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STEAM | January 2016 - Out of cash, out of cache

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jdw_b

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Played more Life is Strange. Had to collect some breakfast ingredients. Then that thing happened at the end of episode 3 and now
it's back to normal again

Okay
 

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
For my case, my game won't drop cards since it's free, but got approved since there was a paid element, but you can only get cards by crafting booster packs from gems.

Theoretically, yes, but I think it wouldn't be financially stable. For one, people would plumet card prices. Since my cards are rare, they go for a fair amount, and I'm happy people seem to really like the characters and badges so people go out of their way to form badges for the game and even buy emotes/backgrounds. Flood the market, and life gets hard.

You have to earn the cards just like everyone else, so for my game that would mean gems and crafting booster packs, but booster packs for my game costs 1,200 gems, partially since they're so rare and the cards and stuff are expensive/have sold for a lot, and a F2P game, all the emotes and backgrounds and such are worth 100 gems themselves and can only get the cards by random drops when people craft badges/crafting the packs yourself.

Well, I wasn't trying to call you or your game out specifically. I was really just thinking of the hundreds of games that get bundled and/or given away that already have cards that can't escape the $0.03 per card minimum threshold. Since creating Idle Master, I've talked with dozens of people who claim to have 100+ alt Steam accounts they use just to grind out cards from these types of free games or ones cheaper than the sales prices of the trading cards.

Obviously you can't go lower than $0.03 on the market, so there wouldn't be an issue with bottoming out the price of your cards. And if you're the developer and get that extra $0.01, you would essentially be making twice as much as anyone, though admittedly still not much. Sure it'd be a lot of work and almost assuredly not worth your time, but you could artificially inflate your game's ranking on SteamSpy while also earning $0.06 to $0.10 per account (depending on the number of cards your game has). Considering there are ways to automate that process and do it x1000 or more pretty easily, I guess I'm a bit surprised it's not common among the bundle-tier games to do just that.

My guess is there might be some verbiage in the contracts that would prevent them from doing that? Considering all the other "loopholes" that people exploit to get free stuff, I'm surprised this isn't one of them.
 

Salsa

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LPS3FcG.jpg


truly the best month
 

Hitchhy

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hey everyone, new in this thread :D

only bought 3 games in the last Sale and actually already played all of them which is incredible in comparison to other Sales:

Downwell:

Only played it for a few minutes, but I am not really hooked yet even though it looked really interesting before.
I guess I kind of don't like the "death resets your progress completely" thing.
Probably should have known though, because I also gave up on Crypt of the Necrodancer for the same reason even though I love rhythm/music games.

Recettear:

Yes, I know, weird choice to buy it know, but I did it for research on a personal project and actually really enjoyed it.
Good mix of different genres, only complaint was that I didn't feel like a had enough time (or deep enough pockets) to explore when I wanted to or sell stuff when I felt like it.

Undertale:

Only 50 minutes in so will review it later ;)
 

Arthea

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hey everyone, new in this thread :D

only bought 3 games in the last Sale and actually already played all of them which is incredible in comparison to other Sales:

Downwell:

Only played it for a few minutes, but I am not really hooked yet even though it looked really interesting before.
I guess I kind of don't like the "death resets your progress completely" thing.
Probably should have known though, because I also gave up on Crypt of the Necrodancer for the same reason even though I love rhythm/music games.

Recettear:

Yes, I know, weird choice to buy it know, but I did it for research on a personal project and actually really enjoyed it.
Good mix of different genres, only complaint was that I didn't feel like a had enough time (or deep enough pockets) to explore when I wanted to or sell stuff when I felt like it.

Undertale:

Only 50 minutes in so will review it later ;)

Welcome to the madhouse

Recettear is not weird choice at all! It's a great game I and many other steamgafers recommend on constant basis.


He means it's weird to buy it after the sale is over, I presume.

Oh! I was so shocked it being called a weird choice, I kinda missed that point


Jshackles looks like an older retired Carlos Condit

meanness of kids these days
*shakes head*
 

Pachimari

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Truly the best mugshot



Here are the results from 2013 and 2014. 2015's will be our third annual.

Oh okay, it's the third year then. Rogue Legacy and Divinity: Original Sin I see, nice.

Oh man, this Final Fantasy XI game is giving me a headache. After more than 6 hours, I finally figure out the whole PlayOnline and Square Enix account registration thing, and the updating is finished. Then I proceed to finally play, and then it crashes to desktop, and now it won't even start up.

Just great. Maybe I should run it in Windows 7 compatibility mode.
 

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Rogue Legacy beating Spelunky should be considered a war crime

At least Rogue Legacy beat Bioshock Infinite. That was a close one.
 
Dying Light is technically the newest game I have played this year.

What I am trying to say is if you got a game you really want to do well in the GOTY voting maybe we can work something out.
 

tuxfool

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Dying Light is technically the newest game I have played this year.

What I am trying to say is if you got a game you really want to do well in the GOTY voting maybe we can work something out.

