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STEAM | December 2015 - _ Diretide Greetings and Happy Holidailies
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Klei has said before that they never wanted achievements for Don't Starve because it's an open-ended game. When they made the PS4 version and had to add some because of Sony's certification rules they added the blandest achievements possible, and a completly useless item that uses a lot of rare materials that only gives you a achievement if you use it like a hundred times.
They throw years of free updates at me to try to buy some kind of loyalty, but then they stab me in the back like this because no achievements.
Like I said, complete trash.
Now Capy is in on the conspiracy too? Lazy and garbage devs.
freshVeggie
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What happened?
Leafhopper
Banned
TU ES DAY
Mr. Luchador
Member
Like clockwork.
You is Día?
Leafhopper
Banned
Was the person LORD?
I only care when I have a game that's like...5 achievements or less off 100% completion. That doesn't happen frequently because I'm no completionist by any means. That 40% achievement status on my profile makes me feel nothing.
Weekly amnesia
They're complicit in the development of cheevo-less games.
Stallion Free is achievement freaks iirc
Mr. Luchador
Member
haha who are they trying to fool.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Steam down for anyone else?
someguyinahat
Member
In a sense, they push me to be a better player. Even in those casual games, if they have an achievement like "don't use hints for the whole game," then I'm not using hints. If there aren't any achievements, I'm totally using hints.
TheLetdown
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Tuesdays are known maintenance days. I think I remember talk of maintenance being spread out across the week but that hasn't seemed to be the case.
Expect sporadic Steamage.
I think achievements force you to play a certain way, but I'm not sure about being a better player. Most of the achievements are pointless anyway, like "die in the tutorial", "complete level 5" etc.
I agree about casual games, those are nice, I try to do all achievements in them.
They are trying so hard to justify it. They are still loosing their fanbase and they don't want to do anything except make things worse. They are spending tons of money on their VR Headset that nobody will buy, they are working on VR Walking Dead game I think or something like that for their Headset that will be DoA. If they continue like this they won't last long.
Leafhopper
Banned
Well I'm glad I picked this up recently
That's a good picture.
Burn it to the ground.
hopefully everyone got the sarcasm. I love Klei, and while I would love achievements, they have delivered years of free content updates while sticking to their initial design goals.
AcademicSaucer
Member
Good guy nuuvem has The Cossaks on sale at around $10, the content pack around $5.
Enter the Dragon Punch
Banned
http://steamcommunity.com/app/218620/discussions/8/492379159718510884/
payday 2 mods are going on a banning spree it seems
payday 2 mods are going on a banning spree it seems
I hope there's more and better sales. I ran out of super-ultra cheap games to buy this sale.
Why is this their right
Seriously, not your service.
Might be their game, but they don't own steam, I wish steam had proper mods :<
FiveElementNinja
Member
I'm ready for sale cards. I have a ton of badges waiting to be crafted. The no dailies thing kinda killed my enthusiasm for sales though. I just hope the meta game is good.
They're only banned from that game's forums.
Which is really all I need or want from them most of the time when I replay a game and want to try for something different from how I did it naturally the first time. I won't do something that doesn't feel fun mind you, but say playing Dead Space with a weapon I never got around to last time, an achievement for mastering it is a good enough reason to go that route.
That's all achievements/trophies really are for though, a bit of extra fun and perhaps an excuse to do something for most people. Whether we enjoy them or not, it's something that a lot of people are more likely to complete a game and actually see the ending when "beat the game" is an achievement/trophy than they would if it lacked that.
Is it worth it to save badges for the sale instead of getting discounts (I know they are generally pretty shitty, but a man can dream)?
someguyinahat
Member
I'm not. At the rate they're going, the sales will only be for Steam Mobile Authenticator users.
Everyone else is a certified spam bot, of course.
I guess Valve is a bit anthropocentric, you could argue that algorithms also have a right to spend money, or rather, try to steal it from humans.
PandaPedinte
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Lyne is relaxing and cool.
FiveElementNinja
Member
Only if you care about cards/badges/levels. Crafting a badge during the summer or winter sale typically gives you cards that go toward the sale badge. If you craft enough of them you can easily get several levels of the sale badge.
You could get coupons that stack with the sale discounts as well, but in my experience that's rare.
pantsattack
Member
I don't want to do this mostly because all my passwords are 25-30 character nonsense and it is a pain to type them into anything let alone a phone. Last pass is great.
Also, with this Klei talk. I listened to Designer Notes with Jamie Cheng yesterday and it makes me want to dive into Don't Starve and Invisible Inc. I wish I would have caught the free weekend a little while ago.
You don't type it in a phone..well once to log in. This is for your account in general, including web.
What happens for me is I go to log in on my PC. A small notification pops up in my notification bar with a code and on my PC a pane pop sup for code input.
Enter the Dragon Punch
Banned
a free to play, microtransaction free shooter in pre-alpha vs a AAA multimillion dollar franchise
can YOU tell the difference, steamgaf?
can YOU tell the difference, steamgaf?
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