Community MetaSteam | August 2021 - Openness Is Its Superpower

[toxicitizen]

The replies on twitter to Square-Enix announcing Collection of SaGa for mobile and Steam are fucking killing me. Asking for a Switch port of a game that's already been Switch exclusive up to this point. Surely it's bots or something? I know fanboys tend to not be the smartest but that's just having a broken brain at this point...

But speaking of port begging, now that I'm done with Chrono Trigger, who do we need to pester to get Square-Enix to release Chrono Cross from PS1 jail? They already did FFIX and now they're remastering the PS1-era SaGa and Mana games. Surely they could be convinced to give the Chrono series just a tiny bit of love as well?

 

[Readher]

Is the resolution still a pain in the ass to mess with in DF1? my one complaint about BHD and 2 is the fight to get proper widescreen

I'm playing at 1024x768. Didn't bother with widescreen.

 

[MJunioR]

I planned to get Baldo in a couple of days or so, but after the reviews and seeing the current state of the game on PC, this also happened:

So that's one gone from my wishlist.

 

[dummmyy]

I also watched Serial Experiments Lain.

I have been trying to remember the name of this show for like a year. I watched it and liked it a lot, but could not for the life of me remember what it was called LOL. thank u

 

[lashman]

I planned to get Baldo in a couple of days or so, but after the reviews and seeing the current state of the game on PC, this also happened:

So that's one gone from my wishlist.

amazing

just ...

 

[AHA-Lambda]

I need to watch Serial Experiments Lain

 

[Kal1m3r0]

I think I'll have to play as many games as possible 'till january because after Elden Ring comes out everything else will probably look awful and boring to my eyes

 

[Kiru]

I need to watch Serial Experiments Lain

Opening Theme alone is awesome.

 

[Cacher]

Yeah, I'm getting tired of this already, great to see Sony is openly talking about PC ports and so but actions speak louder than words, RELEASE MORE ASAP!

Hopefully something will happen here

 

[Mor]

Hopefully something will happen here

Hopefully but highly doubt ;/

 

[Panda Pedinte]

I played 24 of those, and you? :>

I only played 7 games from that list and from those 7 I didn't finish any of it, what a shame. I'm going to hand over my Gamer Credential

Here, take it away from me.

 

[beep boop]

Decided to give vertical taskbar alignment a try. I totally get it now. Amazing!

 

[dex3108]

Lol

 

[Cacher]

The biggest takeaway is that these publishers should move on from showing CGI trailers to reveal a game, especially when they have a gameplay trailer readily available.

 

[Durante]

Hopefully but highly doubt ;/

A PC announcement at TGS would truly be a sign of the end times.

 

[Stone Ocean]

I played 24 of those, and you? :>

I played like 10 of those, not enough of an old fart.

Also can't believe your dad lets you change the wallpaper, I'm so envious.

 

[NarohDethan]

I guess noone plays Battlefront 2 anymore cause it's taking ages to find games.

 

[Digoman]

Deciding what to play next is already usually hard... but after a game you really liked it's just frustrating.

Maybe I should just play Beyond Two Souls (the next David Cage on my list) just to shock my system back to "reality"?

I played 24 of those, and you? :>

I think I also played about 24 of those...

So, do we get "You are old" trophy? At least a senior discount somewhere?

 

[PC-tan]

A PC announcement at TGS would truly be a sign of the end times.

ATLUS will have trumpeter make the announcement.

 

[Arsene]

ATLUS will have trumpeter make the announcement.

 

[MJunioR]

Splitgate is fun

 

[low-G]

I played 24 of those, and you? :>

23 here. It irks me that I have a bunch of old desktop screenshots somewhere on this computer right now of similar eras (before and after) and I can't find a single one of them right now.

Here's 2005-ish.

I played all of these because, of course, it's my screenshot. People don't really think nor talk about stuff like Joint Operations (which was a 128(?) player online shooter and it was really cool and fun for the time). Course I got my interactive fiction and stepmania up in there. People don't talk about Battle for Middle earth either. That's one of the few on here I wish I could play again. I don't have that disc anymore.

SoF2 is on the left because I played so much SoF2 MP. I loved it. Psychonauts on the top right. TOPICAL. It must have been new for me to put it up there.

