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Steam | 02.2016 - Orangeade
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Steam Support guarantees that "in the unlikely event of the discontinuation of the Steam network, measures are in place to ensure that all users will continue to have access to their Steam games." What these measures are is a mystery, but I feel that "continue to have access" is a very deliberate choice of words -- one which is misaligned with the theory that Valve would just disable CEG on applicable games and give people a limited window within which to download them. My guess is that, since Valve has dozens of third-party content servers around the globe, it would instead update them all to act as authentication servers as well, meaning it'd be business as usual, as far as signing into Steam and downloading a game is concerned, for as long as there's a third party out there willing to host a content server. There'd be no store, no Steamworks network features and no Steam Community, but you'd still be able to download and launch your games.
Crimsonclaw111
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I played a bit of it but am Dogma'd out right now. I'll get to it later.
pantsattack
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Uhh, yes and yes/no. I think I know what you are saying.
Horribly phrased on my part, what I am trying to say is, was there a mandate that starting [date] all games released on Steam should have card drops? Or, the games with cards are picked by Valve / partnership between Valve and the devs/pubs, or just the devs/pubs just putting the cards in their games on their own?
Make Junketsu and Kamui Junketsu and Senkentsu mods while you're at it,
pantsattack
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Only yes to the last question as far as I've read.
toddhunter
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Pretty much?
That is like saying chocolate is pretty much a hamburger. Dark arisen is a long slog through the same enclosed environments over and over while you fight slight variations of the exact same enemy.
So pretty much dark souls 2.
Also hi. Congrats jshackles on being a mod. I'm a bit behind in the times.
Card support is entirely up to the developer/publisher, but Valve has to manually approve submissions.
corrosivefrost
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No, the twist is everyone will think they're probably not going to win because only 1 winner and then... everybody wins. He showed us back when that he had like 6 copies in his inventory, so unless he's going to do six of these...
Combat was solid, but wonky in places. I still would've rather had DMC5.
Story was basic but there. It wasn't really complex or convoluted and should make total sense if you ended up grabbing the various achievements for the "incorrect" endings. Here's the synopsis:
Every so many years a dragon shows up and wages destruction on the land. Someone who takes up the fight against the dragon gets their heart ripped out and becomes "the arisen" who is destined to fight against the dragon. This is you, obviously. You find out when you get presented the choice by Grigori (and the mission after you beat him) that the current Duke of Gran Soren chickened out, sacrificed his first wife (which is why he has the new young wife), so when you killed Grigori, the magic that was in place keeping him alive (since the dragon still had his heart) was gone and he aged rapidly and accused you of doing exactly what he did in order to usurp him and take control of the land. At this point, the everfall has opened up and you find out about creating a super portal if you have 20 wakestones. You do, you encounter the person who is essentially god. "God" tells you that the creator gets tired and the whole cycle is basically something that just repeats over and over to keep someone fresh as "God". This is why the guy you fight (at least the first time, I think) is the dude you played as in the prologue. His time is done and he just wants to stop existing, so you have been groomed to take his place. In theory, you should wait there until a new dragon is created (which happens when someone opens the everfall but backs out of fighting "God"; if you choose to walk away from the fight, you see a cutscene where you become the dragon and get a game over.
The part after that is a little wonky, but it has something to do with making pawns human, much like the old witch did with Selene, I believe.
The part after that is a little wonky, but it has something to do with making pawns human, much like the old witch did with Selene, I believe.
You've got about 6 weeks to wait for that.
That's a terrible comparison, IMO. The only thing they share is the sort of "high-fantasy" aesthetic/setting. The combat/gameplay is what really makes Dark Souls what it is and the way Dragon's Dogma plays feels totally different as far as I'm concerned. Though the ramp up in difficulty from the main campaign makes it more like DS on the challenge front... but I still wouldn't make a comparison between the two games.
You're not wrong about the Dark Arisen content being one interconnected dungeon, but it pretty much is a straight line for the most part and once you know the map, you can run through it pretty quickly, so the long part is relative to how much of a challenge the enemies provide for you, I guess. The first time through does take a few hours, but mostly because of the difficulty, not because of it being a ton of new maps.. 3 bosses, several repeated areas, etc.
Then they're stuck with GFWL. Just like RE:ORC and SFxT.
Ok thanks. I had FFXIII and they have cards, will FFIX have too? I do not own the VIII below FFs so I do not know if they have cards.
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Crimsonclaw111
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Fine by me, starting a new job in a few days so they'll go quickly anyway!
Also thanks for the synopsis, my heart is pure I didn't get the fake endings.
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corrosivefrost
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Congrats on that new job, btw.
Most FF games on Steam have cards, I think.
You can check by looking at the store page. If a title has cards, they will be listed as a feature on the right side of the page along the others such as "single player", "partial controller support", "steam achievements", etc.
yea that star trek movie was pretty alright
like super dumb but the casting is kinda great and it's a fun dumb thing
but i had to do 5 things and i've gotten 3 right so only 2 things to fix and it'll be a go
sailor uniforms for xcom soldiers tho, that's a cool idea
like super dumb but the casting is kinda great and it's a fun dumb thing
out of scope for what i can try to do right now
but i had to do 5 things and i've gotten 3 right so only 2 things to fix and it'll be a go
sailor uniforms for xcom soldiers tho, that's a cool idea
texhnolyze
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Surprisingly, Far Cry Primals seems very well-received by the community so far.
I think I'll put it on my whistlist for a purchase in 201
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I think I'll put it on my whistlist for a purchase in 201
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They're listed as a feature on the store page, so I assume they'll be live at launch.
