Community MetaSteam | April 2019 - "Objection!" the One Finger Fatality
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I only posted this now because you said you wanted to do such a thing and didn't wanted either of us to end up wasting work.
For all intends and purposes we can work together on this!
Might be April Fools, given the time it was written, but still hasn't been changed to say it was a joke, so...
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You're right of course. But still, it's sad that we aren't able to be enthusiastic about upcoming or announced games anymore, because there's a huge chance that Epic will moneyhat them. No doubt there will be plenty of great games left on Steam, but still, it's hard for me as well.
The media defending Epic's shitty moves all the time doesn't make it any easier. In fact I have stopped visiting sites like pc gamer and RPS because of it. I wish we had an EGS-free news feed for pc gaming...
I'm not quite ready to throw GameInformer under the bus because their video content is great and alternatives are slim. But definitely on my watchlist now.
Also Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator is having a sale to counter the release of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator. Almost bit but user reviews aren't nice at all.
Also Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator is having a sale to counter the release of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator. Almost bit but user reviews aren't nice at all.
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Credits to Gizmo for all of the above
Credits to Gizmo for all of the above
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Most of the time, I see around 10 people watching it on Twitch. Sometimes it goes to a few hundred.
News - Project Wight (The Outsiders) revealed as DARKBORN | Development halted
The debut game from developer The Outsiders, Darkborn places you in the role of a little monster who must grow and evolve to seek revenge on the humans that devastated your family. Darkborn, the debut game from developer The Outsiders. Previously codenamed Project Wight,Darkborn is a...
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Can I kick Sweeney and Gally in their nuts in this game?
Just speaking for myself, I'm way past the point of getting genuinely upset about the games themselves becoming exclusive. It's annoying, I don't like it, but I'm not going to let it ruin my day or something. I've got more than enough games in my backlog and on the horizon.
Personally, the only thing I find upsetting at this point is the disinformation campaign by various peoples for Epic and against Steam.
- Steam fosters a "toxically" pro-consumer environment.
- Key resellers don't give devs money.
- Steam fanboys are the toxic alt-right.
- Steam fanboys are worse than console fanboys.
- Epic is going to change the market for the little guy indie devs.
- Steam doesn't have any of the big 2018 releases.
- "Lazy devs" rhetoric, hilariously directed towards Valve's software engineers.
- Devs supporting "customer choice" is toxic and a "shit argument."
- Steam has made no significant updates to their client or dev support in the past years.
- Regional pricing for purchasing parity is actually a "forced discount."
Sampson yeah same here, I can handle games being exclusive and wait but the narrative being pushed is just, I don't know, wilfully hurtful?
WE ARE CELLS AT WORK
And yeah the new narrative of steam got nothing this year is legit scary.
apparently its quite good
+ also another v1.0 launch
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+ also another v1.0 launch
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The first story #campaign in #Driftland The Magic Revival is now available Join Emeric on his epic quest to unite human kingdoms and rebuild the planet After a devastating war between ancient mages, a powerful spell is all that holds together the shattered planet of Driftland. Faced with the...
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This game
can be had for at least $1.49 in this bundle
https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/tommo-pick-and-mix
can be had for at least $1.49 in this bundle
https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/tommo-pick-and-mix
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Edit: Damn, I'm so late, I just received the email, prudis already posted a tweet about it like 6h ago...
I think drawing attention to the real issues with using / purchasing on the store for people outside the English speaking countries is important. Countries that straight up can't use EGS, and those that have either no regional pricing (and thus can't afford it because usually conversion is insane) or have extra charges passed on to the customer because EGS won't eat it.
I think you already have an upcoming note about this, but highlighting the fact that the EGS is not actually competing with Steam (or GOG, etc.) because the only response Valve could have to paying publishers millions of dollars is to pay publishers slightly more millions of dollars. If a game releases on Steam and EGS at the same time, it is competition. This is similar to how no one has ever claimed battle.net was competing with Steam, because obviously it isn't. GoG is the only store I would say is actually competing right now. Origin/uPlay/battle.net/EGS are all doing their own thing, and actually all are guilty of many of the problems of EGS to some extent or another, but the difference is Epic is using money to force those problems onto fans.
Maybe try to make it sound less emotional than I currently am
Would people have that same attitude of it being trivial if it was a bookstore, or music store, or art supplies, or anything that wasn't games? Epic is causing legitimate harm to the gaming hobby and industry, people were rightly upset when EA kept pushing down the slippery slope and there's no reason not to be angry at Epic for using their sheer amount of money to try and force people into a closed ecosystem where Epic is not actually providing better anything for anyone (maybe better cut for devs, but it seems much of that money may actually be going to publishers if the exclusivity deals are anything to go on).
