The Cowboy
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Aww yeah, Pac-Man DX+ ordered for just over £4.00 (gotta love GMG referrals) - can't wait to get my Pac-Man on!!!!.
Completely forgot this was coming in a few days.
Completely forgot this was coming in a few days.
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scorpscarx
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Community map creators getting something in return is excellent, but I feel that it is turning into a crutch for this game. Would it hurt for Valve proper to give half a shit and roll out some new free maps for competitive play developed in house?
I love counter strike in general, and have played hundreds of hours of Go, and I dislike the pay for weapons in general but I got addicted to them, because they do look good and it's a fun system.
I think I may quit this game now, because I do want these new skins and maps, but it keeps trying to nickle and dime me now. I don't go there with video games.
out getting ribs
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You don't need to pay anything to play the community maps.
I just preordered myself. Love Pac-Man CE.
scorpscarx
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Sure, but I like classic competitive and ranking up.
I'm going to hope this turns out well tomorrow, http://store.steampowered.com/app/236510/ Takedown: Red Sabre
Madrugador
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Is the new Humble Weekly Bundle worth it? I haven't played any of those games.
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These maps will never be in classic competitive. All you get is the Valve servers.
scorpscarx
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They are now, check it out.
.... why did they change that from the first pass? I thought the whole point of competitive is that the maps are "balanced."
toddhunter
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X3 reunion is more than worth the dollar. Just be aware it is almost certain you'll give up trying to work it out.
Think of it as donating towards the development of rebirth, which is hopefully a quality and accessible game.
scorpscarx
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Well perhaps they are, for the low price of 6 bucks you TOO can experience these maps. In addition to that friend you will get access to all the new gun skin drops. Intro video ads included.
Madrugador
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Ok, thanks. I think I'll pay a buck for the base games.
SapientWolf
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Just be glad they're not locking characters.
InvaderZimmer
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Couldn't agree more rebirth will be my first day one buy in I don't know how long. Spent so many hours trying to figure out all the systems in x3 and eventually gave up.
Oh shit, that's great news! I'm still going to keep playing Tomb Raider until I finish it (really good game so far), and I should go back to Castlevania afterwards, of which I played only one hour. But maybe I can squeeze some AVGN Adventures inbetween those two.
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Rickenslacker
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Personally it seems a bit drastic to stop playing a game you really like because of weapon skins. They're just skins afterall, they don't mean anything. I can live without a puke green MP7 or "monotone brown FPS -- the weapon skin set".
Welp, this post made me preorder it too. $8 (with the 20% off voucher) sounds like a nice price for it.
Rickenslacker
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FTL, Noitu Love 2
Wow, I won it. Thanks so much for the giveaway.
You are welcome
Enjoy the Sonic overdose.
Matchew
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You're right. I have FTL, guess I just never noticed for some reason.
scorpscarx
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Well, they just launched after all, and if they are already doing things like this on the first expansion of the skins then I see that as an excellent sign of things to come. Instead of just expanding the weapon skin pool, they moved it to another exclusive pool. It makes sense to conglomerate these two incentives from a business point of view, and being someone who plays like 3 competitive matches a day I feel really pressured into buying it due to the maps. Thanks for letting me rant a tad.
As for the skins, the game needs them to spice it up, and you absolutely desire the nicer ones after a while...
So does Valve use the money from the Community Map tokens to buy the maps from the map makers and add them officially to the game or is it just to have them on the official servers for awhile? If they are using the money to buy the maps that's kind of stupid.
This also made me think of Alan Wake. I was also just reading the Steam page for Cognition (is it good?) which seems to have a similar detective protagonist with supernatural power thing going.
Rickenslacker
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CS was fine without skins for over a decade and GO was fine without them prior to the change. I can understand the psychology behind wanting newer and prettier (and I'm not saying I don't get struck with a sudden need to fall into Valve's various schemes that prey on this), but really when you take a step back and look at it it's best to just not let it bother you.
The map situation does kind of suck though. The game isn't F2P, the passes grant you a limited timeframe to play the maps in matchmaking, then get relegated to community server gutters afterwards. It's not a very appealing map pack approach, especially given that CS:GO is their only game that does something to this effect.
Jawmuncher
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I agree about the passes.
If anything they should just make passes free for everyone in rotation and matchmaking.
Then to support the community the key skins and coins going. Pass if anything should just be a unqiue skin and coin to you that after a certain time will never be available again.
toddhunter
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Can you still just apply your own skins? Sure other people can't see them, but I remember rocking a golden deagle for a long time in CS:S.
Valve just kicks back some money towards the creators.
Technically, the creators cant sell the maps outright since they were created with Valve's tech.
I haven't played that one, sounds interesting.
Rickenslacker
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Game Banana has GO skins you can download so I would believe so. Paltry selection though.
Jawmuncher
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Yeah it's a bit sad how little there is.
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NingenJanai
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You had your eye patch on the wrong eye, Arrhh.
That is incorrect, they can sell the maps to Valve. Almost half of the official Team Fortress 2 maps were created by people in the community using Hammer and Valve bought the rights to the maps. From what I've read Valve typically pays several thousand dollars for the TF2 maps they buy and make official.
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Hu-- just hard crashed right after a spy sapped my Sentry, and his name was CrashMcComputer (subtly changed to keep his identity private) I wonder if it was hax.
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To my knowledge they did the same thing with TF2. Charge for cards, then kickback that profit to the map makers.
I could be mistaken though.
Yep, stamps not cards. Jase always has the link.
human onion
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I did, but he asked to quote his post or something which I never had to do before.
TF2 does have map stamps you can buy, which is basically just donating money to a map creator (you do get a hat and with a map particle effect when you buy one). Valve was buying maps long before the in game TF2 store even existed (and they continue to buy maps, the summer update had 2 community maps they bought and added officially to the game). The money from map stamps are just extra for the map makers on top of what Valve pays for the maps.
If Valve buys a map and it includes any art assets like that weren't created by Valve they also have to buy those as well from their creators.
For example the map Mountain Lab included a lot of art assets from the community created Swamp Theme pack and Valve just bought the rights to the entire swamp theme pack from the people that made them.
My memory in general isn't the best, but it's eidetic when it comes to Valve and Saoirse-related stuff.
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Madrugador
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I just saw Indie Game: The Movie on Steam (saw it on Netflix before).
Kinda funny it has achievements.
Kinda funny it has achievements.
Gotta get them all.
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Madrugador
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It also has cards
Best movie ever.
human onion
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Man, I have no idea how I ever got to 300 posts on GAF by being this stupid.
Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed (long ass name) is surprisingly good. I haven't noticed any rubberbanding, although that might just be because I don't play racers that much. The pickups are unique, the tracks are fun, and the game looks and runs great on PC. Definitely worth the 5 dollars in card and CS:GO case money.
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