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It's really the store/publisher split though so unless you self publish you may not actually see any increase in funds for the dev. And even then you have to take into account that you're selling on a store that already has a horrible reputation, arguably doesn't even do the bare minimum to be a proper store and has a much smaller install base so you're virtually guaranteed to sell fewer units.
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I'm just saying that's one more tool they are using to lure publishers/devs away from Steam, whether or not it's successful yet (or at all). The devs of World War Z directly referenced in a press release, so they're clearly pushing it as a marketing point: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/news/wwz-price-drop
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Mar 8, 2019 18:06
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yeah i dont know about you guys but steam sells games for like 1/4th the price that Epic sells to poorer countries. Basically Epic charges hosed up european pricing to everyone outside of the US. Steam has actually been really good in bringing gaming to everyone and it‘s sad to see developers going to a service that doesnt seem to respect consumers (especially non americans) at all. The only more consumer friendly competitor I can think of is GOG and even they struggle to give good value to poorer gamers. one can only hope epic picks up its game but this doesnt seem likely lol.
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Be Depressive posted:We also live in a country where the President Of The United States paid actual porn stars to have sex with him and then paid them to be quiet and the only real argument is over whether he used campaign funds. That’s because a president from the other side was getting blown in the Oval Office and they insisted that what gets done with the First Penis is not something people are allowed to be upset about.
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Mar 8, 2019 21:47
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Pretty sure this is the bad games thread and not D&D.
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Making the poo poo game free and charging for the dlc to make it "worse" is what I call commitment to an ideal. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1024810/Femdom_Waifu_Censored_Mode/
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Mar 9, 2019 01:18
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My point is these social blunders arguably have no repercussions, so long as you do not make them worse by trying to respond to them. At this point it is only my observational hypothesis but I have a feeling technocrats at Valve feel the same way.
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Also - I hate to harp on a subject but a publisher like Epic Games which prides itself on user-friendly content in the homes of millions of actual children, with television commercials and retail tie-ins is not going to list the vast majority of PC games out there due to content/branding issues. It’s like Minecraft deciding to sell RUST now.
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Be Depressive posted:Also - I hate to harp on a subject but a publisher like Epic Games which prides itself on user-friendly content in the homes of millions of actual children, with television commercials and retail tie-ins is not going to list the vast majority of PC games out there due to content/branding issues. It’s like Minecraft deciding to sell RUST now. Epic's previous biggest titles were Unreal Tournament and Gears of War. I'm pretty sure they're fine with M-rated branding.
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Can't wait to install a new terrible storefront for each game I want to play.
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Irony Be My Shield posted:Can't wait to install a new terrible storefront for each game I want to play. Ah the age of free MMOs lives again. Every single game with its own launcher.
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Irony Be My Shield posted:Can't wait to install a new terrible storefront for each game I want to play. Don't worry, it'll only be a few years before a huge predatory international corporation buys them all up and "updates" them to be dramatically worse for both comsumers and designers.
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megane posted:Don't worry, it'll only be a few years before a huge predatory international corporation buys them all up and "updates" them to be dramatically worse for both comsumers and designers. Don't have Steam already?
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Robert Red Rocket posted:yeah i dont know about you guys but steam sells games for like 1/4th the price that Epic sells to poorer countries. Basically Epic charges hosed up european pricing to everyone outside of the US. Steam has actually been really good in bringing gaming to everyone and it‘s sad to see developers going to a service that doesnt seem to respect consumers (especially non americans) at all. The only more consumer friendly competitor I can think of is GOG and even they struggle to give good value to poorer gamers. GOG's apparently struggling in general, to the point that they might be in real trouble if they get pulled in deeper into the Star Control: Origins lawsuit. Honestly, they really deserve it, considering pretty much the entire reason that lawsuit happened as it did is because they backstabbed the original Star Control devs repeatedly and got them sued as a result.
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Kchama posted:GOG's apparently struggling in general, to the point that they might be in real trouble if they get pulled in deeper into the Star Control: Origins lawsuit. Wait, what's GOG got to do with that lawsuit? I feel like I missed something big since the last time I checked on that particular shitshow.
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mobby_6kl posted:Don't have Steam already? That'd require Valve to update Steam at some point.
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Kchama posted:GOG's apparently struggling in general, to the point that they might be in real trouble if they get pulled in deeper into the Star Control: Origins lawsuit. I think you're confusing CD Projekt with Stardock. Stardock are the ones that are getting sued by the Star Control people. CD Projekt owns GOG and also own CD Projekt Red who make the Witcher series and are working on Cyberpunk 2077. As far as I know, CD Projekt and Stardock have no professional affiliation.
