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hal said:
They are almost completely hands-off and that's a real slippery slope if you're going to try and enforce it.
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I don't see where the slope is. Is your game in EA? No extra avenues of monetizing that title. Is it out of EA? Go for it. Seems pretty cut and dried. It's not as though Valve's hands are tied here -- the same people who can add seventeen hoops to selling a 5¢ card can certainly figure out how to set rules for their store.

hal said:
People forget that games used to get released early all the time.
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And people rightfully bitched and it affected the game's reputation because they couldn't just go "Early Access!"

I swear, I feel like I could release a "game" that's a title screen followed by rebooting your system and some idiot would sit on my game's discussion board and say "Early access!"

 
Waggles said:
I can't believe RDR remaster is a ps4Pro exclusive.

Like, the funk, Rockstar $ONY?
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someone needs to hold MysterD tight..

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Syntax Error said:
I don't see where the slope is. Is your game in EA? No extra avenues of monetizing that title. Is it out of EA? Go for it. Seems pretty cut and dried. It's not as though Valve's hands are tied here -- the same people who can add seventeen hoops to selling a 5¢ card can certainly figure out how to set rules for their store.
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There was a forum post alot of people were spreading from the steam general EA forum that had rules proposed by members, one of which was no extra monetization during EA. It got bandied around as fact when it was just suggestion, but still, theres a whole set of guidelines proposed by members but of course steam wont adopt any of them.

 
hal said:
Moral is: don't get hung up on labels when gauging your outrage. Play the game and have fun, or wait until it is finished. If all else fails... use your refund button. That's what Valve wants you to do.
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Its not so much the label of the game that bothers me, but if devs keep games in EA that are clearly finished then I have to research the game before buying it to see if its far enough long to be worth it or if its an abandoned game thats half finished. And Im too lazy to research stuff.

 
Syntax Error said:
I don't see where the slope is. Is your game in EA? No extra avenues of monetizing that title. Is it out of EA? Go for it. Seems pretty cut and dried. It's not as though Valve's hands are tied here -- the same people who can add seventeen hoops to selling a 5¢ card can certainly figure out how to set rules for their store.

And people rightfully bitched and it affected the game's reputation because they couldn't just go "Early Access!"

I swear, I feel like I could release a "game" that's a title screen followed by rebooting your system and some idiot would sit on my game's discussion board and say "Early access!"
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I'm operating under the assumption that people will always find a way to monetize something -- and I assume Valve is too. The loopholes are surely endless. What happens when developer x opens up a side business that involves betting on the outcome of gameplay in Early Access Steam Game y? Or any such nonsense? We all know Valve isn't going to be bothered chasing down semi-shady shit. They just want to run their cash cow and be left alone.

Reds303 said:
Its not so much the label of the game that bothers me, but if devs keep games in EA that are clearly finished then I have to research the game before buying it to see if its far enough long to be worth it or if its an abandoned game thats half finished. And Im too lazy to research stuff.
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CAG answer: who plays their games anyway?

Sensible answer: You can never rely on the presence or absence of a label to know enough about a game to make a purchase. Most especially one placed on the store page by Valve or nearly any other developer of a video game.

 
agentghost said:
maybe you should consider coming back... the bros played it in the past and had tons of fun.. eh, I mean Brucitus the host had tons of fun (..with the bros) :whistle2:
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I'll be down to to play, I've never really learn to play between the bad framerate but I guess I'm willing to play through it

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Halo has been fun, the 15 men games of infection of game types are super fun.

You can already play on user created maps.

I had lower the graphic settings some

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IAmTheCheapestFox said:
I hate DLC more than most and I'm a tin-foil hatter who believes devs take away content from games to release it as DLC. I abhor the new MSRP of AAA games which is essentially $100 to get the full game. That said, I'm not telling people what to get mad about, I'm mainly calling people out on their dumbass logic. You literally have people with 100s of hours in this game, some even over 1000, who are posting negative reviews. People who the day before the DLC was released LOVED the game and were enjoying it enough to put all that time in it, and then some expansion is released and all of a sudden it's a negative review and they hate it just based on principle. It's just fucking stupid.
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I think it's completely legitimate to get upset about the whole thing with Ark. People get pissed about day 1 dlc, season passes, etc, so why wouldn't you get upset about pre-release dlc? It's ridiculous. Really what it comes down to is: is your game finished? Then take it out of ea. No? Then finish it before releasing paid dlc. Either way the guys behind ark screwed up. At the very least it's a stupid oversight, given the success of the game I would guess they don't need money to assist in finishing it, so it just comes off as they don't care about their customers enough to finish the product that has already been sold.

And just because you enjoy a product doesn't mean you can't disagree/change your mind based on principle later. It's perfectly sound logic...you just don't think the transgression is big enough a deal to change your mind/sour on the developers about. There are examples of this in other settings...a pretty large example is several years ago with the Chik-Fil-A thing where it came out the owner was contributing to anti-gay organizations or whatever it was. I'm sure plenty of the people who took issue had previously eaten and enjoyed Chik-Fil-A a number of times but stopped/spoke out based on principle. Just because people enjoy your product doesn't give you a free pass from criticism.

