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Bank Holiday weekend here! Woo.What are you doing / playing?
What are you doing / playing?
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.
Playing Chaos Child, nearly at the first ending; god damn it's long
Playing Chaos Child, nearly at the first ending; god damn it's long
The time to things actually starting to hit the fan is also pretty long.
I liked some things about it, but on the balance there were more that put me off. Maybe I should have sought out the previous entry and played that first or something.
FWIW, the common route is one of the longest I ever experienced in a VN, at roughly 40 hours.
Character routes are shorter.
Yeah I'll echo your comment on it taking a long ass time to get to where the stakes really ramp up. Stein's Gate this ain't in that regard, I thought SG was quite well paced actually.
On the first game though Chaos Head, I think if anything in this regard its much worse.
It's a bit overlong but I'm still enjoying Chaos Child, Chaos Head I just plain didn't like.
I put my thoughts on chaos head in the review thread near the start of the year
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Finished Smile for Me This is definitely the most creative and funny game I've played this year. You're playing as a florist who ends up in some kind of psychiatric institution, and your goal is to make the other residents smile by solving their problems and grieves. If you succeed, this...metacouncil.com
boop beep It's only 60-85 hours, no problem. It's a breeze. It's supposed to be great though.
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boop beep It's only 60-85 hours, no problem. It's a breeze. It's supposed to be great though.
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Might I suggest Umineko?
That's what I thought I'd pick up instead of Clannad, funny enough
Until I checked HLTB just now. Guess I'll see keep on looking.
Umineko is also structured like Higurashi, with 8 chapters total. Difference is that you can only buy them in packs of 4 instead of each one individually though.That's what I thought I'd pick up instead of Clannad, funny enough
Until I checked HLTB just now. Guess I'll see keep on looking.
That's what I thought I'd pick up instead of Clannad, funny enough
Until I checked HLTB just now. Guess I'll see keep on looking.
Don't tell me those are long ass VN tooMajikoi?
Little busters?
lololololol
Muv-Luv?
just play ace attorney if you need a quick and easy VN fix.Don't tell me those are long ass VN too
I was interested in Majikoi slice of life hijinks and Muv-Luv.
Oh, by the way, shipment delivered. New scratching pad included becausekitty !
And, as expected, kitty don't give a shit about the pad but is ALL over the cardboard box it came in. Dat cardboard, se gusta.
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Picked up a nice boxed copy of Doom 3 off ebay.
In great condition.
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Master Wok, I've been thinking about this specific issue and it reminded me of the game "The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game" which has "Overwhelmingly Positive" reviews and is similar to above game in length duration and I don't know if there is a way to obtain or filter only "refunded reviews" to compare both but I suspect the Frog game didn't have any particular issue with refunds rate giving the fact the game can be completed in just 1 hour.No proof that the refund rate was above average. Little proof that the support was overwhelming either.
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).
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CDs? What are those?
Played (as in fully played and completed the basic story) 2 of those. Tiberian Sun and GTA2.I played 24 of those, and you? :>
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They’re basically MiniDiscs but like big.
it reminded me of the game "The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game" which has "Overwhelmingly Positive" reviews and is similar to above game in length duration and I don't know if there is a way to obtain or filter only "refunded reviews" to compare both but I suspect the Frog game didn't have any particular issue with refunds rate giving the fact the game can be completed in just 1 hour.
Does reading it online count as figuring it out?XDI'm curious; how many of you figured out how to proceed in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night after getting the bad ending?![]()
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If there's something missing or cheaper, let me know![]()
without a guide? haha no chanceI'm curious; how many of you figured out how to proceed in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night after getting the bad ending?![]()
I'm curious; how many of you figured out how to proceed in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night after getting the bad ending?![]()
Thanks for the impressive work Wok as always. Certainly without developers official numbers is still hard to imagine why people would abuse refunds system on Steam on a game that has "very positive" ratings with a low price point and no trading cards.After scrolling through reviews at:
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Steam Community :: Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island
Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island - Play as The Detective in this thrilling mystery of THE HAUNTED ISLAND! Meet a kooky cast of characters, with clues and quests to help you on your way.!! 1 hour estimated completion time !!A small sloth has been haunted for weeks by a mysterious ghost that...steamcommunity.com
I find only 2 reviews with the mention "Product refunded", one positive and one negative.
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Steam Community :: SolarBlaze :: Review for Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island
funny frog mouse moves spooky ghoststeamcommunity.com
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Steam Community :: Kolosus :: Review for Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island
Absolutely not worth the 4€. Apart from being really shoddily made, the "LOl sO raNdUM" humor falls completely flat. Don't bother wasting whatever 30-40 minutes it takes to complete this.steamcommunity.com
The total number of reviews is 2186, but roughly half of them are not refundable (most likely copies from Humble Choice).
1056 reviews based on refundable copies, and only 2 cases of "product refunded".![]()
To be compared to the other horror indie game:
333 reviews based on refundable copies, and 4 refunds mentioned in the reviews.![]()
So, judging number of copies and refunds based on reviews, the refund rate could be 6 times higher than for the frog game.
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Dude the best piece of advice I can give you: if you're not enjoying it drop it.So i reached Meridian city in Horizon Zero Dawn and i am doing quests around it and can i ask, are there any quests in this game where NPCs don't ask for your help? Quests that are funny or twisted or anything beside "Aloy save us, my husband, my sister, my brother, friend..."? Also this is first game in a long while where i am noticing hard cuts in NPC dialogues and music. Also machines are bit too aggressive in my opinion, all of them are instant threat as soon as they see you. They could have made at least some of them leave you alone unless you attack them .
I am still kinda enjoying story and lore but boy does this game lacks any meaningful quest rewards or exploration. Nothing says job well done at the end of the quest like loot box you get XD
Dude the best piece of advice I can give you: if you're not enjoying it drop it.
It certainly doesn't sound like you're getting much out of it
sony exclusive, pretty gfx, female lead, sci fi robot dinosaurs, open world formula somehow hasn't bored mainstream reviewers to tears yetNah i like lore and kinda story, i just don't understand how was this game praised as much as it was on release.
Thanks for the impressive work Wok as always. Certainly without developers official numbers is still hard to imagine why people would abuse refunds system on Steam on a game that has "very positive" ratings with a low price point and no trading cards.
Something feels off here and maybe the reviews rating isnt telling us exactly the whole picture about the game.
This is a job for Simonc who we need to get on Meta.