Community MetaSteam | September 2023 - The galaxy awaits

[spindoctor]

Same sort of situation with Visual Novel Festival. Barely any Japanese-produced titles were featured. Typical Valve.

The way these event/themed sales work is that Valve informs developers about them a couple of months in advance and then developers have to submit their games to be included. There's minimal curation from Valve's end. For example, here's the announcement for the Halloween sale where they say that 'spooky' games in particular will be surfaced but developers of other games are also free to participate. If games from Japan aren't appearing in these event sales then it means that the developers have not submitted them for participation. There could be any number of reasons this happens including not wanting to devalue your games, focusing on more traditional sale events like Golden Week, maybe just not seeing the value of these themed promotions, or most likely (in my opinion), just being oblivious to them.

 

[fokkusu]

Can't wait for Ace Attorney vol. 2. Never played AA5 or 6.

 

[Kvik]

There could be any number of reasons this happens including not wanting to devalue your games, focusing on more traditional sale events like Golden Week, maybe just not seeing the value of these themed promotions, or most likely (in my opinion), just being oblivious to them.

I don't believe so.

Developers were definitely aware of the festival, since I followed most of them on Twitter and they discounted almost all of their titles during the festival.

However, Valve's highlight reel excludes most of the Japanese VN titles that are fan favourites, but curating titles that are closer to adventure games instead (LOL The Walking Dead).



Where's The House of Fata Morgana?
Where's Steins;Gate?
Where's 426 Shibuya Scramble?

It's a rather curious exclusion from my point of view.

 

[Le Pertti]

Almost there!

New Microsoft/Activision deal addresses previous CMA concerns in cloud gaming

The sale of Activision’s cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft substantially addresses previous concerns and opens the door to the deal being cleared, the CMA said today.

www.gov.uk

 

[spindoctor]

Okay my post was specifically about participation in a themed sale and how the onus is on the developer to get in on it. If the discussion is only about trailers then yeah, only 6-7 games will be featured and 400 won't be. If you believe there is some ulterior motive for those omissions then that is your prerogative.

 

[NarohDethan]

Not FIFA 24 looks pretty but it seems to have a ton of bugs and stutter

 

[BaoLunia]

Out now

 

[Hektor]

New Tales Of game has been announced

 

[Durante]

Okay my post was specifically about participation in a themed sale and how the onus is on the developer to get in on it. If the discussion is only about trailers then yeah, only 6-7 games will be featured and 400 won't be. If you believe there is some ulterior motive for those omissions then that is your prerogative.

I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but over the years there have been a few too many instances that indicate that someone at Valve really doesn't like Japanese VNs.

 

[ZKenir]

Valve is simply shit when it comes to japanese visual novels on basically every single front

 

[hersheyfan]

"In reality we are paying more fees to platforms than we spend on game development every year "

lmao

Embracer admitting their game budgets are low as shit

It's also an admission that theyre making a very healthy amount of money overall.

If the maximum amount any storefront takes is 30%, that means total dollar sales are at the minimum more than double their total development costs....

....and yet they're still doing the mass layoffs and trying to sell off subsidiary companies, which makes it clear as day that their financial troubles were caused entirely by overly aggressive expansion. Not a good look on their part, especially if you're one of the poor saps who lost their job.

 

[Censored]

Well that's TGS and mostly japanese not buy the Steam version usually buy the non-censored version not suitable for global audiences on self-store (and I'm not saying eroges, nukiges or games you can find FANZA or DLSite). I mean mostly VNs are really dōjinshi (self-published) and usually are sold on comiket or japanese sites from developers, not on Steam where they need to adapt or axe content and even this way not getting Valve's green light.

 

[lashman]

 

[Censored]

is out:

the first one was quite fun.

 

[lashman]

 

[Dragon1893]

Yeah it rules. I nearly died when Wesker said complete local saturation

Oh man, that was hilarious. Major kudos to whoever came up with that one.

 

[BaoLunia]

Out now

A bundle got added with RINA RhythmERROR 瑞娜：致错旋律

Steam Store

Steam is the ultimate destination for playing, discussing, and creating games.

store.steampowered.com

 

[lashman]

 

[lashman]

 

[BaoLunia]

 

[Cacher]

YES

 

[dex3108]

 

[Lashley]

Not FIFA 24 looks pretty but it seems to have a ton of bugs and stutter

Sounds like an EA release

 

[Mor]

Looks like Helldivers 2 is indeed skipping EGS?

 

[Lashley]

I'm sure those totally real EGS users and not platform warriors will be upset by that

 

[fantomena]

Looks like Helldivers 2 is indeed skipping EGS?

It's weird since it is a PS PC LLC published game.

 

[Mor]

It's weird since it is a PS PC LLC published game.

Yes but so far pre-orders are only PS and Steam and, if I'm not mistaken, there's no EGS page for it, so... that in addition to no mention at all from Sony to that versions makes me wonder if it will skip that platform entirely.

