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STEAM | July 2015 - Nothing To Buy With Our Arkham Knight Refunds

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GaussTek

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D4 probably did a lot worse on Xbox One. Not saying those are good sales on PC, but I guess that it was better than staying XB1 only.
 
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Arthea

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Knurek said:
Still no way to sort games by Steam review ratio. :(
Would be an easy way to unistall/hide all the turds released recently. But no, Volvo only cares about metascore.

Also, Axiom Verge seems to be another in string of games to have underperformed on Steam: 13,400 ± 2,699
Mighty Switch Force as well: 2,994 ± 1,275 for HD, 1,426 ± 880 for Hose it Down!
D4 isn't any better: 13,543 ± 2,713
The Silent Age: 2,851 ± 1,245
AKIBA'STRIP: 18,104 ± 3,137
Technobabylon: 2,423 ± 1,147
Not A Hero: 14,683 ± 2,825
Snakebird: 5,274 ± 1,693

I know indies supposedly don't sell on mobile and they are coming back to PC in droves...
Thing is, they don't sell on Steam as well. Not anymore. :(
I'm not sure how this will work out for Valve in the end... Or for us for that matter.
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Akiba actually bombed? That's surprising, considering that price was not bad.

I'm afraid there are way to many games for every game to be noticed and played. I never thought I'll say that, but that's how I feel and probably most of steam users are in the same boat. Also we should consider that most people play only TF, Doto and CS anyway.

Lain said:
Personally speaking, the port is OK for what it is, but it's really bare-bones in a lot of areas and just not worth the 60€ price-tag. 40€ with a 30% off pre-purchase is what they should have debuted with.
Still I find it fun and performances have been good for me -no crashes, constant 30fps, though I think that has a lot to do with the fact I'm still on Win 7- and the preorder costumes look cool, so I'm rolling with it.
The game design does feel like a handheld game up ported though, because of how the stages are broken into little rooms with short loading when you switch between the rooms.
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well, they did the same with Yaiba, one would think they learnt after that how not to price their smaller games, but nope.

loadings between rooms? Shouldn't these be unnoticeable in the PC version?
 
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RionaaM

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someguyinahat said:
4th gen is worst gen. 999 beats the pants off it...even though it's only a few hours of gameplay.
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Yeah, it feels rough coming from Y and Alpha Sapphire. Hopefully HeartGold and whichever entries from gen 5 I eventually pick up will be more fun. Right now I don't feel like playing Platinum anymore, which is a shame because I wanted to see how that weird Distortion world was like.

999 and Ghost Trick are on my DS "must play" list. The World Ends With You was too, until I got stuck at a certain boss and dropped it a long time ago.

tmarg said:
I actually really want to play Axiom Verge, but I can't really justify it at full price when I have so much else to play through right now. I still haven't even finished Ori.

I'm a definite buyer at ~$10 though.
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After you have so many unplayed games there comes a time when getting a new one for full price isn't appealing anymore, especially if you can get it cheaper by waiting a few months. These titles have to compete not only with new games being released every day, but also with old ones in our Steam libraries.

For big games (either AAA or "high profile" indies) this doesn't matter much, because many people will be willing to buy them day-one, drop whatever they are playing and start them right then, but these lesser-known games don't have the same luck.
 
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CheesecakeRecipe

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Arthea said:
Akiba actually bombed? That's surprising, considering that price was not bad.

I'm afraid there are way to many games for every game to be noticed and played. I never thought I'll say that, but that's how I feel and probably most of steam users are in the same boat. Also we should consider that most people play only TF, Doto and CS anyway.



well, they did the same with Yaiba, one would think they learnt after that how not to price their smaller games, but nope.

loadings between rooms? Shouldn't these be unnoticeable in the PC version?
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Akiba's Trip's was a tad more expensive at launch than many of the other ports we've had recently. Coupled with the bad news surrounding the port's technical issues at launch and the wackiness of the game itself, I'm not surprised it didn't do very well.
 
