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HenryEx posted:What about the ones who make a game to sell their music, like the Domina guy I mean sure, there may be niche exceptions, but in general, selling your soundtrack is almost certainly going to generate a lot less revenue than treating the soundtrack as advertising. The value proposition on publishing it for free and encouraging people to use it with attribution beats the pants off trying to sell it. AfricanBootyShine posted:physical videogame soundtracks are funko pops for people who are too cool for funko pops Yeah absolutely sell whatever physical merch fanboys wanna buy, I'm talking about selling digital soundtracks.
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Shaocaholica posted:Are all these cheap steam game keys legit on eBay? Is there a catch?
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Nowher posted:Ah bummer, I was thinking about giving Vermintide 2 a shot. What have the developers done to drive away the players?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MwwEFGM5Ug Not exhaustively: Painfully slow content release schedule, not core-ing temporary content in a game that's starved for content, focus on features that very few people want or care for (leaderboards in a co-op PvE game lol), constantly fiddling with a mechanics back-end that's poorly explained in-game as is, a bizarrely grind-y progression system and even more grind-y cosmetics progression, an item customization system that will have you re-rolling for dozens of minutes for each item (if you're lucky) because it's an RNG-fiesta that doesn't respect your time, etc... This came to a head in the major DLC drop Winds of Magic. The marquee feature were the titular Winds, which were a system divided in 100 tiers. Each tier was a 100% non-random map, even the spawns were identical, because leaderboards. Each tier had an entirely separate queue, which as you can imagine made queuing endless. Right now some players can't find WoM queues at all, and this is AFTER they fixed the lunacy that was 100 separate queues; people have just gone back to the main gamemode instead. Considering it ate up 8 months of dev time to make a game-mode people don't really play anymore, yeah... Which is a shame because the progression system in Winds is far better than the RNG-fest that is main-game character progression. The new faction introduced has been a buggy mess and only recent patches have somewhat cleared it up. Of the three DLC drops the only one that was well-received was the one that ported beloved maps from the first game, lol. The game is fine if you stick to the main campaign missions, ignore the DLC and stay away from the highest difficulties because they really magnify all the gameplay problems the game has, but I'd not get my hopes up when it comes to good additional content on top of that.
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Gobbeldygook posted:I don't know about eBay, but I've bought several cheap keys off G2A and nothing has gone wrong yet. I've always paid by Paypal because Paypal always has the buyers back in disputes. Hey we're not supposed to talk about G2A in here, especially because devs would rather you pirate their game than give them money
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K8.0 posted:I mean sure, there may be niche exceptions, but in general, selling your soundtrack is almost certainly going to generate a lot less revenue than treating the soundtrack as advertising. The value proposition on publishing it for free and encouraging people to use it with attribution beats the pants off trying to sell it. edit: Spotify is garbage got it AfricanBootyShine fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Jan 9, 2020 |
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AfricanBootyShine posted:I think putting it on Spotify is the best medium for it. I don't know if it scales but I feel you'd get more revenue from streams than from the 3 people who bought the dlc on steam. It was a tweet so I can't find it now but I've seen at least one musician post their earnings for a year and it was like, in the ten dollars or lower range. Streaming on spotify funds suuuuuuck
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I'd be very curious to see how much money Square made from something like putting all their Final fantasy soundtracks on Spotify
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K8.0 posted:I mean sure, there may be niche exceptions, but in general, selling your soundtrack is almost certainly going to generate a lot less revenue than treating the soundtrack as advertising. The value proposition on publishing it for free and encouraging people to use it with attribution beats the pants off trying to sell it. AfricanBootyShine posted:I think putting it on Spotify is the best medium for it. I don't know if it scales but I feel you'd get more revenue from streams than from the 3 people who bought the dlc on steam. Spotify is literally the worst medium to generate revenue, none of you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
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One of the best soundtracks I ever bought through steam was the Brigador soundtrack. If you haven't listened to it, do!
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Fart of Presto posted:Whenever I have had issues with the Steam client, I log out of it, restart the PC and log in again. It has fixed my issues 99 times out of 100. Here the problem seems to kick in when I log in/restart, though. There's some setting it's not always keeping between launches.
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StrixNebulosa posted:One of the best soundtracks I ever bought through steam was the Brigador soundtrack. If you haven't listened to it, do! Is that the Makeup and Vanity Set album? Their stuff is great. Edit: that album is on Google Play Music and Spotify.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Here the problem seems to kick in when I log in/restart, though. There's some setting it's not always keeping between launches. I don't know why it has helped me - perhaps something about a dead session, and using cached data makes it look like it still works on some functions?
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Call Your Grandma posted:Transistor for me. Yeah that's incredible.
