STEAM | October 2015 - You had me at "game ... comes to Steam".

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someguyinahat said:
Part of me wants to believe the first two or three will be spectacular to build up word of mouth, but another part thinks they'll be handing out Gun Monkeys and everyone will doublethink themselves into believing it's a good deal.
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I think even if the first two or three months are good, it's inevitable that the next will slide down seriously.

All in all, a monthly sub with the price that high is just not the right type of product for this type of business (games for absolute cheapest). Only if it costs pennies.
 
wetflame said:
I do wonder if this is an attempt to combat that though. With a monthly bundle costing more they have a lot more bargaining power to negotiate for bigger games, games don't look like they're being given away for nothing, companies know they're getting a fixed amount per sale, no risk of cannibalising sales when being included in a bundle as people don't know they'll be getting that particular game until it's too late to buy it, could mean a shift. Plus HB have brand recognition which could help with their game selection.

They're going to want to make this work to have a steady income stream from subscriptions so I think they'll be making this worthwhile. If they can't then it'll fail immediately.
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That speaks to a larger problem with bundling culture, I think.

After years of major titles going on sale for deep discounts after being out for a year, indie games that are immediately funneled into cheap bundles almost as soon as they're released, multiple sites doing the bundle deals and tons of spares being circulated through grey market sellers, I have a feeling that the market is completely saturated and there is no hope of dialing it back. We need less bundle sites, because all it's doing is creating ennui among prospective buyers and trying to tap into a player base (collectors) that is increasingly maxed out in terms of their library.

I'd argue that most of us on this board and in general tend to look at bundles from very linear terms. I've conditioned myself to look at a bundle and think, "Is this worth the 0.50 or so I'm paying on average for each title?" or "How do I subsidize this?"

If I knew that I was going to be getting eight or more games every month from that deal, and if I could purchase it after the contents have been revealed (even at a higher price, like Groupees does), I'd be much more interested.

As it stands right now, it's basically a glorified honey trap.
 
madjoki said:
Those would be in monthly first. :P
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That's actually a good point. They might just do that. No longer put up huge bundle first exclusives on Humble Bundle, instead put them on Humble monthly first and down the line use those same games in bundles. Which would mean that monthly subscribers get even less desirable regular bundles because they own the new bundle games already through monthly.
 
Jawmuncher said:
Oh, I thought they were having a actual open beta on pc.


Your joke sucks 7
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NingenJanai said:
Congrats
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Honestly I think I'm pretty dumb, I wasted 130 hours of my life on this.
And it's not evel like a 100% completion on a game like Witcher 3, in which you do actually a lot of different things.
Those are 130 hours spent on playing the same 50 missions again and again in order to complete all tasks, but dunno, I had fun with it so it's ok.
 
You people are talking only of one side of the coin - money, but besides money bundles are often used for visibility and generating good word of mouth of games that are overlooked. HM is opposite of that, I don't believe it will be that succesful to pull even numbers of rebundle bundles nobody asked for, because let's be real, $12 is nowhere near territory of appealing subscription model, especially being a blind subscription too.
Money part will work, gambling works in general after all, but I'm not so sure it's a good thing.
 
System building is fun.
Just ordered 4790K+mobo+RAM
Hopefully my current PSU (430CM) will be enough to drive it (plus HDDs and GTX970) on load.
 
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Knurek said:
System building is fun.
Just ordered 4790K+mobo+RAM
Hopefully my current PSU (430CM) will be enough to drive it (plus HDDs and GTX970) on load.
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did you win some lottery or something? I remember you saying you won't be able to upgrade for a while.

