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As you can see, the charts clearly show Steam has videogames. Also sales? Also it eats all your time.

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  • el_vicioel_vicio Registered User regular
    re: Batman

    I thought the trailer was showing off potential coop? I have no idea.
    I'd prefer to go alone though, because I'm the goddamned Batman, and that's how I roll

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  • WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    Re-posting this, because

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMZaYuXGYSI

    The slaughtering grounds card has gone up 6 cents since the video went up!

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    el_vicio wrote: »
    re: Batman

    I thought the trailer was showing off potential coop? I have no idea.
    I'd prefer to go alone though, because I'm the goddamned Batman, and that's how I roll

    Co-op would be pretty cool in a game like that, although I doubt I'd ever have anyone to play it with.

  • el_vicioel_vicio Registered User regular
    Brolo wrote: »
    el_vicio wrote: »
    re: Batman

    I thought the trailer was showing off potential coop? I have no idea.
    I'd prefer to go alone though, because I'm the goddamned Batman, and that's how I roll

    Co-op would be pretty cool in a game like that, although I doubt I'd ever have anyone to play it with.

    I'm not entirely sure I'll be able to run Arkham Knight, so coop partners are not a concern yet ^^

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  • KwoaruKwoaru Registered User regular
    re the batman trailer at the end of the last thread I kinda hope the companion ai is like a PoP08 style elika thing where you call them in as part of your combos but you don't have to worry about them getting killed or fucking up your stealth or whatever

    though I guess the problem with that is they can't just stand behind you like elika did

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    i know he's like, doing a Thing or whatever

    but i just can't take jim sterling seriously with how he dresses and how he has his shit set up like he's delivering a speech to the hitler youth

  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    I dont know why he thinks we need to see him

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  • WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    Well it does change to clips/videos of games besides the beginning and end, but ya that beginning and end , oof those outfits

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  • RadiusRadius Registered User regular
    i know he's like, doing a Thing or whatever

    but i just can't take jim sterling seriously with how he dresses and how he has his shit set up like he's delivering a speech to the hitler youth

    I agree, but I'm unable to take almost all internet video people seriously and look at how much money they have compared to how much money I have.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    I dont know why he thinks we need to see him

    It helps to distract from his voice.

  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    hmm my attempt to be clever and get the jump on KSP 1.0 has been defeated by the fact that using the old saved games are "not recommended" and also the entire tech tree has been revamped so some of my craft don't even work without a bucket of science.

    Whoops!

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    we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    i know he's like, doing a Thing or whatever

    but i just can't take jim sterling seriously with how he dresses and how he has his shit set up like he's delivering a speech to the hitler youth

    Wait, so you get it, but you don't get it? What are you trying to say here?

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    i know he's like, doing a Thing or whatever

    but i just can't take jim sterling seriously with how he dresses and how he has his shit set up like he's delivering a speech to the hitler youth

    Wait, so you get it, but you don't get it? What are you trying to say here?

    even in jest, it's in pretty poor taste and cheapens the rest of his rhetoric

  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    Because at some point he's still wearing a black suit, red tie, and black leather gloves, standing at a podium with a logo designed to evoke nazi imagery dominating the space behind him

    The fact that he's doing it ironically doesn't change that fact

  • Lavender GoomsLavender Gooms Tiny Bat Registered User regular
    It is weird that he kept that theme going after he left the escapist. He doesn't need a gimmick, he's interesting enough to listen to on his own. Just talk about video games, Jim.

  • Duke 2.0Duke 2.0 Time Trash Cat Registered User regular
    I'll admit, I have never watched a Jim Stirling video partially because of that gimmick

    and partially because he was part of the Escapist

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    The "Glorious PC Master Race" was an ironic joke once, too.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Didn't the "glorious PC master race" thing originate from Yahtzee basically making fun of PC gamers?