Even though, strictly speaking, if I really wanted to play Hades or any of the other exclusives I was legitimately really looking forward to (as fans of those developers previous work) I certainly could and not directly face any direct consequence yet, I do also care about all the people that this is negatively impacting, and I care what it means for gaming in the future. The international shittiness of ISPs wasn't built overnight, Amazon didn't start off infested with tons of knockoffs and fake reviews, Facebook... well Facebook always was terrible but not enough people called them out on it, and they got worse anyway.
I've played games for almost 3 decades now, console and PC together most of that time. I could still live without games tomorrow but I'd be as sad as if I was denied books, and way more sad than if I were denied shows or movies. These big companies need to be brought to the spotlight for their abuse of power, because right now we have no other option to fight big companies with only more money as their ultimate goal.
Makes you wonder how the games media would've handled MS suddenly starting moneyhatting games into their W10 store.
Also can log in again.
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"..., who did their absolute best to bring this totally new idea to fans." what new idea? a bad warframe clone?Anthem Game Development
We’d like to take a moment to address an article published this morning about BioWare, and Anthem’s development. First and foremost, we wholeheartedly stand behind every current and former member o…
<They Are Billions :: Campaign Development (III)>
The campaign has 50 missions, which total 40-60 hours of play. Obviously the permadeath system won’t apply to the whole campaign. It’d be tragic to have to start again after playing for 40 hours!
During the campaign, the permadeath system works as usual. You can exit the game and continue the same mission when you want, but you can’t reload an old game. If you fail the mission you’ll return to the campaign map and decide whether to start the same mission again or start a different one to gain some improvements by developing the research tree.
But be aware that this doesn’t mean that you can repeat the mission over and over again without consequence...
The campaign score, which will be equal to the sum of the scores of all completed missions, will be displayed in the campaign dashboard. Each mission has a maximum score based on the chosen difficulty chosen, and that you will earn when you successfully complete the mission. Watch out because each time you fail a mission, 10% of that score will be permanently deducted until you reach a minimum of 10% of the original score. By doing this, we’ll reward you for finishing each mission with the least possible attempts, and we’ll avoid metagaming situations like, “I start the mission and explore everything and with that information I start the mission again.”
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I was snapped out of existence on Era. A pile of dust.
R.I.P. me. Time to get more active here and a few other forums.
R.I.P. me. Time to get more active here and a few other forums.
If someone wants to sell Sword Art Online in the humble bundle I might buy it for the right price!
If I didn't already have 200 hours in the 2 God Eater games, I would be all over that 15$ tier.
As such, I'm interested in Get Even, Memories Retorld and I'm semi-interested in Fatal Bullet. I dislike lots of things about SAO, but morbid curiosity always get the better of me <.<
(And Gun Gale Online Alternative is legit awesome, probably because it was written by a different person).
I've no idea about that game tho.
And then I see it has 50€ worth of DLC and my interest plummets. Welp.
But it also appears those DLC are part of a complete your collection bundle. And realistically speaking I'd probably ignore them anyway.
As such, I'm interested in Get Even, Memories Retorld and I'm semi-interested in Fatal Bullet. I dislike lots of things about SAO, but morbid curiosity always get the better of me <.<
(And Gun Gale Online Alternative is legit awesome, probably because it was written by a different person).
I've no idea about that game tho.
And then I see it has 50€ worth of DLC and my interest plummets. Welp.
But it also appears those DLC are part of a complete your collection bundle. And realistically speaking I'd probably ignore them anyway.
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I would be equally upset, no more, no less.
I'm not trivializing this because it's videogames. I play videogames for close to 40 years now, so it's obviously something I value.
What I'm saying is if a developer/publisher doesn't want my money, I can easy replace my purchase of a game for another. Or another thing related to my hobbies, and free time.
I'm saying: vote with your wallets. Support companies that treat you right, and "punish" companies that are doing things you don't agree with.
I'm not, and no one is, forced to give Epic and these developers/publishers any money. And, they aren't going to be taking away gaming with them. They are taking a few games. And some people are acting like they can't live without playing a game or two, which is nonsense.
For each game that it's exclusive, you have dozens of worthwhile games that aren't. Buy those instead.
I will repeat: I can, and will happily live without playing these exclusives. There are no shortage of other games, and developers, to spend my money on.
Oh, and a ridiculous backlog of thousands of games.
I also won't watch that Avengers thingy while it's exclusive to cinemas. Literally none of my friends give a crap and I'm too lazy to go alone so see ya in a few months. Or a year, took me that long to bother watching the last Star Wars. Should've waited forever. Movies are trash these days*, now where's my American Ninja collection at?
*Incidentally movie review/news sites are too compared to 10-15 years ago, gaming sites are following the same trajectory.
*Incidentally movie review/news sites are too compared to 10-15 years ago, gaming sites are following the same trajectory.