PunishedSnake said:
Honestly I think I'm pretty dumb, I wasted 130 hours of my life on this.
And it's not evel like a 100% completion on a game like Witcher 3, in which you do actually a lot of different things.
Those are 130 hours spent on playing the same 50 missions again and again in order to complete all tasks, but dunno, I had fun with it so it's ok.
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I don't see how you wasted your time if had fun, that's opposite of wasting time.

congratulations
 
Arthea said:
did you win some lottery or something? I remember you saying you won't be able to upgrade for a while.
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Xmas season (which for printing houses starts in August) + slight raise + back bonus = nice, juicy paycheck (well, nice for Poland, anyways).
May as well splurge.
 
gurm3n said:
I think I'm in love with Gillian Anderson.
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I read somewhere that because Gillian was shorter than Duchovney, they had to get her a small stand so she'd be shown being shoulder to shoulder with Duchovney.

I wonder if it's OK to go into this new series with minimal knowledge of past X-files events :X
 
Tizoc said:
I read somewhere that because Gillian was shorter than Duchovney, they had to get her a small stand so she'd be shown being shoulder to shoulder with Duchovney.

I wonder if it's OK to go into this new series with minimal knowledge of past X-files events :X
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You will probably enjoy it more.
 
So I bought 3 bundles today
*indiegala
*flyingbundle
*bundlestars

It's a disease
But, how I wish I could activate more than 1 game at a time....
 
Tizoc said:
I read somewhere that because Gillian was shorter than Duchovney, they had to get her a small stand so she'd be shown being shoulder to shoulder with Duchovney.

I wonder if it's OK to go into this new series with minimal knowledge of past X-files events :X
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Haha, I didn't know that fact. I knew she was short, but not THAT short...

The series is great, at least until the 6th or 7th season (there are 9). Modern series owe a lot to the X-Files so I'd recommend you watch it, though it's a lot of time since most seasons are ~20 45-minute episodes.
Still, I believe you could jump into the new series with no problems because there's not much to explain, and I think they'd introduce the key plot elements at the beginning.
 
Enter the Dragon Punch said:
so i finally bothered dabbling in ppsspp

psp games look SO GOOD



they scratch that high resolution, low res texture, low poly itch
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That some form of SMT?
PunishedSnake said:
And finally I can stop. I don't even know why I 100% this game in first place, but now it's time to stop playing this.
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Congrats! Can't wait till it gets cheaper to scratch that stealth itch I have.
Khronico said:
Just finished LA Noire.

Not much else to say other than what I said in my previous post on the game. The cases continued to be extremely fun to play through, and the ending to the main story was actually really good IMO. I would've loved to see a new game in the same vein minus the open world and shooting, which where my only gripes in LA Noire. Guess I'll continue to wait for a good price drop on that new Sherlock Holmes game.

Here's some pictures from LA Noire just because. The game does facial expressions so well, the hair not so much.
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Cool stuff. Have it sitting in my backlog. One day, one day...
lashman said:
THE X-FILES | Official Trailer
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While cool and nostalgia and all that stuff, I am a firm believer that some things should stay in their graves. Not good clinging on to nostalgic emotions. We had our joy once and now it's over. Time for something else.

Same goes for Half-Life.
 
Just received my activation key for Civ Beyond Earth: Rising Tide from GMG. Got it for 50% off thanks to their Mad Max coupon screw-up. (Still not as good as the original price error, though ;_; )
 
dex3108 said:
If this PDF is legit that is one big ass patch

http://wpc.4d7d.edgecastcdn.net/004D7D/media/THE WITCHER 3/Pdf/patch_1_10_changelog_en.pdf

from

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1121778
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and this is why i keep delaying my playthrough. Is this the last major patch they're doing for the base game or are they going to continue to add stuff to it?

I know i sound like a jerk for complaining about free content being added and fixes being applied but i'm trying to have one solid playthrough of the game and they keep doing stuff like this that suggests they're not done with it
 
So Assault Android Cactus is another game in a long line of games that deemed it necessary to throw an endboss (actually two) at me that's much harder than anything before. I'm not a big fan of boss fights in general anyway and this is seriously souring my opinion on the game. And yes, I will git gud and beat that last motherfucker but still.
 
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