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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Black Soma said:
I wonder if a preload option is gonna be available for The Evil Within 2. Especially if it's gonna be just as gigantic as the first game in size.
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It should be. The last Bethesda game to not have a pre-load was Wolf14 (well, there was a window, but only for a matter of hours).
 
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prudislav

Member
RIP Hawken
'After 3 great years, we are shutting down the PC Steam servers to refocus our development efforts,' the post continues before mentioning that the game and all its DLC will be removed from Valve's digital distribution service come January of next year.

Hawken launched on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in early July 2016, and judging by the language used in the announcement, the studio will now be focusing entirely on the game's console players going forward. However, the message does end by thanking PC players for their support and mentions that 'the team looks forward to creating more great games based on what we’ve learned from you.'
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https://www.videogamer.com/news/hawken-pc-servers-getting-shut-down
 
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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
What's up with the loot box craze? That's rhetorical I know what's up with it ($), I just didn't see it coming like this after Overwatch for some reason. I really should have tho.
 
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Servizio

I don't really need a tag, but I figured I'd get one to make people jealous. Is it working?
Rhaknar said:
What's up with the loot box craze? That's rhetorical I know what's up with it ($), I just didn't see it coming like this after Overwatch for some reason. I really should have tho.
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It makes sense to me as the logical continuation of preorders, collector's editions, DLC and season passes. There is an apparent minority of consumers who are willing to spend a seemingly unlimited amount of money on specific games and it just makes sense to increase focus on them since the return is so good.

Tis whale milking season.
 
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Rickenslacker

Banned
Rhaknar said:
What's up with the loot box craze? That's rhetorical I know what's up with it ($), I just didn't see it coming like this after Overwatch for some reason. I really should have tho.
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If all games with lootboxes took the Overwatch approach it's something I would welcome wholeheartedly.

Unfortunately most take after Valve with them at best, or do something even worse. :\
 
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Mobius and pet octopus

Member
Hawken was such a disappointment. I would love a fast paced big mech skill based game, but I wasn't feeling that one much at all. Maps felt really limiting, movement felt clunky, although I don't think it was a bad game by any means it was not what I was looking for and the unlock-progression system didn't help even though it was common at the time for f2ps.
 
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DeliciousDoc

Member
With Nioh coming to pc thats another game I can delete off my amazon pricewatch.

If sega jumps in on the pc remake train I would only need a console for fire emblem (since that will never be ported).

Would be nice if someone beat intelligent system at their own game on pc. Maybe xcom can make a side game in medieval fantasy. Oh man, xcom camera work with fire emblem. Mods. I need new pants.

Julian Gollop?
 
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MUnited83

For you.
Rickenslacker said:
If all games with lootboxes took the Overwatch approach it's something I would welcome wholeheartedly.

Unfortunately most take after Valve with them at best, or do something even worse. :
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Valve is the best approach. I can sell all my shit, make money with the game, and can buy every damn item individually without ever opening a lootboxes. Any game with lootboxes should be like that.
 
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Rickenslacker

Banned
BernardoOne said:
Valve is the best approach. I can sell all my shit, make money with the game, and can buy every damn item individually without ever opening a lootboxes. Any game with lootboxes should be like that.
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I'd rather have a game that allows the lootboxes to feel like an organic progression of items that are just a candid method of in-game item acquisition rather than some meta game of Skinner box pellet feeding to then flip for pocket change.
 
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BoosterDuck

Banned
Nioh looks like fun but but Monster Hunter World is prettier and lol Tecmo ports

so I'll see if I like it on a Free Weekend or something
 
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MUnited83

For you.
Rickenslacker said:
I'd rather have a game that allows the lootboxes to feel like an organic progression of items that are just a candid method of in-game item acquisition rather than some meta game of Skinner box pellet feeding to then flip for pocket change.
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It doesn't really feel like "organic progression" though.

Also I wouldnt call the money you can make from them "pocket change". I paid 30$ for PUBG and got over 60$ from it, and most items o do want are pretty cheap on the marketm
 
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Rickenslacker

Banned
BernardoOne said:
It doesn't really feel like "organic progression" though.

Also I wouldnt call the money you can make from them "pocket change". I paid 30$ for PUBG and got over 60$ from it, and most items o do want are pretty cheap on the marketm
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I would. If we're taking direct and specific examples here, outside of the pre-order Widowmaker skin and last year's Blizzcon skin, any item in Overwatch can be earned pretty reasonably and directly just from standard play. If you want something with the Steam market approach and it just happens to be a high demand item, well, SOL or better start saying hellooooooo when opening lootboxes. PUBG eschews this slightly at present by just offering most lootbox rewards as something you can earn through in-game play, kind of a middle ground between Valve and Overwatch, but in something like CS:GO or TF2 you get a whole lot of junk that is expressly designed to tempt one into buying keys and is generally worthless in market value due to being so abundant and requiring a transaction of some kind to get any use out of.
 
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prudislav

Member
DeliciousDoc said:
Julian Gollop?
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He curenty does Phoenix Point which is basically Lovercraftian take on XCOM

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kagamin

Member
Ludens said:
I just realized I own Front Mission Evolved on Steam, is the game any good? I'm interested in Left Alive, and this would be my first FM.
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Don't think so really, I've only played the remake of first FM game on DS though and I looooooooooved it, Evolved doesn't play anything like the other games iirc.
 
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Mobius and pet octopus

Member
TheTrain said:
I've never seen an ungrateful developer as bad as these guys
Year and year in early access with almost no content update and a game filled by horrible P2W micro transaction 'till the first day of "sales"
No wonder that no one plays the game anymore, just like the latest MechWarrior
And now this, good luck selling another game at the PC crowd
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I didn't follow the game long, but they had p2w microtransactions?
 
Madventure

Madventure

Member
Grim Dawn: Ashes of Malmouth Trailer

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Grim Dawn: Ashes of Malmouth is coming October 11th, 2017 onto Steam, GoG and Humble, priced at $17.99 for an absolute overload of new content.
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Looks like they have a new trailer and an official date besides just "October"! Still no steampage yet but it's only 9 days away! So maybe in the next couple of days I'd imagine they would put it up
 
Madventure

Madventure

Member
Rhaknar said:
Necromancer? Maybe the game will finally hve a proper pet class then
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Yeah it's getting Necromancer and Inquisitor as there two new classes but it already some sustained pet class stuff. But with 2 class combo of necro + shaman will be pretty cool with all of the pets not to mention every original class is getting an additional bunch of skills

Along with the new constellations and everything, I'm pretty excited for it!
 
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Xater

Member
Mobius and pet octopus said:
Hawken was such a disappointment. I would love a fast paced big mech skill based game, but I wasn't feeling that one much at all. Maps felt really limiting, movement felt clunky, although I don't think it was a bad game by any means it was not what I was looking for and the unlock-progression system didn't help even though it was common at the time for f2ps.
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To me it just wasn't enough of a mech game. If it had people instead of mechs it would have barely made a difference.
 
Jawmuncher

Jawmuncher

Member
Hektor said:
That vindicating feeling of reading through old threads

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222773675&postcount=90
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222777579&postcount=106

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I mean, yea? The Term Diablo-like has been used to describe lootgames for a long time.
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lol. I remember on twitter getting random sony fanyboys who were adamant it would never happen. Was even talking to them either. Guess they were just searching posts for nioh. Since my tweets were stuff like "Hope it comes to PC"
 
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