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The PC Gaming Era | February 2019
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Incredible. I am embarrassed to say that's been in my backlog for a while now. Hooked on Co-Op Divinity at the moment, but I think i might start this off for the times i'm not able to play D:OSEE
Same here. Hope I can play! I've been on the fence about it for a couple of weeks now. The new setting looks a bit drab.
Yeah, Division 2 beta appeared on my library too. I asked in Discord earlier and it seems like I'm in.
Because the 30% is completely adequate for both the services Valve provides, and as an access to the very audience Valve consolidated on PC over a 15 year history?
Regarding the surprisingly good Ubi discounts, I don't think there's anything to read into. Uplay's own Lunar Sale kicked off a few days ago and Ubi just matched those discounts (The Division at 90% off, R6 Siege at 75% off, etc.).
And at the same time is the one thing that causes devs/pubs to complain the most about Steam. If (some of) the businesses that Valve deals with don't see the value in paying 30% then that's an issue that Valve needs to resolve, either through proving the 30% is worthwhile (which this sale will help with, I think), communicating better what it covers (ummmmm :p ) or admission it's too high.
I absolutely agree 30% is fair, but let's face it - that cut is the one part of Epic's store which does provide an element of competition.
Yeah, there's no reason to think Ubi will remove older games from Steam. Even EA didn't remove older games when they left.
Let them make their own stores, or drift to Epic and enjoy lower sales and profit. It's not on Valve to proof that a dumb idea is dumb.
The biggest publishers/devs aren't paying the 30% anyway, and the smallest are quite desperately reliant on Steam. If they find an audience outside of Steam, hey, that would make for a healthier market anyway. I doubt that can be achieved by not selling on Steam at all, but hey, nothing can prove me wrong easier than empirical evidence, so let's see how some of those indies are doing a year from now.
While 12% is clearly too low for a baseline, I can see Valve reducing the standard cut to 20% and making an even more aggressive push to keep AAA/particularly successful games on Steam by adjusting the >$25m and >$50m cuts to 15% and 10%, respectively.
That's not how it works. Epic don't need $2-3 bn shitnite money to survive and turn profit either yet here we are.
Valve announced new percentage cut adjustments just a month ago, if they'll suddenly change it again it will look like a reactionary move. Give them more time to see how the current % system will work and think about everything before making the next move.
Appeals regarding the health of the industry will always hold some sway with Valve, and it'd be hard to argue against an indie dev for whom the difference between getting 70% of sales and 80% might make the difference between another game or not. But who knows? Maybe Gabe's gonna run for President and needs all that cash. :p
Yeah, I can see a ton of devs/pubs thinking 20% would be absolutely fine - a good compomise considering all the features that Steam offers above Epic, and Epic's crazy-low (possibly unsustainable in the long-term?) cut.
Guys, need an advice on what to chose. FC5 vs EDF 4.1 + Dynasty Warriors 8.
I'd prefer FC5 but I'm more than sure that it'll run like ass on my geriatric laptop. My desktop PC's GPU decided to die for good yesterday.
I'd prefer FC5 but I'm more than sure that it'll run like ass on my geriatric laptop. My desktop PC's GPU decided to die for good yesterday.
EDF 4.1 and all DLC are in the monthly right now, so you can probably get it for cheaper.
FC5 is cheaper on Uplay currently, btw. (10 euros there vs. 15 on Steam)
Thanks for heads up, $12 for Humble Monthly is still more expensive for me, but I guess keys are going to pop up everywhere pretty soon.
Same price for me (499 RUB). I have a 20% discount code, but not sure if it's applicable.
My Steam drive is dying. Tried booting up some RE2 after work, and the game wouldn't load and it gave me an error saying I need to update. Tried to verify game files, and nothing would verify. Put Steam in offline mode, still wouldn't boot. Tried booting RE6, that ran just fine, so I tried messing with RE2 again, and failure. Tried going into my steamapps folder, only for it to say "access denied."
I ran disk repair, and now the entire Steam folder is inaccessible. I'm going to try to get this to work anyway, but I know it's on its last legs.
Now to decide whether or not I want to buy a 5400 drive, 7200 drive, or if I want to spend over $100 to get a 1TB SSD.
I ran disk repair, and now the entire Steam folder is inaccessible. I'm going to try to get this to work anyway, but I know it's on its last legs.
Now to decide whether or not I want to buy a 5400 drive, 7200 drive, or if I want to spend over $100 to get a 1TB SSD.
Yes it's 13,50€ in GMG.
Do you know can you still use the uPlay -20% with coins?
I'm at work right now, but I doubt they're going to make it applicable, 95% discount is too much.
Did anyone here play this game? How is it? I didn't even realize it had come out already.
Woah Pool Panic is already down to £4? I might need to hit that up.
Chinese Topsellers are nice.
That chinese parents game already surpassed 1 million sales only with chinese localization.
Gotta buy Chinese parents and Total War later too.
Also the notion "Only sale games sell on Steam" while the chinese topsellers have 6 "full priced" titles in the topsellers.
That chinese parents game already surpassed 1 million sales only with chinese localization.
Gotta buy Chinese parents and Total War later too.
Also the notion "Only sale games sell on Steam" while the chinese topsellers have 6 "full priced" titles in the topsellers.
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I think I should cancel my MK11 pre-order and then buy it again to get more of those juicy tokens
They removed the storepage, so I guess it will also be delisted from the wishlist, since it doesnt have a storepage yet.
Thats what I did with Sekiro. Just waiting for the funds to be released. It showed it can take up to 7 days, but no clue lol
Store page is still there, you just can't search for it.
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