Community MetaSteam | August 2019 - The Darqest Place Can Shine With A Mecha-President

[Milena]

Trying to figure out which of these games i want to play and which of these i want to buy (Of course i am talking about gamepass, what do you think? )

Them's a lotta games @_@

Easy choices for me:

August 30th - Man of Medan already bought, I might get Blair Witch later on, but not at launch
September 10th - Greedfall already bought
September 24th: maybe The Surge 2, but it's a big maybe

Not touching EGS of course and Gamepass is still meh for me. Maybe I'll try it for The Outer Worlds. Maybe.

 

[Mor]

No Digimon on those lists is something.... ugh.... HERESY!

 

[Eferis]

Mudrunner 2 by Saber - renamed and egged

Noooo why you do this to meeee

Also, Focus taking Epic money... ugh

 

[Milena]

No Digimon on those lists is something.... ugh.... HERESY!

I personally understand neither Digimon's nor Pokemon's appeal, I guess I'm too old

My younger brother and sister did watch them growing up, but why should I care about Digimon lol?

 

[prudis]

Also, Focus taking Epic money... ugh

its developed by Saber Interactive .... aka WWZ and Ghostbusty "remaster" team .... makes it quite obvious who got the money

 

[Mor]

I personally understand neither Digimon's nor Pokemon's appeal, I guess I'm too old

My younger brother and sister did watch them growing up, but why should I care about Digimon lol?

BECAUSE DIGIMON ROCKS!

 

[Eferis]

I stopped caring about Digimon when they started evolving and stopped being cutie little things.

 

[Ruvon]

Noooo why you do this to meeee

Also, Focus taking Epic money... ugh

MudRunner (their previous game) was a good game ? Never heard of it.

 

[Kvik]

No Digimon on those lists is something.... ugh.... HERESY!

In my defense, my list contains the releases from late August to late September only. I will break in a cold sweat if I include October.

 

[Deleted member 113]

Druidstone was updated to include a level-editor, and modding support, using Steam Workshop:

Steam :: Druidstone: The Secret of the Menhir Forest :: Major Update: Level Editor!

Druidstone just got a built-in level editor & modding support! Build new levels, add new weapons and equipment, create custom monsters and abilities. When you're ready publish your mod on Steam Workshop. With full Lua scripting support with over 2000 functions, the only limit is your...

steamcommunity.com

 

[Wok]

Druidstone was updated to include a level-editor, and modding support, using Steam Workshop:

That is neat! I hope the game does well!

 

[Kylac]

Pitchford cancelled entire Callender family’s health insurance, effective the next business day (July 30, 2018). Because the Callender family received no notice of this cancellation from Gearbox, it was learned only when Callender’s wife was unable to obtain her medications from her doctor. During this time, Pitchford dispatched a personal text message to Callender’s new phone number informing Callender to “unbite himself.”

On information and belief, Pitchford also siphoned Gearbox profits to fund parties thrown by Pitchford and his wife at their home for their own personal benefit. At these events — which Pitchford and his wife affectionately term “Peacock Parties”— adult men reportedly exposed themselves in front of minors, to the amusement of Pitchford.

link

randy is in big trouble.

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

 

[Mivey]

Pitchford cancelled entire Callender family’s health insurance, effective the next business day (July 30, 2018). Because the Callender family received no notice of this cancellation from Gearbox, it was learned only when Callender’s wife was unable to obtain her medications from her doctor. During this time, Pitchford dispatched a personal text message to Callender’s new phone number informing Callender to “unbite himself.”

On information and belief, Pitchford also siphoned Gearbox profits to fund parties thrown by Pitchford and his wife at their home for their own personal benefit. At these events — which Pitchford and his wife affectionately term “Peacock Parties”— adult men reportedly exposed themselves in front of minors, to the amusement of Pitchford.

link

randy is in big trouble.

Nothing about this is in the least surprising. That this man still gets treated with a modicum of respect in conferences and by the media is unbelievable.

 

[Deleted member 113]

Regarding those news of Shiren the Wanderer coming to Steam China, has there been any news or additional information of a Steam launch worldwide?

I had a lot of fun with the series on my Nintendo DS, and would love to play it on PC.

 

[KainXVIII]

OK I just watched the Astral Chain gamescom gameplay video.

When you realized that its 30 fps locked and not on pc?

 

[Ge0force]

That latest Kotaku article is so full of nonsense that my blood is boiling after reading it. Meanwhile, they're one of the only gaming related sites that completely ignored the open letter from the DARQ developer. What a shit site.

 

[lashman]

That latest Kotaku article is so full of nonsense that my blood is boiling after reading it. Meanwhile, they're one of the only gaming related sites that completely ignored the open letter from the DARQ developer. What a shit site.

well Jason already let everyone know what he thinks about that open letter

so your choice for the person writing that article would be either Jason, or Nathan .... so, you know ...

 

[Rosenkrantz]

Pitchford cancelled entire Callender family’s health insurance, effective the next business day (July 30, 2018). Because the Callender family received no notice of this cancellation from Gearbox, it was learned only when Callender’s wife was unable to obtain her medications from her doctor. During this time, Pitchford dispatched a personal text message to Callender’s new phone number informing Callender to “unbite himself.”

