I must not be as much of a tactics game person as I thought. :cry: X-COM 1/2 just make me mad. Phoenix Point looks like the exact same game, so I won't touch it. My glory days of Fire Emblem appear to be wearing out as I get older. Sad.

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: GlitteryLast game I would think it could be made into a movie.

The game does little more than present a setting. That might actually give it enough freedom to write something suitable for a movie.

A lot (I won't say all) of modern movies are written pretty horribly! And we're talking remakes who already have established settings and characters. You think more writing freedom will help? "Hey, I see you can't drive within the lines, so I erased them all. You win! Except for the other drivers, but who cares about them?" Sorry to shut down your optimism. It sounds good, but I just don't believe it.

I find it baffling that good books can't get a movie, or they take 15 years to do it, but then a video game with no story at all gets one.

I guess I can contend with the fact that with no story baseline, there is just as much chance for it to be good as there is for it to be bad. I'm still salty about some bad writers and their producers though.

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It's unfortunate that game developers have to spend so much time and effort into player behavior and a reputation system! I feel like that would suck. But it's clear we need manner police in our online world, sadly. When we step into an environment, we expect a certain experience. If the experience is bad enough times, we associate that bad experience with the environment, and do not return. It's simple when you think of it that way.

These changes sound really good, really promising. I have to assume the real-time reaction to reporting must be AI empowered. I just can't imagine an employee staring at a screen, sweat running down their face, trying to cast judgment on as many reports as possible per minute.

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My kids and I still haven't finished the base game. We can't be far though. I'll probably get the DLC after we do finish the main game.

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It is a recognizable name from long ago, but not from anything in my library in the last... 10 years? Longer?

Every market has a saturation point. Steam made it way easier for indie studios to deliver games, and some are wildly successful. You know the saying, this world ain't big enough for the two of us? I see it like that.

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Quoting: CyborgZetaAnd in case someone asks, "Who still uses a printer?", well I often need to print shipping labels for myself; and sometimes a document along with it.

Ha. I do. Not everything can be digitally signed yet. Have to print, sign, then scan. Insurance cards don't get sent in the mail anymore, but they have to be in the car. Gotta print. Have kids? Yeah, you're gonna need a printer. The list goes on.

Now, ask me if I print anything at work anymore. No, no I don't.

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Quoting: benstor214

Quoting: 14As a general gamer, competition is a good thing.

What competition are you talking about? The EGS isn’t competing against the Steam store at all. Purple Library Guy is right when he writes - and I quote

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe person or zeitgeist in charge of Epic, Sweeney or whatever cabal of suits, does not think about profit-making as something that's related to satisfying customers. Rather, they seem to think in terms of cunning tricks and shortcuts.

To serve up a crappy analogy: If the EGS and the Steam Store would participate in the Summer Olympics and it would come to the discipline of 100 meter sprint, instead of actually running the EGS would stand on the sideline and shoot all the other athletes in trying to win a medal. Competition doesn’t work that way.

I interpret your statement to actually mean: EGS can't win due to their poor tactics, maybe so poorly that it's laughable to you. But that's still competing. Are they in their own market? No. It's the same one, and they specifically compare themselves to Steam terms. They are very much competing. You can't say they aren't just because they're so far behind.

I'm not defending EGS. I'm defending basic logic and communication.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: 14If I was developing a game, I would think about it honestly. No cut for early launch period, and then smaller cut than Steam takes after that.

Yes, but a smaller cut of what? How much visibility and how many sales would you give up on by limiting yourself to a single storefront? Would you sell >30% more copies on Steam in the first year?

Hard to say, but we can't simplify the problem by assuming that all the stores are equal and interchangeable. You might just end up with a bigger piece of a significantly smaller pie.

I get that. But I also get that some content creators may want Steam to have less grip on the market so that Epic's terms are more attractive in the short-term as well as strategically.

I will again point out Audible. I buy audio books on Libro.fm for DRM-free but also for matter of principle against Audible's author profits terms. What if zero authors were willing to sell on Libro.fm? There would be no threat to Audible. I would be a hypocrite to say game developers should only go for maximum profits (Steam) but authors should avoid Audible.

Even though Steam treats me better than Epic store, I understand how difficult it is for other companies to take bites out of the monopoly. That is my main point, and it applies to any company that has an iron market grip, whether I like them (Valve) or not (Audible).

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Quoting: KimyrielleThe only problem for me is that I went through a lot of distros already, so at this point I am not even sure what to replace Ubuntu with. :cry:

I'm quite confident we can talk it out. :)

What have you tried recently? What wasn't satisfying?

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If I was developing a game, I would think about it honestly. No cut for early launch period, and then smaller cut than Steam takes after that.

As a general gamer, competition is a good thing. Valve is king, but let's not let it get stale. I think of Audible and their terrible anti-competitive practices (and gouging authors' profits). Valve is not doing that, thank God, but they have the market power to. We don't want that, so there needs to be other industry players running after them.

As a Linux gamer, Epic store pretty much doesn't exist. I don't even bother collecting free game keys anymore. I stopped that a couple years ago once I realized I was completely wasting my time adding virtual items to an account I never use.

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