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steam | April 2015 - Orange, you glad it’s morningbus? “No.”

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Parsnip

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Grief.exe said:
Fundamentally, you can break down the majority of hate against Win 8 to fear of change.

Most of the differences are cosmetic with objective speed improvements. Win + X, Win + S, Win + click on application. Really nothing has changed from an end user perspective.
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Except when you are primarily a mouse user.
The right click menu is nice to have quick access to some stuff, but it doesn't fix any of the workflow issues that Win8 brought to the table for me.
It was awful.

I don't know if 8.1 was better in that sense, I have absolutely zero reason to test it.
 
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RionaaM

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Freedom = $1.05 said:
it's not, people just need a reason to not put their pitchforks down.
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Uzzy said:
Why think when you can engage in anger and rage, social media's default position on all topics.
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I think you guys are true. I never paid much attention to it before, and I may have been (still are?) part of the problem, but looking at it now it really does seem like many people out there are getting needlessly angry. Like, at the smallest of things, or even things that aren't real at all (like that donation link being removed).

What's the reason behind all this anger? Not necessarily in this particular case, but in general.

JaseC said:
The same is true of store items. Valve partially reversed Squeenix's boneheaded decision to remove Order of War: Challenge from user libraries as those who'd bought Challenge specifically were left with an empty licence.
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Yes, and if that weren't the case people would be complaining loudly, and righfully so. No idea why some think that's wrong in this case.
 
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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Arthea said:
you mean it counts as +1 or something?
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Not anymore, unless you have a key. What I meant is that 10 of my friends have it on their wishlist and they can now play it.

edited: or more to the point, did I lose +1 if I bought it before it was free?
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That was an issue way back when Valve implemented the "Free on Demand" sub type, but not any more.
 
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Kuroyume

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Coffin Dodgers Alpha Key will eventually become the full game... I think.
 
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jaundicejuice

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jshackles said:
Pretty much this exactly. Does Valve know that the 3D modeling software they used to create the mod was properly licensed? My guess is that Valve has a standard disclaimer like "I agree that I actually made this and I have the legal right to sell it blah blah blah", but like you said that's shifting the burden of proof to the customer. The whole thing is like Steam Greenlight would be if every game on Greenlight were instantly for sale the moment it was uploaded.

Looking at the numbers, the total amount of revenue generated by this was about $6,000 to $10,000 in the first day so I guess this is something people want.

I guess I'm going to stop talking about it though, as I really have no personal stake in it. I haven't purchased a mod and so far haven't seen a compelling reason for that to change.
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Of course not, but Autodesk does. They know who they've sold licenses to and who they haven't. If you become a big enough fish for them to take notice they might offer you an olive branch and let you become a legitimate Max/Maya/XSI user before escalating things. That individual would have to be making a lot of money for them to take notice and they're chasing after some studios for doing the same thing. There's more seats and thus licenses sold to be gained by chasing a company versus an individual.
 
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madjoki

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Freedom = $1.05 said:
hope that goes better than the play-as-you-download effort made with MKX. I'm pretty sure they actually rolled back to regular downloads after the hot mess that was.
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They did. Insane to have games manage downloads.

You know why not let devs mark "This DLC/depot is not required to launch game"? (Then game checks the same way if it's downloaded or not as currently).
 
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zychi

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anyone have a recommendation for a 1 out to 2 hdmi splitter? the two i've bought that needed external crapped out after a month or so. i need one that will be strong enough to take an output from an internal capture card to two 1080p tvs

e: meant to post that in the steam thread, but if you guys can help cool.
 
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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Freedom = $1.05 said:
hope that goes better than the play-as-you-download effort made with MKX. I'm pretty sure they actually rolled back to regular downloads after the hot mess that was.
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You'd think High Voltage would have ran some tests internally to ensure it had segmented the game data correctly.
 
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zychi

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thanks anonyomous! it ended up being home

anyone have a recommendation for a 1 out to 2 hdmi splitter? the two i've bought that needed external crapped out after a month or so. i need one that will be strong enough to take an output from an internal capture card to two 1080p tvs
 
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alr1ght

bish gets all the credit :)
zychi said:
thanks anonyomous! it ended up being home

anyone have a recommendation for a 1 out to 2 hdmi splitter? the two i've bought that needed external crapped out after a month or so. i need one that will be strong enough to take an output from an internal capture card to two 1080p tvs
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I have this. It strips HDCP even. I don't know why it's so expensive there, but you can find it for ~$25 on ebay.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004F9LVXC/?tag=neogaf0e-20
 
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MUnited83

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JaseC said:
CoD PC sells reasonably well (SteamSpy estimates that 825k~849k users own Advanced Warfare, for example), it's just that PC gamers tend to drop it quite quickly.
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Advanced Warfare had a free weekend so the numbers are still skewed by that. I think it barely sold half that, imo.
 
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Grief.exe

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JaseC said:
CoD PC sells reasonably well (SteamSpy estimates that 825k~849k users own Advanced Warfare, for example), it's just that PC gamers tend to drop it quite quickly.
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I don't know if I fully believe aggregate sales data for games with free weekends.

Edit: I see.

Still, the decline continues on PC.
 
jshackles

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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.
So next week I'll be posting up the May OT I've been working on. Here are the people who have put down for game recommendations:
  • Wolfenstein: The Old Blood - Dr Dogg
  • Neon Struct - turfster
  • Magicka 2 - MRORANGE
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - zkylon
  • Axiom Verge - toddhunter
  • Not A Hero - r3n4ud
If you haven't already, please send me your recommendations by the middle of next week.

If you'd like to write a recommendation for a game that's not listed here and is releasing on Steam in May, feel free to send me a PM.
 
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Salsa

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Axiom Verge is the game im most excited about right now

i've been excited for The Witcher 3 and Arkham Knight for a while already so it takes the spot
 
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.
Also, we might as well get this out of the way:

STEAM | May 2015 - ???
 
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fantomena

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Finished Evil Within The Consequenced DLC.

Is that the last DLC? And what happen to The Keeper DLC which was suppose to release shorty after luanch?
 
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