On information and belief, Pitchford also siphoned Gearbox profits to fund parties thrown by Pitchford and his wife at their home for their own personal benefit. At these events — which Pitchford and his wife affectionately term “Peacock Parties”— adult men reportedly exposed themselves in front of minors, to the amusement of Pitchford.

link

randy is in big trouble.

Oof, if Randy is goinjg to dodge that shit unscathed and no one will say a word than there's something deeply wrong with this industry.

Replace O with U in Kotaku and it would mean dick in my native language, sounds about right.

 

[Phoenix RISING]

Man I ain't even got time to follow all this "game industry drama."

fearthedawn you asked about RTS games.

If you ain't playing They Are Billions, you are wrong.


Empires of the Undergrowth is still in Early Access, but what's done so far is excellent, and one-of-a-kind. You'll learn more about ants and their predators and rivals more than any class in entomology.

 

[Eferis]

When you realized that its 30 fps locked and not on pc?

Hey I could maybe live with one of the two. Both... ugh

 

[prudis]

this could be fun

Final release for HyperParasite will now be Q1 2020.

 

[Ruvon]

Pitchford cancelled entire Callender family’s health insurance, effective the next business day (July 30, 2018). Because the Callender family received no notice of this cancellation from Gearbox, it was learned only when Callender’s wife was unable to obtain her medications from her doctor. During this time, Pitchford dispatched a personal text message to Callender’s new phone number informing Callender to “unbite himself.”

On information and belief, Pitchford also siphoned Gearbox profits to fund parties thrown by Pitchford and his wife at their home for their own personal benefit. At these events — which Pitchford and his wife affectionately term “Peacock Parties”— adult men reportedly exposed themselves in front of minors, to the amusement of Pitchford.

link

randy is in big trouble.

Wow. That's insane.

But is it the same doc that you can find here :

Home Page - GameDaily.biz | We Make Games Our Business

gamedaily.biz

At the end of the article, there's the same "PLAINTIFF’S THIRD AMENDED PETITION" document we can find in your link (I guess, didn't read the whole thing, I'm supposed to be working after all

Is there new development in this case ?

 

[prudis]

releasing this friday (on steam aswell)

 

[Trisolarian]

That latest Kotaku article is so full of nonsense that my blood is boiling after reading it. Meanwhile, they're one of the only gaming related sites that completely ignored the open letter from the DARQ developer. What a shit site.

Meh. Kotaku has picked a side the "dev vs gamer war of '19". Its annoying but expected. When devs are faced with major funding/money issues and gamers are getting fucked by lootboxes, ftp and exclusivity deals, we take it out on each other. The economics of games are broken.

 

[Cordelia]

well Jason already let everyone know what he thinks about that open letter

so your choice for the person writing that article would be either Jason, or Nathan .... so, you know ...

Should have someone who have neutral views to write the article tbh. Or at least someone play and invested on PC gaming.

Meh. Kotaku has picked a side the "dev vs gamer war of '19". Its annoying but expected. When devs are faced with major funding/money issues and gamers are getting fucked by lootboxes, ftp and exclusivity deals, we take it out on each other. The economics of games are broken.

It's weird though. Jason has shown his position again and again that he is supportive on developers and give no shit about customers side. But when a developer shows that he don't take Egsclusive deal he mock that developer. It's like he has an agenda or something.

 

[Trisolarian]

Should have someone who have neutral views to write the article tbh. Or at least someone play and invested on PC gaming.

It's weird though. Jason has shown his position again and again that he is supportive on developers and give no shit about customers side. But when a developer shows that he don't take Egsclusive deal he mock that developer. It's like he has an agenda or something.

Maybe, but from his comment he specifically mentioned "business reasons" as if the DARQ dev made a purely economic choice to make their comments vs a blend of money/customer goodwill. He is probably pro EGS on the dev's side purely for the money that EGS gives out.

 

[Ge0force]

well Jason already let everyone know what he thinks about that open letter

so your choice for the person writing that article would be either Jason, or Nathan .... so, you know ...

There's a 3rd one now. The hate boner for Steam seems to be contagious

 

[Kylac]

Wow. That's insane.

But is it the same doc that you can find here :

Home Page - GameDaily.biz | We Make Games Our Business

gamedaily.biz

At the end of the article, there's the same "PLAINTIFF’S THIRD AMENDED PETITION" document we can find in your link (I guess, didn't read the whole thing, I'm supposed to be working after all

Is there new development in this case ?

No it's old apparently. i saw it on my twitter feed and thought it was new info. It's hard to keep track of all these scandals!

 

[Mor]

Ascheroth I have a proposal for you, it's about Digimon, do not worry haha
we can discuss this via PMs if you curious, need someone who makes writing better than me ;D

 

[Ruvon]

No it's old apparently. i saw it on my twitter feed and thought it was new info. It's hard to keep track of all these scandals!

Ok Thanks for sharing, I missed it at the time !

