3GB indeed.
Gonna try it later, thanks!
But I oh so don't want to lower anything, as it's so beautiful. :'(
Yeah, you smartypants, how would you define a frame that takes more than a second to move on to the next?
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3GB indeed.
Gonna try it later, thanks!
But I oh so don't want to lower anything, as it's so beautiful. :'(
Yeah, you smartypants, how would you define a frame that takes more than a second to move on to the next?
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Baron_Calamity
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60 frames a second might be coming in the future, but these days they are a little hard to come by.
That's why those games don't sell. Cut all that text out XSEED, and see those sales skyrocket!! Trust me!
And I'm glad, because story heavy games are my favourite kind.
Not enough Clinton jokes to keep me invested in random NPC chatter.
Joking, obviously. Wouldn't mind Lunar SSSC on Steam though
They also would need to hire the Sakura team to redraw the character art.
Crimsonclaw111
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The Division is actually not bad. I will get it on sale with the season pass some day.
Hero Prinny
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anyone else on windows 10 having an issue where once their computer turns on from sleep or hibernation videos no longer play unless they reset their pc?
derExperte
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Great work on Starward Rogue, team! Now you’re all laid off…?
Interesting that the changes in the Steam store were really bad for them.
Interesting that the changes in the Steam store were really bad for them.
Sure, fair enough.
One thing I've seen more than a couple of times from console support are "one time" resolutions. They give me a refund, but then say it's the only time I'll see it. I have to wonder if authorized refunds are based on my purchase history. I only buy digital on both consoles so I must look like one loyal, platform loving customer.
https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/693136916967878656
"It's not that depressing, but with the money from lost sales we could do another game (costing million of dollars)."
Bah.
"It's not that depressing, but with the money from lost sales we could do another game (costing million of dollars)."
Bah.
corrosivefrost
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Yeah, you smartypants, how would you define a frame that takes more than a second to move on to the next?
It just means you need to move to a larger unit of measurement. Sure, you might be getting 0fps, but how many fpm are you getting?
3GB indeed.
Gonna try it later, thanks!
But I oh so don't want to lower anything, as it's so beautiful. :'(
Yeah, you smartypants, how would you define a frame that takes more than a second to move on to the next?
I would define it as crap.
nightstorm
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Yes,and MS said that they will fix problem 'soon' ..
My favorites are the posts by people who have no idea about anything PC gaming saying Blow should have gone PS4 exclusive. Like...what?
Se7enSword
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You should write news headlines. :V
The Division is a real loot game, in the sense you're probably going into evacuated or dead peoples houses and looting their stuff. I've got so many cheap nylon sports jackets I could set up a scabby market stall.
Seconds per frame. Duh!
Yeah, you smartypants, how would you define a frame that takes more than a second to move on to the next?
Seconds per frame. Duh!
The Dear Leader
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How can you kill what's already dead, buried, mourned, and decomposed?
UcchedavÄda
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It's sad to hear that Arcen is struggling.
It's a company that has put out some really interesting, if flawed, games, and they are exemplary when it comes to post-launch support. Hopefully they'll be able to bounce back this time as well.
Ask Lovecraft.
BinaryPork2737
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It's so close, yet it still feels so far away. Can't wait to dive into this game.
As was said a billion time everywhere since the beginning of times:
piracy != lost sale
Is there any evidence at all it is being that heavily pirated, other than the fact that Blow says it is?
I thought they already did. ;(
corrosivefrost
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It's often said that there's no such thing as bad publicity... but one has to wonder if Blow's approach with claiming the 90% piracy rate of PC games and continuing to make statements about piracy and his games isn't actually doing harm in the long run. Sure, usually it's said that even bad publicity can be good publicity because it raises awareness of the thing in question, but in Blow's case, I wouldn't be surprised if people who had no interest in the game previously are now pirating it out of spite -- especially since he apparently released a fake version of braid to screw with pirates when that came out back in 2008.
Baron_Calamity
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Man, I'm going try to buy something from them ASAP.
I'm not going to pirate it, but it certainly doesn't make me want to support him.
I know how you feel.
I'm considering locking framerate to 30 and just pumping all the graphics as high as I can because it looks so nice.
Yeah... in a sense, I could totally see someone react to it as "Well, everyone's pirating it anyway, may as well do it myself" and "#1 pirated game? Finding a fast torrent will be a piece of cake."
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Tizoc
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Another Rise of TR screenshot I took.
The Vita is still fine in Japan and there's a bloody thread showing that there are 100+ games coming to it this year alone.
