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The Valve and Steam Platform Discussion Thread

Latelistener

Arcane
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Its payment system to get a free drm game, it doesnt matter their political agenda or social, for now.
Are you aware that DRM on Steam is entirely optional? The games sold on GOG can be launched on Steam without Steam, once downloaded. I'm not talking about all games, but that's how it works, unless devs aren't completely retarded.
 

Unkillable Cat

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Codex 2014 Make the Codex Great Again! Grab the Codex by the pussy
Do you think Cleve would've sold 5k units in first month without Incloosive Codex base? No. Maybe 1k at best. Thats a kinda of PR and trolling/talking with your players. It worked!

Its not a bad game, but i rather play some Might and Magic tbh...or Dagger Fall (oh dat fucking Tod Howard)

Imagine how many millions he could've sold if he'd released it 20 years ago and kept making new games....

Imagine how much of a nobody he would be if he had released a string of poor-content games for the past 20 years, and no one would know who he was. No time to build a reputation, no reputation to fall back on. Classic Catch-22.

He hedged his bet, it paid off, I hope he's happy with the outcome, and I hope you lot are happy with the game. Otherwise, bleh!
 

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Codex 2014
I'm personally not sure whether 8% or 30% are appropriate, but I agree Tim's sentiment that people "should constantly be on lookout for better solutions," that devs should demand better ways while Valve may defending their position.

I cannot verify it so don't quote me on this, but I heard big AAA publishers already negotiated deals with Valve for cut lower than the standard 30%. Probably makes sense their games tend to sell hundreds of thousands copies.
 

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Codex 2014
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds becoming the most popular game on Steam over DotA2 and CS:GO: http://www.pcgamer.com/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-tops-dota-2-in-steam-playercount/

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds tops Dota 2 in Steam player count
Battle royale shooter PUBG surpasses Valve's MOBA as it rockets toward a million concurrent players.

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It's no secret PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is on a tear—the Early Access battle royale shooter has been raking in sales and drawing new players at an incredible rate. It climbed ahead of CS:GO in player count (over 500,000) less than a month ago, and hit 8 million copies sold earlier this week. Now it's claimed a new, perhaps inevitable victory: surpassing Dota 2 in terms of player count, making it the top game on Steam (as of this writing).

PUBG's seat in the top slot might not last long: Dota 2 often boasts over a million concurrents on any given day, and is only a little below PUBG at the moment, but this is the first time Bluehole's multiplayer shooter has topped it and it certainly won't be the last.
 

Thane Solus

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In retrospect, it's amazing that Valve never made a survival shooter of their own.

They made loot boxes which now become the next scam of the triple A industry. See Secret World, Shadow of Mordor, Call of Shit and upcoming AAA titles. Not even worth pirating. Good job AAA industry you won:)))
 

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See who is de facto #1:

#10 - LawBreakers
#9 - Football Manager 2017
#8 - H1Z1: King of the Kill
#7 - Grand Theft Auto V
#6 - Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
#5 - Total War: WARHAMMER II
#4 - Prey
#3 - Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
#2 - No Man's Sky
#1 - PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS

According to StemSpy data, No Man's Sky has sold over 120K copies after 1.3 update and during the sale.

Last week's top sellers (by revenues, not counting microtransactions) got several new and returning entries (how refreshing!), of course not #1:

#10 - Total War: WARHAMMER II
#9 - XCOM 2: War of the Chosen
#8 - Prey
#7 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
#6 - Quake Champions
#5 - F1™ 2017
#4 - Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
#3 - The Escapists 2
#2 - Grand Theft Auto V
#1 - PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
 

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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds becoming the most popular game on Steam over DotA2 and CS:GO: http://www.pcgamer.com/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-tops-dota-2-in-steam-playercount/

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds tops Dota 2 in Steam player count
Battle royale shooter PUBG surpasses Valve's MOBA as it rockets toward a million concurrent players.

yzxw3GabDH9PmMgVZYJahR-650-80.jpg


It's no secret PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is on a tear—the Early Access battle royale shooter has been raking in sales and drawing new players at an incredible rate. It climbed ahead of CS:GO in player count (over 500,000) less than a month ago, and hit 8 million copies sold earlier this week. Now it's claimed a new, perhaps inevitable victory: surpassing Dota 2 in terms of player count, making it the top game on Steam (as of this writing).

PUBG's seat in the top slot might not last long: Dota 2 often boasts over a million concurrents on any given day, and is only a little below PUBG at the moment, but this is the first time Bluehole's multiplayer shooter has topped it and it certainly won't be the last.