 
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hal said:
I'm operating under the assumption that people will always find a way to monetize something -- and I assume Valve is too. The loopholes are surely endless. What happens when developer x opens up a side business that involves betting on the outcome of gameplay in Early Access Steam Game y? Or any such nonsense? We all know Valve isn't going to be bothered chasing down semi-shady shit. They just want to run their cash cow and be left alone.
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Well, sidebetting actual cash would be illegal so I don't see that being a big problem.

If Valve can blacklist Electronic Arts because Valve can't have complete control over their DLC catalogs, I'm sure they can flex their muscle at little indie start-ups. They just choose not to because, fuck customers, they want their six dollars.

 
Syntax Error said:
Well, sidebetting actual cash would be illegal so I don't see that being a big problem.

If Valve can blacklist Electronic Arts because Valve can't have complete control over their DLC catalogs, I'm sure they can flex their muscle at little indie start-ups. They just choose not to because, fuck customers, they want their six dollars.
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Well, you know what I'm saying. Let's say they're side betting cookies and you can buy cookies from this side company or you can play a game and grind them out. The possibilities are endless and I'm just not devious enough to think of them. I am always surprised by the way people find loopholes.

Look at the recent decree by Valve that games sell for a minimum of $0.49 average. How long was it before we saw bundles consisting of games heavily given away for free that were full price in the bundle alongside games that were fully within that price limit, effectively skirting the rules? Less than a week?

I'm just saying... they don't want to be in the business of playing Sherlock Holmes with developers. They have a banner that clearly states the game is unfinished and unpolished and may never be completed -- buyer beware. They offer refunds. I just can't see them spending resources policing rules that don't help their pocketbook.

Or, like you said so well: because fuck customers, they want their six dollars.

 
indef said:
Is there somewhere that I can negatively review your comment to express my outrage?

Unrelated, the second 30 minutes of The Crew is really fun. Although i've been playing it as an open world collect-a-thon, but i'm the idiot who actually enjoys that crap which gets shoehorned into ubigames. All the dilapidated vistas of Detroit shall be mine!
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Is there a part in The Crew where you have to drive your car up to the top of a tower to unlock map visibility and then dive your car off the tower into a pile of hay?
 
FissFiss said:
Just got my refund for No Mans Sky from Humble Bundle.
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You and me both, FissFiss. Though the refund itself wasn't quite as satisfying as the notice I received several days later that the game was no longer in my Steam library. For a moment I almost remembered what it was like to experience happiness.

Edit: And I guess I'll share that I don't really care about the whole Ark thing, but I can understand why people who paid for it would be upset that the dev's time and money is going to DLC instead of optimizing the game. My only experience with Ark was during the free weekend and I only played for a few minutes because the game ran like swamp scum.

 
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Early Access = ALPHA and/or BETA.  Releasing expansion/dlc for an alpha/beta game?  that's unheard of in my generation..

but for this generation, the youngsters will eat up all the abuses and bull$h1t   :drool:

 
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rcsample said:
Is there a part in The Crew where you have to drive your car up to the top of a tower to unlock map visibility and then dive your car off the tower into a pile of hay?
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There are radio towers, but you can't jump off them. Such a missed opportunity.

 
ARK Scorched Update:

I bought it to try to get a dragon and troll people, played it a bit, and promptly refunded.  It's not bad, but it's literally just a reskin of the main game with some cactus and desert and no water and different dinos.  You have to make wells to get water and it's supposed to be hot, but the game kept telling me I was cold.  It's also harder than the main game which means someone like me who has only ever tamed a dodo had no chance to tame a dragon.  

You guys getting up in arms about it are still morans though.  

 
I love Ark. But I stopped playing because how broken it was. I couldn't even get to the base. The walls disappeared every f...ing time and it lagged a lot. Everytime you fly on your eagle you're afraid the game will crash and you'll fall from it and lost it. After every update they mess with something.

I'll come back when/if devs fix the game. I got some good 300+ hours from it and I'm happy with that

And I don't like that "dlc while still on EA" stuff. They should've focus all their resources on finishing the main game.
 
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Early Acess DLC... I've never played Ark so I cannot really speak on it but in general I think it's a bad precedent... And one that I fell really hurts the consumer.

As for the use your refund option... What happens when the game in question is older than 2 weeks and you've played it for more than 2 hours? (There was no talk of this DLC a month ago right?)
 
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Early Acess DLC... I've never played Ark so I cannot really speak on it but in general I think it's a bad precedent... And one that I fell really hurts the consumer.

As for the use your refund option... What happens when the game in question is older than 2 weeks and you've played it for more than 2 hours? (There was no talk of this DLC a month ago right?)
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I'm sure if people complain enough about it a few might get an exception and a refund from Steam, but in general probably not especially for the people with 100s of hours in it. Also, wonder how many ragers got it for $2 in the Humble Monthly?
 