It's about as dead as PC gaming :V
Doesn't seem like fiddling with any of the settings will improve FPS so I'm sticking to High Settings+Realhair On.
The Vita is still fine in Japan and there's a bloody thread showing that there are 100+ games coming to it this year alone.
It's about as dead as PC gaming :V
Sony: "Vita means Death"
UcchedavÄda
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I'm out of the loop when it comes to piracy (thanks
I honestly thought Blow learned something from Braid release. With the Witness, we have again the exact, same scenario:
-Blow defending the price of his product
-Blow ranting about piracy
Now it's only missing something against Sony.
I'm not a dev, but I think if you want to release your games, you need to accept what the market is. And the market is also piracy.
Of course he can have his own opinion, but too often it's better say nothing than say something, and this whole piracy thing is just...dull?
Bombshell looks really interesting, like a female version of Duke Nukem, so the queen of trash. It looks very good, but I'm expecting some reviews, because Steam ones are mixed. It's on my wishlist since the announcement anyway,
What I find funny is way too often (now it's not the case of people in that thread) people blaming piracy do also game sharing on console, but that's not piracy (I mean, not via the share button on PS4, but sharing one account with games in).
I think DRM free doesn't fit at all, here. Pirates will pirate even a DRM free version, often because it's easier to find someone with a Steam copy than a DRM one.
Releasing a DRM free version is a good move, the bad move is not releasing it on GOG, since GOG can push it way more than HumbleBundle did, giving the game more space on the front store, goodies etc.
shortsFortallPeople
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finally upgrading to 16 gigs of ram and adding 2 tbs of sweet HDD space. Hoping this will hold for a few years as 8 gigs lasted me 3 years.
Obviously all of the pirates and people who wanted to buy it on PC would go out and get a PS4 for just The Witness.
shortsFortallPeople
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the thing that kinda annoys me about blow's complaints is that he released a drm free version of the game day one.
I mean, he had to have known that was going to spread like wildfire out there, right?
This isn't me condoning piracy, btw, just wondering what blow's expectations were. If i produced an unprotected product, i would expect some level of piracy. I wonder if it's that he didn't expect this much piracy or that all piracy in general just really irks him
I mean, he had to have known that was going to spread like wildfire out there, right?
This isn't me condoning piracy, btw, just wondering what blow's expectations were. If i produced an unprotected product, i would expect some level of piracy. I wonder if it's that he didn't expect this much piracy or that all piracy in general just really irks him
Atraveller
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The Witness on PC is doing about the same as PS4, I have no idea why Jonathan was complaining.
freshVeggie
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I totally get piracy being a big topic for devs, small indies in particular. And I'm always interested in what devs themselves think about that but the timing of Blow blows. When you got your game just released, your media presence ought to be of optimism, generating excitement and confidence in your game. Not mostly about some financial aspect, not so close to release at least. It kinda feels weird that a lot of "Witness talk" is about pricing (that's gamer's stupidity though) and Blow's piracy talks. He should for the beginning period only talk about interesting stuff during dev maybe, hinting at secrets, that kind of stuff.
Tizoc
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Blow's The Witness isn't the only game that has DRM-free versions.
Consider Wadjet Eye's games and just about every game on GOG.com.
The Witness being pirated is unfortunate, but come Summer and Winter Seals and the game can make some good income for him.
I think sales are just lower than he expected, and he's blaming the convenient boogieman.
Even I thought it would do better than 20k at launch, but this January has had extremely strong competition for some reason, and it is an extremely niche genre.
UcchedavÄda
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I don't recall seeing it mentioned already, but it looks like all the previous "Build a bundle" are active again on the Humble store, namely 2K Games, Double Fine, Atari, Curve, and Daedalic:
https://www.humblebundle.com/store
https://www.humblebundle.com/store
Large Professor
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PR is definitely not Blow's strong suit.
A shame they didn't bring back the Devolver Bundle from last year. But it's understandable as that BYOB was probably a mistake (devaluing the games too much).
Ucchedavāda;193685202 said:
A shame they didn't bring back the Devolver Bundle from last year. But it's understandable as that BYOB was probably a mistake (devaluing the games too much).
Well, this is already happening, 30k sold units in 3 days on PC only is actually very good considering this is a niche title and other factors are going on.
I would understand the rant if the game sold nothing, but it's not really the case.
I would've bought it day 1 any other month. :3
But this month just already had so much other games, including really big titles like XCOm 2 and SFV beeing right around the corner.
While my case is ofc only anecdotal, i'm pretty sure i'm not the only one who decided to wait due to that.
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