Tizoc
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Dunder my man!
I'll be home in 10ish hours time so I'll get in touch with you on Steam by then <3
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STEAM | January 2015 - Steam GOTY results: Delayed
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Dunder my man!
I'll be home in 10ish hours time so I'll get in touch with you on Steam by then <3
autoduelist
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People rarely realize what they're 'equipped' to talk about, and not everyone puts the same import into any specific topic.
Films are passive by nature - you sit and watch them. Games are interactive by nature - you play them. If you're 'strongly disagreeing' that games are more interactive than film... I mean, sorry, we're speaking different languages and I don't even know how to continue the topic at this point, so I'll bow out.
I feel like you're asking far too much of people. People make stuff all the time. Some are terrible at it. Some are great. And the world turns.
NingenJanai
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How much is it in China?
I'm not exactly sure, but I think it's in the ballpark of around $30 US. You can enter the region code in the URL of the store page (on the browser) to see the price.
I'm not paying $70 CAD, even with a terrible dollar. I'll probably look around and maybe grab GTAV tomorrow.
China uses USD and US prices by default.
Chairmanchuck
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There are some things like GTA or Talos Principle that are cheaper. Not sure about this Saints Row Ultimate pack, since thats about 10$ here too.
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
Too tired and headache ridden to make a decent reply, but Zeek is right on.
Hence "by default". It's not considered a cheaper region by Valve because it's the opposite situation to Brazil, Eastern Europe, etc. (i.e. publishers have to opt into lower pricing as opposed to opting out of it).
So only some games have a price difference? Like south america with 2k and rockstar games?
???
'stuff' can be criticized
i criticize it
it's simple
what's a zeek
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
You, you silly goose.
Games, just like every other medium is a cultural mirror. To not talk about X, is to talk about X.
Interactivity can be passive, as most games are because that's the technological limitations ie something like Civ 5 can have multiple iterations(not the word I'm looking for but eh) and choices but most games are not built that way. I'm having this critical moment playing through (finally!) The Last of Us.
I love you Dunder
I got it from the same freebie and just started playing last week thanks to a new CPU upgrade that finally made it possible. I'm about 80% done but while I haven't had any reboots I get more and more crashes the farther I progress and now it happens after about 20-30 minutes of playing which has slowed me down considerably. I only lose about 5 minutes of progress, but I lose the will to keep going for another couple of days.
huh
why am i zeek
yeah, pretty much
pressing buttons doesn't really make you a participant unless mechanics and story intently make you a participant. there's only interactivity when the player is allowed to display mastery and/or creativity within the rules of the game world, everything else is just the same as pressing play on your dvd or not closing your eyes when watching a movie. if you play a game for 10 hours and you're just as bad as when you started you have learned nothing and achieved nothing and your experience with the game might as well not have existed. that's why videogames aren't interactive per se, since they require game systems complex enough to allow you to interact with them. you interact with videogames with your fingers as well as your mind, and both are really key, but the mind is always gonna be more important. just mindlessly pressing buttons isn't really interactivity because you're oblivious to the game state response of your actions and thus aren't learning anything
on the other hand your mind works in videogames just as it does in movies. it interprets the story and the mechanics based on your background and beliefs and past experiences. if the content can be interpreted of interpretation then it's interactive because you can't just be swapped with someone else and get the same result
and mechanics are just like story, they can either be shallow or deep and allow for interpretation or not. and those two can combine into new things for you to interpret
DarKshodaN
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Can someone help me to get one of this shiny GTA V copys from China?
Edit: Got it from a Steam Friend
Edit: Got it from a Steam Friend
vakarian32
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I'm also pretty keen on getting GTA5 on Steam, not too keen on paying $75USD though!
spindoctor
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Wait so the copies currently being sold on Steam are region free? Pricing just changed for my country and they're going for $40 now and the sub id is 58504 which is the same one that is being sold in USA. They can't retroactively region lock the game after purchase can they?
Where's Jasec when you need him :S
Where's Jasec when you need him :S
Tizoc
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Read the last page or 2, then hit up the BST thread.
They're not region-free if you mean free of the trading restriction. It's just notably cheaper in China, which is considered rest-of-world. The only publisher that bothers with OARIC anymore is Ubisoft.
well they're certainly big enough to be considered part of ROW
spindoctor
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So my copy would be ROW as well right? Can they change that after I've bought and activated it? My country wouldn't even come under the trading restriction.
Yeah, there's only one sub and publishers don't have the ability to replace user licences.
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
I pronounce your name as 'zeekylon' so 'zeek' will be a nickname.
And what you said is right. So long as we have binary choices; life, or game over, good ending bad ending. And the limitations of everything else, I don't think the medium will advance much.
But there are a variety of ways of telling a story, because a hundred+ good novels, and a hundred+ good films, exist.
Content and context is what matters.
-MD-
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Steam > settings > in-game
And you need to be in the Steam client beta.
i don't like zeek
i like zky
pls don't call me zeek
and there are good games doing good shit. it's not because videogames are TEH ULTIMATE MEDIUM or anything, they're just meticulously crafted like most good stuff in other mediums is
ppl should play always sometimes monsters :>
linky pls?
I want to get Gat Out Hell, but it's locked
GTA5 can be bought for cheap from Dunder if you have him in your Steam friend list
http://www.gamestop.com/pc/games/saints-row-gat-out-of-hell/118076
Just going to drop this here:
http://www.huniepop.com/post/108133977163/clearing-up-distribution-details
http://www.huniepop.com/post/108133977163/clearing-up-distribution-details
The key itself is not region-locked but as is usually the case only people with a US-based payment method can buy it.
It has activation lock and only works for NA. Deep Silver being jerks.
Wait what? It's not locked?
Oh, then I am just going to pass on this deal
Well, you'd need to use a VPN to activate it, but other than that, no.
autoduelist
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This conversation was never about whether you can criticize something or not, and I have never said nor implied you couldn't. I was merely pointing out that expecting writers to know what they can and can not handle is asking the impossible. And since anyone with a pencil can write, we always have and always will get dreck. Holding one medium to a different standard than all others seems quite unfair. Visual cues, which started this whole conversation, have long been established. Gaming didn't invent the ones you don't like, it merely pilfered them from film and television, where they are commonly used, responsibly or not. Asking a director not to use a visual cue is not much different from asking an author not to use a word.
we'll you're saying i expect too much like that's an excuse for games being bad at stuff
i don't expect too much, i know games can do better because i've seen games do better
Chance Hale
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Does Dying Light have terrible auto scaling enemies like the Dead Island games?
autoduelist
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You're missing my point. Of course games can be better. So can films. So can comics. But since we can't force people not to make stuff, and people vary in talent from 'absolutely dreadful' to 'masterful', we'll always get the good and the bad. You seem to only want the good. We will always, always get a thousand times more bad than good, because most people aren't actually good creators (be it authors, directors, or game developers). Fortunately, the amount of bad romance novels released per year in no way affects how many great novels are released - they're completely independent from one another. Different creators entirely. It's like asking novelists to 'stick to a higher standard'... it's just an impossible, impossible ask. Authors are gonna author, and most of them are dreadful [as anyone who has read through a pile of manuscripts will attest].
That's what I mean when you're asking too much.... there's no way to stop the onslaught of bad unless we start forcing bad authors to not write stuff at gunpoint -- besides, we can't suddenly not have the bad, because the sea of bad stuff is what lets us treasure the diamonds when they do appear.
Anyway, this is ridiculously off topic at this point, so goodnight.
D3RANG3D
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http://store.steampowered.com/app/342610/
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I have it on my tablet, It's free on Android cool little time waster.
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