eRe4s3r wrote on Oct 20, 2019, 21:20:
Every dialogue is basically combat. Rolls and death included. The way this game works really reminds me how I do NOT want my RPG's to be in the year 2019 though.. but to each their own tastes

I would rather play 50 Divinity 2 clones over Disco Elysium. But then I just refunded. There is really no grey area with this game, you either love it, or you DETEST it and everything it stands for. It's at the core "skill-checks the game" and that rubbed me so extremely wrong because when you give me a quick-save and a skill-check I am gonna brute-force that MF and not back down. And that's not how you should approach this game at all apparently.

In fact I just realized after barely an hour that skills don't matter, it's 70% luck and 30% what you skill. And that's fine, but that's also super boring to me. Eh, anyway, I refunded it, no need for me to review it since it was clearly not a game for me on a base level. I am fine with that

Cutter wrote on Aug 14, 2019, 21:01:
So now it's a different story and he has yet to offer up any evidence at all that any keys being sold now are fraudulent. Dumb move.

necrosis wrote on Aug 4, 2019, 00:27:
Anyone else weirded out by the 'look streight at the person you are talking to who is centered perfectly on the screen always at the same zoom level'?

It is one of the many aspects that screams indie dev... but it is not.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Jul 28, 2019, 14:26:

Maybe Bethesda should take the hint and stop spewing money on MMOs and stick the the SPRPGs that people like to buy from them.

Flo wrote on Jul 29, 2019, 01:59:

Steele Johnson wrote on Jul 28, 2019, 23:00:
Who are the suckers buying Youngblood? That game is abysmal! Who allowed those shit devs to release a game like that and call it Wolfenstein? What a disgrace and an insult to pc gamers.

Ah no, it's actually pretty decent, Arkane's handwriting is all over it. You probably don't like it because it's optimized for 2-player-coop...

Shock wrote on Jul 25, 2019, 17:13:
Epic's money is probably the difference between a terrible September release and possibly a more complete release in December

Slashman wrote on Jul 22, 2019, 22:03:

RedEye9 wrote on Jul 22, 2019, 17:36:

Sepharo wrote on Jul 22, 2019, 15:58:

Tipsy McStagger wrote on Jul 22, 2019, 15:30:
Just going to swoop in and LEAVE THIS HERE

Yeah but nobody actually likes or uses those features and if you think you do it's only because you're brainwashed.
All you really need is the ability to buy a game geez.

But teh steamz has 85% more things no one ever uses. gosh

I must be in a major minority because my friends and I use them all the time. We're totally weird like that.

Creston wrote on Jul 21, 2019, 17:27:
Well, what is Steam doing to improve things, exactly? A few minor UI overhauls? It seems like Steam is just content to wait out the Fortnite money train, but so far that train is hauling in billions of dollars with no end in sight. It seems strange to just sit by and just not do anything when another player comes and starts taking away your market share.

Maybe nobody at Valve can be bothered to roll their desk over to the "Let's come with a plan of action against EGS" corner.

Simon Says wrote on Jul 21, 2019, 18:20:
Yeah noticing a trend lately about EGS posts... On one side you have drivel like this from the pro exclusives / pro anti-competitive group, on the other you have principled arguments from the pro competition group.

Creston wrote on Jul 21, 2019, 14:44:

El Pit wrote on Jul 21, 2019, 14:38:
They had to because the Epic has a much better technical... uh... Damn, they simply pay us more money!

Well, that's a very valid reason to go exclusive. I can't really blame publishers for taking Epic's money.

What surprises me is that Valve has done exactly nothing about this for going on six months now. I guess they make enough money off PUBG and GTA5 to not care that a large chunk of big name games this year are off their service for X amount of time?

jdreyer wrote on Jul 15, 2019, 16:08:
Teh SQL iz Hardz:

Select * from KeyTable KT
inner join GameTable GT
where KT.KeyNum in (key0001, key0002, key0003) AND
GT.GameName = "Factorio"

My SQL is super rusty, so I probably have some syntax wrong, but it's something as simple as that.

roguebanshee wrote on Jul 15, 2019, 06:11:
Some people breaking the law does not make it ok for others to also break the law.

jdreyer wrote on Jul 15, 2019, 16:14:
Buy one DVD in China and ship it to the US: No Problem.

Buy 1000 DVDs and ship them to the US, Customs is going to have words.

Beamer wrote on Jul 15, 2019, 08:56:
Shopping carts are a weird dealbreaker to me. Multiple checkouts aren't really a big issue.

No cloud saves is an enormous issue. No download size previews is an enormous issue.

Red886 wrote on Jul 15, 2019, 00:41:

Jerykk wrote on Jul 14, 2019, 21:38:

roguebanshee wrote on Jul 14, 2019, 18:27:
Resale for commercial purposes does require Sales Tax/VAT being applied to the new sales, thinking that any tax collection agency would see purchasing 40+ anything to resell at a later date as a non-commercial use is quite frankly naive.

Selling any amount of anything is a commercial use. That doesn't make it taxable. Go on eBay and you'll see plenty of people selling large quantities of items without charging tax. G2A is essentially the eBay for PC games.

dude, you do know that these resellers don't even 'exist'.

if these resellers actually do 'exist' , then they need to get a proper business license (of whichever form that is relevant).

RedEye9 wrote on Jul 14, 2019, 21:03:

Mordhaus wrote on Jul 14, 2019, 20:23:
Some people are nutjobs if they think valve has 6mos to live though.

Sooner if the shopping cart gets finished early.
You may want to bone up on hyperbole, jokes, satire and Poe's Law.

roguebanshee wrote on Jul 14, 2019, 18:27:
Resale for commercial purposes does require Sales Tax/VAT being applied to the new sales, thinking that any tax collection agency would see purchasing 40+ anything to resell at a later date as a non-commercial use is quite frankly naive.

RedEye9 wrote on Jul 14, 2019, 18:40:
New store does not have same features as 20 year old any store.

roguebanshee wrote on Jul 14, 2019, 07:05:

Jerykk wrote on Jul 14, 2019, 03:55:
"Wire fraud?" What are you talking about? They buy the games in bulk from regions where they are significantly cheaper, then resell them globally at a higher price (but still cheaper than MSRP). Again, there's absolutely nothing illegal about that.

It technically circumvents regional taxation (sales tax/VAT), which is fraud. The keys being sold are registered as being sold by the developer in a different country than where they're resold for profit. And the resale for profit via G2A almost certainly does not include any taxes.

1) Don't distribute keys to anyone except verified reviewers or influencers.

This takes a lot more work than most indie studios have budget for, especially since "verified reviewers or influencers" tend to have a lot of things going on already, which takes away time for them to check out a game they may not have heard about. So unless you have enough money to get a sponsored video up, larger influencers and big review sites are a crapshoot at best.

This means that the developer would then have to spend a lot of time researching smaller influencers (which means a smaller potential audience) instead of eg. fixing bugs or polishing the game. Outside the most successful Indie studios, Indies don't have enough income to keep a non-developer/artist on staff for tasks like this.

2) Region-lock your games.

Region locking games means that legitimate users can't gift to actual friends in a different and/or more expensive region (depending on the type of region lock used). It's something people have complained about many times, even on this forum.