Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  
Pages: 1 ... 970 971 [972] 973 974 ... 1135

Author Topic: SALES Thread  (Read 1473938 times)

EnigmaticHat

  • Bay Watcher
  • I vibrate, I die, I vibrate again
    • View Profile
Re: SALES Thread: SUMMER SALES 2017 STICKERS GALORE
« Reply #14565 on: July 03, 2017, 01:59:51 am »

PC Gamer article about an algorithm that searches for Steam's best hidden gems:
http://www.pcgamer.com/this-algorithm-picks-out-steams-best-hidden-gems/

Might be useful if someone wants to try something new/different.
Neat. Idea if not the list itself, mind, since as near as I can tell everything mentioned in the article I'm interested in I either already knew about or have, heh.

Kinda' makes me wonder if someone's done an algo checking average review length or somethin', though. Word count per review, difference from an average taken of various benchmark lists, junk like that. See what stuff out there has the most effort put into their review blurbs. Be an interesting way to measure investment. Something like hours played per review or purchase might give results worth eyeballing, too.
I don't like hours played as a measure of review.

What you see a lot of times with poorly designed MP games is that you get this crowd with 400+ hours that's great at melting everyone's face, but no one else wants to play with them.  So they end up as overly loud defenders blind to the game's faults.  King Arthur's Gold was like that on the patch I played.  The game was all about knights beating each other up and the other classes were helpless, but knight v knight was super dependent on internet connection.  And so you had this crowd of pubstomping knights with low ping furiously defending the game across the internet because all the other players were leaving and there were less and less pubs to stomp.
Logged
"T-take this non-euclidean geometry, h-humanity-baka. I m-made it, but not because I l-li-l-like you or anything! I just felt s-sorry for you, b-baka."
You misspelled seance.  Are possessing Draignean?  Are you actually a ghost in the shell? You have to tell us if you are, that's the rule

Darkmere

  • Bay Watcher
  • Exploding me won't bring back your honey.
    • View Profile
Re: SALES Thread: SUMMER SALES 2017 STICKERS GALORE
« Reply #14566 on: July 03, 2017, 04:25:11 am »

I take steam reviews with a mine of salt most of the time. I've seen far, FAR too many people who were absolute experts on a game after playing it 7 minutes and stalking off to whine over it.
Logged
And then, they will be weaponized. Like everything in this game, from kittens to babies, everything is a potential device of murder.
So if baseless speculation is all we have, we might as well treat it like fact.

Flying Dice

  • Bay Watcher
  • inveterate shitposter
    • View Profile
Re: SALES Thread: SUMMER SALES 2017 STICKERS GALORE
« Reply #14567 on: July 03, 2017, 10:20:15 am »

PC Gamer article about an algorithm that searches for Steam's best hidden gems:
http://www.pcgamer.com/this-algorithm-picks-out-steams-best-hidden-gems/

Might be useful if someone wants to try something new/different.
Neat. Idea if not the list itself, mind, since as near as I can tell everything mentioned in the article I'm interested in I either already knew about or have, heh.

Kinda' makes me wonder if someone's done an algo checking average review length or somethin', though. Word count per review, difference from an average taken of various benchmark lists, junk like that. See what stuff out there has the most effort put into their review blurbs. Be an interesting way to measure investment. Something like hours played per review or purchase might give results worth eyeballing, too.
I don't like hours played as a measure of review.

What you see a lot of times with poorly designed MP games is that you get this crowd with 400+ hours that's great at melting everyone's face, but no one else wants to play with them.  So they end up as overly loud defenders blind to the game's faults.  King Arthur's Gold was like that on the patch I played.  The game was all about knights beating each other up and the other classes were helpless, but knight v knight was super dependent on internet connection.  And so you had this crowd of pubstomping knights with low ping furiously defending the game across the internet because all the other players were leaving and there were less and less pubs to stomp.

Speaking as a nearly pure archer player, KAG was goddamn amazing. Up until the more recent round of changes, those made it a lot less fun all around despite having more options.