 

[thekeats1999]

I played 24 of those, and you? :>

Tried 30 of them, played 20 of them for a decent amount of time. Think I only completed about 10 of them.

 

[Le Pertti]

You know if means a lot that Double Fine came out and said that its ok to use any difficulty in Psychonauts 2, because I'm now playing in invincible mode because what I want from the game is platforming and collecting, I felt myself get frustrated when dying and having to restart areas and recollect things and now that I don't have to bother with dying I am enjoying it a lot more.

 

[sk2k]

Fuck the Gamepass hype. lol
Myst is another game where the gamepass version is worse than the Steam version. For example the photo feature is missing. lol. It's a helpful feature.
VR mode is also not supported.

Also, what's up with games that are more expansive in the M$ store?!
Myst. Steam 24,99 Euro vs M$ 29,99 Euro.
Last Stop. Steam 20,99 Euro vs. M$ 24,99 Euro.

 

[MaskedCircle]

I need to watch Serial Experiments Lain

watched it recently, I was mindblown that the show was way ahead of its time.

A PC announcement at TGS would truly be a sign of the end times.

Man, are we all gonna wear clown masks again?

 

[QFNS]

I played 24 of those, and you? :>

Somehow ALSO 24.

Never touched Blade Runner though its a cool FMV game now. Nor Age of Mythology.
I wish I had played Outcast so I could be cool and have played 25, but oh well.

 

[madjoki]

Also, what's up with games that are more expansive in the M$ store?!
Myst. Steam 24,99 Euro vs M$ 29,99 Euro.
Last Stop. Steam 20,99 Euro vs. M$ 24,99 Euro.

Because Microsoft's main business is gamepass, not selling games and MS & devs don't care enough to match prices between stores?
I think those are just regional default prices, MS uses 1$ : 1€ and while Steam uses $1 : 0.8€

 

[NarohDethan]

I played 24 of those, and you? :>

Only two those are boomer games

jk

kinda

 

[AHA-Lambda]

Despite it being on game pass it's on the top 10 global seller (5th currently) and afaik the IP is quite niche so it's doing better than I expected at least. Plus the Steam version is better (dx11 - gives less stutter) and the reviews are overwhelmengly positive so the Steam version is not doing bad at all.

Yeah but I’m only giving a reason to why it may be less than Aliens (plus Aliens is cheaper and a co-op game so a different audience most likely).
It being placed in the top 10 isnt mutually exclusive to that and selling less than Aliens for why I mentioned.

Fwiw, it’s performance on Steam is about exactly what I expected. It’s a niche but beloved ip I figured it’d still do well

I played 24 of those, and you? :>

What list are you referring to?
From that pic I’ve only played 6

Actually this reminds me, was there not a Serial Experiments Lain game?

 

[Le Pertti]

I have at least tried 26 games from that pic, but not sure it counts as played them.

 

[Mor]

A PC announcement at TGS would truly be a sign of the end times.

After all the announcements we got this week I'm starting to think we are already seeing those signs.
But yeah, agree with that, that's why I highly doubt, PC won't be mention at TGS most likely but IF it's something that's going to happen it will be mentioned via western announcement, so not really a problem.

 

[Routa]

Well, I can't believe that worked or how I learned to stop worrying and love defend

Shadow Moon was kicking my ass, until I decided to try turning Black RX into nothing but an evade turtle through various different combinations of the equippable skills - and it worked lmao. The problem with Shadow Moon is his status ailment spam, and just how strong his attacks are, that he is really able to out damage your healing. Black RX's Brave skills rezzes the whole party which what I decided to rely on. Here is Black RX in action being my hero.


After that, I relied on Tiga's explode skill which makes him fall to 1HP, Gundam Unicorn defending Tiga, and W healing Unicorn and himself. Through various equipment combinations again, Tiga is a damage powerhouse when he sits at 1HP so he did all the damage to the boss. Here is the killing blow.


That's the post game dungeon cleared! I still have arena fights left to go

 

[Wok]

Myst. Steam 24,99 Euro vs M$ 29,99 Euro.

vs. EGS: 23,99 €.

 

[fantomena]

vs. EGS: 23,99 €.