 

[Lashley]

LOL

 

[PC-tan]

Do currently Ubisoft games (hell does Uplay) play nicely currently with Proton? How is AC Unity on the Steam Deck by the way?

 

[lashman]

 

[C-Dub]

LOL

Between this and Helldivers 2, truly a great day for Epic.

 

[Censored]

out now


I bought it for €35.76 on eneba with 8% discount code GGD8.
Just saying this is one of the games usually gets delisted soon cause license (like legend of korra, etc...)

 

[lashman]

 

[CommodoreKong]

Do currently Ubisoft games (hell does Uplay) play nicely currently with Proton? How is AC Unity on the Steam Deck by the way?

I played Far Cry 5 and 6 on my Deck, they could be a little crashy but other than that they were fine.

 

[Yoshi]

The Night of the Rabbit is FREE @ GOG

The Night of the Rabbit

Lose yourself in a tale of magic and wonder, where anything is possible and where nothing

www.gog.com

 

[PC-tan]

I recommend giving this a read.

『Ed-0:』はなぜ売れなかったのか？ Steam北米で820本しか売れなかったソフトについてバンナム原田×CC2松山洋×ファミ通林がガチで辛辣に斬りまくった【TGS2023】 | ゲーム・エンタメ最新情報のファミ通.com

2023年9月21日～24日開催の東京ゲームショウ2023、ディースリー・パブリッシャーブースで行われたステージ“業界ご意見番が斬る！『Ed-０: Zombie Uprising』”をリポート。ゲーム業界しくじり先生というかこれが我が社の黒歴史というか。そんなステージ

s.famitsu.com

It was pretty cool they talk about Ed-0. The game sold very badly under 15k units world wide across PC,PS5 and Xbox Series.

The game was in early access for 15 months. C2C president said that it was time wasted. Just from playing the first 15 minutes of the game, he was baffled as to why some of those things were never fixed (your character picks up a weapon and jist throws of away right away,)

 

[BaoLunia]

Unity is Canceling the Runtime Fee

After deep consultation with our community, customers, and partners, we’ve made the decision to cancel the Runtime Fee, effective immediately.

blog.unity.com

 

[Kal1m3r0]

Yeah whatever, at this point if any Indie dev is still so gullible to trust Unity it's their problem

 

[Le Pertti]

Yeah I would not want to bet my future(if I was a game dev) on unity at this point.

 

[STHX]

SNES Shin Megami Tensei but Touhou

 

[ExistentialThought]

Unity is Canceling the Runtime Fee

After deep consultation with our community, customers, and partners, we’ve made the decision to cancel the Runtime Fee, effective immediately.

blog.unity.com

Just the fact they are keeping the runtime language in the new pricing is asinine to me. There has got to be some executive or team who is adamant and will not back away from it despite the backlash. Stick to the simple 2.5% rev share and move on. Adding this either pay % of rev or pay $ per runtime, whichever is lower, is needlessly complex and pushes the pubs/devs to have to track that data to get the best pricing. Not to mention, it normalizes looking at charging per install and makes it an option to revisit in the future.

 

[Lashley]

Unity is Canceling the Runtime Fee

After deep consultation with our community, customers, and partners, we’ve made the decision to cancel the Runtime Fee, effective immediately.

blog.unity.com

Trust is gone.

 

[C-Dub]

Doesn’t matter what Unity does, most aren’t gonna go back to them for their next games. And they’d be fuckin’ stupid to do so at this point.

But at least their pretty categorical row-back protects released and in-development games, their developers and publishers, from getting the shaft.

I think some of this rowing back is down to the outrage. But I reckon it probably has more to do with the fact that their European legal counsel warned them they were about to have a new arsehole torn.

 

[NarohDethan]

Yeah, Unity has proven themselves an unreliable business partner. You'd be crazy to still be working with them after that stunt.

 

[BaoLunia]

Of course. Nobody is going to trust them again.

But I do wonder what Indie studios like Kairosoft will do.

All their games are made in Unity. They have like 60+ games.

They release games on mobile, pc, ps, switch and xbox.

 

[Mivey]

The Night of the Rabbit is FREE @ GOG

The Night of the Rabbit

Lose yourself in a tale of magic and wonder, where anything is possible and where nothing

www.gog.com

Can recommend this to all fans of point and click adventure games. A really nice, wholesome adventure game

 

[lashman]

 

[lashman]

 

[thekeats1999]

Having a catch up on the week and come across this. Looks and sounds cool. Looks like a mix of Cybernator and Elevator Action.

 

[C-Dub]

I wish Valve made it easier to buy Steam gift cards. I got given an Amazon gift card because that's usually considered the catch-all for these sorts of things, and there's literally nothing I want to get with it that also wouldn't require me to spend more money on Amazon. So I basically have money doing nothing.

I've been looking for a way to convert the gift card into a gift card for another store that I can then convert into a Steam gift card, but I'm drawing a complete blank. No one seems to sell Steam gift cards in the UK anymore - even the list of retailers on Steam itself is out of date because none of them seem to stock any.