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In a bit over two weeks, Elden Ring has achieved more reviews from direct Steam purchases than Dark Souls 3 did in a bit under 6 years (208k to 207k).

However Dark Souls 3 still has more reviews overall when including those from non-Steam sources such as key sites. Dark Souls 3 has 111k non-Steam purchase reviews while Elden Ring has 60k non-Steam purchase reviews.
 

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Sweet baby Jesus, I’m sick to death of Pathfinder and Ys 7. Please end.
I can’t really begin something else for fear of dropping them, but uguu.
187 hours in Pathfinder, I would guess finishing it at 250 ?
2 dungeons left in Ys, but it is slow and talkative,
 

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In a bit over two weeks, Elden Ring has achieved more reviews from direct Steam purchases than Dark Souls 3 did in a bit under 6 years (208k to 207k).

However Dark Souls 3 still has more reviews overall when including those from non-Steam sources such as key sites. Dark Souls 3 has 111k non-Steam purchase reviews while Elden Ring has 60k non-Steam purchase reviews.
So....what you are saying is Dark Souls 3 bombed on Steam?














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Arkham Knight is a great looking game and quite a jump in production values compared to Origins and City. I sure hope they were able to salvage and port some of their custom tech to UE4 for the Suicide Squd game and didn't have to scrap all of it.



(No one warned me about drippy Joker lol 😳 )
 

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good stuff.


They filed amended complaint, so effectively latter.
This is the stupidest thing.
Difficult to get investments because the very place where they want to get money from want Steam keys?
Surely it would be wise to put your game on a place that is familar to the Investor rather than mumble a bit and cough when they ask how you are going to distribute your game?
 

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The really wild thing is that Dark Souls 3 was pretty much an unprecedented success for a Japanese-developed non-MMO game on PC, and might well have made the largest profit of any game of its kind on Steam at that point.

And Elden Ring absolutely dwarfs it.
Looking at the Steam peaks from 5 years ago, the platform has grown gigantic. Arkham Knight at 27,4k (2015), Re7 at 20,4k (2017), DS3 129k (2016), Inside 4k (2016), just to name a few. Now we have indie games regularly getting thousands upon thousands of daily players, but also those at hundreds of thousands (Valheim) and bigger games doing 100s of thousands of players. I still think it's insane how games have grown. Like RE7 with 20,4k, but then Re8 with over 100k.

Another recent example with Dyling Light. First game came in 2015 reaching 45k, sequel in 22 reaching 274k.
 

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Streamer and modder Louis 'Super Louis 64' Hamilton has made a name for himself by creating various fantastical (and farcical) controllers and then humiliating everyone by beating really tough games with them. He beat Sekiro with the Donkey Kong bongos and has already taken down Elden Ring's Bloodhound Knight Darriwil using a Ring Fit controller.

Now Super Louis 64 has brought back one of his older tricks: the banana controller, which he previously used to beat the final boss in Dark Souls 3. He's now playing through Elden Ring with this controller (thanks, PC Gamer) and has already taken down the infamous Godrick the Grafted.
I'm not posting the video or anything else since it might contain spoilers.
 

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Arkham Knight is a great looking game and quite a jump in production values compared to Origins and City. I sure hope they were able to salvage and port some of their custom tech to UE4 for the Suicide Squd game and didn't have to scrap all of it.



(No one warned me about drippy Joker lol 😳 )
I would still put Arkham Origins as best Batman game regarding story, characters and atmosphere. Followed by Arkham City.
 

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I'm having issues with my controllers on steam. It's like the analogue sticks only work in 8 directions and not a full 360°, meaning I can't move diagonally in a direction between those 8 main axes. Any ideas? Happens with both the xbox controller and the DS4. Would really appreciate some help.

Edit: nevermind. Using the calibration tool in steam's BPM fixed it. Weird how controllers I've been using for years suddenly needed calibration.
 
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WWE 2K22 is doing surprisingly well. It has the highest peak CCU of any WWE game on Steam (9.5k) while the older games peaked at between 1000 and 2500. Also it has 81% positive reviews while the other WWE games are in the 40s to 70s.

Also I knew the Steam Deck would start hogging spots on the weekly charts. I know it's petty, but I wish Valve would separate hardware and software sales.
 
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I finished Disco Elysium! What a masterpiece. I really can't wait to see what ZA/UM does next!

I will definitely be playing through again at some point. There are several things I missed on this one, and I may just reload to an earlier save and try to get those done just to see what happens(ie: I didn't do my political idealogy quest because I fucked up the church quest I think?). I was a centrist-sorry cop and played it by the book for the most part, so I want to really embrace some of the crazier options, and not be so polite to people! Also, to drink and do drugs!
 

