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(Jim Sterling) Say hello to Digital Moraxide

Oh my god, here we go again

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I said this in a YT comment on the video, but there's no way this is actually DigiHom even though the names are similar. Yes, DigiHom used fake names to get stuff on Greenlight without calling attention to themselves, but they used names like "ECC Games" and "Victory Games", not a name that's so similar to their real name.

Though, this begs the question of why anyone on God's green Earth would want to try and associate themselves with Digital Homicide in anyway, even if they were just trying to make bank off of trading cards. They must be working under the assumption that any attention is good attention (the same tactic Donald Trump has used for the longest time).
 
The trailer is hilarious; they repeat the same areas a couple of times. Does the game really have that little to show?
 
This would be like if they caught that one serial killer and then Jeffrey Chalmer came in to work the next day
 
Just checked the Steam marketplace for giggles. There are 5 trading cards for Catacomb Explorers, with the price of all but one hovering around 7 cents (the outlier was at 15 cents when I checked).

However, the foil trading cards are being sold for multiple dollars, the emoticons are being sold for a bit over $1 each, and the game itself is being sold for 99 cents, so I guess a lot of people are treating it like a lottery ticket with a really shitty payout. This whole trend of people buying obviously shitty games to make pennies on the dollar off of trading cards is incredibly fascinating to me, and I could easily see someone smarter than me writing a really interesting college paper on it.

I'll personally stick with working a 9 to 5 job and using my free time to actually play games I enjoy instead of making pitiful amounts of money off of trading cards.
 
DrArchon said:
I said this in a YT comment on the video, but there's no way this is actually DigiHom even though the names are similar. Yes, DigiHom used fake names to get stuff on Greenlight without calling attention to themselves, but they used names like "ECC Games" and "Victory Games", not a name that's so similar to their real name.

Though, this begs the question of why anyone on God's green Earth would want to try and associate themselves with Digital Homicide in anyway, even if they were just trying to make bank off of trading cards. They must be working under the assumption that any attention is good attention (the same tactic Donald Trump has used for the longest time).
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They probably knew they'd get a video from a certain famous games journalist about their game if they associated themselves with Digital Homicide. Mission accomplished, I guess.
 
I thought the dev would be called "Moraxis" or something like that and the title was a pun on the one we love to hate, but nope: "Digital Moraxide", with all its letters.
 
Why is Sterling drawing attention to this crap?

With the amount of bloat-ware that drops onto Steam daily, it would otherwise be lost in the shuffle and entirely undiscovered.

At this point he's just free advertising for these devs.
 
Aaron D. said:
Why is Sterling drawing attention to this crap?

With the amount of bloat-ware that drops onto Steam daily, it would otherwise be lost in the shuffle and entirely undiscovered.

At this point he's just free advertising for these devs.
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Especially today, where you get free refunds for games you played for less than 2 hours. So suppose you buy a scam game that lasts 15 minutes... you can just refund it? Like, there's no mechanism here where the consumer is being screwed.
 
Stumpokapow said:
Especially today, where you get free refunds for games you played for less than 2 hours. So suppose you buy a scam game that lasts 15 minutes... you can just refund it? Like, there's no mechanism here where the consumer is being screwed.
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I think these "developers" don't care for sales anymore, for them the money is on trading cards and I think that even with the refund they still get their cut from the trading.
 
alfredofroylan said:
I think these "developers" don't care for sales anymore, for them the money is on trading cards and I think that even with the refund they still get their cut from the trading.
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The point he's making is that there's no longer a pressing need to warn people about games that are barely games as they're now protected by Steam's refund system, and to a lesser extent Steam's review system.
 
Aaron D. said:
Why is Sterling drawing attention to this crap?

With the amount of bloat-ware that drops onto Steam daily, it would otherwise be lost in the shuffle and entirely undiscovered.

At this point he's just free advertising for these devs.
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You're under the misapprehension that he earns his money from PC gamers looking for buyers guides and not console gamers being reaffirmed that they made the right choice by buying a console.
 
Aaron D. said:
Why is Sterling drawing attention to this crap?

With the amount of bloat-ware that drops onto Steam daily, it would otherwise be lost in the shuffle and entirely undiscovered.

At this point he's just free advertising for these devs.
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He also has a segment for the good greenlight games.
 
alfredofroylan said:
I think these "developers" don't care for sales anymore, for them the money is on trading cards and I think that even with the refund they still get their cut from the trading.
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So what's the problem? If people are happy buying fake games to get cards, and developers are happy selling fake games to get cards, why the need to complain? No one is being mislead. Valve might decide they don't want their cut. I thought the point of Jim shitting on garbage was to protect people, not to sit around being a miserable jerk all the time
 
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