Quoting: Maokei

Quoting: scaineI do wish devs like this would just skip Steam and get an Itch page up. That way, you can get the game for free, but later, if you like it, throw some money their way. F2P on Steam will just attract review bombs.

Great to see it happening though, despite my reservations.

With respect that's horse**** no one review bombs a game for nothing. When developers **** consumers they invite the bad reviews.

If only that were true. Or, in the cases where it is arguable true, if only gamers had some perspective, empathy and compassion and weren't generally just bitter neckbeards venting like the manbabies they are.

But I've yet to see a case of review bombing which didn't feature general nastiness and that wasn't a completely over the top, often absurd and frankly shameful reaction to what often boils down to a dev asking "do I want to starve?".

Sure, there are some cases, usually involving big publishers, where you can see that review bombing is just borne of frustration and it's kind of justified (or if not justified, then at least understandable)... but that's rarely the case, and certainly shouldn't be the case here, where no malice was intended.

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The battles look beautifully smooth, but my god, that janky/juddery camera movement really ruins it. Definitely one I'll be keeping my eye on though. I love the detail on the ships, seeing individual weapons firing is superb. Not sure the AI is to par - that first frigate kept ramming into his neighbour! :grin:

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I do wish devs like this would just skip Steam and get an Itch page up. That way, you can get the game for free, but later, if you like it, throw some money their way. F2P on Steam will just attract review bombs.

Great to see it happening though, despite my reservations.

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Was about to comment that you have some screen tear there, which I didn't expect with such a beefy graphics card... then I remembered that I have a brand new PC, and I'd forgotten to turn on layers.acceleration.force-enabled in firefox's about:config page. And... now it's fixed, and sure enough, your gameplay is silky smooth.

I wish FF would turn that on by default.

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Quoting: Nanobang

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: scaineI just picked up The Hex (from the creator of Pony Island) and Depth of Extinction, which Liam has covered a few times and I kept meaning to pick up, but never got around to. Great deals.

Hmmm, except I'm confused. When I go the "Black Lives Matter" download page, it looks like they were part of the deal? Or is that just a generic "download" page which shows items I've bought? Because if they were part of the deal, they shouldn't allow me to buy them again, right?

Edit - Jeez, never mind. Just went to buy Rusty Trails and sure enough, it won't let me because it was part of the bundle. So the link page is just a generic "download stuff you already bought" page after all.

If you've actually hit Download on your Racial Justice bundle download page for that game and added it to your library, you'll see a "You own this game" disclaimer at the top of the store page in a browser. In the Itch.io app this info will be in the bottom bar along with an Install button. I don't doubt both games deserved your cash, but you did own them already.

Yep. I don't mind throwing another $10 at those guys, but I've got to get this off my chest - the Itch store is utter dogshit. The client too, if I'm being honest. I bought those games, I go to my client, they don't show up. So I search for them, I get the store page, with no notification I've bought it, and a prompt to buy it (again, as it turns out). In order to align the stars and planets, I have to find my original "download" link, search for the game there and press the "download" button, which I can then cancel, close my itch client and start it back up, and lo! the game has appeared.

Complete bollocks.

It's because the itch anti-racism bundle was unprecedented and they manually stopped it adding everything to your library to not overwhelm people. Not saying I agree or disagree with how it's handled, just that in this one specific case you need to manually add them because of how large it is. Otherwise, it's exactly how you would expect it to be for purchases.

Thanks - Tuubi also pointed out their disclaimer that they've added on the Download page - words to this effect. Frustrating, but it's good to know they're working on it.

Being a simple bear of Very Little Brain, I think I'm just going to act as if I own everything on Itch.io and try to download it as if I do, counting on Itch to stop me if I don't. It's got to be a sight easier than figuring out what I do and don't own beforehand.

That's what I did. Which is why I ended up buying two games I already owned...

It's easy to miss and unlike Steam, Itch don't warn you on the buy page that you already own a copy.

Edit: I've created a forum post about this, which includes some useful links and my massive Itch Collection which you're all welcome to subscribe to.