The satisfaction of threading the needle through tiny gaps and correctly calculating those long high-angle shots to hit people and catapults past high defensive towers, tree-hopping back and forth while plinking knights that were trying to chop you down, daring escapes with arrow ladders shot into walls, forward skirmishing to bait enemy knights out of position, sniper duels with good enemy archers, all that stuff was so much fun. I played a little builder too, and that was tremendous fun, setting up absolutely evil traps and sneaking past enemy knights to undermine towers. Knight was honestly boring, all binary (good ping=successful, bad ping=either failure or lagmaster supreme), and not that complex.
Logged


Aurora on small monitors:
1. Game Parameters -> Reduced Height Windows.
2. Lock taskbar to the right side of your desktop.
3. Run Resize Enable

Frumple

  • Bay Watcher
  • The Prettiest Kyuuki
    • View Profile
Re: SALES Thread: SUMMER SALES 2017 STICKERS GALORE
« Reply #14568 on: July 03, 2017, 12:26:49 pm »

I don't like hours played as a measure of review.
Which is why it'd be per review (as in, total number of hours across every user tracked, not just those reviewing) or along those lines, not total hours invested by the userbase or whatev'. It's not supposed to be a metric of anything resembling worth, just looking for outliers on a user/playing scale, or (in the case of the word count thing) individual investment in review. Things with abnormal stats on stuff like that. It would indeed spit out passive stuff or things folks leave on in the background for whatever reason or any number of other things that mean little, but... that's fine. You'd just be using it to check for oddities, after which you can filter for your own preferences.

Basically, it'd be neat to see if the amount of time the userbase as a whole plays before someone reviews, or the amount of (lazily measured) effort any particular reviewer is putting into their spiel, is out of whack (either way, mind you) for whatever reason. If you're already doing stuff like the mentioned article did, not much reason save the effort to not plug in a bunch of other variables and see what pops out, y'know?
Logged
Ask not!
What your country can hump for you.
Ask!
What you can hump for your country.

IronyOwl

  • Bay Watcher
  • Nope~
    • View Profile
Re: SALES Thread: SUMMER SALES 2017 STICKERS GALORE
« Reply #14569 on: July 03, 2017, 07:06:38 pm »

Data is neat, yeah, and it's hard to tell what is or isn't useful or interesting until you look at it.
Logged
Quote from: Radio Controlled (Discord)
A hand, a hand, my kingdom for a hot hand!
The kitchenette mold free, you move on to the pantry. it's nasty in there. The bacon is grazing on the lettuce. The ham is having an illicit affair with the prime rib, The potatoes see all, know all. A rat in boxer shorts smoking a foul smelling cigar is banging on a cabinet shouting about rent money.

Radsoc

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: SALES Thread: SUMMER SALES 2017 STICKERS GALORE
« Reply #14570 on: July 05, 2017, 04:50:42 am »

They just announced Evil Genius 2

If you play DF and haven't played Evil Genius, it's a must. €2.5 on Steam
The research system in there is pretty good.
Logged
"The hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill society with the industrial capitalist."

"To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. The severity of tyrants has barbarity for its principle; that of a republican government is founded on beneficence."

hector13

  • Bay Watcher
  • It’s shite being Scottish
    • View Profile
Re: SALES Thread: SUMMER SALES 2017 STICKERS GALORE
« Reply #14571 on: July 05, 2017, 06:58:58 am »

Awesome. Great game. A bit grindy at points, but great game.
Logged
Look, we need to raise a psychopath who will murder God, we have no time to be spending on cooking.

the way your fingertips plant meaningless soliloquies makes me think you are the true evil among us.

Aklyon

  • Bay Watcher
  • Fate~
    • View Profile
Re: SALES Thread: SUMMER SALES 2017 STICKERS GALORE
« Reply #14572 on: July 05, 2017, 11:19:01 am »

They just announced Evil Genius 2

If you play DF and haven't played Evil Genius, it's a must. €2.5 on Steam
The research system in there is pretty good.
It actually happened?

Awesome.
Logged
Crystalline (SG)
Sigtext
Quote from: RedKing
It's known as the Oppai-Kaiju effect. The islands of Japan generate a sort anti-gravity field, which allows breasts to behave as if in microgravity. It's also what allows Godzilla and friends to become 50 stories tall, and lets ninjas run up the side of a skyscraper.

