Decided to finally finish my modded Factorio game (Industrial Revolution mod). This is going to take some time :D

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Quoting: mahagrNope, yet another pause. This in becoming a habit.

Same. I think multiple games have been in Monthly already.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP10-20% is fair, with a higher cut as developers can opt in to additional services (forum, matchmaking, etc.) with 20-30% being the cut for all services used.

You're forgetting the biggest value. Steam presents the product to 100 million monthly active users. No other store comes close. Except for the Apple store and the Play store. And surprise, they use 30% as well.

Quoting: TheSHEEEPFrom a developers perspective - and most devs don't care about Linux, that's the sad truth - the Epic deal is really damn good.

It's clearly not a great deal unless Epic throws money at devs. Although for at least some it is that they prepay the devs for a number of sales in exchange for exclusivity. But after the period they all go back to Steam because that's still where the real money is made.

At the end of the day, Valve doesn't need to change anything because the majority of customers are still on Steam. When that changes, things will change.

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Quoting: vipor29also it will be free for the first 24 hours it launches on epic.make sure you guys wishlist that care.

Not sure what you're driving at here, you want us to get it free on Epic Store?

It's safe to say that giving a game away on day one is going to cost Epic. There are two options, either Epic pays per freely given game, or they paid a fixed price. If the first is true, then having as many people get it as possible would increase the cost for Epic. For the second it might make the deal for CA a bit less interesting than they thought it was. Either way could lower the chances of it happening again.

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Quoting: GuestWell, the cuts made me less than happy. Good game anyway.

It sounds more dramatic than it really is though.

The campaign was technically cut before because the decision because this game isn't really campaign friendly. They discussed the issue in several Friday Factorio Facts and it basically comes down to have the player rebuilding everything after each step or trying to control what the user can do each step of the way so everything remains predictable. The first one is undesirable and second one is very much against what Factorio is about. So what they did is bring back an extended version of the old campaign that is more geared to working as a tutorial. Seems like a good alternative to me.

Not even sure what the fluid system update would have been like. It may have a few minor issues in some advanced gameplay scenario, but since the previous update it is really quite good already. I'm sure they'll do whatever they think needs doing after release.

And the GUI overhaul is actually mostly finished. IIRC, the only part that wasn't overhauled yet is some of the blueprint system. That part will definitely still come post release though.

All in all, the game really has been "done" for a while now. The only major update they have done since 0.17 is to create high resolution graphics for those parts that didn't have any. That and a lot of bug fixing.

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Quoting: tuubiI always thought the 'legit' way was to suck it up and wait for the next sale.

So, you're saying my best option is to spend hours wishlisting hundreds of games across various stores and spam my email account with a bunch of games I might or might not want to buy at some point?

That's unfortunately the way it is. Key market places (not just G2A) are way too easy to exploit by criminals. So using them is risking being a part of that practice.

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Scorched Earth was always the true Mother Of All Games. :D From my quick inspection I have only one nitpick. Not of enough ground destruction!

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Quoting: NezchanInteresting. One of the games it wanted me to play was Serious Sam. Both the First Encounter and the Second in different rooms.

Turns out it doesn't count either if you play them using Fusion.

Fusion is a bit of a weird solution. I had the opposite though. In the section for playing one of the first three games you bought, it triggered with the new game "Filament", which is obviously new. The system is a bit buggy.

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Not good to hear. But who knows, maybe it's just one person not knowing. They have put quite a bit of work into getting their engine to run on Linux. Sure, part of it helps Stadia, but it would be a waste not to use it after the work is done. Anyway, I'll see what happens.

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I wonder if that amount was enough to cover the bank chargeback costs that were always the bigger issue with these illegal sales.

In any case, good for them. Wube are one of the nicest devs out there and Factorio is beyond amazing.

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