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STEAM | December 2014 - Read OP for winter sale questions

Arthea

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Anybody tried to play Elegy for a Dead World yet? I'm not sure... I mean it seems like a lot of work, but concept is interesting enough and it looks nice. I think we never had Writing the game before, had we?

Most japanese developers do.

not only japanese! For example an indie dev makes a game, it's not very hot, so it gets bundled soon, then again and again, then finally given for free in 200K key chunks. One would think that after going this path a dev would want to make some extra money and add cards, granted they maybe will make several thousands euros, but considering it's for 2 days work at most, one would think they'd jump on that at once. Do they? nope!
Hating money is as real as valve time (><)
 

Arthea

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Nah, they crave money, just too dumb to figure things out.

what's to figure out? You can see how much revenue is made from which region by simply moogling, and what's even more important, with digital distribution, why would you lock your game from any region? even small money still are money and not like you have to spend anything to do that.

edited: the thread is slow today or what?
 

Deques

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But can we get BlazBlue gifted from other regions that have it? I guess it can be gifted, but as long as there is no ARCTAG on it
 
what's to figure out? You can see how much revenue is made from which region by simply moogling, and what's even more important, with digital distribution, why would you lock your game from any region? even small money still are money and not like you have to spend anything to do that.

edited: the thread is slow today or what?
They either forgot or signed some stupid ass contracts with someone(usually local publishers/retailers) so they couldn't publish their work.
 
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Deques

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I'm weak, and bought FFXIII-2. Squeenix better not let me down with the graphics options this time.

It's advertised to have more graphic options :D

Now Enhanced for Windows PC
Including a range of the downloadable content from the original console, plus the choice for either English or Japanese voiceovers, 60 frames-per-second graphics and customizeable rendering resolution (720p, 1080p, and more).
 

Arthea

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I'm weak, and bought FFXIII-2. Squeenix better not let me down with the graphics options this time.
It's OK, welcome to the club :)
I'm sorta afraid that FF13 resolution patch will break a game, I had no problems with it so far at all, if we disregard that fps aren't stable, still it never dropped for me so low to be a nuisance and lack of res and sound options, still the game runs like a hot knife through the butter for me, no freezes, crashes, serious slowdowns, nothing.
edited: I wish I finished it before today, but playing second time it's way harder to keep interest in a game.

Graphics: Yes / No

that's still better than no options! also I'm kinda curious how no graphics look (><)

edited: on the more serious note, sound options would be nice too, also I noticed nobody seem to care about lack of those but me
 
It's advertised to have more graphic options :D

Graphics: Yes / No

that's still better than no options! also I'm kinda curious how no graphics look (><)

The good thing about this option is that you get 300fps min guaranteed.

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Those Dungeon Defender guys sure have made a lot of money from that one idea they had, or at least that's how it seems.

Dungeon Defenders level - 2010
Dungeon Defenders iOS game - 2010
Dungeon Defenders game - 2011
Dungeon Defenders DLC - 2011-onwards
Dungeon Defenders Eternity - 2014
Dungeon Defenders II - 2014

I'm surprised people are still supporting them, but hey.
 

Arthea

Member
Exclusive Encore of lazy guys ended and no promised mystery game was revealed or keys sent? That's one way to do things, I guess (><)

it'll remain mystery forever
 

Momentary

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BlazBlue is number 6 on best sellers even after being $23.99 and not available in Europe and it still being 6:20 AM in the states. This bodes well for a CP release.
 

Monooboe

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It did say 'completed' as well but had an additional line saying ' refunded'. In the last hour or so that's changed to a big red 'canceled'.

Yeah I have canceled now also. I did send a complaint to the Swedish Consumer Agency, not that I really care about the game but more so that they might actually start figuring about the laws and rules about stuff like that.
 
BlazBlue is number 6 on best sellers even after being $23.99 and not available in Europe and it still being 6:20 AM in the states. This bodes well for a CP release.