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Danakir posted:Wait, what's GOG got to do with that lawsuit? I feel like I missed something big since the last time I checked on that particular shitshow. The Cheshire Cat posted:I think you're confusing CD Projekt with Stardock. Stardock are the ones that are getting sued by the Star Control people. CD Projekt owns GOG and also own CD Projekt Red who make the Witcher series and are working on Cyberpunk 2077. As far as I know, CD Projekt and Stardock have no professional affiliation. The convergence point between the two was the original Star Control games. Atari was selling them on GOG, and when the original SC Devs (From here on P&F) contacted them about it, explaining that Atari doesn't have the rights to do so, Atari agreed and wrote a contract with GOG giving P&F a cut in exchange for letting GOG sell the games in Atari's name. Eventually, Atari went bankrupt, Stardock purchased the rights to SC3 and the trademark to Star Control. GOG refused to tell P&F when the Atari contract ended, and Stardock managed to convince them that they actually had all the rights to Star Control. My memory of the mess gets a little fuzzy here, but IIRC the timeline went: P&F DMCA's the games off GOG because Stardock had GOG put them up in a name designed to snatch the Ur-Quan Masters trademark that P&F owned, and Stardock turned around and told P&F that if Star Control, that they owned the trademark to, was put back up that they would sue. And then Stardock had GOG put back up the games, and Stardock sued P&F over it. P&F appealed to GOG since it wasn't P&F's fault the games went back up, and GOG was suppose to back up P&F over this by standard GOG contract, but GOG came down on Stardock's side and let P&F eat the blame, which kicked off P&F being sued for this and other Stardock nonsense. This is why GOG is in the lawsuit and desperately trying to get out, while P&F is suing them for the breaching of the contract that led to the whole affair, and to at least own up to their mis-deeds (which would open them up to Stardock suing GOG, so GOG is in a bad place). Steam's also being sued, but as far as I know largely just for distributing SC:O's very infringing material. Kchama fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Mar 10, 2019 |
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Man I didn't know GOG was involved other than as a distributor like Steam - the last time I read about any of this was when a judge had basically handed Stardock their rear end and explained that the court was under no obligation to fix the problem they had created for themselves. It seems unlikely that it's going to end up taking down the whole store though. The potential damages they'd be liable for probably aren't immense. It is a bit confusing as to why they would have taken Stardock's side in the dispute though since at the very least I'd think the safest legal position would be to just take all the games down and wait until the two main parties had worked it out between themselves. Especially since a lot of this stems from Stardock negotiating in bad faith with a lot of parties and claiming ownership of stuff they don't actually own. The Cheshire Cat fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Mar 10, 2019 |
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Man I didn't know GOG was involved other than as a distributor like Steam - the last time I read about any of this was when a judge had basically handed Stardock their rear end and explained that the court was under no obligation to fix the problem they had created for themselves. I don't think the lawsuit would be trouble otherwise, but from what I've been hearing, there's a lot of rumors rumblings that GOG's financial situation is surprisingly bad, and that an expensive lawsuit might be a straw that breaks the camel's back. I'm not really sure why they decided to go along with Stardock's schemes at all, though. I can't imagine Stardock was offering them anything nearly worth the legal liability. Their motives have been a complete mystery in all of this, unless they've just been super incompetent and hosed everything up and there was no motive.
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Between Valve riding the ragged edge of disaster and CD Projekt finding new and exciting ways to endanger their fiscal solvency I'm starting to worry a little about the future of PC gaming.
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dont be mean to me posted:Between Valve riding the ragged edge of disaster and CD Projekt finding new and exciting ways to endanger their fiscal solvency I'm starting to worry a little about the future of PC gaming. I'm not sure Valve is really in much danger, at least, so there is that.
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Kchama posted:I'm not sure Valve is really in much danger, at least, so there is that. Yeah if Valve is dying it's gonna be a slow death. Steam won't just disappear overnight. Like we're seeing a lot of symptoms of that decline now (it's basically the bread and butter of this thread), but they're still the dominant platform for PC games. All the negative PR in the world won't really hurt them unless a real competitor actually comes along to break their monopoly, and while there's a lot of buzz around the Epic store, it'd be very premature to say they're that competitor (Origin has been around for way longer, does basically the same thing, and hasn't really made a significant dent in Steam's market share). The Cheshire Cat fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Mar 10, 2019 |
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Eventually Steam will just sell straight up porn, and that will keep them alive forever.
