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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 II - The Definitive Edition

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Dusk Golem

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Apparently the whole Paper Monsters deal has to do with the publisher, Strategy First. The developers actually, for better or worse, may not have actual control over this, even if they say so. From my understanding the Steam version is distributed by the publisher of Paper Monsters, Strategy First, which are a pretty scummy publisher, but they do probably have the rights to it and to do with it what they want.
 
jshackles

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.
Dusk Golem said:
Apparently the whole Paper Monsters deal has to do with the publisher, Strategy First. The developers actually, for better or worse, may not have actual control over this, even if they say so. From my understanding the Steam version is distributed by the publisher of Paper Monsters, Strategy First, which are a pretty scummy publisher, but they do probably have the rights to it and to do with it what they want.
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Thanks for the heads up. That's kind of sad, really. Especially since they were planning on an upgraded version for release on Steam.
 
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mcfishstick

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Arthea said:
I feel like I was trolled bad, by steam
I look at the store and see word Homeworld and jump to conclusions at once!
And it's this
http://store.steampowered.com/app/275350/
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Yeah I fell for this too.

Dusk Golem said:
Apparently the whole Paper Monsters deal has to do with the publisher, Strategy First. The developers actually, for better or worse, may not have actual control over this, even if they say so. From my understanding the Steam version is distributed by the publisher of Paper Monsters, Strategy First, which are a pretty scummy publisher, but they do probably have the rights to it and to do with it what they want.
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That's what I've gathered from peoples comments on the matter. I hope the developers manage to get it sorted but that publisher is likely using some grey-area loophole.

Also posting this again so that people can get the last couple of codes:

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Glass Rebel

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textonly said:
Looks like Paper Monsters is not a legit release.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/275370/

Crescent Moon Games ‏@CM_Games

https://twitter.com/CM_Games/status/430472940958674945
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How does this even happen. Strategy First has over 40 games on Steam (Bad Rats among them), would they really risk this for some low-key mobile game?

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Dusk Golem said:
Apparently the whole Paper Monsters deal has to do with the publisher, Strategy First. The developers actually, for better or worse, may not have actual control over this, even if they say so. From my understanding the Steam version is distributed by the publisher of Paper Monsters, Strategy First, which are a pretty scummy publisher, but they do probably have the rights to it and to do with it what they want.
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ohh, alright. That's kinda fucked up.
 
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VoidZero

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Deques said:
New simulator bundle by BundleStars

http://www.bundlestars.com/all-bundles/extreme-sims-bundle/

Ship Simulator Extremes
Lunar Flight
Dogfight 1942
Bridge It (Plus)
Airport Simulator 2014
Skyscraper Simulator
Agricultural Simulator: Historical Farming
Woodcutter Simulator 2013 Gold Edition

All Steam redeemable
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After watching this, I have to say that Airport Simulator 2014 is the gem of that bundle.
Everything takes a long time to do, you might have to wait several minutes/hours without anything to do and there is no way to speed up time.
A perfect screensaver.
 
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Copons

Member
jshackles said:
Yeah it could initially be like iGoogle - place each "section" or "box" on the site in the order you'd like to see it. The values would be stored in the user's preference storage rather than on my server.

You could rearrange the sections of the homepage to your liking (or delete the ones you never use).

If people think this would be an idea worth exploring, let me know.
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It would be interesting (although I never really used these kind of organization in the few sites that used this UI in the second half of the 00s, and I guess I wasn't alone as it's a practice mostly fallen into oblivion), but wouldn't it be a monstrous effort on your part?

I mean, while it is true that Valve rarely makes changes on the homepage, if they change something, even a single id, people with that feature enabled would most likely get a completely screwed homepage (in the same fashion of when download page is updated screwing custom skins). Best case scenario: divs overlapping; worst case scenario: inevitably hidden divs.
And all of this without even considering the huge changes they do for every sale...
 
jshackles

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.
Copons said:
I mean, while it is true that Valve rarely makes changes on the homepage, if they change something, even a single id, people with that feature enabled would most likely get a completely screwed homepage (in the same fashion of when download page is updated screwing custom skins). Best case scenario: divs overlapping; worst case scenario: inevitably hidden divs.
And all of this without even considering the huge changes they do for every sale...
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All very true and valid points. Complicated further by the fact that Valve doesn't even give these divs IDs - I would have to assign them based on their DOM layout which, if changed, would cause issues.

Like I said earlier, really the best way to handle this would be for Valve to hire me and put me to work on the task.
 
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Copons

Member
jshackles said:
All very true and valid points. Complicated further by the fact that Valve doesn't even give these divs IDs - I would have to assign them based on their DOM layout which, if changed, would cause issues.

Like I said earlier, really the best way to handle this would be for Valve to hire me and put me to work on the task.
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Holy shit I never gave a look to the code of the page!
So much room for improvement... all those inline scripts... they didn't even took the time to minify stuff, I mean, come on!

But then I must say it's impressive to see they're using data attributes like they actually know which decade we're living in. :D
 
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Piercedveil

Member
Sorry if this is asked all the time, but does the Steam version of South Park use UPlay? There's nothing on the Steam store page that would suggest it does..

I'm thinking I'd like to pre-order it.
 
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bobnowhere

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maneil99

maneil99

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jshackles said:
Thanks for the heads up. That's kind of sad, really. Especially since they were planning on an upgraded version for release on Steam.
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Grab it before its gone like the dinosaurs....


....Only to be brought back as robots that is

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kulapik

Member
Are you really thinking on buying the game in order to resell it after knowing that the developers ain't gonna get a cent? Jesus.
 
maneil99

maneil99

Member
kulapik said:
Are you really thinking on buying the game in order to resell it after knowing that the developers ain't gonna get a cent? Jesus.
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Whats the big deal there, are you relaly gonna buy that used game since the devs wont get a cent? People are going to buy the game regardless, why not make a bit of money. Im not going to do it because I have no $ but why give jshacks a hard time
 
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woo and indeed hoo

Banned
So after multiple mess ups I'm going along quite nicely with a new game, my soldier boys and girls are slowly but surely levelling up and they haven't been shot to pieces multiple times to ruin their Will and make them susceptible to panic. I have one soldier who is yet to get a kill on this particular mission so I instruct him to use a missile for a guaranteed kill. He gets this but unfortunately it seems he can't aim for crap because he sends my Assault rocketing up in the air instead.

*sigh* 'rage' quit and restart number I've lost count

I am enjoying myself. No really :(.
 
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kulapik

Member
maneil99 said:
Whats the big deal there, are you relaly gonna buy that used game since the devs wont get a cent? People are going to buy the game regardless, why not make a bit of money. Im not going to do it because I have no $ but why give jshacks a hard time
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Well, if I buy a used game neither the developer or the publisher get money, so it's not a big deal. Here, a publisher is putting a straight movile port (if it weren't that way they would know) and without their autorization, meaning all money goes to the publisher. If he wants to buy it, not my problem, but hope you buy the good version when it"s out.
 
Backlogger

Backlogger

Member
Does Paper Monsters have controller support? Store page doesn't say so, but it totally looks like a casual couch game.

Edit: Wow, I just got caught up on this. Looks like a great game, but not sure how I feel about buying it now.
 
jshackles

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.
Client update

Steam said:
We have just updated the beta with the following changes:

In-Home Streaming
  • Added capture resolution and FPS to the beta overlay message
  • Fixed crash at startup streaming to Surface Pro with old video drivers
  • Added a super low resolution 480p streaming option
Big Picture
  • Fixed one of the settings buttons crashing Steam for SteamOS users
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