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News Comments > World of Warcraft Patch on PTR; To Include MOBA?

I already did KS on something in the same vein, a game making game for people with no experience. Its still not out.

Re: World of Warcraft Patch on PTR; To Include MOBA?

Jan 3, 2013, 11:15

dj LiTh wrote on Jan 3, 2013, 09:57: I havent been a wow player for close to a decade (2921 days sober), but i think a MOBA style pvp would be pretty cool. Which is precisely why they are doing it.

Re: Gamemaker Pro on Sale

Jan 3, 2013, 01:08

News Comments > Valve on VR Latency

jdreyer wrote on Jan 2, 2013, 23:29: Has anyone had any experience with this? Any good? I hear the unity engine is good for multiplatform stuff. A lot of kickstarters use that. Also, did you read over the description? The GameMaker: Studio family of products caters to entry-level novices and seasoned game development professionals equally allowing them to create casual and social games for Steam Workshop, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, desktop and the Web (HTML5) in record time and at a fraction of the cost! [emphasis added] Note that its designed around social/casual games. If thats what you are planning to do, then it may well be worth it. But note if that IS what you are going to do, most of those are plugins that cost extra, and that its over $300 to get the set with all the options. Here's a list of games done with it thats on their site: http://www.yoyogames.com/game_showcases I play a fair amount of non phone casual games, and I didn't recognize any of them, but take a look for yourself. Hmm, that may be because thats just from the one developer, I'm not sure. One thing that is quite interesting is that its steam workshop integrated. So you can check out the kinda stuff it can make there: http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse?appid=214850 Thats actually a pretty brilliant move to use steam workshop. It not only increases community involvement, but lets people try out things to see what the kit can do, and increases sales directly from people who want to make things too. They also offer the basic version for free: http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker/studio http://store.steampowered.com/app/214850/ So you could check it out and do your own games and see what you think before buying it. Its likely to go on sale again (this is 2nd time its been on sale in the steam winter sale), and if not now, then during a future steam sale. Entirely up to you how much research you want to do. I did enough in a few mins to get you started Edit: Note that its cheaper to get the addons individually, rather than the package deal. Since the addons are 66% off and the package deal is 33% off. $271.95 Price of individual games: $334.99 Bundle cost: This comment was edited on Jan 3, 2013, 01:15.

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Re: Valve on VR Latency

Jan 3, 2013, 00:55

News Comments > GOG.com Sale Concluding; Steam Sale Continues

Sepharo wrote on Jan 2, 2013, 19:18: They're not releasing HL3 until it has something revolutionary in it... You should be cheering them on in their VR and other peripheral pursuits if you want to see HL3 sooner. I don't think those 2 things have anything to do with each other. Remember, valve employees work on whatever they want to, whenever they want to. They have a flat (as in no) management structure. It usually ends up being what they find interesting and/or fun, and this is interesting to the guy, so he's working on that.

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Re: GOG.com Sale Concluding; Steam Sale Continues

Jan 3, 2013, 00:28

News Comments > Valve on VR Latency

jdreyer wrote on Jan 2, 2013, 18:32: I was wondering the same thing. Is anyone buying these mega compilations of old games? I only want one or two from the set, so I've been buying things individually. I ended up getting a couple bundles. I started adding up the games I wanted to get copies of, and it started being more to have individual games at 50% than the bundle at 75% off. For instance, I haven't played all the HOMM games and I didn't have legit copies of all the ones I've tried, I didn't care much about MOM games, but I decided eh, whatever, and got the package.

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Re: Valve on VR Latency

Jan 2, 2013, 15:04

Cutter wrote on Jan 2, 2013, 12:11: Hey Mikey, you know what we really need? HL3. Why don't you get to work on that, buddy. That's also not nearly as interesting and fun to work on.

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Re: Torchlight 2 Sells 1MM

Jan 1, 2013, 19:26

PHJF wrote on Jan 1, 2013, 18:47: Heck why stop at hundreds of thousands? I say a minimum of four hundred trillion. That's not too much of a reach, really. Since thats just a bit more than the population, I'd say it is.

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Re: Torchlight 2 Sells 1MM

Jan 1, 2013, 18:37

Optional Nickname! wrote on Jan 1, 2013, 17:23: I am curious to know how many 'non-sales' of Torchlight 2 there currently are. You know, those very same things that Ubi-Soft, EA and other DRM-snorting Sara-Lee snacking vampires bemoan more greedily than Gollum did about his precious. One could do the same minimal checking that everyone else does. Only takes a few seconds. For instance, a quick google turns up the TPB web page with torrent stats of: Seeders: 1556 Leechers: 138 Being as those are current stats and its not months after release, and this is undoubtedly just one public torrent among many in existance (and there are many other methods) I don't think it would be too much of a reach to say hundreds of thousands at a minimum.

Re: On Sale

Jan 1, 2013, 16:37

Wallshadows wrote on Jan 1, 2013, 16:12: Awesome, thanks for the heads up and I'll check out GMG! Its not on sale currently (although they do have the 30% off voucher). But I suggest watching the bluesnews On Sale comments to see when they have another big sale on BL2 stuff. You can bet that won't be their last BL sale.

