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Community MetaSteam | January 2020 - Toss A Coin To Your Gaben
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I’m really starting to dislike Valve’s attempt at these sales events as of late. Last year’s Lunar Sale was probably their best attempt: you automatically got a $5 coupon to purchase anything you put in your basket $30 and above, the emotes weren’t as high priced as they are of recent. I think they can do a lot better at planning but ehhh.
At least you still have the online option if your are fluent in English and not socially anxious. Not thinking about someone in particular here
It's surely not 100% of the real life exp, but with a nice group it should be interesting.
Maybe some people would be up for it here.
Haha I've been diagnosed with social anxiety disorder since I was 11At least you still have the online option if your are fluent in English and not socially anxious. Not thinking about someone in particular here
It's surely not 100% of the real life exp, but with a nice group it should be interesting.
Maybe some people would be up for it here.
It's hard to open up and be calm around people I'm not fairly familiar with, so I'm not sure how an online game would go, I would be down to try though.
The way these coupons are being handled is far from great. Like, $5 each $30 adapted for regional pricing was pretty good, decent at least, Summer Sale wasn't also that bad.
Two $5 coupons for spending $100 is just meh. MEH.
Preach brother, I'm so socially anxious I don't know if I could say a word. It would not help my case that I'm a Frenchy that never really spoke English. It would be wild for the poor ears of my co-playersHaha I've been diagnosed with social anxiety disorder since I was 11
Ay will attack ze monster !
inspired by the Danganronpa and Zero Escape series
Yeah, Valve got too fat and lazy as of late. Our man Tim should work harder.
Seriously though, these coupons are a pretty bad deal. They didn't give you any points for buying stuff using your Steam Wallet during Winter Seal and now they want you to spend shitload of money before giving you any extra discounts. This is really dumb.
Seriously though, these coupons are a pretty bad deal. They didn't give you any points for buying stuff using your Steam Wallet during Winter Seal and now they want you to spend shitload of money before giving you any extra discounts. This is really dumb.
I've grown tired of saying this every time it happens. Think I'm gonna start reporting posts that do that, I don't want this place to become another shitposting forum.
Yup, I get that they did it to combat exploits, but I can't shake the feeling that it wasn't worth it.
so finally catched up to with my trailers thread to current that , so i am shilling it a bit :-D
metacouncil.com
(the link is set to first 2020s trailer drop)
note: lot of embeded trailers there ... so might be quite intensive , especially on mobiles!!!
|OT| - Games trailers, news and such | Trailers in the Sky
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/13684/Trouble_Witches_Origin_Walpurgis_Duo_Bundle_Edition/ https://metacouncil.com/threads/encased-a-sci-fi-post-apocalyptic-rpg-releasing-in-early-access-on-sept-26th-full-version-mid-2020.1519/...
metacouncil.com
note: lot of embeded trailers there ... so might be quite intensive , especially on mobiles!!!
I'm very glad I got to use a burner email since I got in during the transition from GAF.
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If anyone has some of those Blue Coins Gamersgate has when you purchase or rate a game (I had, and mostly forgot about them), this game is cheap, and may be worth the 350 coins it costs (you can get 100 back by purchasing it, and rating it):
The game is also on sale on Steam:
The game is also on sale on Steam:
It would have been nice to get some amount of coins from games bought during the Winter Sale, which happened less than a month ago. I'm not asking for the whole amount, but somewhere between 5%-10% would have been a cool gesture. Especially when you notice how expensive every item is, and realize you've bought so many games in December that there's no point in spending too much now.
"Only" 700 million accounts? I'm dumb, why is it important?
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Why? Game went viral in China due to epidemic. It's not some anti china propaganda campaign.
Steam has one billion accounts and 90 million monthly active users
Steam's population equals almost a seventh of the globe (except it doesn't *really*)
www.pcgamesn.com
It's really interesting to see this numbers although I would love to see the real-time ban waves as it could potentially be a great tool to detect bot creations.
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I don't like that they used an epidemic to joke around in a game, people are actually dying. Didn't meant that was anti China propaganda. Shouldn't have posted that part
Doomsday app games about plague and disaster are going viral in China
"The best way to get rid of fear is to face the fear itself," wrote a Chinese game news site.
qz.com
Huh.
So this data is wrong?
Or Superdata doesn't count Rockstar Launcher number?
Thanks! I forgot about that article.Why? Game went viral in China due to epidemic. It's not some anti china propaganda campaign.
Steam has one billion accounts and 90 million monthly active users
Steam's population equals almost a seventh of the globe (except it doesn't *really*)
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't SuperData barely a notch above Chartz as far as reliability goes?