I liked Ark and certainly got my money out of it.  Problem is that it turns into one of those "job" games where you constantly have to log in and check on things, collect food for your dinos, hope no one stole all your stuff and locked you in a cage, etc.  I just have too much other stuff to play to allow one game to become a part-time job.

At some point I want to restart it in single player just to see the new critters and biomes.  Only issue is that takes a good amount of game tweaking to make single player viable (having trees only regrow while you're actively playing is killer).

 
Syntax Error said:
I liked Ark and certainly got my money out of it. Problem is that it turns into one of those "job" games where you constantly have to log in and check on things, collect food for your dinos, hope no one stole all your stuff and locked you in a cage, etc. I just have too much other stuff to play to allow one game to become a part-time job.

At some point I want to restart it in single player just to see the new critters and biomes. Only issue is that takes a good amount of game tweaking to make single player viable (having trees only regrow while you're actively playing is killer).
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I think this is problem with a lot of "survival games", where you have to check in every day to make sure your stuff hasn't been wrecked by bunch of kids who got off school early and played for 10 hours straight. Ain't nobody got time fo dat shit.

 
Syntax Error said:
I liked Ark and certainly got my money out of it. Problem is that it turns into one of those "job" games where you constantly have to log in and check on things, collect food for your dinos, hope no one stole all your stuff and locked you in a cage, etc. I just have too much other stuff to play to allow one game to become a part-time job.

At some point I want to restart it in single player just to see the new critters and biomes. Only issue is that takes a good amount of game tweaking to make single player viable (having trees only regrow while you're actively playing is killer).
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Yeah, I mean, I know I buy like every survival game, but I usually just play them for like 5 minutes just to see. I like scavenging and bashing zombies for a bit mostly. ARK isn't actually my favorite, as cool as it is, because dinosaurs just don't do it for me as much as Weiler. I always find crafting sort of a chore and it breaks from the immersion for me. If I'm in the zombie apocalypse I'm not really going to be punching trees to make a house. The problem is the scavenging based ones tend to be super hard. Like nothing ever anywhere, which I guess depending on how far into the zombie apocalypse we're in might be accurate. Who knows. I end up tending to like the AAA zombie games even if they are limited too. Big reason why I like the Dead Island series so much. It sort of hits upon what a real zombie apocalypse would be like closer than most games. I've done my research so I know.

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Also, not sure how much of a deal this is, but Newegg Flash has an offbrand 32'' curved monitor for $280, too bad it is the wrong size and aspect ratio, because the second picture implies it would help me seduce the ladies:

http://flash.newegg.com/Product/9SIA6BM4B13162

 
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Did someone say VRAMzzz?  Checked out the prices on the 6GB 1060 and it looks like they're going for around $250.  Strongly consider grabbing one during this round of Black Friday sales should it dip to $220 or less.  Don't see the need to go 1070 since I'm still at 1080p.  And I really can't see anything needing 8GB VRAM at 1080p for the next few years.  Also the 1070's I'm seeing are like $400+  F. dat.  I got my 770 for around $300.

 
mguiddy said:
Don't forget pizza, we need opinions about pizza.
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Pizza is good
DickBurden said:
I'm more curious to learn about the last time you cried.
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I would also like to know your thoughts on VRAM, DRM, gaming headsets, decline of Steam sales, and all things in between.
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VRAM is good. DRM is fine. Gaming headsets are headphones with mics and that's okay. Steam sales aren't very good.

Not sure what's in between, but hopefully that covers everything, though I didn't give my EA DLC thoughts since no one said yes. Your loss, guys.
 
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Why won't senpai play Street Fighter V with me?
I'm still waiting for the day to see him in-game playing SFV with 500+ hours

 
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IAmTheCheapestFox said:
God, people need to get off their fucking high horse and use some context for once. ARK being in Early Access doesn't mean that all content will be free forever until it is released. It doesn't prevent it from releasing DLC. Yes, I get the reasonable argument against it, if the game isn't fully released yet why are you putting resources into DLC, but in this case you have a game that is and has been in almost full working order for over a year so the game has never suffered because of it. God forbid the success of the game has made it so that the devs can keep working on the game and also release new DLC to keep it interesting at the same time
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Its great they add content, but the dlc is bs. There are a ton of things that need to be fixed\cleaned up in this early access game. Instead now they have added a whole other layer of something to support and bug fix. I dont begrudge them DLC, I begrudge them DLC when the state of the game you are selling dlc for is not finished. Ark is still regularly in the top 10 steam sales every month, the dev isnt hurting for cash to make this cash grab and deserve the flack they are taking.

 
Malkan said:
I think it's still up but they moved to the center. Gilby asked me about merging CDS with the brawny gents the other day.
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Yeah, we are on the center, Wanted to get everyone on the same page and tackle some caves and bosses. I dont have a warm fuzzy. But all it might take is a couple of regular players to spur the part timers.

 
Early access isn't Kickstarted where you are funding development, it's basically paying for an unfinished game. The developer can profit off early access. It's called capitalism, if you don't like it, don't buy games until they are complete, and definitely don't buy the dlc and cry about it at the same time.
 
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