You should just vote for Dying Light. There are too many Bloodborne single votes, lets add some variety.
 

Durante

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I just bought that! Does it really have leaderboards? Oh god, this will be fun :D

(I hit you with a friend request on Steam, it's pcdateixeira)

edit: also, do we have a steam group?
It does have leaderboards. For the first level I have 10 friends on it, for the 9th only 1 is left :p

I don't think I got our friend request though :/
 
So I picked up that Renowned Explorers: International Society game during the sale and... I really dig it! It's been able to break me out of my "all Warframe and HotS, all the time" lock.

Exploring the world reminds me a bit of Long Live the Queen, of all things. Once you have your party of 3 assembled with their various skills, most points on the map are encounters that are %-success based skill checks based on the skills you've acquired. Occasionally some map points result in a conflict, which is a very, very light hex-based strategy game where most of the fighting isn't actually "fighting", but trading insults, boasts, friendship offers, etc. Clever stuff. Then based on the successful encounters and conflicts and treasures and whatnot you find, you return home between expeditions to level up your gear, amass followers, spend your fame to increase your odds on the next expedition, etc.

It's a fun little gameplay loop. I wonder how much content there is though; I can imagine things getting a little same-y over time, even with the tons of different characters to play.
 
Rogue Legacy, Fez, Spelunky, Guacamelee, Gunpoint, The Swapper, Don't Starve, Valdis Story, Risk of Rain, Monaco, The Stanley Parable, Papers Please.. 2013 was truly an insane year for indies. I'm even going to say that imho 2015 pales in comparison (although I haven't played everyone's GOTY yet).
 

The_Super_Inframan

"the journey to a thousand games ends with bad rats. ~Lao Tzu" ~Gabe Newell
Rogue Legacy, Fez, Spelunky, Guacamelee, Gunpoint, The Swapper, Don't Starve, Valdis Story, Risk of Rain, Monaco, The Stanley Parable, Papers Please.. 2013 was truly an insane year for indies. I'm even going to say that imho 2015 pales in comparison (although I haven't played everyone's GOTY yet).

Rouge legacy is by far the worst of those games...

What was said a few posts above is true... RL above Spelunky is just wrong...
 

Hitchhy

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He means it's weird to buy it after the sale is over, I presume.

Actually bought it during the sale, just thought it was pretty random to buy it now ;)

Wasn't really aware that a lot of people played it, but now that I think about it, I might have seen it here for the first time long ago
 
You guys on crack or what? Bioshock Infinite was and is a great game! And I played it on a PS3 and was very disappointed coming from Bioshock.
I'm still excited to get Infinite+DLC for cheap someday on PC to replay the main game and experience the DLC for the first time.

Y'all whack!
Wasn't there a mod that locked the alien away in a closet so you'd never actually have to confront it in the game? You should look into getting that :p

I know what you're going through right now though. I'm not big on horror games myself but a friend very kindly gifted me SOMA in the sale so I feel somewhat obligated to play through it. That's going to be interesting.
Ha! What a funny way to get rid of the alien. But I'll keep him around. Dialing back difficulty was the best decision ever. It's still tense but it got also tedious to die constantly without manual save besides just too scary. Now I have actual fun and scares. So good.

On that. I'm really loving my time with it. Hope there won't be any backtracking later on as I dislike that in games very much. Give me new ares!
So creepy
The best fire in a game I probably ever saw.
Rogue Legacy beating Spelunky should be considered a war crime
Spelunky is so good and that comes from somone not into 2D platformers at all. To be fair, I ought to give RL a second fair try but Spelunky just clicked much better with me.
Feels like ever since rise of most-common-denominator youtubers, there are more and more "joke" games. I am Bread, Goat Sim, the baby one and now this.
 

Arthea

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As we talk crimes, the true crime of that GOTY was that Long Live the Queen was robbed, you know it's true, it is 2013 GOTY
 
Rogue Legacy, Fez, Spelunky, Guacamelee, Gunpoint, The Swapper, Don't Starve, Valdis Story, Risk of Rain, Monaco, The Stanley Parable, Papers Please.. 2013 was truly an insane year for indies. I'm even going to say that imho 2015 pales in comparison (although I haven't played everyone's GOTY yet).

It was a great year.

And I also haven't played Shower With Your Dad Simulator but it's up next for me.
 

Lomax

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Where can I see who won the Steam votes in past years?

And is Pinball FX2 the best pinball game on Steam? I currently got it (I think it is free) and I would love to try out the Marvel/Star Wars related tables.

It's the most fun game for most players. If you're a hardcore pinball player then you'll prefer pinball arcade as it's emulation of actual tables.
 
Rouge legacy is by far the worst of those games...

What was said a few posts above is true... RL above Spelunky is just wrong...

Really? I enjoyed it more than I did Guacamelee. I enjoyed it far more than I did Valdis Story (but that could be because I didn't git gud,) and The Stanley Parable is just barely a game.
 
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