  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    well PC games are better so

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    we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
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  • DixonDixon Screwed...possibly doomed CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2015
    Paying for mods seems wrong to me but I guess any PC user who has been playing PC games for a long time would be so used to mods just being parts of the game. Games like UT99 or Jedi Knight would not of been the same without the support of mods/maps/skins made by other users.

    I guess it is a little selfish though. I mean they are putting a lot of work into what they create, if I were in there shoes I wouldn't mind being able to charge for it.

    Guess I'm just old and stuck in my ways

    EDIT: Gabe pic in the OP is the best

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    edited April 2015
    i think what people have the most issue with is the idea that a large majority of the money goes to Bethesda, and not the modder

    so where Valve tries to do something noble and allow modders the CHOICE to charge for their work, they sully it by giving the majority to Bethesda, forcing modders to charge higher prices to make their honest dollar

    in this model, what they've really created is a way for Bethesda to generate DLC on the cheap, as opposed to creating ways for modders to make a living

    that's the kindling

    then the part where making mods go paid sort of borks the previously installed free editions is the spark that ignites the whole thing into a shitstorm


    the flipside of this situation is, I think there are far too few moddable games out there, and maybe Valve giving publishers a way to recoup on modding investment will mean that we'll get more mod support for more titles

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    Oghulk wrote: »
    A few subreddits I follow dedicated to PC Gaming have gone into a shit storm over the whole modding thing. Calling for a boycott of steam, etc.

    I rarely purchase games on there, but like fuck if I'm not gonna buy the Witcher 3 for that sweet soundtrack and what not.

    I don't understand the appeal of reddit at all

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  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    Donations to the modder are better than the steam system, if only because it all goes to the modder.

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  • Crippl3Crippl3 oh noRegistered User regular
    el_vicio wrote: »
    re: Batman

    I thought the trailer was showing off potential coop? I have no idea.
    I'd prefer to go alone though, because I'm the goddamned Batman, and that's how I roll

    You just have AI companions with you, it's not co-op. Rocksteady called it "Dual Play," you can switch between the other character with you "seamlessly" during combat. Looks like that'll be available during stealth too, from what Robin was doing in a few of those shots.

  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    almost half? doesn't bethesda get 75%? or did I read that wrong

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  • NikolaiNikolai SSSSSSSSSSS Registered User regular
    fuck yes a new Dirt game. And it looks like it doesn't have all the stupid gymkhana stuff and is more sim like. Basically what I wanted.

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  • Crippl3Crippl3 oh noRegistered User regular
    Jasconius wrote: »
    almost half? doesn't bethesda get 75%? or did I read that wrong

    For Skyrim, Valve gets 30, modder gets 25, Bethesda gets 45.

  • Lavender GoomsLavender Gooms Tiny Bat Registered User regular
    edited April 2015
    The percentage of where the money goes is completely backwards. Bethesda wanting to get some of the money off of a paid mod is fine, they made the game that is being modded after all. Valve getting some is fine, they are hosting and running the Workshop. There's no way that should add up to 75% of the price though, with the person who did the majority of the work on the specific mod being sold getting barely any of it.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    Jasconius wrote: »
    almost half? doesn't bethesda get 75%? or did I read that wrong

    valve and bethesda together take a 75% cut, I haven't heard what their individual percentages are.

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    Nikolai wrote: »
    fuck yes a new Dirt game. And it looks like it doesn't have all the stupid gymkhana stuff and is more sim like. Basically what I wanted.

    yeah Dirt 3 was... pretty terrible. Wouldn't mind trying a more realistic Dirt 4

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    we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    Jasconius wrote: »
    almost half? doesn't bethesda get 75%? or did I read that wrong

    Modder gets 25%, which is set by bethesda; we don't know how the rest is split between them and Valve so a lot of people assume valve gets at least 25% out of the sale.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    so valve keeps saying "the game's publisher sets the mod maker's percentage" but does that just mean that valve takes 30% no matter what and then the publisher gets to divide up the remaining 70%? Nice way to twist that phrasing if so.

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