Crimsonclaw111
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Thank you kindly. Thinking of doing a giveaway with my first check to give back to SteamGAF a bit.
Also is $45 still the cheapest Souls 3 has managed to get to so far?
crazyrabbits
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This wouldn't help you one bit if Gabe (or his will's beneficiaries) decides one day to sell Valve to Microsoft. Or EA. Or Ubisoft. Or Tencent.
What's to stop him/them from doing that?
What's to stop the new owner from just shutting down the whole thing if they will? Or implementing draconian DRM to make their own service look better?
It's a private owned business, you do not have any sort of guarantee.
Se7enSword
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Congratulations!
IX will have cards
Just because VII and VIII didn't have cards doesn't mean IX won't have
Check here to see which FF games are available in your region
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_5_9__12&term=final+fantasy
Sure, but you asked what guarantee we have that Steam will still be functional in the future, and there it is. That it doesn't apply in every single wildly hypothetical scenario doesn't make it any less of a guarantee; if that were the requisite criteria of a guarantee, then there'd be no such thing as a guarantee, because it couldn't be guaranteed that the guarantee would apply in the event of, say, the rapture.
The guarantee you have that you can still play your Steam games is that they are PC applications and their DRM is weak.
That is a strong guarantee.
CheesecakeRecipe
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Which we'll have on Steam soon, too! Gabe's thought of everything~
IX will have cards
Just because VII and VIII didn't have cards doesn't mean IX won't have
Check here to see which FF games are available in your region
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_5_9__12&term=final+fantasy
OMG, there it is, never crossed my mind to check the game's page. what an idiot.
Unfortunately,
Only VII-XIV
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I only get "Meet hot russians" ads due to the russian bear trading fad from a while back
Both corrosivefrost and JaseC have mentioned about looking at the store page, dunno how you could missed that
If possible, you could buy the "older" games from GameStop for cheap
http://www.gamestop.com/browse/pc?nav=16k-3-final+fantasy,28zu0,138c-51
Both corrosivefrost and JaseC have mentioned about looking at the store page, dunno how you could missed that
If possible, you could buy the "older" games from GameStop for cheap
http://www.gamestop.com/browse/pc?nav=16k-3-final+fantasy,28zu0,138c-51
I thought they meant the other games' store page.
Anyway, I can't purchase nor download these games off Gamestop because my cc won't be honored for sure (SEA third world).
spindoctor
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And I mean a meteor could hit Valve headquarters and wipe out Steam (and North America). Then what guarantees do we have, right?
Yeah I don't think that's why you're getting those ads
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That is where JaseC's content server mirror comes into it.
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My spare from the latest Humble Bundle. Good luck!
I'm clicking on the Steam/Slitherine ad whenever it comes up in the hopes of training adsense so it gives me more. And they displace that goddamn Adobe ad which jumps the webpage around.
Can I tell you about our Lord and Savior GameSave Manager?
GSM doesn't work with Uplay games, or at least some of them. When you back up Lib HD's "saves", you're just backing up the game's config file. The last time I used GSM, I noticed the same was true of the other AssCreed games I had installed, too.
Well, sure, CEG is weak as hell.
CEG 'simulators' already exist, I have no doubt were the worst to happen we'd have an open source implementation on Github in less than 24 hours.
Not sure about download servers though, for folks who don't keep all of their games installed. Do we have some contingency plan there?
Are there no local save files for uplay games?
Uplay saves them in C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\savegames\[account id string]\[game id]. If I had to guess I'd say that the string is the issue, but as far as I'm aware GSM supports saves that are stored in Steam\userdata\[account id]\[app id] just fine.
I just checked my AC save backups that i did with GSM and as far as i can see they are all there both config files and save files. I don;t know what they did differently with AC Lib.
But i have other issue that i am trying to solve. For a week now i am talking with Ubisoft Support becaus emy ACR and AC3 DLCs are missing from UPlay. Itis know issue since UPlay 3.0 and they still don't know how to solve it. Apparently it is easier for them to be bombarded with support tickets then to include DLCs in game *3-4 year old games) download for all.
Knowing my luck, LibHD remains the only "unsupported" Uplay game, haha. I found my little stash of Uplay save backups, but naturally LibHD isn't among them.
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Danganronpa:
Owners: 20,219 ± 3,290
To put that into perspective:
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/japa...ronpa-sells-200-000-units-in-the-west/0148734
200.000 Sales for both games combined in the west, in other words, 100.000 sales for DR1 in the west (as of April 2015) if we assume a fifty/fifty split.
I think those PC sales are fairly good.
Danganronpa:
Owners: 20,219 ± 3,290
To put that into perspective:
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/japa...ronpa-sells-200-000-units-in-the-west/0148734
200.000 Sales for both games combined in the west, in other words, 100.000 sales for DR1 in the west (as of April 2015) if we assume a fifty/fifty split.
I think those PC sales are fairly good.
If you have issues with strings you can always copy only save files and it should work. i did that for AC Syndicate when i wanted to delete cloud saves. I just deleted local files, started game in offline mode, then started in online mode. Then after some time i wanted to go back on old save so i just copied old save files (not folder) and it worked. UPlay asked me if i want to overwrite online saves too. As long as saves are from same account they should work.
But also sometimes they can break things like i did with AC Rev where i broke Achievements because i copied save files from other account XD Now i have game done 100% and only 4 Achievements (game/UPlay only registered achievements i did after i copied save). So i have 100% Sync achievement but i don't have any Sequence finished achievement on UPlay xD
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