Community MetaSteam | July 2019 - Racing Towards Empty Wallets

[Ge0force]

Let me try and properly state my position on this, this time.
Let's say we have a vote consisting of a very sizable population, in the magnitude of millions. The final result of that vote represents the overall majority opinion. A person's individual vote doesn't actually mean much in how it influences that final result, and their individual vote does not represent that final result. What's more important is how that person can work within their sphere of influence to change that overall opinion, as well as what that opinion actually is.

So, I do not feel that my one purchase weighs against the people who will never buy anything on the Epic Store, the efforts I have and will continue to make to persuade people against it, and Epic's sheer incompetence. If nothing else, I can jump in whenever someone says so and so can't say anything about EGS because they've never used it. Like how there doesn't seem to be offline play, that'll be annoying when I move houses soon...

I understand your position. But if everyone thinks like this, Epic WILL succeed with their current strategy. Don't forget what their end goal is: devs releasing their games exclusive on EGS without Epic having to moneyhat them. What Epic needs to achieve this, is proof that games sell as well on their store as they would sell on Steam. Anyone buying games on EGS helps them to achieve this.

This said: it's up to everyone to decide if they want to use EGS or not. I'm only trying to point out the consequences for doing so, not to judge anyone doing otherwise.

 

[Rockin' Ranger]

One of the rarely thought about benefits of working I.T. is the free access to a highly cooled server room.

Same for working somewhere with a walk-in cooler.

 

[Durante]

Against my better judgement I went ahead and bought wolfenstein. Arkane working on the level design in this is my only hope for it, but even then I'm not expecting to get very much out of this game. And the co-op focus still upsets me a bit.

FWIW, the co-op focus is the reason I might eventually buy it

 

[texhnolyze]

The new FE game is out in a few day and Best Buy has not sent me a shipping confirmation yet.... I guess I'm getting my copy next week. I know that the one of the devs behind the original FE games did make a PC game in that style and that it's getting localized in English. What ever happened to that game?

You're talking about this one, right?


Yeah, I've been following the game since the announcement back then. No official announcement yet in months, but the devs are quite active in the Steam forums. They're still on it.

 

[Eferis]

It's heeeeeere!!


This too.

 

[fantomena]

Im home from vacation. Got so much to play now. Thee Houses is coming out soon, but Im gonna first finish the last AssCreed Odyssey expansion.

The game is almost 100 gb (AssCreed), so uninstalling it will feel great. Great game noneless.

 

[Exzyleph]

I wonder what's up with this. I can't find any particular offer/bundle with these games and the number bumps are so synchronized it can't be nothing but bots, idling, but where are they getting the games from?
madjoki any ideas?

It's a bug:

Are they actually categorizing the achievements? Nobody seems to remember you can do that on Steam, like how TF2 has different lists for each class.

I don't think I've ever seen that in a game.
Is that feature actually accessible via the developer backend?

Looking at the achivements for TF2, its stats page seems like something that Valve created specifically for that game:

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[prudis]

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The new Career Mode in WRC 8 mimics the real world and allows players to become a driver for a WRC team for the first time. Players must progress from season to season to compete in the WRC category and ultimately become world champion. By following several teams in different rallies, the developers managed to capture the key aspects of a successful season.
Players must excel in three major areas that have been included in the game:
• Planning the calendar to decide which events to do in between rallies: training, manufacturer challenges, rest, classic events, etc.
• Managing a whole crew comprising six different and interconnected job roles. Players must consider each of their unique characteristics and use them strategically in each rally.
• Upgrading the crew through R&D and a skill tree, which evolves depending on player choices. Every decision has an impact on progression and on the morale of the crew (performance, reliability, etc.).

The statistics available at the end of each rally also help players to refine their strategy, compare themselves to competitors and adjust their set-ups as necessary to climb the rankings, upgrade their car and recruit the right people for their team.

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out of nowhere update :-D

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Sunken Treasures DLC launches alongside Game Update 4 on July 30.

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Out now in EA

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Coming soon to Early Access

 

[lashman]

Now that I have 11 Steam friends, I can see that I'm a low-value friend

hey now, don't say that ... you're high-value in our hearts!!!

no lies detected

 

[Mor]

 

[Ascheroth]

Hell yeah!
Take my money, Namco!

 

[Mor]

Listen everyone, the number of (public) games that got updated with the new assets for the Steam UI passed the 4K mark in 1 month.

 

[Kvik]

Now that I have 11 Steam friends, I can see that I'm a low-value friend and why you all rank up your badges and so on. I'll try to play more games on PC and improve my lot. I also hope this doesn't mean that you all can see how many games I start and don't finish.