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StrixNebulosa posted:It was a tweet so I can't find it now but I've seen at least one musician post their earnings for a year and it was like, in the ten dollars or lower range. Streaming on spotify funds suuuuuuck bandcamp 4 lyfe
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StrixNebulosa posted:It was a tweet so I can't find it now but I've seen at least one musician post their earnings for a year and it was like, in the ten dollars or lower range. Streaming on spotify funds suuuuuuck
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Gomi Day posted:bandcamp 4 lyfe i wonder what sort of earnings you get on pay-as-you-like stores like that
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Ciaphas posted:i wonder what sort of earnings you get on pay-as-you-like stores like that You can set items to have minimum prices - no less than 10$ for one of Buckethead's pikes
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Jan 9, 2020 03:11
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reminder that Drawful 2 remains undefeated in local couch multiplayer as the best game
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StrixNebulosa posted:One of the best soundtracks I ever bought through steam was the Brigador soundtrack. If you haven't listened to it, do! gently caress yeah. New OST is gonna be so fuckin fresh The artist who did their music did the music for another rhythm game too, uh Overpass I think it is
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Bandcamp has by far the best split for artists in the industry. I can't see anything more than slapping a few demo tracks from an album up on Spotify; sure, Spotify has more listeners than Bandcamp and theoretically higher exposure, but exposure doesn't buy food. That's why I always check Bandcamp when I find a new band or artist I like. More of my money goes to them than it would if I buy their stuff through any other service.
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Shrecknet posted:reminder that Drawful 2 remains undefeated in local couch multiplayer as the best game i admire the artistic display but wtf you're not allowed words in your work 
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Ciaphas posted:i wonder what sort of earnings you get on pay-as-you-like stores like that Bandcamp pays out 90%, regardless if a customer pays $5 or $50.
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Gobbeldygook posted:I don't know about eBay, but I've bought several cheap keys off G2A and nothing has gone wrong yet. I've always paid by Paypal because Paypal always has the buyers back in disputes. Stuff like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dirt-4-PC-Steam-Download-Key-FAST-DELIVERY/312659476728?hash=item48cbf500f8:g:ww0AAOSw6XBdBqbp e: oh it looks like G2A is even cheaper
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K8.0 posted:Can't believe that there are still developers who think selling game music is a good idea. They should be looking at soundtracks as a way to generate interest and sell the product, not trying to monetize the 5 people who are stupid enough to grossly overpay for some mediocre music. I like videogame music because its mostly instrumental stuff, and I'm not a big fan of music with vocals.
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Jan 9, 2020 04:28
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X-COM: The Bureau is well worth 4 clams.
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Shaocaholica posted:Stuff like this: Don't support organized crime.
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There's a shitload of really incredible music made for videogames and putting the OST up for sale, whether or not it's a credit to the composers or artists, is perfectly reasonable. I sure as hell know that if I put professional work and experience into making music and someone said "you should just release that for free, as advertising", I'd think that was hogwash.
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HEY SPEAKING OF VIDEO GAME OST'S it's time for my regular reminder that Monolith is extremely good - better than Enter The Gungeon and yes I will die on this particular hill anyway it has an OST that is also extremely good, from relaxed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uItvy6__G9s to intense https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijDiN9Qa-38 also also, recent DLC added a lot of QoL, cool weapons and a new potentially nasty fucker of a level https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKvLgZto66U
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Speaking of good soundtracks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAwVTXrPDW0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGJmx-kxvqw
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i almost certainly spent more time listening to smt: nocturne's soundtrack at work than i did playing the game at home.
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Oh great, reinstalling Domina now because of the OST talk. Gosh darn it. Just gotta remember to avoid the chariot races.
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OST talk will likely become a more regular thing in the thread. Steam Thread 2020: The Year of the OST
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Aside from the obvious reason of music = good, I like soundtracks much for the same reason I like taking screenshots, they're a great way to remember all the cool stuff I've played over the years. Does a lot to prevent it all from just turning into one big blur.
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Disposable Scud posted:X-COM: The Bureau is well worth 4 clams. You're right, X-COM: The Bureau is not worth actual money but stuff you find on the ground at the beach. The game is not worth playing through.
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Gobbeldygook posted:I don't know about eBay, but I've bought several cheap keys off G2A and nothing has gone wrong yet. I've always paid by Paypal because Paypal always has the buyers back in disputes. As per the thread rules, please do not discuss this kind of thing. G2A is not a legitimate site and we do not want to give them custom or talk about them here. Thank you.
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I recently finished a second run of A Plague Tale: Innocence and I think among its other strongpoints, it has a wonderfully expressive and underrated original score. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqUMByvhKGY Always loved the soundtrack for Child of Light as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byz6960tWxQ And of course the obligatory GRIS mention! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBToMwdYBME&t=153s
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Is Video Games Live still a thing? That was/is an awesome concept. (spoilers for Grim Fandango on the background) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDy2C-wgFrQ I also love the whole Into The Breach OST, although "old war machines" is probably my favorite one. https://benprunty.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-breach-soundtrack
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appropriatemetaphor posted:yeah my buddy was really into the crypt of the necrodancer soundtrack and like he played a couple tracks and it sounded like mediocre chip tune poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZIJxAI7NlA Yeah this sounds like some chiptune poo poo alright
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HenryEx posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZIJxAI7NlA I mean that's a cool metal cover of the tune, but it doesn't really make your point unless you're pulling music from the game itself
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