdf
Doc source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.364265/gov.uscourts.cand.364265.551.21.pdf
Lowering cut only benefits developers and publishers. Ok that is fine for the indie developers but that won't remove or prevent AAA publishers to ask for even more money and add more ways to take money from users. Ubisoft is selling their games on 2 stores with 12%*Epic Store) and 5-7% cut (Ubisoft Store) and not only their prices stayed the same but their MTX became worse, their games became buggier and free content for their GAAS games became worse. Same happened with Activision and same will happen with any big publisher. Hell even mid range ones will probably do the same. There is no path with lower cut that will make things better for customers and sad thing is that customers refuse to acknowledge that. We are living in era with record profits for companies and customers get nothing in return except more MTX and worse experiences.
On the bright side i did 45min workout in VR today and i liked it a lot. I will try to make it my daily routine from now on.
On the bright side i did 45min workout in VR today and i liked it a lot. I will try to make it my daily routine from now on.
Doesn't Microsoft already do this?
Shh Microsoft is proconsumer now
They do. FH4 was 69.99€ for me.
Needless to say worth every penny. I have no problem whatsoever with that price as long as the content justifies it.
Absolutely, used to rent from the local video store for a $1 to $2 a day for SNES games in between purchases.
I picked up Pokemon Snap but have not opened it yet. From what I have heard for $60 it's not worth the price of admission. Since it's pretty much just Pokemon Snap 64 with just more pretty visuals and some new pokemon.
Now that I myself have gotten Into photography (I'm a amateur, or how some of you from France say it) and being on a on rails things may just be a no go for me.
Thoughts? I have never really played the original Pokemon snap other than this 1 time only back in 2002 or so and I have not played it/been exposed to it since.
Now that I myself have gotten Into photography (I'm a amateur, or how some of you from France say it) and being on a on rails things may just be a no go for me.
Thoughts? I have never really played the original Pokemon snap other than this 1 time only back in 2002 or so and I have not played it/been exposed to it since.
I still rent games today. I can wait a few days for Returnal to arrive in the mail.
Yeah the race to the bottom will have a lot of ripple effects that are probably not for the best. Is 30% too high? Maybe, but instantly going to the lowest fee possible isn't going to benefit customers and will only marginally benefit most developers. The only winners will be the Microsofts, Epics and EAs of the world.
I've tried the Village demo and boy am I disappointed
I'm quite the fan of RE4 and if you say you're taking great inspiration from it my bar goes high, so I do expect to see certain elements done well. From what I've played: basically no horror nor tension, enemies do not respond accordingly to the body parts you shoot, the enviroment looks good but you can't even destroy bottles and windows (and you see A LOT of things that look breakable but are intangible, ruining muh immersion) and even audio effects sound kinda lame compared to say Resident Evil 2 Remake.
Even though I still hope to be wrong with the final game being better, I'm glad I played the demo to avoid another shallow D1, cause Cyberpunk is still burning
I'm quite the fan of RE4 and if you say you're taking great inspiration from it my bar goes high, so I do expect to see certain elements done well. From what I've played: basically no horror nor tension, enemies do not respond accordingly to the body parts you shoot, the enviroment looks good but you can't even destroy bottles and windows (and you see A LOT of things that look breakable but are intangible, ruining muh immersion) and even audio effects sound kinda lame compared to say Resident Evil 2 Remake.
Even though I still hope to be wrong with the final game being better, I'm glad I played the demo to avoid another shallow D1, cause Cyberpunk is still burning
I fail to see why I should pay €10 more for Microsofts games on pc than for the games of every other publisher. FH4 doesn't have more content than similar games from other publishers.
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technically they're doing $60 = 70€ (kecmo do that as well)
but knowing ms - when they'll finally drop $70 on PC as well - it'll mean $70 = 80€
They haven't to my knowledge released something that is 70 USD yet. Now that I think about it, has any "current gen" game been 70 USD in the US on Steam yet?
Just played the RE Village demo. Loved it, and looking forward to the full game even more now
I just hope they fix the camera sensitivity being too low and the FOV being too low as well.
I just hope they fix the camera sensitivity being too low and the FOV being too low as well.
It's miles better than anything available anywhere. The raw quality of the game 100% justifies its price for me.
I have put well over 150 hours and I still play it.
Value is of course subjective.
I'd add to that that judging how much "content" justifies which price is a bit of a slippery slope because you just know publishers will automatically go for the maximum possible anyway. 60$ is and should be a hard cap, period.
Bang for buck is important.
If a game I have interest in has 50+ hrs of content then I am completely okay with paying 40-60$ for it.
If it doesn't then 20$ and under is basically a rule. And there are some genres I would never pay more than 20$ for regardless.
Its why PC gaming is so good. There is so many indie and low budget gems you can pick up for 20$ which have hundreds of hours of content.
Just last year I picked up Spelunky 2 for 17$ at launch and spend 160hrs in it. That type of value is incredible. And look I'm sure Returnal is very good. In fact reviews say it is. But 70$ roguelike better overachieve in a lot of ways when games like Spelunky 2 exist. And not to pin games against one another too much....but Spelunky 2 also has higher metacritic than Returnal
Regarding the Camera Sensitivity, there are 3 values that you can adjust that affect it in the demo. Movement Camera + Aiming Camera + Mouse Sensitivity. The first two options max out at 40, and Mouse Sensitivity maxes out at 9. I'd recommend that you max out mouse sensitivity first, then adjust the other two accordingly.Just played the RE Village demo. Loved it, and looking forward to the full game even more now
I just hope they fix the camera sensitivity being too low and the FOV being too low as well.
You know about Super Robot Wars V and X that are on steam but only for asia? I've read somewhere that with the current japan sale they're like the cheaper they ever been on any platform.
The alternative is to buy a region free copy on the switch and holy shit those prices, like 84€ on playasia
The alternative is to buy a region free copy on the switch and holy shit those prices, like 84€ on playasia
NO, I NEVER HEARD ABOUT IT, NO NO, NEGATIVE, NUNCA.
Wait till NG+ because faith builds are trash early on if you actually want to use miracle, and not just lightning buff your weapon..
Yeah, it would almost certainly kill GMG, CDKeys, the Humble store etc.
I don't see how they could maintain a viable business model.
And since basically no publisher would actually decrease the market prices of games due to the smaller cut that means more expensive games in practice (if you use third party sites).
That said, I think Valve would probably operate at a loss at 12%, so it's exceedingly unlikely to happen.
The only game i'd even think about paying £70 for would be X-COM3 and to be honest i probably wouldn't, i'd wait for the first sale.
You can get a ridiculous amount of quality games for £70 on PC.
You can get a ridiculous amount of quality games for £70 on PC.
Thanks for the reminder. I kinda missed when I scrolled through my whistlist at the start of Golden Week sale. It's indeed the cheapest it's ever been. I just bought SRW X, been waiting for this.
I SWEAR!Thanks for the reminder. I kinda missed when I scrolled through my whistlist at the start of Golden Week sale. It's indeed the cheapest it's ever been. I just bought SRW X, been waiting for this.
this is the only reason why I want to learn how to shift my account to Japan, in order to get 3 region-locked games
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