What’s the reasoning for this? Why wouldn’t you want to pit players against other players of a similar level? Genuine question.

Best I can say is this is a small step up from the Pinkertons debacle

Unless you’re arguing that the criteria are too strict, which it doesn’t sound like you are, the system is obviously doing its job in this case at least.

Doesn’t that make it even worse for the game, that they couldn’t even pass a ‘joke’ rating system?

Don’t know anything about the game, but from the article it sounds like it was a commercial flop? Which would make it understandable that a lot of the dev team got laid off. This would be a different situation from those companies who had successes and then proceeded to lay off their dev teams anyway.

See other comment thread for a bit of context

There were many people who worked on dota back then. There was no official version to begin with, you could find a dozen variants in bnet on any given day. Slowly it got centralised. Some of the modders ended up at LoL, others ended up at Valve. The name wasn’t copyrighted, nobody really owned it. Valve kinda inherited it by virtue of hiring the guy running the mod team at the end.

Crazy how?

League of legends is two decades old now, so if you’re thinking it’s new, yeah that’s on you 😜

Ah, I see you’re one of those basement dwellers who’ve never done your own grocery shopping in your life.

The same way your grocery can be selling something for $10 one day and put it on sale for $6 the day after.

For that kind of profit margin, anybody would happily become an expert

I agree with most of it, but most players generally would just save and respawn a new map in D1 to get more resources?

Newer cooperative games mostly avoid the quarterbacking issue by having secret info, or just making it complicated enough that it’s impractical for 1 person to track everything.

The strategy is to avoid Monopoly. It’s not like the game gets any funner if you’re playing by the rules.

Check out [email protected] in case you’re not aware. Lots of discussion happening there.

Regarding your question, it’s hard to say since you don’t mention any mechanics, or complexity level, that you prefer. Based on the couple of examples you provide, you seem to like cooperative card games. If so, you should check out ‘The Crew’. It’s the most popular of that genre in my game club.

Ranked #1 in family games on bgg

Just… don’t pay attention to it? It’s something that interests other people. Imagine if somebody said that about something you liked that they had no interest in.

I don’t want to read entrails for clues about the future

But, you don’t have to. This is them hinting about a upcoming announcement of a release date. For the average player like you and me, it’s just the announcement itself that we need, and we’ll get that.

I believe there’s a Tabletop Simulator version out, but I don’t have TTS so can’t say for sure.

Dune Imperium: Uprising. Gotten my whole group into it. Might organise a tournament for the heck of it.

If Frostpunk is their idea of a “narrative-driven, story-rich game”, I can see why they have concerns.

That may have been true a decade ago, but nowadays unless you’re trying to squeeze out top-tier graphics performance (which isn’t the case with this game) you only need to worry about the control scheme. The code can be compiled for multiple platforms.

IMO, it does. Awards showcase and highlight ‘best of’ games, but what’s the point of highlighting a game that is inaccessible to a significant portion of the gaming community? You could potentially make the argument that their purpose is more towards recognising the efforts and success of the devs, but that’s not the aspect of awards that are being discussed in this context.

And also a PS5 exclusive. Eww

Ah. I’m guessing most people missed the joke :)

Wut? Pan European Game Information (PEGI) is the European equivalent of ESRB. Their ratings matter because they have an obvious bias against indies, which hurts their sales.

Jesus I’m so glad I moved to Linux

You’re being funny, right? Tell me you’re just kidding

Your “source” is an image

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/video-game-industry-revenues-by-platform/

Also, Steam’s estimated revenue and the PC gaming market are numbers available from various sources. I’ve pointed out why your source is nonsense, and provided more accurate figures.

uses it to their benefit which doesn’t (in my opinion) coincide with consumer benefit

That’s changed from your original ‘behave like a monopoly’ comment, and which I’m still waiting for clarification on. How exactly do they behave like a monopoly supposedly does?

I’ve experienced losing my old email address, and all traces of my old digital identity. They went above and beyond to work with me till I could prove to their satisfaction that I was the original owner of the account, then restored it to me. Steam support is generally amazing.

Lawsuits are cheap and meaningless. Unless actually ruled on, they don’t mean crap (and even then, sometimes it’s just clear evidence of jury / judge bias, like the infamous patent trolls of East Texas).

70-80% of pc market share

This source puts their market share at ~20% of the PC gaming market. Your source is for ‘85% market share in multi-publisher PC game stores’, which is not the same thing, and it’s based on a random tweet by their competitor CEO attacking them, which should carry approximately 0 credibility.

You keep using the word monopoly. It does not mean what you seem to think it means.

Ah. I was not expecting numbers for 2023 under a 2003 year heading.

Steam has an estimated revenue of 8.6bn out of PC gaming’s overall 45bn.

Do you have a source on that? I’d love to quote it in future

games by them have drm by default

No, they don’t. Unless otherwise implemented, Steam games are DRM free and can be launched directly from their executables.

they do behave like a monopoly

As evidenced by this post, they are not a monopoly. So what does this statement actually mean?

Try to find new friends, or a community where your interests are shared. Anybody who makes fun of another person for their interests is not a good friend.

So, 13 years down the road, it’s still too early to buy and play Terraria. Gotta wait till Redigit drops dead and hope nobody else picks up his mantle and releases more content for the game.

You know, there’s still new editions of Tetris coming out with twists…

It’s extra subclasses. You wouldn’t have been able to play all the subclasses anyway without starting a new run and spending extra time, so your argument is dead in the water from the start. Not that it matters, because your argument would basically be ‘never buy an indie game until its creator is dead’ or ‘creators must never release new content for their games’. The Terraria and Stardew Valley crowd would love your take on this.

Industrial diamond is extremely common, you can find diamond saws at reasonable prices in any hardware store

They did. Support was discontinued from the start of 2024. That you’ve been using it up to now without any problems is literally because they didn’t break anything on purpose. As long as none of the software changes it will continue to work.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4784-4F2B-1321-800A

MICROSOFT cut off support for windows 7. Is steam supposed to continue support for the entire OS?