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I thought I'd check how Knights of the Chalice 2 is doing, saw it's coming soon & has a new trailer too!


I'm not sure I like the new graphics, in the past they accepted they can't compete visually and made it look like a simple tabletop, now they seem to be taking the Spiderweb games approach and it doesn't exactly look competitive in any way whatsoever. Hopefully the quality is where it matters. Knights of the Chalice is there if you want to get an idea of what's exciting about it, basically the most faithful implementation of the OGL 3.5 rules (and pretty much any pen and paper rules) in a video game for ultra tactical battles in imaginative scenarios, hopefully a good story as well this time but it wasn't the focus previously.

Edit: so the iso graphics might actually be optional. What a waste of resources still then, instead of refining the tabletop game look further 🤷‍♂️
 
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I thought I'd check how Knights of the Chalice 2 is doing, saw it's coming soon & has a new trailer too!


I'm not sure I like the new graphics, in the past they accepted they can't compete visually and made it look like a simple tabletop, now they seem to be taking the Spiderweb games approach and it doesn't exactly look competitive in any way whatsoever. Hopefully the quality is where it matters. Knights of the Chalice is there if you want to get an idea of what's exciting about it, basically the most faithful implementation of the OGL 3.5 rules (and pretty much any pen and paper rules) in a video game for ultra tactical battles in imaginative scenarios, hopefully a good story as well this time but it wasn't the focus previously.

Edit: so the iso graphics might actually be optional. What a waste of resources still then, instead of refining the tabletop game look further 🤷‍♂️
I mean their example graphics for 2 literally looked like pogs so it's a step up because anything is better than that
 
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The really wild thing is that Dark Souls 3 was pretty much an unprecedented success for a Japanese-developed non-MMO game on PC, and might well have made the largest profit of any game of its kind on Steam at that point.

And Elden Ring absolutely dwarfs it.
to thing that all this started months of begging, petition and one glorious tool to fix the barebones port

 
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Yuup
Got immediately reminded of this TB video from back then


Its so interesting hearing him talk about PC gaming and Steam ten years ago and how much things have changed :)
it's mind-blowing, just think about it.

We went from:
-5 million ccu peak on Steam
-begging for Dark Souls

to:
-29,6 million ccu peak on Steam
-begging for more games to come but with an absolutely brutal swift in terms of support from Japanese games and developers in general.

LIke, hell, who would have guessed Steam would be like this 10 years ago? getting Japanese, MS, Sony, EA games all in the span of 3 years? brutal!
 

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The release of Dark Souls wasn't just a milestone for PC, but also shows how important Steam is (to sell games), but lastly how important Steam is to play games at all.

I remember using a whole work day trying to get one of my controllers working with the game (I tried X360 controller and PS3 controller), using lots of different softwares and drivers and never could really get it to work 100% and it was driving me mad. Im not joking when Im saying a whole work day, I think I even tried a few hours the day after to get my 360 controllert working and I remember it never fully worked for me. I absolutely hated that.

Now I just plug any of my controllers to my PC and Steam does the rest.

Now Steam is the only platform that allows me to use my Dualsense, Xbone and Switch Pro controller at the same time.
 
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This actually looks really good, especially in light of no Persona 5 port (yet). Anyone know if you would need to have played the first one or is it all self contained like persona.
As someone playing the first one, I don't think there will be a strong connection. Also plays entirely differently. I wrote a bit about it here: Community - What are you currently playing?. Still plan on finishing it and writing up my thoughts in the review thread.

The "Devil Summoner" games share more or less connected universe, the Phantom Society is usually the bad guy, you have the concept of summoners who can use demons to fight for them and given that it's a sequel there will probably be at least some cameos, but from I see in the trailer, this one is pretty much a new story, with new characters and even a new city.
 

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Eh, I think when Dark Souls came along we were already getting most games on PC, Japanese included, like the Final Fantasies and Resident Evils and Street Fighters etc. Sure, the trend has continued expanding but I wouldn't attribute it to Dark Souls, save for From/Bamco themselves finally realizing they should too. That was around the time EA tried to leave Steam too and it didn't really make any better sense at the time than now, it was already clearly THE platform for PC. If anything that Steam success is probably why they wanted to try doing their own thinking they can just out of the blue make all that money easily too, as if, lol. Big games like Civilization, Left 4 Dead 1-2 and Skyrim (with such games already using Steamworks and activating retail copies through it as well) were doing millions and indies like Amnesia pretty great too (there was also already pressure to allow for easier self publishing so that the since superceded Greenlight would soon become a thing) so the 5m Concurrent Users if it's true it was that low in comparison doesn't mean that was close to the totals, Steam was BIG.
 
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