Yguado believes that those players will “graduate” from Roblox and other sandbox titles, although they probably won’t be leaving Roblox forever.

So they’ll simultaneously “graduate” and also not graduate? Okay.

six of their free-to-play releases on Steam will be delisted on March 31st.

almost cared for a bit.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2382520/Erenshor/ is a single player mmo with simulated other players.

You may also want to check Valheim and the like out.

Also, F2P games are definitely a thing. Warframe and Where Winds Meet are both not really cash grabby to play.

I’ve got 150 games in my backlog. I am happy to wait a year or longer until a hundred dollar buggy piece of shit game becomes a polished, discounted 25 dollar game.

If they didn’t have fortnite and unreal engine money propping them up it would have closed by now. Hasn’t been profitable since it opened in 2018.

IIRC Gog takes 30% but not sure we can count them owing to what they distribute.

The only actual competitor store (i.e. not reselling steam keys) at present is Epic with its 88/12 split after a million in sales, and as far as I know it hasn’t been profitable since it opened in 2018, despite straight up giving away product and buying exclusives to try and build a base, so not really the best argument.

Obligatory LOL if we’re going to seriously note either the EA or Ubisoft stores in this discussion. MS probably falls into that pile too but tbh haven’t looked into them much.

Yes, they have a good interface, but they take a ludicrous portion of game revenue.

They take the same cut as Microsft, Nintendo, Google, Apple, Sony, and more. You wanna argue 30% is excessive? I agree, but Steam isn’t an outlier here. At least Steam has enough extra shit they do for devs to make that 30% almost feel worth it.

Property rights get all sorts of goofy when money is involved. If homey had released the mod for free and just had a patreon or whatev on the side, no one would care, but because he was charging for it, CDPR is obigated to vigorously defend their copyright.

A TPM… Wasn’t that the requirement that killed a huge amount of momentum for Windows 11?

What good sex does to a guy

“People aren’t deepthroating the plagiarism and csam machine that we keep saying will put them out of a job???”

I was technically driving trains too, as I was playing The Trolley Solution.

Me and the boys were absolutely about the warhammer one and I’m pretty sure once it gets on a good sale we’re co-oping the recent one.

I watched the Secret Level ep on that the other day. Me and my buddies were like, “Wow what a cool universe we should play that game!”

https://www.thegamer.com/wuchang-fallen-feathers-review-bomb-censorship-update-changes-patch/

Could be from stuff akin to this. This is the second bombing of Wuchang, first was post-launch due to UE5 spec demands

Good for stuff like Chinese review bombing.

Why buy new when I have a backlog, the PS1/2 catalog emulated, and can wait 6+ months for a sale

I own Transformers Devastation on Steam, which was delisted. You can still install it. Achievements got weird for it but still more or less worked. You can’t buy stuff from the market for it including emotes or cards, but can trade or buy some of it with points.

it has a tony hawk mode, flappy bird, and guitar hero, recently it added a boy band with a few singles. Not shocking they’d go somewhere else goofy

I have torrented Mario Kart World one thousand times since it launched and have thus cost Nintendo 70,000 dollars. If I can keep up this pace, Nintendo will be bankrupt within the next year or two.

Not shocking considerimg Denuvo is an ongoing cost (IIRC) and Kunitsu is over the hump of the majority of its sales.

Disappointing but not shocking. Game was a mess at launch.

Less stealth and more “I’m hopped up on goofballs and nerd rage lets goooooooo”

Completely ignoring the plot in Fallout 4 as I help yet another settlement

Shoulda used the magnets for hall effect sticks rather then clacking joycons on the thing

On Steam I have categories for played, unplayed, playing, and never touching again. Works well, but that backlog is brutal.

I had heard that the juice simply isn’t worth the squeeze. IIRC PirateSoftware said like 2% of his sales came from Mac and it was all of the rigamarole you mentioned to get it working there.

The key to making gaming on macs great… you mean having games?

I’m not saying it’s a desert… but no one is calling it a tropical paradise either.

Hades did straight numbers, not a shocker they’d go for another. Couldn’t see Transistor or Bastion getting sequels, (Or Pyre but… lol Pyre.) and more importantly, I’d rather they tell new stories.

Was never keen on Phantom Hourglass or Spirit Tracks because of the control schemes… loved Okami’s brush though, go fig.

I have 170 games in my backlog and the summer sale is coming. I ain’t spending 80 bucks on one video game.

Also, folks fucking hated it at the jump. Whats wild to me is that Epic could factor in all the lessons Steam learned over near two decades resulting in a relatively equal product, but instead… doesn’t.

I add a lot of random games on my steam wishlist, many aren’t out yet. The oldest one I’ve wishlisted that is unreleased, by a good margin, is Silksong, back on 6/3/20. Next is Showa American Story on 1/8/22, then Clockwork Revolution (by the guys who did Wasteland 3 and Tides of Numenaria, good pedigree!) on 6/22/23. There’s a fair amount more that are closer to current day. Ultimately if these games never come out, I lose nothing. If/when they do then I get a lil e-mail that lets me know, and I can be like “oh yeah I did wishlist that didn’t I?”, then I look at a few reviews to make sure it isn’t absolute trash, and if it isn’t, I buy a cool game I wanted a few years ago and forgot about.

That’s where Silksong lies for me.

I feel real bad for folks who are deeply invested in it though, like brother there are a GRIP of metroidvanias out there. You are absolutely eating good in metroidvanias, don’t let yourself starve while you wait for Silksong, it’s only going to magnify any quibbles you have with it. Play Guns of Fury. Play Animal Well. Play 9 Years of Shadows. Play Pseudoregalia. Don’t let Silksong build itself up in your head.

If you never actually own a Ubisoft game that logically pirating them isn’t theft right? Right?

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It’s almost like there’s a limit to how many times you can return to the same creative well until you hit diminishing returns and run out of steam.

GTA, which SR was derivative of, is still going strong, and 6 will almost definitely make bank. I think the SR problem was keeping the same cast too long… and maybe expanding scope. Three was goofy but still fun, four got a bit too stupid. That’s something the SR reboot should have resolved inherently via a new cast and locale but they dropped the ball.

The same Bobby Kotick listed in Epsteins black book??

If you want other already released star fox nostalgia trips, astro dogs and ex-zodiac have your back and are on sale atm.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1301230/Astrodogs/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1249480/ExZodiac/

They’ve done ports like the mobile one that got turned into the steam one, (Which was disparaged due to quality, then significantly improved), but nothing like a ff7 remake or hd2d remaster like dq3.

In the hypothetical where Concord was F2P it still would be competing against juggernauts like OW2 and now Marvel Rivals, but with a cast that is objectively not pleasing to the eye. It could still be alive but it would 100% not be thriving.