Teneb

  • Bay Watcher
  • (they/them) Penguin rebellion
    • View Profile
Re: SALES Thread: SUMMER SALES 2017 STICKERS GALORE
« Reply #14573 on: July 06, 2017, 07:45:37 am »

EDIT: PLEASE NEVERMIND THIS (I posted it on the wrong place thanks to being sleepy)
Logged
Monstrous Manual: D&D in DF
Quote from: Tack
What if “slammed in the ass by dead philosophers” is actually the thing which will progress our culture to the next step?

Aklyon

  • Bay Watcher
  • Fate~
    • View Profile
Re: SALES Thread: SUMMER SALES 2017 STICKERS GALORE
« Reply #14574 on: July 06, 2017, 09:01:55 am »

EDIT: PLEASE NEVERMIND THIS (I posted it on the wrong place thanks to being sleepy)
MINDS IT

(but doesn't actually know what happened :) )
Logged
Crystalline (SG)
Sigtext
Quote from: RedKing
It's known as the Oppai-Kaiju effect. The islands of Japan generate a sort anti-gravity field, which allows breasts to behave as if in microgravity. It's also what allows Godzilla and friends to become 50 stories tall, and lets ninjas run up the side of a skyscraper.

umiman

  • Bay Watcher
  • Voice Fetishist
    • View Profile
Re: SALES Thread: GOG, Steam, Humble, your mom has games to buy
« Reply #14575 on: July 06, 2017, 02:19:39 pm »

In response to the pricing fiasco Paradox did awhile back, they're offering a free game or two pieces of DLC to anyone who bought their stuff (non-USD) since May 17: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/pricing-change-rollback-information-thread-latest-news-here.1031635/

The thread has info on how to claim your stuff if you did buy anything.

forsaken1111

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
    • TTB Twitch
Re: SALES Thread: GOG, Steam, Humble, your mom has games to buy
« Reply #14576 on: July 06, 2017, 04:05:15 pm »

In response to the pricing fiasco Paradox did awhile back, they're offering a free game or two pieces of DLC to anyone who bought their stuff (non-USD) since May 17: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/pricing-change-rollback-information-thread-latest-news-here.1031635/

The thread has info on how to claim your stuff if you did buy anything.
Its worth noting that that offer does not apply to purchases made with US dollars.
Logged

Sirus

  • Bay Watcher
  • Resident trucker/goddess/ex-president.
    • View Profile
Re: SALES Thread: GOG, Steam, Humble, your mom has games to buy
« Reply #14577 on: July 06, 2017, 04:11:00 pm »

In response to the pricing fiasco Paradox did awhile back, they're offering a free game or two pieces of DLC to anyone who bought their stuff (non-USD) since May 17: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/pricing-change-rollback-information-thread-latest-news-here.1031635/

The thread has info on how to claim your stuff if you did buy anything.
Its worth noting that that offer does not apply to purchases made with US dollars.
This is apparently because prices in USD were not changed, so there's nothing to really refund.
Logged
Quote from: Max White
And lo! Sirus did drive his mighty party truck unto Vegas, and it was good.

Star Wars: Age of Rebellion OOC Thread

Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC Thread - IC Thread

forsaken1111

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
    • TTB Twitch
Re: SALES Thread: GOG, Steam, Humble, your mom has games to buy
« Reply #14578 on: July 06, 2017, 04:16:47 pm »

Correct, I just wanted to spare anyone who uses USD the confusion of thinking this was universal.
Logged

n9103

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
    • My Steam
Re: SALES Thread: GOG, Steam, Humble, your mom has games to buy
« Reply #14579 on: July 06, 2017, 08:04:55 pm »

This is apparently because prices in USD were not changed, so there's nothing to really refund.
Well that's simply not true. They, along with many other publishers, alter their catalog prices when a sale begins. Any number of price history sites will confirm this. Good on Paradox for attempting to make amends, but it's both a half-measure, and deceptive of them to claim otherwise. (First Google Hit)
Logged
Pages: 1 ... 970 971 [972] 973 974 ... 1135