freshVeggie
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Nice. Thank you traveller!
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steam | April 2015 - Orange, you glad its morningbus? No.
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TheLetdown
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That's an interesting opinion. The standard response is that you have to slog through Act 1 to get to the glory of Act 2.
Was there something about Act 2 that stuck out as shitty for you? Or was it a sense of "more of the same" that did it? Who did you side with?
Chapter 2 did seem to drag on for me. Sided with
Roche
For all of that, though, I loved the game. The setting worked wonders for me. I'm just curious about your experience, since it seems pretty out of the ordinary from most of the more common complaints.
EDIT:
I'm not sure if this was intentional, but that backhanded compliment is expert level.
Yup, that would be bad.
Similarly if unofficial patches start costing money, then it's time to revolt.
Right now, it's just a lot of people jumping in the hate train.
toddhunter
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I fucked up.
freshVeggie
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Weird. I get a "this page cannot be found" message by Microsoft.Thanks though
I also just got a tip to use "Windows Media Creation Tool".
Many options. Let's see. Interested to get a new Windows. Hear good things about speed in general usage and gaming.
Atraveller
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You're welcome.
MMBosstones86
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I think it's worth spending some time in. If anything, to refresh your memory of things that happened in the first 2 games. Some of the choices are pretty detailed, but yeah....the default ones are pretty meh.
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TheAutomator
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where do you live?
Taiwan.
I'm really not jumping on shit personally, I'm just pissed because there are already mods that I use that've up & vanished, and only have a paid version now.
And broken mods whose fixed versions are paid... Etc.
It's all a bit shady and cuntish. I'm all for rewarding modders, but not by coercing users into paying and both modders and consumers being exploited by Bethesda and Valve isn't really my kind of thing.
I can't for the life of me imagine why they didn't have the default state set to have as many cameos and tie-ins to past games as possible, instead of the exact opposite.
It... Really makes very little sense, imo.
Blender is now on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/365670/
Ban Puncher
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Valve take 75% of mod sales.
Modders linking to personal donation pages.
Everybody sucks.
RIP in piece PC mods.
Modders linking to personal donation pages.
Everybody sucks.
RIP in piece PC mods.
InfiniteNine
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Now I can make smoothies!
TheAutomator
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yep, i think a pay what you want model works much better in this case, but unfortunately i dont see valve doing that
Atraveller
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Did you go day one with that game?
*Bethesda, Valve takes same cut as in other microtransctions.
MMBosstones86
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Completely unrelated, but how many hours?
First mod, then Blender, when will you satisfied Valve?
jk: it's still free. It's a pretty great piece of software.
I'm not sure why anyone would want it on Steam, though. I heard software on Steam have problem in running multiple windows in one time.
Just get it here: http://www.blender.org/
it's open source! it's free! it's created from tears and sweats of hundreds if not thousands of people, but it somehow still free. hundreds if not thousands losers who believe that money isn't everything...
it's the bitterness among the community that I afraid.
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sure, only now they have even more of a reason to sit back and not do much of anything regarding their PC version because there's an actual revenue stream tied to being sloppy and incompetent now that didn't exist before.
Seems like a slippery slope argument to me.
I guess I'm one of the few people who prefer a "vanilla" experience sans-mods because I like games to have a consistent look and feel throughout. As in everything being consistent with the design vision of the original designers. It's also for that reason that I was put off by the idea of the new "enhanced" editions of the Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale games, with their new content.
But anyways, I think the paid mod thing is a tradeoff for the artists and that they're being short-sighted -- if your goal is to possibly turn a hobby into a paying career, then you're better off reaching as large of an audience as possible with free mods and using that to get the attention of game studios. I don't see any paid mod achieving viral attention.
But anyways, I think the paid mod thing is a tradeoff for the artists and that they're being short-sighted -- if your goal is to possibly turn a hobby into a paying career, then you're better off reaching as large of an audience as possible with free mods and using that to get the attention of game studios. I don't see any paid mod achieving viral attention.
I'm one of the laziest people ever when it comes to keeping my software up to date. Things like drivers (I just checked, and I'm still using GeForce drivers from last July...) and development software and utilities in particular -- especially when I have to manually download and install updates.
Well here's your chance.
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to a degree, it might be. I also acknowledged earlier that there could be some good that comes out of this. For every crappy Bethesda fix that could benefit their pockets, you have the folks behind Day Z running to make some money from their mod before it's cloned a hundred times over without them seeing a dime.
I'm just failing to see how this is a good thing more than it is a bad thing, though. And given that this industry has been pushing more and more exploitative practices onto its consumers over the last few years, it's hard to look at this move and not be incredibly skeptical of what the end game is.
Nice giveaway. I bought it yesterday and I'm loving it so far.
Cool giveaway. I think this game looks fantastic.
TheAutomator
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thats a great giveaway, thanks for the chance :3
Yep, as long as the original UI is usable, I'll go with a vanilla look and feel too. For example, I never modded Deus Ex, and it was still awesome. Just like you said, modding it to replace textures or enhance shadows or that kind of stuff makes me feel like I'm not playing the game the way devs intended, and it's not how it originally was.
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Found these keys hanging around
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Everything you're complaining about there is the mod creator's fault. They chose to take down the free versions, or chose to charge for less buggy ones. Clearly those creators think they should be paid for their work and are now taking advantage of this system to do so. No one forced them to. You can say you're "all for rewarding modders" but that doesn't mean rewarding them based on what you think is appropriate, that means based on what they think is appropriate.
Now, like all things Steam, Valve clearly didn't think the implementation process of this through very well. They should have known that the default for things on the internet is exploitation and complaining. So that's what they are getting. But we've all been spoiled rotten for years by modders like Durante who have made tremendous work available for free. This system isn't going to make that go away. Maybe it will mean some of the grandiose mods that never seem to actually get finished will see the light of day now that those developers see some potential profit to be made. It's hard to say. But the amount of hyperbole about this whole thing is bordering on obscene.
the_firewithin
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email it to yourself and do it that way
Armoured Priest
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cool giveaway.
I think you can go to "Send gift," email it to yourself, copy the link in said email, and then strip the end of the URL off (where it uses your own email). That URL should be usable.
Stump can correct me if I'm wrong, though.
Jawmuncher
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When are you gonna give us impressions on that VN maker game.
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cleaning out my closet
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The newest beta update updated CEF to 41. That should mean all kinds of improvements across the browser.
They also added free mods back.
They also added free mods back.
And they added these to Big Picture mode (if anyone's using that):
Added the ability to filter your friends list
Added a disk management page to settings that lets you view and delete installed games
Added a disk management page to settings that lets you view and delete installed games
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Because I feel bad that I yelled at people today, have some eeeh free games
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I wouldn't mind paying for something like Black Mesa or the KOTOR II restoration mod - a lot of work went into making those. They are certainly not on the same level as a sword skin. I don't know how you would go about distinguishing between one and the other in Workshop, though, unless some things were allowed to be listed as games, not mods. You'd need a review process that would involve some arbitrary decisions and I doubt that's a rabbit hole Valve wants to go down.
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picked up Mark of The Ninja Special Edition at GOG since I've never played it and have heard great things about it
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