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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2013 IV - Christmas in July is over, back to real life
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At this point you just should hope for a Chinese licensed port to be made then somehow localized and brought to Steam. Because Falcom didn't even handle the recent Ys 7 port at all.
Stallion Free
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So you are promising not to purchase them, right?
Pops Maellard
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Just as Saints Row 3 wasn't accurately portrayed with the zombie dildo trailers, neither is The Bureau in the above link. Have to sell games outside of the core, and stupid marketing is often required to do so. Personally, I'm extremely excited for both games and have no doubt they'll both be excellent. I'm not really sure why they're being compared to directly though when they're both so radically different from each other.
That really is the worst goddamn trailer, jesus fuck.
I already didn't care for Declassified XCom, but damn...
Because
stupid
Nah, the Watchdogs Aisha Tyler trailer was much worse.
Yea a game 7 years in development, stopped and restarted 3 times and had like 4 lead designers leave the company over it, I'm sure it'll be just fine.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
I wonder why Valve hasn't jumped on the subscription service for free games bandwagon that is heating up between Microsoft (Xbox Live) and Sony (Playstation Plus).
I actually think it'd be pretty cool to have a $8-$10 a month subscription service that included several new free games every month and discounts on stuff that non-members don't get. I'm sure they could think up some other cool perks with their community stuff (exclusive profile backgrounds?).
Anyway, call me crazy but I'd buy it.
I actually think it'd be pretty cool to have a $8-$10 a month subscription service that included several new free games every month and discounts on stuff that non-members don't get. I'm sure they could think up some other cool perks with their community stuff (exclusive profile backgrounds?).
Anyway, call me crazy but I'd buy it.
AcceptableGhost
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holy shit this trailer is miserable
No jshack. Stahp.
Already got a few problems with that to begin with. Not every PC is the same. So something like "free games" is then going to be dependant on "well I can't play this game at all, this is useless." And what about Mac users when there are only PC games free? Yeah, not gonna work.
This is something not to encourage.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
To be clear - I'm not advocating that they go the Microsoft/Sony route and require this service for online play or anything besides additional stuff. I don't want people to have to pay for anything they're already getting now.
Chance Hale
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Bought X-Com Declassified from Dunder, please don't be bad!
Because TF2 and Dota 2 are already free and Valve is making way more money than 8 dollars per user with Cosmetic DLC for those games and market transactions for said items.
So what you're talking about already exist, just in another way.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
True. I guess I was just looking at my PS+ subscription and thinking "Damn, I wish I could buy Duck Tales for the PS+ discounted rate but get it on Steam."
I guess we have cards and I can idle enough games to make enough money to get a similar discount so it's all good. Just an idea though.
jokingbird
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I own this game, but I am compelled to re-purchase. Not sure why, but hopefully I get a PM back
Rickenslacker
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I was just under the assumption that everyone was arguing for second place; Spelunky is king.
And the answer to second is naturally Project Diva F. Get your priorities straight people, gun bangin' ain't everything!
Stallion Free
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That's an opinion I can get behind. SR2 was just painful and boring after beating SR3 first.
Chance Hale
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In my dreams Castlevania Lords of Shadows gets its release date moved up because I want it now! *pouts*
Syphon Filter
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question on cards, how do you get the rest of them? the first few are random right?
Well, I mean it already exists for them. They don't need to provide 10-15% discount so users pay 8-10 dollars a month. That deal only works because Sony, technically, gets more money from people paying the monthly fee than it loses by reducing their profit margins for those that DO buy the game at the discounted prices.
Valve already gets more than "8 dollars minus profit reduction from those purchased games" from the in-game stores of their Free games, plus all the market fees.
If you want the equivalent of the "PSN+ Discount" on Valve, I guess there's different region markets for us to take advantage of.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
That's what Steam actually is. Every time they put a game on sale that you "gotta have" but buy and never play, you're basically paying a subscription fee to Valve. Or even that requisite $50-75 you spend during holiday and summer sales on cheap indie games or old retail titles just to prune the wishlist. In return, when you do eventually want to play games, you have a library of hundreds you paid subscription fees towards.
Saints Row 3 had less content than 2. For a sequel, that's unacceptable.
You get half of the cards rounded up as drops, then the rest either by trading duplicates/cards from other games you don't want or by purchasing them on the community market. Card drops you get are random, yes, and you may receive duplicates because of this.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
It's a good thing Steam doesn't have it.
But then, PC has always been a shining example.
But then, PC has always been a shining example.
If you want to climb walls and kill space marines, get Natural Selection 2.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/4920/
Thank me later.
SapientWolf
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That's pretty much how I feel after a squad wipe.
It's okay to have less content if the content is leagues more fun.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
So you're a fan of feature creep then?
Stallion Free
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That extra content might as well not exist in SR2 due to it being boring as hell and tedious. The fact that they forced you to do it to raise your face level to play the next story mission was incredibly offensive.
BoosterDuck
Banned
That's far better than introducing activities as main missions.
Less side activities, less customization, shorter main story. Pretty pathetic, if you ask me.
Stallion Free
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I will take quality over quantity every time. Co-op was better in 3 and everything was more entertaining in 3.
I didn't have to beg my co-op partner to start the game up with 3, but I certainly did with 2.
I'm strictly talking about single player. Co-op wise, yeah, it may be better, but I have very little interest in it.
Stallion Free
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You couldn't pay me to play singleplayer in those games.
rainking187
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What the fuck. I was playing some Half Minute Hero, and decided to play Princess 30 mode since that was one of my favorite modes in the PSP version. The controls for the crossbow are SZXC. Look at a standard keyboard for a second. S does not fire up, Z does not fire left, X does not fire down, and C does not fire right. It's basically unplayable like this. You can remap controls but only for the whole game, and not just for one section. Also disappointed that Evil Lord, Princess, and Knight modes only have one level each with the new graphics. I mean I'm glad they included them after cutting them from the 360 version, but still it kind of sucks. They also don't play like they normally do, they're all Hero 30 style levels. I'm glad I got this on sale instead of paying $10 for it.
Spelunky and Guac on Thursday
All Black 3DS XL on the following Monday
Expensive week.
Hahah, Splinter Cell is so far out of everyone's minds that no one notices it will bomba out of nowhere alongside The Bureau on the same day.
Let's see, SR4 and TB:XCOM is still in the top 10 best sellers. Splinter Cell has dropped from #39 just the other day (when I was making a point in another thread) to #67.
The Bureau isn't even finished pre-order unlock #2 yet either. I think three people bought Splinter Cell: Blacklist on Steam.
The Bureau will be interesting, SR4 will have enough new content to justify it's existence, and I'm suffering from Stockholm Syndrome with Splinter Cell to make a proper judgement, but will bomba but maybe sell well (if it was in fact, actually good) from word-of-mouth after Ubi abandons the franchise due to poor sales and will reboot it as a proper COD clone in 2016.
I'm considering Splinter Cell as it has pre-purchase DLC and Ubi has a tendency to not release its pre-purchase incentives separately (see: Rayman 2 and Blood Dragon's OST). That said, there's the distinct possibility that said DLC will be a Uplay unlockable as it's in-game content.
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