@Sterno i saw you post about Phoenix Point and i've seen a bunch of videos titled about the bugs in it. from someone who's played it do you think it got the polish it should have gotten given the cash injection Epic gave it?
@GnomeSlice don't think so, i remember that they got funded on Kick Starter and went back on their promise of steam keys to the backers when they got an Epic Exclusive
@Memor-X I mean, that really only gave them 3 more months. Sounds like they should have delayed it 6.
@Memor-X Fig, and they got around 700k I think, which really isn't a lot given they have a team of around 10. Tbh I'm not sure if they actually said it or would be a on steam. People keep saying that, but people just assume PC means steam
@GnomeSlice if it was then the extra money should have went to polishing it or adding to it. otherwise it just sound like they pocketed Epic's money for themselves and pissed off backers who expected a Steam Key
@Wipqozn yeh maybe i don't know about what costs go into making games but 700k sounds like it could fund an entire year, that's just assuming 10 employees working for 60k per year and the remaining 100k for the bills
@Memor-X Yeah, an entire year, but it's been almost 3 was my point. Game dev takes a lot of time.
The main reason so many game kickstarters tend to fall flat is folks not realizing how long and expensive game dev is. I suspect that's why the ones that tend to do the best are theones with only or 2 people
and as for the whole "they lied to backers!" Well yes, that's shitty, but it's easy to say "How could you do that1?" when you're not the one with a family and a bunch of emplyoees to support.
Epic has sooooo long to go before its anywhere close to steam. They should spend all that sweet dev money making it comparable before screwing over devs who will never get the chance to compete for a market or build a brand because of exlcusivity
In Apex Legends at the beginning of each game, a champion is announced and given a 500 point kill reward. Since next to there banner it says #1 ranked in the last match, I thought they had won the last match. Having won three now, and never getting champion, it clearly isn't just that. What deter...
"exclusive to steam" except steam has user profiles, friends, chat (voice and regular) achievements, stats, consolidated inventory, trade offers, groups, community pages, etc
when epic has anything comparable to steam, then it will be an alternative. right now i dont even consider it a platform, its a bad game delivery system that is on an arguably lower teir than origin
established brands are exactly that, established. and steam is established because it is an industry standard, one that isnt met by any other game distributions system, not even consoles.
There's a difference between "This game is only distributed on Steam because Steam is a good game distribution platform" and "This game is only sold on Epic because they are contractually prohibited from selling it anywhere else"
every dollar spent on buying off game devs could be spent competing directly with steam, but instead epic relies on anti-consumer practices to get ahead
And if Epic did achieve their objective and destroy Steam, the likely result would be that we would be permanently stuck with a worse game store, because then they would be the same product, but without any potential competition pressure to improve.
@Frank defeatist attitudes cause that to be true. when consumers are enfranchized in the market, they can chose non-monetary values to be expressed in the market
I saw this great point a while ago, that "voting with your wallet" means that your voting power is proportional to the size of your wallet, i.e. you're still ceding all of the power to the wealthiest few
It's likely that even if every single person who is genuinely concerned about Epic's business practices avoided buying from Epic (assuming that's not already the case), that wouldn't make a noticeable dent in their profits or impact their strategy
The fact is that there's a lot of variance on Steam in how many sales a game actually makes. There would probably be a lot of variance on Epic if it had the same catalog size, but that variance is what makes Epic's guaranteed payoff so attractive.
I have an Oculus Rift S that I can't use because, after anywhere from 5 minutes to more than an hour (but more frequently on the lower end), it loses tracking and essentially goes from its normal 6DoF to 3DoF. When I enter passthrough there is just static, so I think it has something to do with t...
Of course, Epic's guaranteed payoff only has value to Epic as long as they can use it to hurt Steam. If they win and they don't need to care about Steam anymore, we're probably back to the same situation we have now, but with a worse storefront/client.
@Wipqozn The point is that Epic is basically burning money to hurt Steam. The end of that strategy is that they either defeat Steam, run out of money, or enter some kind of steady state where they just keep spending Fortnite money to make Steam a little less attractive than it would otherwise be.
"run out of money" can also be replaced with "decide that they're no longer getting a worthwhile return on the investment"
@murgatroid99 I think their end game is to just get enough people on their platform that use Epic instead of Steam as their go to storefront of choice.
once that happens, I suspect they'll stop with the exclusive deals, because of the reason you just said.
@Wipqozn But retaining users like that would either require a continuous stream of exclusives, or all of the features people will be missing from Steam
@GnomeSlice What @murgatroid99 means is the kids growing up playing fortnite aren't the users Epic is going after. They're going after...well, everyone else./
Personally what I think (hope?) will happen is that this will force steam to step it up. They've been mostly great on the consumer front, but it seems that one the dev front they haven't been great at all. quite a few devs have said they're happy to see Steam is getting competition from epic, since they essentially have a strangelhold on the industry.
GOG is one of the few stores not affiliated with a game company (i.e. Uplay, origin )you can buy games from which doesn't just give you a steam key.
Sure, Steam could improve features, and visibility, and whatever else, but none of that is a million dollars cash payout
My point is that unless there's some meaningful counteroffer Steam can make against the exclusivity deal payout, this situation doesn't create a real incentive to make meaningful improvements in this area.
Steam could start doing their own exclusivity deals, jumping on the anti-consumer bandwagon, or some kind of anti-exclusivity deal, just paying devs to publish on Steam but not restricting them from publishing elsewhere. The problem is that the ROI on either of those is terrible for Valve because they're already the main place to publish PC games. If anything, this would be how Epic's strategy could actually kill Steam.