It'll be 12 soon if you accept my request (and resign yourself to anime)

 

[lashman]

Listen everyone, the number of (public) games that got updated with the new assets for the Steam UI passed the 4K mark in 1 month.

only 2847598234579082345092345 left

 

[Exzyleph]

Listen everyone, the number of (public) games that got updated with the new assets for the Steam UI passed the 4K mark in 1 month.

How do you track how many games have been updated with new assets?

 

[fantomena]

Got my account connected here.

 

[Mor]

How do you track how many games have been updated with new assets?

Here, it's SteamDB
Everyday at 11:20am I get the number and put it on that excel.

 

[Li Kao]

About Monster Boy, wasn't there a Japanese sequel planned, one with a strange title, including 'booze'. Was it renamed to the very tired 'Cursed Kingdom' subtitle or is it another sequel ?

 

[RionaaM]

prudis sorry if I'm overstepping or something, but would it be possible to put the videos and screenshots behind spoiler tags? Having all that info in a single post is very useful (so thanks for doing it!), but it makes scrolling the thread on mobile kind of a pain in the ass haha.

 

[Alextended]

About Monster Boy, wasn't there a Japanese sequel planned, one with a strange title, including 'booze'. Was it renamed to the very tired 'Cursed Kingdom' subtitle or is it another sequel ?

Iirc this is the first of its kind, taking after the Wonder Boy series by the original creator but not using the same IP he doesn't own.

I don't think there were other Wonder Boy games planned outside the (great) recent remake of Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap.

I haven't heard of any sequels to Monster Boy either, would they really announce that before even releasing the first game?

 

[lashman]

Was it renamed to the very tired 'Cursed Kingdom' subtitle

yes

 

[Deleted member 113]

It just means nobody is buying games on PC

Spoiler

because we are dirty pirates

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Nah, it means we do buy games on PC.

We just don't play them.

 

[InquisitorAles]

Made a video about my adventures of trying to play Spore 10 years since its release:

Spoiler - it didn't age well, nor technically or gameplay wise.

 

[Tizoc]

Awww yeah.

 

[prudis]

About Monster Boy, wasn't there a Japanese sequel planned, one with a strange title, including 'booze'. Was it renamed to the very tired 'Cursed Kingdom' subtitle or is it another sequel ?

this one is renamed from Monster Boy and Wizards of the Booze which was renamed and repurposed to Monsterboy from Flying HAmster 2 (which was failed KS project back 2015)

prudis sorry if I'm overstepping or something, but would it be possible to put the videos and screenshots behind spoiler tags? Having all that info in a single post is very useful (so thanks for doing it!), but it makes scrolling the thread on mobile kind of a pain in the ass haha.

will have to think about it ... and experiment on mobile

sure i can do screenshots in spoilers , but imo spoilering the trailer kinda defeates the purpose of why i post that aka (posting trailers for stuff thats coming ... and steampage is there just for weasy wishlist )

 

[lazerfox]

Here, it's SteamDB
Everyday at 11:20am I get the name and put it on that excel.

Skimmed through few pages and found some pretty neat art but also a lot of low effort ones.

I hope you can enable those box art images on store pages as well because they look way better than the small header images we have right now.
For example the art for the game Banner of the Maid. It looks kinda interesting.

And then you have the box art which looks freakin amazing.

 

[Li Kao]

Fuuuu, I know, video games, but... this is about Joan of Arc ? And there is a shojo Napoleon ?

 

[Mor]

PS4 Sakura Wars

 

[Li Kao]

PS4 Sakura Wars

Real-time ?
Kill it with fire

 

[Le Pertti]

Those of you that have gotten into the GOG2 beta, have you bought anything from GOG? I haven't so I'm thinking that maybe that's why they won't let me in.T_T

 

[derExperte]

It just means nobody is buying games on PC

Spoiler

because we are dirty pirates

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Joking aside lately I've seen a couple of deals on PSN that there actually better than what we got, okay some were only better due to an added PS+ discount but others were not. So.... totally random with someone rolling a dice. Probably the same someone who decides on Steam's regional prices.

 

[Mor]

Real-time ?
Kill it with fire

Nah man, it looks great, sure it's not a SRPG but what can I say? it looks good enough for me (I'm not a die hard fan of the saga, tho, so that might influence me to think that this is looking good)

 

[Li Kao]

Nah man, it looks great, sure it's not a SRPG but what can I say? it looks good enough for me (I'm not a die hard fan of the saga, tho, so that might influence me to think that this is looking good)

Well, I wasn't that serious, and I'm realist about 2019 gamers interest in turn based systems.
That being said it's a little like if Sega announced Shining Force 4 as an action game with VN segments. It can be good, it's just not the same.

