RDR Remaster for PC is joining Deadlock as worst kept secret of 2024 XD
I know it feels like forever ago but Palworld launched this yearBiggest Steam launch of 2024 maybe?
From what I played, it's not so much that it was very difficult - even if there are serious difficulty spikes with bosses, but it's more their design decisions that did not pan out at all.Not sure, but many people said they got wiped easily. This new version adds a "Normal" difficulty which is easier than the original one. I will definitely go for the original to see how hard it is.
Oh right, forgot about that one. But this will crush Palworld this year. Everyone else will be fighting for second place now.I know it feels like forever ago but Palworld launched this year
Given the size of chinese audience, I would not be particularly surprised if it overtook Palworld. I think Wukong is like their national pride and joy.The Wukong benchmark tool has 55k CCU right now. Not a particularly useful statistic but I think it's a precursor to how big the actual game is going to be. Biggest Steam launch of 2024 maybe?
Wukong will be available on WeGame and EGS lol which will dampen Steam numbers a tad. While Palworld was on Game Pass, I don't think the PC Game Pass numbers were that significant. Wukong could hit 1 million CCU on Steam, but >2.1 million seems like a stretch.Given the size of chinese audience, I would not be particularly surprised if it overtook Palworld. I think Wukong is like their national pride and joy.
Damn
And SilksongSo the next 2-3 months we are looking at...
Black Myth: WuKong
Ragnarok
RDR1
FFXVI
Metaphor
The Veilguard
DQ3 Remake
Oh, nice, I was hoping this would come to PC when/if it came west. Heard pretty good things about the Japanese Switch release.
Goemon is coming to PC.. sort of..
Next week is Gamescom ONLAnd Silksong
Are we just wishcasting?Xenogears remake
Yeah, having everything you worked be preserved (company, knowledge, staff, assets, IP) is undeniably good. And I'm praying for success for Tango.no offense either but how long are/were are the developers going to sit around with their thumbs up their ass waiting to get re-hired
The studio "closed" in may its now august, so assuming it takes a couple months for that to go get finalized
Is it going to be anything but it in name? Lol
Playism publishes some very original titles, but don't sell as much
And their prices are usually goodPlayism publishes some very original titles, but don't sell as much
Chuck made a thread about this on the other site and got attacked for itRandom thought of the day: Valve should really do something about all the prologues/free trials cluttering the New & Trending list, they really should have a category of their own or perhaps group them with all the other F2P and demos in a new tab.
HAHAHAHAHA
That list gets a lot easier to handle if you don't wait for ports of everythingDamn
So the next 2-3 months we are looking at...
Black Myth: WuKong
Ragnarok
RDR1
FFXVI
Metaphor
The Veilguard
DQ3 Remake
Then, at some point, Valve invited players to a closed beta for Deadlock, using a key system that allowed players to invite their friends. The invites proliferated so far that according to SteamDB, the game's hit a peak of 18,000 concurrent players.
Such invites for unreleased games normally come with varying NDAs, but as The Verge's Sean Hollister discovered, Valve's only attempt to discourage sharing anything about the game was a menu screen saying "don't share info" when you opened the client, with a prompt for the user to say "ok."
Hollister's banning tripped a red flag for me. Not just because retaliating against journalists pushes against a free press (I don't want to make too big a deal of this, it's just getting banned from a game's matchmaking), but because this series of events indicates Valve's market power might be getting out of hand.
Is it a monopoly? I don't know, but because Valve owns and operates Steam, the platform it distributes Deadlock on, it's been able to market its game in a way no another developer or publisher can.
Valve's behavior with the rollout of Deadlock has shifted my thinking. Some of the lawsuits against Valve has revealed details about how it "encourages" developers to maintain price parity across platforms, but again I'm not an expert on whether that is considered price fixing. But as someone professionally obligated to follow the game industry, I know when I've seen something I've never seen before, and I have never seen a company enforce an order to not share information without some form of binding agreement in place.
So, because a journalist wrote an article that he was asked not to write (OK no NDA, but there was still a request), chose to write an article about it, then got banned (he was invited to the test as a friend of a friend of a frien and not a journalist) acts completely shocked (when anybody with half a brain cell could see where this was going to end up) expects further engagement for being an absolute fucking moron (or a clickbait journalist) that has led this person (not sure if dev or journalist) to decide that Valve is an evil monopoly.What the heck is Valve doing with these informal Deadlock NDAs?
Is Valve using its platform power to create an uncompetitive advantage?www.gamedeveloper.com
Its brutal. I will likely get only 2-3 of those from the list.That list gets a lot easier to handle if you don't wait for ports of everything
(also if you don't care about some of those games but that's beside the point lol)
"Valve? You doing okay, buddy? I know it's been a few years since you launched a game, but did you remember...how? to announce? a game?"What the heck is Valve doing with these informal Deadlock NDAs?
Is Valve using its platform power to create an uncompetitive advantage?www.gamedeveloper.com
Anthem and Andromeda were dudsThe Veilguard — Is this from the award-winning developer of the critically-praised Anthem™?
That reminds me. I'm getting the new Famicom Detective Club as well. For $60 (RRP was $89), which is still way too much for a 20-hour ADV game. Fucking Nintendo.My list:
Most of the devs who made those older games are not ar BioWare anymore.Anthem and Andromeda were duds
but BioWare still made the goat Mass Effect trilogy
SWTOR was and still is a very good MMORPG
Inquisition (with DLC) was good
KOTOR and DAO were fantastic
Maybe The Veilguard will be good too....BioWare pls
You can say the same thing about many devs in the industry with a long rich history.Most of the devs who made those older games are not ar BioWare anymore.