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Mynon

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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds becoming the most popular game on Steam over DotA2 and CS:GO: http://www.pcgamer.com/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-tops-dota-2-in-steam-playercount/

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds tops Dota 2 in Steam player count
Battle royale shooter PUBG surpasses Valve's MOBA as it rockets toward a million concurrent players.

yzxw3GabDH9PmMgVZYJahR-650-80.jpg


It's no secret PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is on a tear—the Early Access battle royale shooter has been raking in sales and drawing new players at an incredible rate. It climbed ahead of CS:GO in player count (over 500,000) less than a month ago, and hit 8 million copies sold earlier this week. Now it's claimed a new, perhaps inevitable victory: surpassing Dota 2 in terms of player count, making it the top game on Steam (as of this writing).

PUBG's seat in the top slot might not last long: Dota 2 often boasts over a million concurrents on any given day, and is only a little below PUBG at the moment, but this is the first time Bluehole's multiplayer shooter has topped it and it certainly won't be the last.
Player may be Unknown, but his Battlegrounds sure aren't
 

duke nukem

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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds becoming the most popular game on Steam over DotA2 and CS:GO: http://www.pcgamer.com/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-tops-dota-2-in-steam-playercount/

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds tops Dota 2 in Steam player count
Battle royale shooter PUBG surpasses Valve's MOBA as it rockets toward a million concurrent players.

yzxw3GabDH9PmMgVZYJahR-650-80.jpg


It's no secret PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is on a tear—the Early Access battle royale shooter has been raking in sales and drawing new players at an incredible rate. It climbed ahead of CS:GO in player count (over 500,000) less than a month ago, and hit 8 million copies sold earlier this week. Now it's claimed a new, perhaps inevitable victory: surpassing Dota 2 in terms of player count, making it the top game on Steam (as of this writing).

PUBG's seat in the top slot might not last long: Dota 2 often boasts over a million concurrents on any given day, and is only a little below PUBG at the moment, but this is the first time Bluehole's multiplayer shooter has topped it and it certainly won't be the last.
Dota is still more popular, because it has more players than pubg most of the day, but pubg just has those big peaks. Still extremely popular though.

Netcode is garbage in pubg.
In retrospect, it's amazing that Valve never made a survival shooter of their own.
They prob. rightfully thought that the market is way too saturated with those.

How did this game get so big anyway? Paying twitch streamers?
Pewdiepie has hard-on on pubg so they get massive free advertisement. He plays it like every week from monday to friday several hours. I must say it is more interesting to watch him playing it than playing the game my self. It is just so frustrating when you get instakilled all the time. Open door*pam* your dead because there was a camper behind it in prone position with shotgun.:argh: And the final circles are bullshit because it is basically matter of luck if you are going to win it or not. Never had luck with circle, because it lands favorably to enemies always.:mad:
 

Taka-Haradin puolipeikko

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Codex 2016 - The Age of Grimoire Make the Codex Great Again! Grab the Codex by the pussy Bubbles In Memoria
What happened to Steam client?
As far as I can tell it is no longer possible copy or even see URLs from it while browsing.

Does anyone else have this issue?
 

LESS T_T

Arcane
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Codex 2014
Finally, you can activate keys on the website: https://store.steampowered.com/account/registerkey

So it's kinda new activation system. It gives you a confirmation email when you activate a key through this, unlike an activation through the client.

Thank you for activating your product on Steam!

Your activation of HackyZack was successful. It is recommended that you keep this information in a safe place. It can be used as proof-of-purchase in the future.

Probably useful when you dispute purchases/refunds with third-party sellers.

I guess this web-based activation will replace the current one when the new Steam client is coming.
 

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It is almost identical. I use browser more often than the client. I sure hope they'll making a new version of it though, some of the things are outdated.
 

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Arcane
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Last week's top sellers (by revenues, not counting microtransactions) got several new and returning entries (how refreshing!), of course not #1:

#10 - Total War: WARHAMMER II
#9 - XCOM 2: War of the Chosen
#8 - Prey
#7 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
#6 - Quake Champions
#5 - F1™ 2017
#4 - Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
#3 - The Escapists 2
#2 - Grand Theft Auto V
#1 - PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS

Last week's top sellers (by revenues, not counting microtransactions) are not entirely boring, a bit inclined even, except #1 of course:

#10 - Divinity: Original Sin 2
#9 - Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
#8 - XCOM 2
#7 - The Escapists 2
#6 - Grand Theft Auto V
#5 - Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
#4 - Absolver
#3 - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition
#2 - XCOM 2: War of the Chosen
#1 - PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
 

CreamyBlood

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Yeah, when? They're going to completely re-code an almost fifteen years old spaghetti and meatball, hackneyed, unintuitive, convoluted mess into something somewhat logical and rational in the near future?

That will be an interesting feat.
 

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