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WHYAREWEALLCAPS,

Shortcuts?

WHYAREWEALLCAPS,

Don't have a SD and haven't really looked to hard into the experience. What are the SteamOS specific features you mention? As a gamer on Linux who is eventually looking to get a SD I'm curious.

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Now people get angry if the game doesn't have support with content updates for at least 3 years

I mean, have you seen the state game studios are releasing games in now? It's like 3+ years of updates just to get it to the place it was supposed to be at release.

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No thanks, I have an appointment to have splinters shoved under my nails.

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I mean, even if you have a really short refractory period the streams tend to get less and less in volume.

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That is a teensy-tiny problem compared to what has to be done to make a game like Starfield. Go look at the credits. Now understand that each of those teams had weeks or even months where they worked 60-80 hours to solve problems or design things or write or rewrite the story to fit a problem that the programmers can't solve. Now, imagine putting all that work on one dev or even a tiny dev team. And now you know why the market isn't flooded by indie dev games of this size and complexity. There is a reason why so many people involved in games burn out quickly - they are often ground down by the grueling work.

You are also conflating ability to do one thing really well with being able to do all things really well.

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I can't shake that it just looks like No Man's Sky with a fantasy skin on it. I hope it's better than that and is something new.

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Is it me or does it seem like ARPGs are back to being all the rage? I'm not complaining - I love the genre - just observing.

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Greed has always been the word. I don't know where you get the idea that this is new. They have been trying for years to monetize modding.

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The problem is so many studios are owned by publicly traded companies. Those companies expect, nay, demand that product ships during the quarter it was supposed to lest they face the stockholders' wrath.

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I could be wrong, but I believe Epic or Sweeney threw something like that around about Steam's pricing model. Or maybe it was just an Internet thing. Regardless, the idea floated was that the only reason Steam took such a cut was it's monopolistic powers. What I believe jaden is trying to say is that that line of reasoning is being shown to be bullshit and that Steam takes that much so it can be profitable.

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Honestly, release dates are more akin to putting it early access than an actual release nowadays.

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Not worried. Being an Epic exclusive, I have zero interest in playing this game.

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Super Mario Bros also only sold about 2.5 million units in the first several month after release. Baldur's Gate, for example, sold almost 6 million in 2 weeks. The NES sold 2.5 million units in its first year. The Switch sold 13 million. Even the worst selling modern console, the Xbox Series X sold 8 million in the first year. While individual game prices have not risen, the total number of sales has dramatically increased. So pardon me if I don't think the cost of games not rising has been a problem for publishers and developers of AAA titles. Their real problem has been putting out good content that enough gamers want.

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Won't you please think of the shareholders!

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Jesus. This is just a circus of incompetence. Doesn't matter who is footing the bill. If you push the bill on the distributor/install service it means those streams will be less likely to embrace indie devs and especially new indie devs without a hit under their belt. So same chilling result.

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I think so, but burlap chafes me so.

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