This would have worked better if it wasn't super windy the da I went
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@murgatroid99 also, you make fair points. Frankly I'm not really a fan of the route Epic has chosen either, but honestly I'm just so exhausted with gamers raging and sending death threats over everything I just can't find the energy to care anymore.
@Wipqozn I spend most of my time not really caring about Epic. I choose not to buy games there and I just play all of my other Steam games while I wait for the timed exclusivity to end. But the conversation started up in here and I was bored.
@murgatroid99 Oh trust me, I know you're not like, one of the folks I'm really referencing in all this. Just that the whole issue gets tangled up in that.
Really I avoid buying on Epic if I can as well. I bought Outer Wilds there... not sure if /when I'll buy something else. If I do eventually buy Phoenix point outside of just gamepass, I'll wait for steam.
@murgatroid99 Yes. Internet is the land of extremes dominating conversations.
The moral of the story is I think I'm just going to play either XCOM2 or Xenonauts and wait a month or so on Phoenix point. Y'all can die just as well in those games as you can in Phoenix Point.
Something screwy is going on with my pc since I added a second drive. Both hard drives show in the bios menu, but when I try to boot off my old drive it says to attach a valid boot image
After watching worlds 2019, I've noticed DoinB tracking summoner spells in chat and I'd like to attempt it in my own games.
Example:
[07:00] DoinB(Sion): 1030mid 1040jg 1200ad
[07:01] DoinB(Sion): 1030mid 1040jg 1200ad
[08:52] DoinB(Sion): 1030mid 1040jg 1200ad 1340sp 1440top tp
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I want to ask a question about game X, but this is the first time anyone asks about X so there's no corresponding [X] tag, and my reputation is too low to create a new tag. How should I tag it?
When I silently kill an enemy with my melee weapon, sometimes an enemy quite far away randomly seems to turn hostile and alerts everyone in the room. In a room with about 8 or 9 enemies, this usually means each player taking heavy damage, and heavy ammo expenditure.
Why does this happen? And how...
Doors leading to different numbered areas sometimes indicate that opening them will trigger an alarm. This alarm will draw an unending number of enemies towards the players, until the players have spent enough time in specific positions.
So far, when playing with just one other player, this has ...
In the world creation screen, players have the ability to enter in a custom seed in plain text as well as numbers which would later be serialised into a seed that Minecraft uses to generate the world.
How does Minecraft know what seed to use based on the input? What if there is no input at all, ...
I managed to get through the first few sliding statue puzzles through trial and error, but the later puzzles are much harder. I often get to a point where all of the statues are in the right place but one. But then I need to undo all of the work I did before as some statues are needed to get the ...
One of the features that the DFHACK mod adds to Dwarf Fortress is the ability to save stockpile settings and load them into a different stockpile, which is much faster than repeating the workflow of selecting the item types that you want in the stockpile one at a time. It even allows you to load ...
I bought Halo MCC on Steam and I started playing multiplayer. I wonder how many points do we need to get the higher rank (prestige) Tier 1 ?
According to the wiki here is all progression ranks :
I'm not talking about this Rank system that only concerns Ranked game :
Looking at day 9, I'm wondering if I should change my intcode computer to use a map instead of a vector. Not sure I want to be resizing my program vector when I need to write beyond the end of it.
I think I'll keep the external interface the same (makes sense, don't want to break my existing solutions) and just reassign my input program to the map.
I also imagine he's put in something like write a value to program address INT_MAX just to consume all the memory (if you were still using a vector).
I have a Blood DK with ilvl 430+.
The Necrotic Affix is something I have a lot of problems dealing with. It deals a lot of damage, blocks healing, and it is an overall very frustrating experience.
I have no idea how to properly tank it. I'm guessing I should try to kite the mobs around while m...
@Wipqozn My consensus is that it's Okay, but could be better. One of the biggest failings is that it touts like 300 interactions or something but that is Actually Not That Many so you run into the same stuff a lot and some of the events can have different outcomes but others as far as I can tell don't? Sooo you know what you're getting into
At least early on it's not clear how to do better either, which is annoying. So you end up at the mercy of RNG, since there's mechanisms to kind of force you into death
> Maybe Masayoshi Son secretly hates Mohammad bin Salman and the whole Softbank Vision Fund was just a clever way to basically light Saudi oil money on fire while maintaining plausible deniability.
If anyone likes Supergiant Games (makers of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre), their new game Hades is finally out in early access on Steam! From what I've played it's quite fun and very polished already, if perhaps lacking in content (only a little!).
i want to Play the newest minecraft Version, but it just won't work
when i press Play, it will say "preparing…"
and then it just keeps going on forever
i have tried watching a YT Video About how to fix it, no luck
it probably may be because it just Released, so Maybe in the future there is a way
I was wondering if the skins that I imported with the Windows 10 and Android editions of Bedrock Minecraft can be seen by other players using console editions of the game like PS4, Xbox One and Switch.
@Dragonrage that's the thing, I can't figure it out!
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I just pushed a lady's car (with the help of a kind gentleman) down a block or so to a parking lot because she stalled on a very busy road and couldn't get going. Cars are heavy! But I am very grateful I had the spoons to help.
@Ash have you ever tried attaching a harness to the car and pulling it?
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@Dragonrage I have not
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Mind you I haven't been working with a trainer for the past few months because money has been tight but maybe I can go back to that soon. Or convince myself to start using the gym in one of the buildings in my complex that is free to me to use. It does not have a sled but I could lift stuff
I was wondering if you could possibly duplicate items in stardew valley, i want to try to make a really good farm layout, but obviously don't have all the resources for it.
I recall playing a game at a babysitters when I was a child, on either ps2 or GC, she had both. In the game, you started off playing as this girl who was either a machine or a hologram, I think, it was unclear. You're on a spaceship, I believe, and get invaded by these aliens that the people onbo...