 

[beep boop]

Apparently (supposedly?) El Shaddai is gonna be way cheaper than initially announced. Someone got this table along with review code from the publisher. Given it seems to be a console port that's a little rough around the edges, that day 1 price is a lot more agreeable to me.

bonus: the absolute madness that is its PC settings utility

 

[fantomena]

Picked up Tetris Effect. Can finally uninstall the PS version.

 

[Kyougar]

And I am not shocked that this obvious attempt at emotional blackmail worked.

 

[Mivey]

Apparently (supposedly?) El Shaddai is gonna be way cheaper than initially announced. Someone got this table along with review code from the publisher. Given it seems to be a console port that's a little rough around the edges, that day 1 price is a lot more agreeable to me.

bonus: the absolute madness that is its PC settings utility

Finally a game that lets me set my Stencil Buffer Format.

 

[Mor]

Apparently (supposedly?) El Shaddai is gonna be way cheaper than initially announced. Someone got this table along with review code from the publisher. Given it seems to be a console port that's a little rough around the edges, that day 1 price is a lot more agreeable to me.

bonus: the absolute madness that is its PC settings utility

Then it's a day one for me, 17€ is good, really good

 

[beep boop]

Finally a game that lets me set my Stencil Buffer Format.

I'm personally pretty stoked that a game finally recognizes that my PC is pure HAL (Hot And Lovable). Wholesome.

Yeah, it really screams like 'in-house project, working with what we've got at near zero resources' but I'm totally cool with that when it's priced affordably.

 

[Ge0force]

Also, what's up with games that are more expansive in the M$ store?!
Myst. Steam 24,99 Euro vs M$ 29,99 Euro.
Last Stop. Steam 20,99 Euro vs. M$ 24,99 Euro.

Microsoft is charging console prices in the windows store because of Play Anywhere. It's only recently that they have lowered their prices on Steam to match the pricing of every other publisher on pc.

 

[Li Kao]

And I am not shocked that this obvious attempt at emotional blackmail worked.

Worked ? The bait was taken by the usual suspects, sure, but the little stunt having any effect remains to be seen.

 

[AHA-Lambda]

Apparently (supposedly?) El Shaddai is gonna be way cheaper than initially announced. Someone got this table along with review code from the publisher. Given it seems to be a console port that's a little rough around the edges, that day 1 price is a lot more agreeable to me.

bonus: the absolute madness that is its PC settings utility

yeah for £16 I'll bite

 

[Li Kao]

5m long hdmi cable incoming. I will be able to stutter in 4k in Psychonauts 2 soon.

 

[Wok]

And I am not shocked that this obvious attempt at emotional blackmail worked.

No proof that the refund rate was above average. Little proof that the support was overwhelming either.

There are exactly 4 (out of 322 reviews) which mention that the product has been refunded.

322 reviews at the time of the first tweet, out of which 1% at most had abused the refund process.
Take that with a grain of salt: we cannot be sure that this is representative of the sales, maybe abusers don't like to write reviews.

382 reviews now. So a nice boost of sales: at least 60 copies in the most extreme worst case scenario.

For comparison, the game should have sold roughly between 10k (322*30) and 30k (322*100) copies using review multiplier.

If we assume that new customers were more likely to write a positive review to show their support, let us say this leads to a review multiplier of 30 for these new reviews, that would be roughly 2k (60*30) additional copies sold. Maybe less than that, the review multiplier could be lower than usual due to the context.

Overall, I would guess that the press coverage lead to roughly 1k additional sales for a game which must have sold 20k copies, so that would be a 5% increase.

Edit: These people exist too in the review count mentioned above. Not sure if they will really ask for a refund. They are very marginal (4 reviews).

 

[Joe Spangle]

Bank Holiday weekend here! Woo.

What are you doing / playing?

Going to play some coop stuff today. Got this which looks fun...


Might also pick up It Takes Two.

 

[Wok]

A random drifting game with good reviews:

Star Drift Evolution - 1.0 Out Now! - Steam News

Star Drift Evolution Version 1.0 is out now, leaving Early Access!

store.steampowered.com

What are you doing / playing?

Playing Psychonauts 2 and Myst.

 

[Cacher]

What are you doing / playing?

Watching an online stream of a model kit company for hours.

 

[Tizoc]

Psychonauts 2 b10

Lovely 9/10 game with well written characters, story and themes.