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Ghost Trick having new and freshly arranged music is surprising but welcome.

Hope they release a soundtrack for that stuff.
speaking of square , Forspoken got big update
That lighting and AO difference is striking and it's tough to believe they shipped the game the way it was.
 
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SE does that too it's just not really known about. Remember around forspoken's launch there was that one twitch streamer who tried to raise a stink about not getting a lot of money for streaming it? Everyone's takeaway from that story was shock that SE would even bother with someone who had like a thousand subs at most. But with smaller games this comes back to marketing as many of these streamers want to be paid to play games and thus it circles back to the overall marketing debate and how much is it worth giving games like harvestella or star ocean a push while avoiding going over budget.

This is really why AA games died out in general. Budgets kept going up and sales weren't so most companies just stopped doing them. I know SE isn't helping matters by dumping 10 games out at once but my point was it really doesn't matter on the amount or schedule, people ultimately don't really want these games. Octopath 2 is set to sell quite a bit less than the last did and the only way to maybe avoid that is pump more money into expensive marketing campaigns, which likely erases any gains the extra sales would get anyway as ultimately the game is still a SNES inspired turn based jrpg and the amount of people who want that is limited. The answer isn't as simple as "make good games get good sales" or "space things out better" because it often doesn't matter even if you do those things.

Dumping a promotion to random small influencers rarely works for smaller games.
Paradox understands that you need influencers who play(ed) your games for years, who have a direct communication channel to your company, who maybe even make separate videos for your patch notes, etc.
Paradox understands the need to ... understand their influencers and their audience. They understand that someone who is into EUIV and CK3 but rarely played HOI4 doesn't need or sometimes even want anything promotion related to HOI4.
 
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I also would say that, without aiming to be mean, Square still act and take decisions like a big shot company while their importance on the market is not what it was. Game prices for example, maybe a big project or some major players can price their games like sociopaths, but Square isn't one of them. Mayyybe FF16, but even then I'm not sure it wouldn't do the game a disservice.
Square 2023 has not the market weight it had 10-20 years ago.
 
I tried to play RE4 demo on Steam Deck but there're a lot of graphic glitches everywhere with default options.

You can clearly see those black macroblocks on my pic.
I hope it gets fixed at some point because it looks promising.
I know many people won't care but as a spaniard I miss southamerican voices. Now it's fully castilian/spanish dubbed.
Detrás de ti imbécil, Morir es vivir and some other lines were so mythical on spanish forums xD.
 
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I tried to play RE4 demo on Steam Deck but there're a lot of graphic glitches everywhere with default options.


You can clearly see those black macroblocks on my pic.
I hope it gets fixed at some point becasue it looks promising.
I know many people won't care but as a spaniard I miss southamerican voices. Now it's fully castilian/spanish dubbed.
Detrás de ti imbécil, Morir es vivir and some other lines were so mythical on spanish forums xD.


 
Anyone else getting disconnected from STEAM group chats all the time?

Happens to me in or out the Beta
 
People on FB are very negative to Tim Sweeneys Steam comments. Very happy with the comments section there.


Scroll down to the article with title "Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Valve's Steamworks API has "created a real problem for the industry."
 
Got the flu so I am just chilling and catching up on some stuff. I thought The Last of us on HBO would just be a poormans copy of the Walking Dead. Holy shit Ellie and Joel are not good people.

How much does this stray from the source material?
 
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speaking of square , Forspoken got big update

I gotta say, as much as I think Forspoken is bad unsalvageable game, this blog post is kinda fantastic - I wish every patch for games would get a post by its developers that would describe what exactly it does and even show it in videos! Often we are lucky if we even get sparse patch notes.
 
Got the flu so I am just chilling and catching up on some stuff. I thought The Last of us on HBO would just be a poormans copy of the Walking Dead. Holy shit Ellie and Joel are not good people.

How much does this stray from the source material?

There are some changes here and there, bits skipped and bits elaborated, but the main parts are the same. Only the method of infection is very different. So far....
 
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People on FB are very negative to Tim Sweeneys Steam comments. Very happy with the comments section there.

I've seen mostly similar negative reactions on Reddit and comment sections of (local) game sites. Many people tolerate money hatting when it's used to help small studio's. But only going for the big hits is just anticompetitive behavior.
 
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I've seen mostly similar negative reactions on Reddit and comment sections of (local) game sites. Many people tolerate money hatting when it's used to help small studio's. But only going for the big hits is just anticompetitive behavior.
The idea of the “struggling indie” is romanticised a lot. While Epic did indeed moneyhat some indies out of a dire situation, I think on the most part the games they bought exclusivity for were AAAs and games from indie studios doing well for themselves.

But regardless, it’s good to see people speaking negatively about this. You get a few trolls and “it’s just another launcher” types, but on the most part I think EGS has been a failure, despite Epic’s best efforts.

The big downside to EGS has, ironically, been to competition. Epic made such a terrible product that no one wants to use, but at the same time have sucked all the oxygen out of the space by buying up exclusives.

No one else can get a foot in the door because if your store is not called “Steam”, big and small publishers won’t even bother with your platform unless you’re writing them a cheque or giving them an unsustainable revenue share.
 
What are your predictions on Resident Evil 4 vs The Last of Us on Steam? Which one's gonna have the higher CCU?
 
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What are your predictions on Resident Evil 4 vs The Last of Us on Steam? Which one's gonna have the higher CCU?
Resident Evil 4 will have a bigger CCU for sure.

I'm betting:

Tlou part 1 will have between 15k and 20k CCU due TV show popularity and boost.Potentially over Spiderman Miles Morales but under Days Gone.
Resident Evil 4 Remake will likely have 70k to 100k given their latest Resident Evil releases on Steam.
 
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Resident Evil 4 will have a bigger CCU for sure.

I'm betting:

Tlou part 1 will have between 15k and 20k CCU due TV show popularity and boost.Potentially over Spiderman Miles Morales but under Days Gone.
Resident Evil 4 Remake will likely have 70k to 100k given their latest Resident Evil releases on Steam.
Your TLOU prediction seems reasonable, but I think you're underestimating RE4.

The RE4 demo had the highest CCU for any RE demo on Steam (36k) compared to RE3 (19k), RE8 (18k), RE2 (10.8k) and RE7 (3,900). The all time peak for an RE game on Steam is RE8 with 106k. RE4 can be in the 125-150k range, especially with the nostalgia factor.
 
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