Gorgon

Sekiro is awesome. I think I like it better than souls, and I'm one of those impossible people who play fighting games with an arcade stick. Let me tell you, it's HARD. muhahahahahaha. I tried a little bit of Devil May Cry and the difference immense, it was like the enemies were just standing around waiting to die.

I keep thinking Microsoft has the Mechwarrior license, that was Microprose, like 20 years ago.

It's a good question. I think the on Having exclusives does the precise opposite of forcing competition and innovation, except for competition on buying exclusives, which is nothing the consumer benefits from. Competition happens when several stores offer substitutable products. Then the consumer can pick one over the other because the overall package appeals to them the most. Whether that will translate into a benefit for the consumer still remains to be seen. It does not, and it will not. Steam is actually throwing money at new functionalities (they have a new game-event display thing or whatever it is coming out of closed Beta now - whether it's good is anyone's guess), meaning it was something they'd alreayd started long ago before the trashfire that is Epic. Hells, they're even nice enough to let the TOW and Metro pages stay up* instead of nixing them. If this exclusives thing starts catching, you can say goodbye to that, because no-one's going to spend money developing, testing, and adding features that people may or may not like to a product when they can just spend it making sure people have no choice using that product regardless of how crappy it is. *I hear the Metro devs are telling people who bought the game on Epic to go to the Steam forum to report bugs - I have the entire Metro seires on my ingore list because the games never interested me and I'm SURE AS HELL not touching the EGS to find out, does anyone know if this is true? I don't consider STEAM or any other distributor to be worth anywhere near what they are charging and I don't think I've ever used one of their 'features'. The friends list maybe, sometimes a post on steam forum. I mean, how hard is that to do ?. STEAM, please don't continue 'developing' your platform, there is already too much bloat autoloading into my game. If no distributor is worth what they are charging, why are all companies using them instead of doing the distribution themselves? You don't think that, say, Steam showing your game on the splash page or on the discovery queue during sales is a ridiculous amount of targeted publicity at *checks numbers* EIGHTY MILLION PEOPLE (holy crap)? On the user side, you've never checked reviews on a game before buying it? If you have a technical problem with a game, you never check the forums to see if anyone has encountered it before and if (and how) they've solved it? You've never bought more than one game/x-pac/DLC at a time (remember, Epic has no shopping cart, which is something i still lol at)? Edit: Do the devs of the games you play not post announcements or patch notes on the forums? Do you not read those? The ease for customers in having everything in one place. That's it I think, that's the only real reason everyone doesn't have their own distribution and the reason change has been so long in coming. PS : are we really calling patch notes a 'feature'.

Having exclusives does the precise opposite of forcing competition and innovation, except for competition on buying exclusives, which is nothing the consumer benefits from. Competition happens when several stores offer substitutable products. Then the consumer can pick one over the other because the overall package appeals to them the most. Whether that will translate into a benefit for the consumer still remains to be seen. It does not, and it will not. Steam is actually throwing money at new functionalities (they have a new game-event display thing or whatever it is coming out of closed Beta now - whether it's good is anyone's guess), meaning it was something they'd alreayd started long ago before the trashfire that is Epic. Hells, they're even nice enough to let the TOW and Metro pages stay up* instead of nixing them. If this exclusives thing starts catching, you can say goodbye to that, because no-one's going to spend money developing, testing, and adding features that people may or may not like to a product when they can just spend it making sure people have no choice using that product regardless of how crappy it is. *I hear the Metro devs are telling people who bought the game on Epic to go to the Steam forum to report bugs - I have the entire Metro seires on my ingore list because the games never interested me and I'm SURE AS HELL not touching the EGS to find out, does anyone know if this is true? I don't consider STEAM or any other distributor to be worth anywhere near what they are charging and I don't think I've ever used one of their 'features'. The friends list maybe, sometimes a post on steam forum. I mean, how hard is that to do ?. STEAM, please don't continue 'developing' your platform, there is already too much bloat autoloading into my game.

Having exclusives does the precise opposite of forcing competition and innovation, except for competition on buying exclusives, which is nothing the consumer benefits from. Competition happens when several stores offer substitutable products. Then the consumer can pick one over the other because the overall package appeals to them the most. Well, it IS competition clearly. Whether that will translate into a benefit for the consumer still remains to be seen. A shakeup of the STEAM monopoly is overdue in any case. Nothing can happen without it.

Depends. Is it really a boss or just a miniboss? :D And what do we even consider to be the first boss? :D The first boss - boss. The one you are supposed to lose to. I *am* going to beat him so I can get 2 seconds of different cutscene.

The exclusive deal sucks, but, I already have Unreal Engine installed whiich forces the Epic launcher. So, don't care as much as I probably should. The only metric that really matters is how good the game is, after all.

Games aren't suppposed to be fun, they are supposed to be hard. wait. what.. Play Sekiro, you lightweights !!!

Is anyone else getting destroyed by the first Sekiro Boss.

I guess I'll get excited in 2020.

So when ?

The exclusive deals suck because they probably mean they will be able to charge full price. On that we can agree. In the long run it probably also means that STEAM can't charge 30%. So, maybe, cheaper games once the exclusive period is over. I don't hold much stock in STEAM sales. Seems like you can find better prices by googling the game most of the time.

That's not how competition works. EGS wasn't making their platforms better, they are just throwing money away to get market share, and they will get these money back when they get enought market share, from the consumers. It's not competition they want, it's monoploly. Sure, same as everyone. I'm pretty sure that's what competition is. No one is doing anything out of the goodness of their hearts.

Too tempting, they are handing out sweet deals like there is no tomorrow. On the whole though, if the STEAM monopoly breaks, that's not a bad thing. Competition and all. It's going to make STEAM better too.

Probably too late now though, and they are thinking about access too. The deal would have been even better because they are already using the unreal engine. That's another 'deductable'. Someone at Private Division might be kicking themselves. Hard to predict how it's going to play out though and you don't want to be caught in the middle like Metro Exodus.

It's probably because of the profit tiers STEAM introduced, or that's part of the reason. The more money a game makes the better the cut gets. If you want to maximise you chances of reaching those tiers you raise the price. Short answer, it's all STEAM's fault for charging 30% for doing practically nothing.

I use it for Tekken and Darksouls, works like a charm.

It's out on consoles. You don't need a lot of PC power to match console performance unless it's horribly optimised or something.

Fortnite just looks like complete **** and yet it's a phenomenon that comes around like maybe once in a generation. I don't get it. Who are all the fortnite players. I don't actuallty know any.

bummer

I spent 20 mins just dodging Darkeater Midir with no weapon equipped. Getting to know his move set. Is that normal.

I think I got one an accidentially sold it, so now my drop rate is worse. Is that how it does.

Please tell me it was at least the engine ported version.

There is a new Unreal tournament, it's even free. Been in alpha forever though. https://www.epicgames.com/unrealtournament/#splash I never even tried it because my main sparing partner is on an ancient Mac that can't run anything new.