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Re: Torchlight 2 Sells 1MM

Jan 1, 2013, 16:36

Axis wrote on Jan 1, 2013, 16:13: Dev wrote on Jan 1, 2013, 16:11: Axis wrote on Jan 1, 2013, 16:09: Cheap, fun, temporary game. Horrible longevity, don't even try. Sounds like a description of D3 to me. Except D3 was expensive and not fun It was quite expensive. But it was actually fun... for like the first playthrough on normal, and when decent gear for low levels was cheap in the auction house. And when they try to suck you in with that explosion of yellow drops from bosses on the first time you kill them with the forced boosted drop rates for first time kills. After that, ugh it got boring fast, and the crappy drop rates started to sink in, and the auction house got to be boring fast (unless you wanted to waste real money on it), and then blizzard went and raised repair costs by 6 times forcing one to farm for gold as well as farming for items.

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Re: Torchlight 2 Sells 1MM

Jan 1, 2013, 16:11

Axis wrote on Jan 1, 2013, 16:09: Cheap, fun, temporary game. Horrible longevity, don't even try. Sounds like a description of D3 to me.

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Re: More Big Picture Details

Jan 1, 2013, 16:09

Dades wrote on Jan 1, 2013, 15:22: HorrorScope wrote on Jan 1, 2013, 15:18: Yeah pretty interesting it can only sell one million at a 3rd D3's cost. A million units for something without the brand or marketing power of Blizzard is pretty incredible. Torchlight isn't exactly a household name in entertainment. - *DADES* - This is a signature of my name, enjoy! Also there's a chunk of the market out there that looks down on anything that comes out under $50, as if it were for the Hoi polloi only (which they themselves of course aren't)

Re: On Sale

Jan 1, 2013, 15:51

Wallshadows wrote on Jan 1, 2013, 15:11: Does anyone know if the DLC for Borderlands 2 ever goes on sale? Best way to get that is to get the season pass at GMG when its on sale (plus a coupon code/voucher which can add another 20%-30% off of the sale price). I've seen it down to about $10 that way (and posted about it multiple times in various places on bluesnews such as the on sale things like this) The season pass includes the major DLC releases (2 of them right now, and will total 4). It doesn't include collectors edition stuff and slaughter dome. The slaughter dome isn't that interesting. There's another arena like that already in all copies of the game where you can get similar awards. The collectors dlc is just skins, and includes a rather pointless grenade thats supposed to be like fireworks. The one big thing you will be missing if you get just the season pass, is the pre-order content, if you didn't pre-order. However, if you get the mecromancer DLC, it includes all the pre-order stuff (like the vault hunter relic that boosts the rare drop rate, and the extra golden key) as well as the 5th class. You can get mechromancer DLC for about $3 if you get it on a GMG sale with a coupon, as previously mentioned. This comment was edited on Jan 1, 2013, 16:05.

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Re: On Sale

Jan 1, 2013, 03:35

Jerykk wrote on Jan 1, 2013, 03:27: And yeah, there are other things on sale, but those sales are usually pretty weak. Daily, flash and community vote deals are typically at least 50% off, mostly 75%. Some non front page things I see off hand in my wishlist for large percent off sales (I put things on my wishlist I have even a tiny remote interest in, for instance if I want to check out reviews of something before getting it): Mr Robot 75% off Space Trader 75% off Nimbus 75% off Scoregasm 75% off SOL Exodus 75% off Jagged Alliance BIA 66% off Starpoint Gemini 75% off Fray 75% off Bards Tale 75% off I haven't yet looked at things not on my wishlist and not on front page. I'm waiting for last day of sale for that.

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Re: On Sale

Jan 1, 2013, 02:46

Jerykk wrote on Dec 31, 2012, 21:27: I think some of these have been options in the community vote sales but of course, the community always votes for games that have already been on sale multiple times in the past. Point is, the Steam catalog is pretty huge and there are enough games to offer unique daily and flash sales without any repeats. All the dailies I've seen so far have been unique in this sale (as in the daily of one day hasn't shown up as a daily in a diff day). The vote ones are basically all bits from the flash ones as far as I can tell. And flash ones DO have some repeats. I think flash ones have been in dailies too. Also, remember, that there are TONS more non front page things on sale, some pretty good sales too.

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Re: On Sale

Dec 31, 2012, 20:25

News Comments > EA Server Shutdowns

Also, don't forget to check all the non front page sales on steam (preferably on the last day of dailies). There's a lot of good sales that aren't being advertised. I saw a great majority of my 150 wishlist titles on sale to some degree or another.

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Re: EA Server Shutdowns

Dec 31, 2012, 20:21

News Comments > EA Server Shutdowns

Not sure which game you are referring to, but you should know by now that ALL ea games are subject to having online/multiplayer being shut down. On another note, if a game has a smaller following, its unlikely to get enough interest for someone to make any sort of server emulation for it.

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Re: EA Server Shutdowns

Dec 31, 2012, 17:00

News Comments > New Year's Eve Legal Briefs

RollinThundr wrote on Dec 31, 2012, 16:55: Tell that to 2k who likes to shut off game servers within a year when a game doesn't sell. Or not patch a particular console sku at all due to low sales numbers (the PS3 version of NHL2k10). Shit you guys would string EA up by the toes for. Just because some other companies are doing it, doesn't excuse all instances of it. Also, I'm guessing that 2k isn't shutting down many PC titles, so its not as much news on a... PC gaming news site. Plus, EA makes it easy with a central shutdown page to find out all the info about current, past, and future game shutdowns. I don't see any such site listing 2k game shutdowns on a brief search. But I'll criticize any company (EA or not) that shuts down PC games in this manner.

Re: New Year's Eve Legal Briefs

Dec 31, 2012, 16:12

News Comments > New Year's Eve Tech Bits

I was hoping to read all 5. But that link only goes to one of them, since the list is still being written. Here's a link to a 2nd one: link

Re: New Year's Eve Tech Bits

Dec 31, 2012, 15:57