Maybe he'll be punished to only have access to EGS in his cell

 

[Deleted member 113]

Ascheroth I have a proposal for you, it's about Digimon, do not worry haha
we can discuss this via PMs if you curious, need someone who makes writing better than me ;D

 

[lashman]

Valve talks Steam China, curation and exclusivity

Valve, alongside its business partner in China, Perfect World, has given us an update on the progress of Steam China to…

www.eurogamer.net

Are you going to have any games that are exclusive to Steam China here?


Powers: No, no. Our approach has always been pretty non-exclusive. We think games are best when they're available in as many places as possible, and our approach with Steam China will be just the same. If you ship a game on Steam China we're happy for you to ship it anywhere else; we would encourage you to ship it in other places.

 

[Cordelia]

Valve talks Steam China, curation and exclusivity

Valve, alongside its business partner in China, Perfect World, has given us an update on the progress of Steam China to…

www.eurogamer.net

 

[lashman]

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[Ascheroth]

No Digimon on those lists is something.... ugh.... HERESY!

Indeed.

I personally understand neither Digimon's nor Pokemon's appeal, I guess I'm too old

My younger brother and sister did watch them growing up, but why should I care about Digimon lol?

It's not too late to watch Digimon now! Digimon Adventure 1 and Digimon Tamers are my go-to recommendations. They still hold up and are great.

 

[Cordelia]

This comment was deleted.

Weird it's still there on my side.

snew

snew.notabug.io

CTRL+F ethical.

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

Indecent Propomon?

MistyMon puts on his Robe and Wizard Hat...

 

[Mivey]

Indecent Propomon?

Actually, it should rather be:

MistyMon takes off his Robe and Wizard Hat...

 

[derExperte]

Game Informer lays off 'many' staff

Game Informer has undergone a round of layoffs, according to a handful of now former employees. West coast news editor …

www.gamesindustry.biz

That's too bad, it's one of the very, very few big gaming media sites I still visit, enjoy their videos a lot too because, well, they focus on games instead of metacommentary which is refreshing nowadays. Also Tim didn't get to them. Though him paying up might've been a better business plan than being owned by GameStop. Sure, the layoffs' timing was unexpected but with GS being on death's door and them having a relatively big staff it sadly was inevitable.

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In better news Fantasy General 2's release date will be announced tomorrow (it'll be in September, dev studio owner already said that much), hope there's a preorder, loved the original back in the day.

 

[Firewithin]

so Telling Lies is out in two days and still no price

 

[sprinkles]

In better news Fantasy General 2's release date will be announced tomorrow (it'll be in September, dev studio owner already said that much), hope there's a preorder, loved the original back in the day.

I am not 15 any more, I don't have the time for these types games

I played the "General" games (Panzer, Pacific, Fantasy, Star) so, so much in my teens. But campaigns took me forever because I restarted many times to get the "perfect" run. I'd need to quit my day job to play this way nowadays...

 

[NarohDethan]

Tin foil hat time:
Kotaku has figured out that much of its traffic comes from console news anyway, might as well attract some hate clicks for PC gamers.

 

[derExperte]

I am not 15 any more, I don't have the time for these types games

I played the "General" games (Panzer, Pacific, Fantasy, Star) so, so much in my teens. But campaigns took me forever because I restarted many times to get the "perfect" run. I'd need to quit my day job to play this way nowadays...

Heh, here one of the owners of the dev studio making FG2 (left one, right one is founder of Deck 13 -> Surge 2) talks about 'silver gamers' and how they're trying to appease ppl with less time and willingness to dig deep without taking away complexity (German only, channel's totally worth subbing to):

 

[lashman]

 

[Wok]

so Telling Lies is out in two days and still no price

$20 on PC, $7 on iPad.

 

[Trisolarian]

$20 on PC, $7 on iPad.

I get it. However, I hope that Sam wouldn't mind that if I was inclined to buy this game day one, I would be on a mobile platform due to the price difference. :/ Sorry but you said it....

 

[Wok]

I get it. However, I hope that Sam wouldn't mind that if I was inclined to buy this game day one, I would be on a mobile platform due to the price difference. :/ Sorry but you said it....

I agree. It is annoying, and unless the reviews are laudatory, it will be a "wait for a deep sale".

I have to pay more because:

• I only own one gaming platform (no competition between platforms, since I don't have any choice),
• and it is the less competitive platform of the two (less competition to drive the price down).

I don't know how mobile gamers have managed to achieve this market equilibrium. That is impressive.

 

[Trisolarian]

I agree. sigh

I have to pay more because I only own one gaming platform (no choice) and it is the less competitive platform of the two.

I have a Moto E4 running Android 7.1 lol. I have a choice but it isn't like being rich and having an IPhone Xs or something. (Rich person gets IPhone XS, pays less for game anyway. Nice) "Mobile" is getting to be as wide as an experience as PC gaming is.

 

[Wok]

I have a Moto E4 running Android 7.1 lol. I have a choice but it isn't like being rich and having an IPhone Xs or something. (Rich person gets IPhone XS, pays less for game anyway. Nice) "Mobile" is getting to be as wide as an experience as PC gaming is.

I think you cannot take advantage of this price without an Apple device, because the game will be available for $7 for iPhone and iPad.
So, isn't Android excluded?