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GaussTek

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Arthea said:
Akiba actually bombed? That's surprising, considering that price was not bad.

I'm afraid there are way to many games for every game to be noticed and played. I never thought I'll say that, but that's how I feel and probably most of steam users are in the same boat. Also we should consider that most people play only TF, Doto and CS anyway.
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Steam is slowly reaching mobile levels :p Maybe that's the reason on why Greenlight hasn't been removed, but I guess still that isn't enough heh
 
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Lain

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Arthea said:
well, they did the same with Yaiba, one would think they learnt after that how not to price their smaller games, but nope.

loadings between rooms? Shouldn't these be unnoticeable in the PC version?
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If I was on a SSD for my videogames, it would probably be instant, but I'm on a 5400rpm HDD for my videogames, so it's 1 or 2 seconds every time I change rooms.
 
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So, when the Desura giveaway is done I'm going to start posting older unclaimed Steam keys from ModBot. I don't really know what makes the most sense in terms of how to give them away. Maybe I'll do a few hundred in Gaming Discussion and a few hundred in here at random? There are literally thousands of unclaimed keys at this point.
 
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Stumpokapow said:
So, when the Desura giveaway is done I'm going to start posting older unclaimed Steam keys from ModBot. I don't really know what makes the most sense in terms of how to give them away. Maybe I'll do a few hundred in Gaming Discussion and a few hundred in here at random? There are literally thousands of unclaimed keys at this point.
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So recently unclaimed games are safe?
 
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Arthea

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D4 release timing was very unfortunate I must say, way too close to summer sale, at least that's the reason I haven't bought it. I'll pick it only at winter sale, most likely.

Uraizen said:
I think the 30fps cap for an action game was a pretty hard blow to it.
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I think that it has bigger problems than 30fps, tbh
You won't like that combat, I'm 99,99% sure, 30 or 60 fps
 
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I dont think Akiba haa bad numbers. It's very very niche. 20 000 sales at that price is not bad at all.


In comparison, the PS4 version in Japan sold 3000 and so units in the first week.
 
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Arthea

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BernardoOne said:
I dont think Akiba haa bad numbers. It's very very niche. 20 000 sales at that price is not bad at all.


In comparison, the PS4 version in Japan sold 3000 and so units in the first week.
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You can't compare that with a PC release, it was much more expensive on a console that had small userbase, I would say almost no userbase.
 
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Stumpokapow

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Lain said:
Forget Me Not: My Organic Garden looks interesting. I wonder if Playism will put it on Greenlight.
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Well, they haven't put Kero Blaster on Steam, even though it's the next game by Studio Pixel (previous game Cave Story+, sales: 683,687 - 722,739), and their stated reason was because... uh... Greenlight is hard (?) even though everything they put on Greenlight got Greenlit pretty quickly... and because... "it takes time to add Steam features" (?) even though it doesn't really take very long and you can release a game without Steam features just fine.

As a result, a game with an 81 Metacritic made by a famous dev got a 200 reply GAF thread and tied for #165 on the top games of 2014 on GAF.

Based Playism!
 
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Arthea said:
You can't compare that with a PC release, it was much more expensive on a console that had small userbase, I would say almost no userbase.
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It's still priced too high for me personally. The joy of being on steam though, is the sales they get when it's 50%+ off. This can happen every sale over a few years, just look at the numbers super old games got you thought everybody had in the recent summer sale.
 
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Volimar

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Stumpokapow said:
So, when the Desura giveaway is done I'm going to start posting older unclaimed Steam keys from ModBot. I don't really know what makes the most sense in terms of how to give them away. Maybe I'll do a few hundred in Gaming Discussion and a few hundred in here at random? There are literally thousands of unclaimed keys at this point.
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You should post em all here and let us get first crack at em. This is factually justified by me liking free games.
 
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