spark947

spark947, 7 miesięcy temu

David Rosen of Wolfire Games (Receiver, Overgrowth, Lugaru) is alleging that steam reps have threatened to de-list his game if he lists it as less expensive on other platforms. Specifically not just steam keys but other distribution platforms.

spark947, 7 miesięcy temu

That hasn’t been my experience, could be a regional pricing thing.

spark947, 7 miesięcy temu

David said in a blog post that the suit is specifically alleging price fixing tactics for other platforms that aren’t key sellers, but sell the whole game. Whether that holds up in court - we will see.

spark947, 7 miesięcy temu

What right does valve have to discriminate against devs and publishers who are selling their game on other platforms? They have to compete for their business, not punish them for having a game that is more successful on another store that gives a higher revenue cut to the dev and a lower price to the customer.

spark947, 7 miesięcy temu

Steam runs weekly deals and daily sales all the time. I doubt they have to check with gog.

spark947, 7 miesięcy temu

That us all fine. David is alleging that Valve is trying to restrict other platforms wolfire can sell their cases on. Valve needs to compete, not threaten to stop distributing a game if they don’t like how it is selling elsewhere.

spark947, 7 miesięcy temu

Yeah, it sucks when mommy and daddy fight.

spark947, 7 miesięcy temu

So what? Who cares if it “looks bad”? They have to compete on service. They need to find out why devs want to sell on steam at a higher price.

If other platforms want to compete in ways that make prices lower for customers lower for customers, so be it.

spark947, 7 miesięcy temu

They usually sign an exclusivity deal in exchange for funding the development of the game. David is alleging that steam pressured him in ways not covered by steam ToS. It’s not like valve funded development of receiver.

spark947, 7 miesięcy temu

Yeah, it will be interesting to see how the case goes.

spark947, 8 miesięcy temu

Thats part of it because everyone interested already doesn’t like them and is getting this game for free. If it doesn’t have legs outside of everyone who has effectively ore-ordered, its going to be a real issue for CIG

spark947, 8 miesięcy temu

I mean yeah. Idk why people pre-ordered it, but they did, that’s their whole funding. Now they owe a copy to all their “backers”, and it’s hard to see how releasing this game will bring in revenue. They are in a very big hole.

spark947, 8 miesięcy temu

I really like this comparison. Dude has publicly gone on record about how he regrets utilizing hype irresponsibly. I think acknowledgement is all we want, and plenty of people still like fable and black and white. I would root for him to have a bit of a comeback.

spark947, 8 miesięcy temu

Yeah, I mean we all know what’s up now though, so whatever.

spark947, 11 miesięcy temu

Yo, who plays a DnD game and doesn’t make their own character? C’mon now.

spark947, 10 miesięcy temu

Look, you do you, but it’s DnD.

spark947, 11 miesięcy temu

I hope someone corrects me but:

• A 2d open world fantasy game like zelda
• With really great action combat like dragons dogma or monster hunter.
• with multi class and equipment build system like dnd or Diablo.

That’s it, just a really good 2d rpg with action combat. I have been furiously chasing this, and anything even kind of influenced by darksouls or that is a roguelute doesnt count.

spark947, 11 miesięcy temu

Alaoth kind of has a mechanic like this.

spark947, 11 miesięcy temu

Do you play mmos?

spark947, 11 miesięcy temu

Have you played rain world?

spark947, 11 miesięcy temu

Yeah, I have to admit, Crosscode probably comes the closest to what I want. I do have, and play the game, but I always end up dropping off due to a bunch of personal pet peeves I have with it, and also feeling like the combat system is just not on point. But I should really probably reconsider dedicating enough attention to beating it.

One of the biggest barriers for me for crosscode is that it has stuttering on the deck, but it looks like there are some work arounds that prevent that, so I will probably dedicate some time this weekend to getting it setup.

spark947, 11 miesięcy temu

Yeah, I definitely haven’t given it its due, but mostly due to technical issues on the steamdeck. Switching to the linux native version is working very well though, so I probably will stick with it a bunch.

There are still various ways crosscode doesn’t scratch the itch I am trying to get scratched (no character builds, kind of have frustrations with the combat system) but I do want to beat it at this point.

spark947, rok temu

I remember the days when Notch said he would release Minecraft’s source code under creative commons. And then a bunch of genuinely bad stuff happened to him and left him a broken man.