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Blisterexe, do gaming w Hollow Knight: Silksong is reportedly already about a third of the way to the original's total sales, with Steam leading the charge | Eurogamer

That’s very impressive, given the first game had years and years to sell that much, being evergreen because of the quality and the price

KairuByte, do gaming w Remember episodic gaming? Former Telltale devs are bringing it back for the release of Dispatch, and there's a chance it might work this time | Eurogamer
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Kings Quest? Poppy Playhouse?

Kolanaki, do gaming w Remember episodic gaming? Former Telltale devs are bringing it back for the release of Dispatch, and there's a chance it might work this time | Eurogamer
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

Where’s Wolf Among Us 2?

psx_crab, do gaming w Remember episodic gaming? Former Telltale devs are bringing it back for the release of Dispatch, and there's a chance it might work this time | Eurogamer

Err…isn’t ff7remake episodic as well? Wdym bringing it back

theangriestbird,

Each game in that series is a full length game. Episodic implies that each entry in the series will be shorter, cheaper, and with more frequent releases.

DieserTypMatthias, do gaming w Remember episodic gaming? Former Telltale devs are bringing it back for the release of Dispatch, and there's a chance it might work this time | Eurogamer
@DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml avatar

Gives me HL2 vibes.

SmoochyPit,

Life is Strange, for me.

GammaGames,

The Walking Dead! That was the first episodic game I played as it released

entropicdrift,
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Back To The Future was the first one I played as it came out. Love the Walking Dead series. Need more adaptations of the comics rather than the show.

Fyrnyx, do games w Queer developers speak out as adult games remain in limbo following payment processor showdown at Steam and itch.io
@Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org avatar

Really? People are going to make a huge deal out of not being able to play "Incest Daughters BDSM"? Is that how far we've fallen off of the wagon as to what games we prioritize in getting removed? Fucking really?

Anyone who is in such an uproar about that kind of quality being removed, ought to get your priorities in check.

reksas, do games w Queer developers speak out as adult games remain in limbo following payment processor showdown at Steam and itch.io

there is a lesson in this, never trust corporations or you will get ruined by them eventually. Either we learn to survive without them or just silently go into the night.

goodboyjojo, do games w Queer developers speak out as adult games remain in limbo following payment processor showdown at Steam and itch.io

This is going to hurt indie devs who have little budget for their games.

Xed, do games w Queer developers speak out as adult games remain in limbo following payment processor showdown at Steam and itch.io

Those Collective Shout assholes show that petitions work. Now we have to petition to make it safe for NSFW games to be allowed to sell their product.

This censorship means more censorship is coming, we must fight back against this

ordnance_qf_17_pounder, do games w Queer developers speak out as adult games remain in limbo following payment processor showdown at Steam and itch.io

Really feels like we’re seeing the return of 90s/00s era “Christian parents against obscene media” bullshit. Except this time they don’t get laughed at and ignored, they are in control.

Whether its this or social media algorithms forcing people to censor simple words like “kill” and “fuck”, culture is being completely sanitised by the corporate world and to some extent with government backing (depending on country).

Depictions and even mentions of violence, sex, drugs, and the use of swear words are being targeted. It’s completely regressive.

manuallybreathing,

I’m pretty unimpressed seeing christians embrace metal while they reignite the satanic panic

fluffykittycat,

We have to remove the Christians from power and refuse to give them moral authority over us, formally or otherwise. We can’t let them oppress us any longer

saltesc,
pirateKaiser,

The absolute low of this for me is that I’ve noticed people censoring the word ‘porn’. You’re obscuring the word that describes the already censored thing, why censor the word itself? It’s not even a swear word (which to me don’t make much sense in censoring in the first place)

zrst,

Hopefully this will result in more people hosting their own games.

atrielienz, (edited )

Off topic: As someone who just got a verbal reprimand at work for “language” due to having an outburst of irritation where an explosive expletive was used (which is a common enough occurrence in the hangar where I work), I’m seriously about to start auto censoring everything in the most gen Alpha way possible just to annoy the others.

Duamerthrax, (edited )

I once swore infront a bunch of other adults in a non-work, but professional setting and someone stopped me to point it out. I paused, looked around for any kids and when I didn’t see any, pointed out it was fine. They were on the conservative side, but I’m not bending at the knee for that shit.

Katana314,

When I run a social media site, it will be a rule to use uncensored terms, and any use of asterisks or alt-words like “unalive” will result in a warning or suspension.

C1pher, do games w Shift Up to expand Stellar Blade franchise after successful launch across multiple platforms
@C1pher@lemmy.world avatar

😎

cattywampas, do gaming w Is Hollow Knight Silksong's 'cheap' price a problem for other indie games? Devs and publishers weigh up its impact | Eurogamer

Silksong is $20. Stardew Valley is $15 (and getting yet another free update soon). There are a lot of great indie games out there that won’t break the bank and are made by creators who have a passion for what they do.

Exec,

Stardew Valley is $15 (and getting yet another free update soon).

I thought it already had its final update

etchinghillside,

Don’t think it was ever mentioned it’d be final. Just that they’d be more focused on their other game’s development and not to expect any more until it was finished.

Anyhow - the dev has recently mentioned an update is coming.

Baizey,

Sure, but what about its final (1) update?

psx_crab,

Or final(1)-final update?

overload,

We’ve had the final update, yes. But what about second final update?

loreng,

Terraria moment.

BananaIsABerry, do gaming w Is Hollow Knight Silksong's 'cheap' price a problem for other indie games? Devs and publishers weigh up its impact | Eurogamer

This reads an awful lot like a bunch of less successful devs being jealous. Make a good game and the price is a lot less important.

missingno,
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The market is so saturated that lots of good games have a hard time even getting noticed. Just making a good game doesn't automatically mean success.

There are definitely a lot of consumers who will gladly pay $20 for Silksong because of the hype and pedigree surrounding it, but would never take a chance spending that much on a game that hasn't had that kind of hype train surrounding it. Which does make sense, without the hype train you don't know if a more obscure indie may or may not be worth the $20. But then that tells us that it's the hype train that matters here, not just whether or not the game is good.

scintilla, (edited )

You basically have to be a developer and marketer to have even a chance of success in the current market and even then you could be the best at both and simply not have the luck to go viral and only get a few hundred sales. So much of indie game selling is creating things that can go viral now hence the absolute proliferation of "freind slop" games because it's so easy for moments between two popular funny content creators to go viral.

Deyis,

This is why I keep asking people how to find good indie games which have flown under the radar because they haven’t gone viral but it genuinely feels like the people who seemingly do this regularly are either gatekeeping how they find them or are just full of shit.

prole,

There are a few good YouTube channels that regularly show great indie games I otherwise never would have heard of. One I can think of off the top of my head is splattercatgaming. He puts videos out pretty much daily I think.

Kolanaki, do gaming w Is Hollow Knight Silksong's 'cheap' price a problem for other indie games? Devs and publishers weigh up its impact | Eurogamer
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

Wanted to check the price on Steam and I am not sure what is going on but the New and Recommended thing below the giant banner for Silk Song had Silk Song in it but the price shown there was only $12.49 while the game’s actual store page says $19.99. 🤨

Chronographs,

The store was buckling under the stress when I went to buy it earlier today so it could have been a bug I guess

lath,

Read something about regional pricing, so there's a chance it may be the true price somewhere.

Kissaki,

Regional, between 6 and 24 €

steamdb.info/app/1030300/

scintilla, do gaming w Is Hollow Knight Silksong's 'cheap' price a problem for other indie games? Devs and publishers weigh up its impact | Eurogamer

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