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« Reply #15 on: July 10, 2012, 03:34:45 PM » |
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My worry is that it will favour games that sound good on paper over niche games- games like Crusader Kings 2 or Sword of the Stars (slow burning historical power struggle simulator and turn based semi-random space strategy) just don't pitch well, whereas something like 3079 (Minecraft meets Fallout!) have interesting concepts that ultimately don't actually work that well together.
Basically: thank god for Paradox.
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« Reply #16 on: July 10, 2012, 04:52:09 PM » |
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To be fair, no one who even saw videos of 3079 would think that it was going to be a good game.
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« Reply #17 on: July 10, 2012, 05:09:57 PM » |
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3079 at best looked like a crappy minecraft mod tho.
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« Reply #18 on: August 30, 2012, 06:27:15 PM » |
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Greenlight has been lit! I repeat, Greenlight has been lit.
EDIT: OH SWEET JEBUS, THERE'S TOO MANY OF THEM TO RATE!
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« Reply #19 on: August 30, 2012, 08:03:46 PM » |
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« Reply #20 on: August 30, 2012, 09:52:59 PM » |
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Hey, here's 274 games to go through and rate. 200 of them are Minecraft clones.
(Also, suggest upvotes for Air Buccaneers and Project Zomboid)
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« Reply #21 on: August 30, 2012, 10:37:32 PM » |
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Project Zomboid ftw!
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« Reply #22 on: August 30, 2012, 11:12:53 PM » |
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Hey, here's 274 games to go through and rate. 200 of them are Minecraft clones.
(Also, suggest upvotes for Air Buccaneers and Project Zomboid)
I second the voting for Air Buccaneers and Project Zomboid. I would also suggest voting for Signal Ops and Octodad: Dadliest Catch. |
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« Reply #23 on: August 31, 2012, 09:23:07 AM » |
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95% of these games all suck or are ripoffs (mostly both)
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« Reply #24 on: August 31, 2012, 11:38:02 AM » |
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and 5% are people asking for existing games that they don't own to be put on.  |
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« Reply #25 on: September 05, 2012, 01:47:28 AM » |
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« Reply #26 on: September 05, 2012, 11:11:18 AM » |
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$100 and greenlight is just stupid. For $100 apple will let me submit privately to their testing house and pretty much will put anything of reasonable quality straight up for sale. Blackberry do the same for free and have minimal checks (small appstore they need submissions). For $25 google gives instant access to upload something to googleplay and weed out bad apps later. Having to spend $100 and risk losing it to downvote trolls is a huge hurdle.
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« Reply #27 on: September 05, 2012, 06:58:09 PM » |
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You pay the $100 ONCE then you can submit as many greenlight submissions as you want after you made the payment...
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« Reply #28 on: September 05, 2012, 07:33:55 PM » |
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You pay $25 to google once. Apple is admittedly $100 a year but eh. Still not reasonable, high cost for just a chance at entry. For $100 I would expect at minimum downloads and sales in the greenlight area. I know they want to keep the store curated as it were, but whats the point in opening it up if you make it the least friendly entry procedure of all the appstores. They are valve they are supposed to be nice, not more restrictive than apple. Keeping low selling games (<1000 sales?) in the greenlight area would prevent a flood of crap into the main store which I think is the main concern.
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« Reply #29 on: September 05, 2012, 09:32:19 PM » |
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I don't feel that this is particularly overpriced in the grand scheme of things. There are a lot of indie developers who have already had decent sales on their games, that Steam have refused to allow onto Steam - I think this is intended more for them.
At present a lot of games have been refused entry and have found other ways of making money. Steam are already making money hand over fist and I don't think that they need to directly compete with Desura, which seems to be the logical stop when people are denied entry on Steam, as well as an alternative.
The cost doesn't make it impossible for people to join in if they are smaller either.
It's a bit sharky that they'll take money and still can't promise to publish their games, that seems quite harsh.
If you compare this to the likes on console publishing then it's really pretty cheap. There are far worse examples for pricing schemes.
Having said that, I really don't see a problem with Valve allowing companies to pay the $100 and allow the games directly on Steam. It's already difficult to scan through their catalog as it is, so I can't see why it would dilute Steam or make it any worse, by having a ton of fart games on it - just don't allow them to the front page.
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