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[Putnam]

Steam? Do any of the jobs a games provider should? Nah, too busy doing the things that a games provider doesn't need to do, or shouldn't do.

But hey, atleast they have some customer support now.

I'm not sure what your point is. They sold big rigs at Gamestop and most every other place that sells PC games. Other shitware is sold all over the place at every game store known to man as well. Valve didn't put it on the store themselves, it was greenlit, I assume by companies that offer spam like that as a service.

[Arbinire]

Let's keep this on topic guys, you keep getting my hopes up with updates for free games

[Aseaheru]

I wouldn't call that customer support.

It atleast exists now if you have less-than-the-best internet now.

I'm not sure what your point is. They sold big rigs at Gamestop and most every other place that sells PC games. Other shitware is sold all over the place at every game store known to man as well. Valve didn't put it on the store themselves, it was greenlit, I assume by companies that offer spam like that as a service.

Steam is required to (atleast according to themselves) screen what they let on their service. Gamestop and similar choose what they sell, so does steam, atleast according to what they say. Instead, steam is to busy coming up with things like levels, acheevements, chat systems, etc.

Let's keep this on topic guys, you keep getting my hopes up with updates for free games

Apologies. Im done now. Hopefully its all done.

[Putnam]

I'm not sure what your point is. They sold big rigs at Gamestop and most every other place that sells PC games. Other shitware is sold all over the place at every game store known to man as well. Valve didn't put it on the store themselves, it was greenlit, I assume by companies that offer spam like that as a service.

Steam is required to (atleast according to themselves) screen what they let on their service. Gamestop and similar choose what they sell, so does steam, atleast according to what they say. Instead, steam is to busy coming up with things like levels, acheevements, chat systems, etc.

Can you give a source on that? You're literally the only person I've ever seen who says that valve says that they screen stuff.

[Aseaheru]

It looks like they massively, and I mean massively reduced the requirements when they put up greenlight, but according to their FAQ on greenlight they do have a few requirements, but it looks like that Steam nolonger actively screens things... I think there was a Totalbiscuit talkie thing that talked about it...

But yah, before greenlight you apparently had to jump thru enough hoops that getting yer game on steam was something that was advertized as being about on par with having amazing next-gen graphics or similar...

[notquitethere]

Thousands of Free Games

There's the Interactive Fiction Database, which is a great way of finding thousands of free to play text-based games, with many playable in a browser.

Of possible interest to people here are the excellent, deeply tactical Kerkerkruip, a roguelike where the only way to improve is by taking the powers of the monsters you kill, where the order in which you tackle things being very important.

There's Calm, a post-apocalyptic sandbox adventure-game set in a world where stress is fatal.

And Lost Pig, where you play an orc named Grunk who has to recapture a pig that he was meant to be guarding. This game is incredibly well implemented, with funny and characterful responses for everything you might think to try.

[Bouchart]

Theme Hospital for hapless Origin users.

[Bouchart]

CaesarIA is a free to play game on Steam.  Ever wonder what it would be like to take Caesar 3 and turn it into a Chinese bootleg?  Wonder no more!

[BigD145]

CaesarIA is a free to play game on Steam.  Ever wonder what it would be like to take Caesar 3 and turn it into a Chinese bootleg?  Wonder no more!

How many bootlegged worms and viruses does it contain?

[choppy]

Over 9000. 

[hector13]

Over 9000. 

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[BigD145]

Over 9000. 

Bouchart said Chinese not Japanese.

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[choppy]

Over 9000. 

Bouchart said Chinese not Japanese.

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And what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?  (Its a mildly racist Dragon ball joke)

[Yannanth]

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[Robsoie]

Nice, i didn't heard there was a Caesar 3 open source remake.

Looks like from the screenshots they're still using the Caesar 3 assets, i wonder if they're planning to go with their own like some other open source projects have done (openTTD by example) though i guess they would have to attract some graphic artists as it's not a small job there.