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So, I don't feel like making a topic for this, but I feel like this 'Paradox of Hope' VR game is going to be a cow factory. The Dev has taken TWD:S&S, and reskinned it with Metro, down to the lighter being the exact same.

The game handles almost one to one, except this Russian faggot managed to make guns handle even worse somehow. And once people rightfully called him out, not only does he react by essentially saying 'nu uh' and locking threads on Steam, but suddenly, a whole bunch of new steam accounts (all private, of course), show up to defend him and call everyone else haters.
 
Vault Boy said:
Is Diablo 2 & 3 worth playing once they hit Game Pass (pending the Microsoft acquisition of Activision-Blizzard)?

I've become somewhat interested since the Diablo 4 gameplay reveal, although the shit surrounding Immortal makes me a bit wary.
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Original Diablo 2 or remake? Either way I'd only say they're worth playing with others.
 
Whats the deal with path of exiles player base? According to steamcharts it fluctuates like crazy. Does the game have a high turn over rate?
 
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Whats the deal with path of exiles player base? According to steamcharts it fluctuates like crazy. Does the game have a high turn over rate?
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It's F2P so I'd imagine it gets a bump every time new stuff is added and steam puts it on the frontpage.

Then people play it and realise it nickel and dimes like every other F2P so they dump it.
 
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SandyCat said:
Whats the deal with path of exiles player base? According to steamcharts it fluctuates like crazy. Does the game have a high turn over rate?
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Game has seasonal leagues, each league lasts for 3 months.

New league is pretty much where lots of people come back to the game to try out new league mechanic, new skills/gems and maybe new unique items. Not all leagues are great, some leagues can be quite considered bad "according to reddit". However, usually the season that starts around near the end of each year is the biggest one, due to big updates endgame and can have league mechanic be made permanently into core game.

About big amount players dropping off, it usually starts after a month. Because, even if you are really really casual, you can reach endgame within two weeks, then basically doing endgame to min-max your build. A month is probably enough for playing new season and new league mechanic is also happens during leveling, not just end game. Depends on how well liked the new mechanic, more players will stay or stop playing.

The ones that continue playing the game are usually the ones making multiple builds/characters playthrough.

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It's F2P so I'd imagine it gets a bump every time new stuff is added and steam puts it on the frontpage.

Then people play it and realise it nickel and dimes like every other F2P so they dump it.
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PoE microtransaction shop are pretty much convenient stuffs and typical fashion cosmetics thing.
Convenient stuffs are required (must have) to have are more stash tabs, premium stash tab (for easier to trade) and currency tab (the game relies on these currencies to do trading between players).

If you are a casual, playing on one character only, one premium stash tab and currency tab are all you need. Unless you are playing this game a lot (multiple characters), whole seasons or being streamers, then you probably need to buy more stash tabs and a few more specific convenient things (maps, essences, fragments, divination cards).

Shop price, not that bad overall. A casual player need only to spend like 10-20 dollars at most.
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There are also sales off now and then for microtransaction shop as well.
 
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Game has seasonal leagues, each league lasts for 3 months.

New league is pretty much where lots of people come back to the game to try out new league mechanic, new skills/gems and maybe new unique items. Not all leagues are great, some leagues can be quite considered bad "according to reddit". However, usually the season that starts around near the end of each year is the biggest one, due to big updates endgame and can have league mechanic be made permanently into core game.

About big amount players dropping off, it usually starts after a month. Because, even if you are really really casual, you can reach endgame within two weeks, then basically doing endgame to min-max your build. A month is probably enough for playing new season and new league mechanic is also happens during leveling, not just end game. Depends on how well liked the new mechanic, more players will stay or stop playing.
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and the new one sucks ass so if you want to try it either play a standard character this league or wait for next season.

I hate sentinel I hate sentinel
 
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So, I don't feel like making a topic for this, but I feel like this 'Paradox of Hope' VR game is going to be a cow factory. The Dev has taken TWD:S&S, and reskinned it with Metro, down to the lighter being the exact same.

The game handles almost one to one, except this Russian faggot managed to make guns handle even worse somehow. And once people rightfully called him out, not only does he react by essentially saying 'nu uh' and locking threads on Steam, but suddenly, a whole bunch of new steam accounts (all private, of course), show up to defend him and call everyone else haters.
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I reserve my judgement how it will end up, the demo was like 3 rooms with a shooting range, judging anything on that obviously very early status is simply a waste of time. and in all fairness you got VR tards AND stalkerfags in one go, would be difficult to find a more autistic combination (soulsfags probably).
haven't played into the radius but that's what it's going against. we'll see if the final game ever sees the light of day anyway.

tbh the selaco dev(s) are way better material with all the jumping into every thread and defending the fuck out of criticism and their league of fanbois. as much as I like to see a dev tell some retards to pound sand and maybe play another game, it reeks a bit too much of modder elitism and "we can't do no wrong" attitude.

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Do we have a Steam group for forum members? If not, is there any interest in that?
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interest yes, will no.
there's a reason you're told to make a burner account for the farms, I mean you're free to do it but I rather keep things separate (I get it sucks since there are a lot of likeminded people that make a better pool than the rest of the internet, but that's just the price to pay)
 
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Other people already announced the Steam Summer sale. But I am going to buy a few games. Mostly strategy. Steel Division Normandy 1944, Steel Division II and WARNO. It depends on how good the sales are though. I put some extra money on my Steam wallet just for the sale. But Steel Division II has a lot of DLC though most of it is free the stuff that isn't is kind or pricey. I will get it during the sale. I got a lot of games on my wish list, but I am not going to buy them all. Some of them have been on there for a while.

I have this problem where I can't turn down a good steam sale price. If it's a really expensive game and it's got a good discount, I get really tempted to buy it.
Vault Boy said:
Is Diablo 2 & 3 worth playing once they hit Game Pass (pending the Microsoft acquisition of Activision-Blizzard)?

I've become somewhat interested since the Diablo 4 gameplay reveal, although the shit surrounding Immortal makes me a bit wary.
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Diablo 2 is definitely worth playing. I played some of the original years ago. I suggest getting the remake. It's ok and looks a lot better than the original. I played Diablo 3 a few years ago and it didn't care for it. It's ok as an ARPG dungeon crawler but it doesn't look like a Diablo game. It lacks that dark gothic atmosphere.
 
So the demos for the upcoming Klonoa 1/2 remastered are up on the Asian PS Stores. Both play quite well. Klonoa 1 is based on the Wii remake and I wondered how it would handle, but they seem to have done a solid job converting it to a standard control scheme. Not a huge platformer fan but I will probably grab this as they at least have some interesting level design.
 
Has anyone looked into Day of Dragons recently? I remember that being real lulzy a few years ago. Quick check shows me it's either doing better as a generic shitty survival game, or the devs paid a lot of people.

Though, seems they're still being turbo-faggots, running their own clans in game, and banning people from the game for 'lag switching' when they get beaten.
 
I pondered while seeing news about No More Heroes 3 that a fair amount of games are still getting physical PS5 releases in Japan, despite them selling notoriously poorly and rarely making sales charts.

I wonder if they're just doing smaller print runs, if Sony has made printing cheaper to ease the burden, or if it's still a money sink for all involved and Sony is just pressuring publishers so the PS5 doesn't look dead in the water.
 
Does anyone remember the discounts during the Steam summer sales and winter sales getting better as the sale went on? I have heard people say that, but I don't know if it's true. I have heard the discounts got higher.
 
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