Community MetaSteam | June 2020 - Month Of The Seal, With Many A Deal, Throw Money With Zeal, The Wallet Will Kneel

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Finished Risen so I will dive into Desperados 3 either later today or tomorrow

What I think is funny about Shadow Tactics and Desperados 3 is seeing one of the developers from Mimimi in a German stream talking about Last Tinker and how they wanted to make something like Assassin's Creed but for kids. And now they made two games which are pretty far away from that
 

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Inclusive means they are already in the price and you (as a consumer) don't notice. Valve (and consequently the publisher) just get a smaller part of the price.

This might eventually lead publishers to increase the regional price for the region to compensate when taxes are collected for that region; but in practice, I extremely rarely see that much thought being put into regional prices, so I doubt it matters much.
Thanks! Spotify, Netflix and PSN already more expensive thanks to the new law about digital taxes

Microsoft is safe because they have a physical place in Chile.
 

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Inclusive means they are already in the price and you (as a consumer) don't notice. Valve (and consequently the publisher) just get a smaller part of the price.
Taxes got implemented on us in 2017 (regional pricing adjusted accordingly), it shows up at the end of checkout.
This might eventually lead publishers to increase the regional price for the region to compensate when taxes are collected for that region; but in practice, I extremely rarely see that much thought being put into regional prices, so I doubt it matters much.
From my observation on Indian Rupee, I've seen certain patterns emerge of AAA/big name publisher that put a (much) higher price, to have same price tags. I've seen Rs. 1999 used for $59.99 as well as $19.99 games (yeah, I know). I have a theory that Valve/Steam provides more nuanced pricing tiers and publishers choose from them. 🤔

But I very much agree most have their heads inside a hole and price arbitrarily.
[UWSL]We have MORE THAN 10 prices for $59.99 tag[/UWSL], ranging from +100% to +200% more than the standard Valve price.
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Ugh why does windows suck so much ass, trying to install the new update, it goes as well as it has every other time.
I've started using Win 10 Pro features to defer updates for a certain time (I've picked a 30 days delay for regular updates and 6 months delay for the bi-annual updates), that's how much I trust their ability to deliver updates with no issues at launch.

I dunno if Win 10 Home has this feature nowadays and if it does I dunno what are the limitations there though. :x
 
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Swenhir

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Im still really looking forward to SC, mainly the single player bit. I haven't backed it but I did jump into Elite Dangerous which I think has a great flight model. Playing that in VR with a HOTAS is amazing.
Elite's FM is very well-realized but I find it to have fundamental flaws that make it disagree with me. Inconsistent capabilities is the biggest one, where ships can do certain things in certain conditions but have artificial, gamey limitations in others.

It basically is an on-rail simulation where every value is static. That's good design where the outcome is controlled, but it's also not for me because I can't suspend my disbelief around it.

Their VR implementation though, that one I'd die to try out.
 

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Cyberpunk delay is so disappointing. I doubt it makes it out in November too. Probably a spring 2021 game.

That was my big game to play and replay in Aug/Sept that I actually had a lot of time for :(

Now what...Avengers? 😒 meh the game looks like its gonna be terrible.
 

yuraya

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I bet Halo Infinite is getting delayed too at this point. If both Cyberpunk and Infinite come out within a few days of each other in November its gonna be crazy lol.

Gamepass to the rescue ;)
 

Joe Spangle

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Their VR implementation though, that one I'd die to try out.
I think that the VR was sort of tacked on after the game was finished. I remember all of the UI being very blurry (changed the colour to help) and in general the rez wasnt great but the sense of immersion was amazing. Made it hard to go back to play in pancake mode to be honest.
 
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Swenhir

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I think that the VR was sort of tacked on after the game was finished. I remember all of the UI being very blurry (changed the colour to help) and in general the rez wasnt great but the sense of immersion was amazing. Made it hard to go back to play in pancake mode to be honest.
I didn't know the initial implementation wasn't very readable, thanks! From the way the UI was designed, I was under the impression VR was intended so this is a bit of a surprise.

Either way, I really wish I could try VR at all but life isn't steering that way for now.
 
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fantomena

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I don't particularly think this is a good thing but there's no real "best" scenario when it comes to games that come out of self-imposed captivity.
I view this as the lesser of evils regarding Epic exclusives. So this is the best scenario.

More reason for publishers to get those Epic money.
And if they sold bad on Steam?

"See, our game is selling bad on Steam so our decision to go Epic exclusive for some time was a good decision".
 
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fantomena

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Heard you wanted a Mass Effect and a Dead Space remasters. Have this instead:


Watch it somehow not be a remaster either. Heads will roll.
I think audio clips on Twitter uses the account's Twitter profile, so I don't think that tweet has anything to do with NFS Heat, if that's what you're implying.
 

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It's also cool to see that despite [Satisfactory] being one of the best selling games on EGS, Im pretty sure it has sold around 800k by now, or nearing 1 million copies on EGS, it has stayed on top 10 on Steam since release.

Also, despite that Outer Wilds is now out, Im gonna just go ahead and finish up Concrete Genie. It's a 3-5 hour game so I wanna finish that up before I start on Outer Wilds. But Outer Wilds is next up. Looking forward to it. It's apparently an amazing experience if you are into space exploration, space discvoery with a small doze of cosmic horror and no hand holding.
 
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Outer Wilds out now, 33% discount.
I added it to my wishlist. I am still not 100% sold on it and I have a hard rule of not buying anything that was an EGS exclusive unless it is at a deep discount but it sounds like a game I would enjoy. It's the time limit that holds me back. Oh well, I'll have time to think it over until it reaches 75% off.
 

MJunioR

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Heard you wanted a Mass Effect and a Dead Space remasters. Have this instead:


Watch it somehow not be a remaster either. Heads will roll.
I'm super hyped for a ME remaster but would take an Underground remaster any day of the week in its place. Also couldn't help but put get low on infinite loop, gotta hear it for the next hours now

gosh EA can't go teasing things like this
 
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Joe Spangle

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I added it to my wishlist. I am still not 100% sold on it and I have a hard rule of not buying anything that was an EGS exclusive unless it is at a deep discount but it sounds like a game I would enjoy. It's the time limit that holds me back. Oh well, I'll have time to think it over until it reaches 75% off.
Yeah I feel the same to be honest. I like the look of it but its now a year old and also has the eggs issue. I have a lot of others to play. I think ill wait for a better discount.
 
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