First of all, are the characters THAT young? And secondly, isn't that still kind of illegal, even though they're drawn? I'm not sure on that second point, but it still makes one a bit uncomfortable.
 
Those Dungeon Defender guys sure have made a lot of money from that one idea they had, or at least that's how it seems.

Dungeon Defenders level - 2010
Dungeon Defenders iOS game - 2010
Dungeon Defenders game - 2011
Dungeon Defenders DLC - 2011-onwards
Dungeon Defenders Eternity - 2014
Dungeon Defenders II - 2014

I'm surprised people are still supporting them, but hey.

Not a fan of the game, but I think the only misstep was Eternity, other than that It's really just been the one game and DLC
First of all, are the characters THAT young? And secondly, isn't that still kind of illegal, even though they're drawn? I'm not sure on that second point, but it still makes one a bit uncomfortable.
Really?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlazBlue:_Chrono_Phantasma
 

Tizoc

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First of all, are the characters THAT young? And secondly, isn't that still kind of illegal, even though they're drawn? I'm not sure on that second point, but it still makes one a bit uncomfortable.

Most of them are, the little girl in the black dress is like 100s of years old though.
Pretty sure all the girls outside of Litchi are barely legal :V
Read this at your own risk but the little girl with the ginormous hair and staff
is going commando
 

Arthea

Member
BlazBlue is number 6 on best sellers even after being $23.99 and not available in Europe and it still being 6:20 AM in the states. This bodes well for a CP release.

the steam bestsellers list only shows regional sales, even if a game available worldwide.

The FFXIII patch is out, and woo, it delivered some graphics options.

a game runs well with new options?
 

Uzzy

Member
The FFXIII patch is out, and woo, it delivered some graphics options. Resolution options up to 1920x1080, shadow resolution options and anti-aliasing options. MSAA up to x16.
 

Tizoc

Member
The FFXIII patch is out, and woo, it delivered some graphics options. Resolution options up to 1920x1080, shadow resolution options and anti-aliasing options. MSAA up to x16.

Durante's fix only runs i I run gedosato right? Will update this as soon as I get home X3 hOW BIG is the update though/
 

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If you're in the US and use Visa, Rakuten (Buy.com) has Xbox One (Black) & DS4 (White & Camo) controllers for $35 with free shipping. Checkout with Visa Checkout and use promo code: VCO15

Source: Slickdeals.

I was looking at getting an XB1/DS4 controller yesterday here in the UK. £60. Wish we had deals like this. Don't suppose anyone wants to ship me a controller for Christmas?

Edit: Looks like the XB1 controller's only £30 on Amazon. Not so bad.
 

Rhaknar

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time to test out FF13 then, see how the new options are and how the frame rate is on my 970s
 

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Rhaknar

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continuum shift is back, but now says its not available in my region. lol
 

Milamber

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-_- Chrono Phantasma

Too late! Damage has been done. Virtual women has been violated.

EDIT: Call the police and tell them that you have assaulted multitudes of female alluded bits of data and had your way with their code all in the safety of your own home and no real people were physically harmed except for your own.
 

redlacs

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it's a hoot

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Rhaknar

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Link? it's not showing up on my region and we are next door :(

not available for me, its hoswing up on the main page of the client tho, I click it and it says not available n my region

anyway, not to jinx it guys, but at least to me, Final Fantasy XIII is running pretty much as I expected a actual proper port to run

1080p, 16X MSAA, shadow resolution at 4096X4096 (I havent tried at 8192x8192 yes), pretty much 60fps :D

some dipping into the 55s, 57s etc, but any game does that. I only played the first 15mins or so, with the train bit and the first boss up to the save point. I still need to mess with my SLI settings, theres no official profile

patch seems good to me, but then again, I didnt try it pre patch so /shrug

I forgot how pretty the game is too
 

Monooboe

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Anyone use those Xbox 360 Chrome controllers? They say they did some improvements on them over the original controller. I need a new wireless controller that isn't Bluetooth.
 
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