Superdata has November as 400k, which is the same number they gave for just Epic Launcher.
They forgot/didn't realize that Rockstar had their own launcher lol.
They forgot/didn't realize that Rockstar had their own launcher lol.
I don't really agree with most of the coupons thoughts I read online.
The way I see it, for a decade or so a sale "just" meant that you get discounted games. Now it means that you get discounted games and if you spend a chunk of money you get an extra discount on top of the normal game discount. I find that hard to complain about.
Edit: I should mention though that I really don't care about the cosmetics, so I'm looking at it as if that wasn't a thing (i.e. to me the sale currency is only a means to a single end which is the extra discount).
The way I see it, for a decade or so a sale "just" meant that you get discounted games. Now it means that you get discounted games and if you spend a chunk of money you get an extra discount on top of the normal game discount. I find that hard to complain about.
Edit: I should mention though that I really don't care about the cosmetics, so I'm looking at it as if that wasn't a thing (i.e. to me the sale currency is only a means to a single end which is the extra discount).
I think, haven't Valve did the entire thing differently before, nobody would've complained about it now, it just happens that they changed their coupons system for worse.
300k is a pretty huge difference from the 1-2m figure SteamSpy lists.
So many numbers going around I don't believe any of the numbers for any of the platforms unless Rockstar or something official comes out.
Crazy discrepancy, guess the days of free accurate data were over once Steam implemented privacy changes that took steamspy to shit (and ppl still pay, meh).
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If worst comes to worst we'll always have emulationHearing PC sales are down for 2019 makes me nervous. I feel like the reason we get so many ports these days is because of the big growth of PC market so to hear that might be in trouble...
Not like people stop doing ports just because of a little shrinkage
Yea people really need to stop using playtracker, superdata, or wtvr other stuff is out there nowadays. They aren't reliable.
Just do the steam user review multiplier thing for best result. Multiply the number of reviews by 25-50 and you should get a good enough educated guess.
So RDR2 has 45k reviews on steam. So that should give you 1-2 million sold.
Also doesn't playtracker use data by way of Xbox game bar thing? And isn't that only a Win10 thing? So they most likely aren't even tracking windows 7 and 8 users which make up like 40% of steam users today.
Just do the steam user review multiplier thing for best result. Multiply the number of reviews by 25-50 and you should get a good enough educated guess.
So RDR2 has 45k reviews on steam. So that should give you 1-2 million sold.
Also doesn't playtracker use data by way of Xbox game bar thing? And isn't that only a Win10 thing? So they most likely aren't even tracking windows 7 and 8 users which make up like 40% of steam users today.
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i'm like 120% sure LittleDinamit does WAY more than just pulling and posting raw numbers from the gamebar ... just saying
I can't find the tweet, but Zeboid games dev posted a while back and some dev(s) on Twitter mentioned you can multiply Steam reviews by 50 (pessimistic) or up to 100 (optimistic) to gain somewhat accurate sales numbers.
Even if all these people are using better metrics...I still find it hard to believe they would all of a sudden have accurate data from individual storefronts on a month by month basis. Seems like too big a of a leap for it to be happening as of late.
EPIC and Valve are both private companies. Anything coming out of EGS should be looked as noise until they themselves post infographics. And even then those infographics need to be carefully examined since they fudge numbers using free game accounts, moneyhats, fortnite etc. And with Valve the only legit data we have is # of reviews + their end of the year platinum, gold, silver and bronze lists.
With something like Rockstar game launcher I don't see how anyone would have their data except Take-Two right now. Their earnings call in a few weeks should be the only reliable source. Assuming they even mention and not fudge their numbers too.
Stop. You’re ruining the magic for me. Is that what you want? Me to lose faith in magic?
Just tried Saints & Sinners via Captain Sparrow method as I had no idea if I will like it or not.
Game is really awesome, so will buy it on Steam as soon as Im finished with Persona 5.
Game is really awesome, so will buy it on Steam as soon as Im finished with Persona 5.
Exit the Gungeon. I barely entered the gungeon. I never made it past level 3 no matter what. I played a ton of that game and just hit a wall.
Two chicken dinners on my squad's first night of the new PUBG season and already level 23 from one night if play, feels good man.
The sale could be better I guess but the rat is super cute.
The sale could be better I guess but the rat is super cute.
Got lost on the way to the dungeon doesn't sound as exciting
Oh yeah, I had completely forgotten about those! Turns out I have about 5k blue coins. This Fort Zombie game seems to be dirt cheap and somewhat "interesting". Guess I'll probably grab it and proceed to immediately forget that I ever did
Haha! I really need the money now. But don’t worry, I’ll be back!
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