 

[texhnolyze]

 

[Li Kao]

Sorry if I post too much, it's too hot to do anything but breath and browse Meta right now.

 

[derExperte]

Since this week isn't crowded enough already, everyone seems to have decided to dump new DLCs on us too.

 

[Ge0force]

Sorry if I post too much, it's too hot to do anything but breath and browse Meta right now.

Same here, it's the hottest day ever here in Belgium (40°C in the shadow). I'm so happy there's airco at work, but when I step outside it's like entering an oven. At home, I only have airco in our kitchen. But I've put a fan in the kitchen door to blow the cool air in our living room.

Because it's so hot in our bedroom, I decided to sleep on the couch in the living room last night. That went well until my cat decided to lick my toes in the middle of the night.

I'm going to an open-air Tommorowland party tonight with some friends. I really hope the heat has cooled down by then, but that seems unlikely.

 

[lashman]

Reviews - Wolfenstein: Youngblood Reviews

Game Information Game Title: Wolfenstein: Youngblood Platforms: PlayStation 4 (Jul 26, 2019) Xbox One (Jul 26, 2019) PC (Jul 26, 2019) Trailer: Wolfenstein: Youngblood – Official Story Trailer Wolfenstein: Youngblood – Official E3 Teaser Developers: Arkane Studios, Machine Games...

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[Li Kao]

Same here, it's the hottest day ever here in Belgium (40°C in the shadow). I'm so happy there's airco at work, but when I step outside it's like entering an oven. At home, I only have airco in our kitchen. But I've put a fan in the kitchen door to blow the cool air in our living room.

Because it's so hot in our bedroom, I decided to sleep on the couch in the living room last night. That went well until my cat decided to lick my toes in the middle of the night.

I'm going to an open-air Tommorowland party in Antwerp tonight with some friends. I really hope the heat has cooled down by then, but that seems unlikely.

No AC here, just two fans working day and night. At this rate, I will have two fans to change, hopefully they last until September.

 

[Durante]

Listen everyone, the number of (public) games that got updated with the new assets for the Steam UI passed the 4K mark in 1 month.

Good! I wonder how long they plan to keep it in public beta. If it's just the standard cadence it will be public quite quickly after the public beta.

 

[Ge0force]

No AC here, just two fans working day and night. At this rate, I will have two fans to change, hopefully they last until September.

What may help is putting two plastic bottles of water in your freezer. When the water is frozen, put the bottles in front of your fan. It's no AC, but it's something ^^

 

[sk2k]

PC? Steam?

 

[derExperte]

 

[xinek]

hey now, don't say that ... you're high-value in our hearts!!!

It'll be 12 soon if you accept my request (and resign yourself to anime)

I'm glad you crossed that out!

 

[Kvik]

I'm glad you crossed that out!

I'm simply easing you into our fold, bruvva.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

I'm currently in my "play some of the shorter games in my Steam library before starting another lengthy RPG" phase, and here's my progress so far:

Played through Hylics, a very bizarre and fascinating indie RPG. The strange looking claymation models combined with the nonsensical dialogue (most of which was done through a random word generator) and improvised music (the creator literally just grabbed his guitar and made up songs on the fly) made this game a memorable experience for me. Definitely recommended if you want to play something strange and unique.

Did a bit of Ikaruga (with a vertical monitor of course), and I have realized just how bad I am at shmups. I can barely go through the first chapter without losing 3 lives. Good thing free play mode is a thing!

Currently playing West of Loathing, a satirical RPG which I'm finding quite funny so far!

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Still have not decided on the next big RPG I will play, but I know it will not be the new Fire Emblem. I used to be very into that series, but after playing Awakening and Fates, I decided that the series is no longer for me as I do not like the direction the series is going.

 

[r3n4ud]

Games are releasing left and right. I can’t keep up

 

[MonthOLDpickle]

sure i can do screenshots in spoilers , but imo spoilering the trailer kinda defeates the purpose of why i post that aka (posting trailers for stuff thats coming ... and steampage is there just for weasy wishlist )

TBH this is one of the reasons I don't browse on my mobile. Nothing against you but tons of pictures and embedded videos are kind of pita on mobile. Browsing this forums eats more data then when I use spotify lol.

 

[Ascheroth]

Nah man, it looks great, sure it's not a SRPG but what can I say? it looks good enough for me (I'm not a die hard fan of the saga, tho, so that might influence me to think that this is looking good)

I like action-RPGs, mechs and anime, so it looks totally fine to me.
I have absolutely no experience at all with the franchise though, so that's easy to say for me..

PC? Steam?

Steam, yeah.

 

[Alextended]