Payment per playtime would make absolute 0 sense for indies. I am sorry for this devs, but if you go payment per playtime you are likely to be super fucked (and earn peanuts).
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PC Gaming ERA | September 2019 - The Girls Are Back In Town
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Greedfall is surprisingly decent. Good thing it released when it did because October might be a very good month for RPGs.
Whatever happens with how this will be distributed, it will be interesting to behold.
I'm guessing RDR2 is the reason the Rockstar Launcher happened.
Sub worries strike me as pretty premature. These services offer alternatives for devs, not replacement. They can be a way to shore up reasons to dev for a platform they might not have bothered with. Wayforward wasn't gonna make bank in shantae on iphones, and a large chunk of way of pc game pass games are hitting months after release for a reason
Issue with this industry is that everything is not an issue until suddenly becomes an issue. Remember MTX and how they started and where we are today? How they impacted game design and habits? How GaaS games started and where we are today? And so on and so on.
The problem of subscriptions is that they can quickly become problematic for games even outside it, even more for smaller games that do not have that much in-built hype (such as the majority of indies). Subscriptions services would give easy access to a ton of games for a month for less than the price of a normal indie title (or heck, 1-1.5 major releases a year).
Now, in mobile it might be a net positive if only due to the small size of customers paying upfront for an experience (compared to the total possible population), so there is a big possibility on having a conversion between "only mtx/gacha game" to "subscriber for a few bucks to a service with nice games". Now on more normal consoles, this upfront isnt as big, as they are already fully paying customers.
We already saw developers realizing the devaluating effects of bundles years after the fact (and that has lead to much more conservative bundles now, which is kinda positive), and in the case of subscriptions, we will probably quickly see (and heck we are starting to see it in Gamepass) that once the service has enough content, people will just wait for it in the service while playing other stuff, only going outside the medium when the game is hype enough (which again, most indies sadly arent).
Would it kill indies? Probably not, but it would probably lead to more "indies developed for the service", as well as see decrease in some platforms.
Now, in mobile it might be a net positive if only due to the small size of customers paying upfront for an experience (compared to the total possible population), so there is a big possibility on having a conversion between "only mtx/gacha game" to "subscriber for a few bucks to a service with nice games". Now on more normal consoles, this upfront isnt as big, as they are already fully paying customers.
We already saw developers realizing the devaluating effects of bundles years after the fact (and that has lead to much more conservative bundles now, which is kinda positive), and in the case of subscriptions, we will probably quickly see (and heck we are starting to see it in Gamepass) that once the service has enough content, people will just wait for it in the service while playing other stuff, only going outside the medium when the game is hype enough (which again, most indies sadly arent).
Would it kill indies? Probably not, but it would probably lead to more "indies developed for the service", as well as see decrease in some platforms.
Apparently, I have awful gaming taste because I ended up having a great time playing through Crackdown 3. Maybe it's just the Gamepass effect.
Maybe, because I enjoyed playing ReCore during the Gamepass trial and 100% it, going as far as to get every achievement and farming to craft all the gear.
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It's issue for consumers too. More subscription services out there means more exclusive titles for that service and that also means more money spent on subscription services. It will also impact game design a lot and could impact games quality too. Instead of chasing 1/10 games we could see a lot more of 6-7/10 games to achieve quantity instead of quality.
I don't think this will make it's way to PC and consoles but this is probably the way subscriptions for mobile games are going to be from now on. And it sucks for developers.
Into my veins Rockstar!
I have it on xbox one x but I stopped playing somewhat early in the campaign because 30fps with bad controls was no way to enjoy that masterpiece and I've been waiting for the PC version. Waste of $60 (digital copy) but oh well.
I don't think this will make it's way to PC and consoles but this is probably the way subscriptions for mobile games are going to be from now on. And it sucks for developers.
So devs get to compete for continuous mind-share against dozens of games that might be on a subscription in order to get any money.
Tecware Phantom. Been using for 6 months so far and had no problem whatsoever.
With R* being an entity of 2K, I fully expect to see EGS and Social Club launch. After Borderlands 3, EGS is willing to spend crazy money even for 6 months of exclusivity.
I usually buy in my games in bundles, and these are usually time restricted.
Looks like Google's method is going for cheap (much like YouTube). Where the rest can beg for scraps from the big dogs.Was glad to hear MS isn't going that route (thought they were at first).
Rockstar has nothing with 2K. Both are owned by Take2 but Rockstar has more independence I think. Take2 never announces or talks about R* games and updates unless they are talking about sales numbers.
Maybe so, but I still wouldn't be surprised to see it happen. It's not like buying 6 months of exclusivity for BL3 was a cheap thing to do.
R* games sell regardless after-all so it's not like the "bad media" of being a 6-month EGS exclusive will hurt R* selling a bajillion copies of the games on EGS & R* Social before it hits steam.
is like extended steam but with more options?Oh yeah, also for all new non PC people:
Augmented Steam
Improve your browsing and shopping experience at Steam with many features and quality of life improvements!es.isthereanydeal.com
A really simple extension for Steam that makes your life incredibly easy, showing you the best deals possible. The page (isthereanydeal.com) is also quite good at keeping you up to date with bundles and discounts.
It would probably still happen I am just saying that it would be R* decision not 2K or Take2.
I think you mean Enhanced Steam. Enhanced Steam is no longer supported, Isthereanydeal got a hold of it and changed its name, it says so on that link.
What is it about Disco Elysium that is so special that everyone is excited?
"The original project (Enhanced Steam) was created by Jason Shackles (jshackles). Unfortunately, he has announced its end of life, so IsThereAnyDeal team has decided to pick it up and continue to enhance Steam for you.
The original extension has been live for years, and Jason did a tremendous job with it. However, as with any project of this size and years of support, it needed a little bit of cleanup. Therefore, we have completely rebuilt it from the ground up, aiming to provide as many of the original features as possible, while adding new ones down the line."
Hope jshackles got a decent payday from it, but from that it sounds like he just let them have it.
I guess they really just build the code as clean as posible, because it really doesn't have any new feature, but I had to move on because with Enhanced Steam the historic low prices stopped working.
Like £20-£30.
I'm new to PC gaming so don't really know if mechanical keyboards are that much better or even if legit ones are available at this pricepoint.
That was t he one. Good to know. I'll be looking to add that to vivendi later
Let them?
It was open sourced and free to use.
He tried for the longest time to give it to someone else.
I don't think this will make it's way to PC and consoles but this is probably the way subscriptions for mobile games are going to be from now on. And it sucks for developers.
So AAA publishers get the lion's share of the profits.
I was so disappointed with that game. Bought it on a whim and quickly regretted it. Didn't help that a month or so later it was one of the titles included with game pass on the pc.
Anyway, if someone sees this the discord invite in the OP says it is expired or invalid for me.
The main characters are the different aspects of your own personality that are regularly at odds with each other.
About 1:15 in the vid.
One of the games I've been following for a while now finally got a steam page, it's really cool. They're also self publishing it!
More info on it there
More info on it there
I don't think this will make it's way to PC and consoles but this is probably the way subscriptions for mobile games are going to be from now on. And it sucks for developers.
Never say never, but I have a hard time seeing Apple making this pivot with Arcade, given that they've used "no microtransactions, no online requirements" as a key selling point, and that a lot of the games they're marketing the service on are single-player story-driven indie games.
Hey, I remember seeing this... somewhere, but couldn't remember the name. Nice to see it's still going.One of the games I've been following for a while now finally got a steam page, it's really cool. They're also self publishing it!
No. Stadia you buy games. That is their hastily announced Android program
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