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Funny to see something from PC Gamer to defend Steam.
I'm guessing this end of year equivalent update of that article will just talk about how Steam lost its luster and EGS is the shit now.
This E3's PC Gaming Show will be a shitshow.
Maybe journos are also mad cos Steam abandoned them (well, never really paid them off like they want) like Nintendo as they don't need them for reach.
I'm guessing this end of year equivalent update of that article will just talk about how Steam lost its luster and EGS is the shit now.
This E3's PC Gaming Show will be a shitshow.
Maybe journos are also mad cos Steam abandoned them (well, never really paid them off like they want) like Nintendo as they don't need them for reach.
Good God this Anthem article is exactly what I thought happened.
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It's the launch of FFXIV all over again. Hubris, stupidity and incompetency from project leads who don't know or want to know what other market leaders are doing.
I mean I agree, I refuse to make an Epic account and I try to dissuade people from making one or giving them any money. And obviously no physical harm will come of not playing a specific exclusive. Yet, to go back to an analogy, if the 5th Harry Potter book suddenly was exclusive when it came out to some new bookstore that wasn't available in parts of the world, and charged many people more for the book compared to previous books, and the bookstore has shitty policies and coffee and no parking and whatever else sucks about bad bookstores, and the reason for this decision was because the book publisher was paid millions by said bookstore, that would have caused riots. The argument "it's just another bookstore, you already have a car just go to that one instead" would be clearly seen as shallow and stupid and missing the bigger picture.I would be equally upset, no more, no less.
I'm not trivializing this because it's videogames. I play videogames for close to 40 years now, so it's obviously something I value.
What I'm saying is if a developer/publisher doesn't want my money, I can easy replace my purchase of a game for another. Or another thing related to my hobbies, and free time.
I'm saying: vote with your wallets. Support companies that treat you right, and "punish" companies that are doing things you don't agree with.
I'm not, and no one is, forced to give Epic and these developers/publishers any money. And, they aren't going to be taking away gaming with them. They are taking a few games. And some people are acting like they can't live without playing a game or two, which is nonsense.
For each game that it's exclusive, you have dozens of worthwhile games that aren't. Buy those instead.
I will repeat: I can, and will happily live without playing these exclusives. There are no shortage of other games, and developers, to spend my money on.
Oh, and a ridiculous backlog of thousands of games.
As gamers and customers, we have no rights to specific games of course - they are part of a wide variety of luxuries we have at our disposal. But game companies are literally treating game players as some necessary evil so they can make money, and it needs a stronger backlash than just "don't support them" because so far they've made bank off of doing it because not enough people are looking at the longer term problems or the problems outside of immediate view.
I think one of the biggest problems is, despite my continues attempts at comparisons, there really is no analogy for the PC games market and the stuff going on right now, it's quite unique even though you can draw some concepts from elsewhere.
Has anyone tried Below? It's 25% off on Steam, I was so hyped when it released but the reviews are mixed so I don't know what to think of it.
Uh, this absolutely might just be me, but this site keeps giving me warning popups from MalwareBytes about it blocking website connections due to spyware?
I wasn't playing on PC during its "heyday" but how was the situation with Games for Windows Live? They had GTAIV, Batman, Street Fighter and whatever else. I know that they were available on Steam at least at some point since I own a few of them but how was it with store exclusivity? Boxed copies didn't need Steam but were the games also exclusive to the GfWL marketplace?
I don't recall any exclusives, just games that chose to integrate the pretty bad Microsoft social features regardless of where you bought them. Some patched it out since, others are unplayable because of it or need fan patches or separate gfwl executables installed wherever they may still work, not quite sure.
That wasn't its "heyay", it's only been getting better, steadily and surely. Like said, we're no longer envious of Japanese games these days for one, everything goes PC, I don't think anyone expected the likes of Street Fighter, Final Fantasy, Metal Gear, Dragon Quest, etc to get same-period launches on PC back then. As the norm and in a generally quality manner that is, there were exceptions in the past of course, in the 90s with some SEGA arcade/saturn ports, later with say Metal Gear Solid 2 or Silent Hill 2, or even that botched RE4 first port (though I'm not sure of the timing related to the originals), etc.
That wasn't its "heyay", it's only been getting better, steadily and surely. Like said, we're no longer envious of Japanese games these days for one, everything goes PC, I don't think anyone expected the likes of Street Fighter, Final Fantasy, Metal Gear, Dragon Quest, etc to get same-period launches on PC back then. As the norm and in a generally quality manner that is, there were exceptions in the past of course, in the 90s with some SEGA arcade/saturn ports, later with say Metal Gear Solid 2 or Silent Hill 2, or even that botched RE4 first port (though I'm not sure of the timing related to the originals), etc.
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