melkathi

Indeed, steam sales used to have better deals and silly low flash sales.

But we are being drowned in deals, completely devaluing everything. We no longer buy something because we believe products are worth the price. We either buy them to support developers or on sale. And we know the next sale is always just a month away on any given platform. We have a wishlist and that tells us when something we want is at the low price we feel we have gotten the great deal and tricked the man. And if we buy something full price we seek a moral justification of supporting creators: that a product may simply be worth a price is rarely part of the discourse. Being cheap has become a virtue and we need to justify ourselves when we aren't. Heck, I have been told that my willingness to pay full price for things I want is an indication of poor impulse control and compulsive behaviour...

Why shady? It is normal to have an advertising budget. If this budget is used to cover the losses of a big sale, then it is still simply used for advertising. In tourism we see hotels doing fake reservations, so they pay the websites their comission and get to show sales and profits for the website algorithms, and so the "guests" can write reviews as "verified guests". That is shady. Getting potential customers to give your store a chance by cutting your own throat, that's pretty basic marketing. Not asking the Devs/publishers is problematic. Should be covered in whatever agreement of course.

Preparing for bloodlines 2?

The store needs work. I haven't found a way to sort games to find things I could be interested in. May be that there just aren't enough games on offer yet so they haven't felt the need to make a proper store.

Did the library story mission in Mordheim with my witch hunter warband. That took up all my evening. Marelooke knows what I'm talking about

Standing fast against the invasion of Conan Exiles screenshots: The Mordheim Inquisition went to the library

The Mordheim Inquisition clearing out heretics in witch hunter clothing

The Mordheim Inquisition took to the streets once more. Victory favoured the just. We were victorious, as was Sigmar's will.

The problem is exporting them. From what I understand you export your character, but companions don't have a way of getting exported into a character file for you to import them from.

Not playing Dark Future. The beta had been a lot of crazy fun. A roller coaster rider of exploding cars. It was a bit easy, so raised some worries about longevity, but speeding down the highway making things go boom was fun. The launch version got tweaked. Now the game is not fun. Wrote the devs some feedback on discord. Maybe they'll take it to heart. I'll leave the game installed so it autopatches if they do anything. But I am not sure I'll bother. . Of course it is aggravated by the fact that I loved the game when I had played it a few weeks ago.

Also, GreenManGaming has an anniversary sale for their store. Daily deals and that kind of stuff.

Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition free on Humble

Age of Barbarian is surprisingly fun, despite the cringe worthy writing, the oversexualisation, and the sometimes iffy controls. In a way it is nostalgia pure: bad writing, bad gameplay, and bad morals - how more early 90s can you get? It has two things going for it: well done atmosphere, and devs who truly care to fix anything they break.

From the GameSpot newsletter I just got: Steam's Summer Sale will go live on June 25 at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET / 5 PM GMT (and June 26 at 3 AM AET) and last for about two weeks.

Will be interested to see what they do with the tories. Somehow they seem to be the clan designers have the most trouble with to make interesting as a choice - they aren't emo-bashy like the Brujha, they are beaten in poshness by Ventrue and Lasombra, they aren't magicky like the Tremere, or sick like the Tzimizche. They aren't furry like the Gangrel. And they don't allow for absurd humour like the malks. They have style. And giving a player something so intangible is hard to pull off.

OK, tomorrow Dark Future (that car combat game I posted screenshots a while ago) is releasing. The devs had offered testers discount coupons on Steam. But Steam didn't fork out the coupons for some reason, so it will go on sale right away so people can get the promised discount. Dark Future - tomorrow 25% off.

I only regret when I buy games other people like, Not when other people buy games I like.

I find games have been shying away from too much true player agency. If they allow both Camarilla and Sabbat characters, and not just the level of choices from the original Bloodlines, they would need to create twice the content really, as neither the npcs nor locations could properly overlap. An indy dev may do that and have a project that takes years to even get into Early Access. A triple A title which wants to amaze us with snazzy effects? I doubt it. The multiple origins in Dragon Age: Origins are probably the most different content we'll ever see in a "big" RPG. Old Republic is the one RPG that did anything like that and it is an MMO. If they had only brought that out as a series of stand alone, single player RPGs with one game per character. It could have been wonderful.

And I doubt Giovanni. Too minor a player.

Ah, yes. Let someone else take the blame for once.

I am on Halcyon. Pooka is my red-side Mercs-Dark MM ( lvl 10 somewhere between Port Oakes and Cape Au Diablo) Aconitine is my reborn old Thugs-Poison MM, but instead of good ole CoV I relaunched her as a going rogue character so she is blue-side (lvl 5 Nova Praetoria, with the decision to start the Crusader or Warden resistance story arc). (back in 2007 she turned more grey, during the second Rikti Invasion. No alien steals her turf after all) I need to start scrapper again. I miss beating up Vhazilok in King's Row.

Sisters of Cacophony or bust?

Age of Wonders 3 is free on Humble right now

And you know there will be posters complaining about second generation forumites' eliticism.