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Yes! This feels like a huge win. Valve are staving off the whole OpenGL vs D3D battle in VR land before it even has legs. Great news to see such a big leader in VR take the open plunge so early. This can only be a positive move.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: scaineI just picked up The Hex (from the creator of Pony Island) and Depth of Extinction, which Liam has covered a few times and I kept meaning to pick up, but never got around to. Great deals.

Hmmm, except I'm confused. When I go the "Black Lives Matter" download page, it looks like they were part of the deal? Or is that just a generic "download" page which shows items I've bought? Because if they were part of the deal, they shouldn't allow me to buy them again, right?

Edit - Jeez, never mind. Just went to buy Rusty Trails and sure enough, it won't let me because it was part of the bundle. So the link page is just a generic "download stuff you already bought" page after all.

If you've actually hit Download on your Racial Justice bundle download page for that game and added it to your library, you'll see a "You own this game" disclaimer at the top of the store page in a browser. In the Itch.io app this info will be in the bottom bar along with an Install button. I don't doubt both games deserved your cash, but you did own them already.

Yep. I don't mind throwing another $10 at those guys, but I've got to get this off my chest - the Itch store is utter dogshit. The client too, if I'm being honest. I bought those games, I go to my client, they don't show up. So I search for them, I get the store page, with no notification I've bought it, and a prompt to buy it (again, as it turns out). In order to align the stars and planets, I have to find my original "download" link, search for the game there and press the "download" button, which I can then cancel, close my itch client and start it back up, and lo! the game has appeared.

Complete bollocks.

It's because the itch anti-racism bundle was unprecedented and they manually stopped it adding everything to your library to not overwhelm people. Not saying I agree or disagree with how it's handled, just that in this one specific case you need to manually add them because of how large it is. Otherwise, it's exactly how you would expect it to be for purchases.

Thanks - Tuubi also pointed out their disclaimer that they've added on the Download page - words to this effect. Frustrating, but it's good to know they're working on it.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: scaineI just picked up The Hex (from the creator of Pony Island) and Depth of Extinction, which Liam has covered a few times and I kept meaning to pick up, but never got around to. Great deals.

Hmmm, except I'm confused. When I go the "Black Lives Matter" download page, it looks like they were part of the deal? Or is that just a generic "download" page which shows items I've bought? Because if they were part of the deal, they shouldn't allow me to buy them again, right?

Edit - Jeez, never mind. Just went to buy Rusty Trails and sure enough, it won't let me because it was part of the bundle. So the link page is just a generic "download stuff you already bought" page after all.

If you've actually hit Download on your Racial Justice bundle download page for that game and added it to your library, you'll see a "You own this game" disclaimer at the top of the store page in a browser. In the Itch.io app this info will be in the bottom bar along with an Install button. I don't doubt both games deserved your cash, but you did own them already.

Yep. I don't mind throwing another $10 at those guys, but I've got to get this off my chest - the Itch store is utter dogshit. The client too, if I'm being honest. I bought those games, I go to my client, they don't show up. So I search for them, I get the store page, with no notification I've bought it, and a prompt to buy it (again, as it turns out). In order to align the stars and planets, I have to find my original "download" link, search for the game there and press the "download" button, which I can then cancel, close my itch client and start it back up, and lo! the game has appeared.

Complete bollocks.

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I just picked up The Hex (from the creator of Pony Island) and Depth of Extinction, which Liam has covered a few times and I kept meaning to pick up, but never got around to. Great deals.

Hmmm, except I'm confused. When I go the "Black Lives Matter" download page, it looks like they were part of the deal? Or is that just a generic "download" page which shows items I've bought? Because if they were part of the deal, they shouldn't allow me to buy them again, right?

Edit - Jeez, never mind. Just went to buy Rusty Trails and sure enough, it won't let me because it was part of the bundle. So the link page is just a generic "download stuff you already bought" page after all.

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Quoting: LanzIt's great to see EA back on Steam, but as long as the Origin dependency exists, I'm still not interested.

I have to echo this. Launchers that launch launchers get launched right out the window in my house. It even annoys me when I start Overwatch, I get this stupid small window pop up that I have to press "play" on. Also, Elite:Dangerous, Warframe and Guild Wars. It's just anti-consumer bullshit 9 times out of 10. Always windows games too...

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