Quoting: monnef

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: monnefWhy indie games should be paying more, in relative numbers, than big publishers?

If you talk about the fee on publishing the game, I dare say that $100 shouldn't be much for anyone. If you're semi-serious about putting your game out there on a an as massive market as Steam, I'd say it's pretty much nothing.

I think that particular part is a good idea, to keep the absolute worst out of the store.

Probably monnef meant the recent policy shift where games (or maybe developers) that sell a little pay 30% while games that sell quite a bit pay 25% and games that sell big league numbers pay 20%.

Yes, that was what I meant. 30% cut if you are a small indie, but only 20% if you are a big publisher. Why? If there is any imbalance, shouldn't it be reversed - helping small indies to survive, not AAA games with predatory mtx?

It depends on the revenue made, not on the size of the studio. Small indies with a hit can reach those goals, too.

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Quoting: gradyvuckovic

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: gradyvuckovic

Quoting: kuhpunkt

Although, they did tweak this for higher earning games in December last year so for games that earn $10 million it's reduced to 25% and 20% at $50 million.

That's per publisher/developer, not per game.

For real?!

Holy crap I've been quoting that wrong then, I thought that was per game?!

If that's per publisher, then practically all of the major publishers are already at 20%?! What on earth is Paradox even complaining about?

Wrong. It is per-game, not per developer.

From Valve's post on it:

Starting from October 1, 2018 (i.e. revenues prior to that date are not included), when a game makes over $10 million on Steam

*emphasis mine

Ahh thankyou, I was questioning myself there, whew.

I'd wait for confirmation either way.

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Quoting: gradyvuckovicWhat about GPU memory? Any change there?

The old RTX 2600 only had 6GB, the new one has 8GB.

I was interested in the old RTX 2070, but the 2060 Super is cheaper and just as fast now.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: gradyvuckovic

Quoting: kuhpunkt

Although, they did tweak this for higher earning games in December last year so for games that earn $10 million it's reduced to 25% and 20% at $50 million.

That's per publisher/developer, not per game.

For real?!

Holy crap I've been quoting that wrong then, I thought that was per game?!

If that's per publisher, then practically all of the major publishers are already at 20%?! What on earth is Paradox even complaining about?

Wrong. It is per-game, not per developer.

From Valve's post on it:

Starting from October 1, 2018 (i.e. revenues prior to that date are not included), when a game makes over $10 million on Steam

*emphasis mine

That's what I thought as well, but I listened to a podcast (The Pod, one of Germany's biggest gaming podcasts) where they talked about Epic vs. Steam and they explained that. They talked to several developers who told them that this is wrong and that it's just per developer/publisher and not per game. Valve didn't communicate this properly.

I tried to confirm this by asking on the Steam reddit and people like Jim Sterling and Tyler McVicker, but I didn't get a single response.

If you could ask more developers with your connections, that might help.

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Although, they did tweak this for higher earning games in December last year so for games that earn $10 million it's reduced to 25% and 20% at $50 million.

That's per publisher/developer, not per game.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: TermyI really think proton is a good thing to help get more people on Linux.

What i don't know is if it is a good idea to buy games that don't support Linux but run with Proton - i'll happily play them if they are in a bundle, but until now i'm refraining from buying them...

See above discussion about how buying a thing economically incentivizes more of that thing. If you buy a Windows game, that will teach devs that you want more Windows games. If they see you doing it from Linux, they'll just celebrate that they can sell a Windows game to a Linux gamer and not have to give them any support in return. If you buy Linux games, you're indicating you want Linux games. The greater the demand for Linux games and the more that are sold, the better for Linux gaming and the better for you when you get normal game support like everyone should always get.

That's just one interpretation. That doesn't make it true.

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Got my controllers yesterday. Still have a hard time getting used to using my hands naturally :D

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoAs I said before: This work justify the 30% cut.
We will never see a feature like this from EPIC, Ubisoft or EA.

*20-30% cut

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Sweeney literally just compared First Party titles to Third Party titles and said that people don't complain about CS:GO/Dota 2 being Steam exclusives and therefore shouldn't complain about the deals he makes.

He's a bloody idiot.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: kuhpunkt

Quoting: liamdaweIt's why I am so keen to try it, I'm not currently convinced by VR at all, especially with the price of the Index. Will have to continue waiting and see what it's like when it's released, especially on the Linux side, I hope they managed to get it nicely sorted.

I had my first proper experience with the original Vive and the effect of course wears off after some time when you get used to it, but there's still a lot of fun to be had. It depends of course also on what you want to play. Beat Saber is amazing, Project Cars 2 works also great in VR.

Quoting: GuestDeep Dive? they don't have the right to call it anything close to 'Dive' until they have some kind of neural interface or at least eeg based peripherals that can not just receive but also send signals. As long as it relies on gimmicky motion controllers, it's gonna be deep fail.

They are working on neural stuff. And motion controllers are "gimmicky"? Deep fail? Please.... :|

I tried the original vive too, honestly I don't get the hype. to me it basically just looked like a screen right next to my face (which is what it is) and gimmicky motion controllers. Fruit ninja was pretty cool though.

The only thing that was revolutionary was the ability to turn my head and it would rotate the camera, that's it.

What's gimmicky about 1:1 hand presence? It's not like Wii-Motes.

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