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The MSJ posted:Eventually Steam will just sell straight up porn, and that will keep them alive forever. Yeaaaaaah... eventually... (VERY NSFW)
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Honestly if they want to sell porn I'm totally fine with that. They just need to work out a way to separate it out from the "normal" content more effectively. The big issue isn't that porn exists on the storefront, the big issue is that it keeps showing up in people's recommendations.
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The MSJ posted:Eventually Steam will just sell straight up porn, and that will keep them alive forever. as long as they're absolutely on the ball w/r/t pruning out dodgy porn
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Kchama posted:I'm not really sure why they decided to go along with Stardock's schemes at all, though. I can't imagine Stardock was offering them anything nearly worth the legal liability. Their motives have been a complete mystery in all of this, unless they've just been super incompetent and hosed everything up and there was no motive. If I'm remembering correctly both GoG and Stardock have done stunts siding with Gamers in the culture war so it might just be solidarity between shitheads
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The MSJ posted:Eventually Steam will just sell straight up porn, and that will keep them alive forever. I had some poser dickgirl porn comic in my steam queue for some stupid loving algorithmic reason. So there's that.
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Kchama posted:I don't think the lawsuit would be trouble otherwise, but from what I've been hearing, there's a lot of rumors rumblings that GOG's financial situation is surprisingly bad, and that an expensive lawsuit might be a straw that breaks the camel's back. GOG just let around a dozen staff go and cut their fair price program, citing financial difficulties. My guess is Cyberpunk is being managed as well as Witcher 3 was (W3 apparently had six project managers all with their own vision for the game and did almost bankrupt the studio even with the significant art grants CDPR got solely for the franchise.) They basically run themselves close to the red line or just below it and hope the game release saves them.
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Mokinokaro posted:They basically run themselves close to the red line or just below it and hope the game release saves them. Isn't that how most studios operate?
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Honestly if they want to sell porn I'm totally fine with that. They just need to work out a way to separate it out from the "normal" content more effectively. The big issue isn't that porn exists on the storefront, the big issue is that it keeps showing up in people's recommendations. Someone here once made the joke to separate it between Steam and the new side platform Steamy 
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ultrafilter posted:Isn't that how most studios operate? Not as much nowadays and the big different with CDPR is the publisher isn't floating reserve cash to the extent a lot of the other publishers do.
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"Casual decompression game, easy to experience a good mood." ( )
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Furnaceface posted:Someone here once made the joke to separate it between Steam and the new side platform Steamy If I'm remembering right that actually sort of did happen. Some guys made a porn Steam, called it Steamy, got told by Steam lawyers to cut the poo poo, renamed it to Kimochi, operated for a while and then went bankrupt. Don't know any more details, I've only seen it pop up back in the day when people made fun of it.
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megane posted:That'd require Valve to update Steam at some point. They did update Steam, didn't you notice the brand new friends list that will for some reason always pop up when you first start up your computer and tell you it can't connect? Zanzibar Ham posted:Yeaaaaaah... eventually... (VERY NSFW) DON'T LOOK IT IN THE EYES  oh god it saw you Rotten Red Rod fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Mar 11, 2019 |
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I’d be less defensive of this animu trash if deep space waifu wasn’t so much fun to play. It’s not a terribly good SHMUP. The drawings of the girls are badly proportioned and borderline pedo material. But something about the balance between beating the boss but not so quickly you don’t get the girl completely naked makes for a satisfying gameplay loop. I have no idea why. Frankly I’m embarrassed. But there is is. Fun. Who knew? To be fair I only bought the one expansion.
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Be Depressive posted:I’d be less defensive of this animu trash if deep space waifu wasn’t so much fun to play. It’s not a terribly good SHMUP. The drawings of the girls are badly proportioned and borderline pedo material. But something about the balance between beating the boss but not so quickly you don’t get the girl completely naked makes for a satisfying gameplay loop. I have no idea why. Frankly I’m embarrassed. But there is is. Fun. Who knew? I like the concept that this lovely genre is creating emergent gameplay of "win, but not so well that you receive the full intended 'reward' of venal pornography"
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I'ma let you in on a secret pro strat for avoiding pornography in games it's called, playing games that don't have pornography in them
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Be Depressive posted:I’d be less defensive of this animu trash if deep space waifu wasn’t so much fun to play. It’s not a terribly good SHMUP. The drawings of the girls are badly proportioned and borderline pedo material. But something about the balance between beating the boss but not so quickly you don’t get the girl completely naked makes for a satisfying gameplay loop. I have no idea why. Frankly I’m embarrassed. But there is is. Fun. Who knew? yeah, you're right that's pretty embarrassing
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