VideoGamer.com writes: "£11.62. That's how much I've currently spent on discounted PC games as part of Steam's ten day 'Summer Camp' sale. It's not a lot of money, but we're less than halfway through the event. Last week I detailed what I consider to be 11 overlooked bargains in the Steam Summer Sale, but I've got all of those games already. Valve, however, has found a way to keep me spending.
Steam is the model that all other digital platforms should strive to imitate but, when it launched as a beta alongside Counter-Strike 1.6 in 2002, I said I would never buy a digital product from Valve's platform in my entire life. I lost: I now have 258 games in my Steam library. Just how did Valve make a piece of software that so utterly and comprehensively annihilates rival platforms such as Xbox LIVE, PlayStation Network, GamersGate, and Direct2Drive?"
Blindfolding myself and clicking a Steam page at random would serve me better recommendations than Steam’s algorithm
Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The recommendations I get are usually pretty good, but then again I have pretty large library of games on Steam and hundreds of them in my wish list, along with lots of curators I follow for it to build recommendations off of. On occasion it will throw me a random FIFA game or something I've never bought or shown interest in, but mostly its decent IMO.
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Players can pay to edit their character, resurrect the dead and other actions.
Yet Helldivers 2 gets a pass? Y’know a GotY contender by the name of RE4 had them and so does Devil May Cry V. The funny thing is I enjoyed both of those games thoroughly without having to buy a single microtransaction.
What I do consider a valid complaint is not being able to start a new game or being able to edit your character. That’s kind of a seriously baffling decision, but then I think how I played Dragon’s Dogma 1 and I never edited my character and I just did a 100% playthrough on a single file and didn’t start a NG since. So, I don’t think these are really going to impact me, but I can see how it will others.
I was going to pay full price to support this game because I've been waiting for it for forever but I think I'll wait until I get it for free from Epic or a Humblebundle monthly.
I am not defending Capcom, as I am not a fan of MTX in single player games. I do however belive they were open to reviewers about having MTX in their game. The reviewers just decided to leave that part out. Which is very disingenuous. There are some companies that get away with these things. Image if this was done by EA, Ubisoft, or even Activision? I am positive those defending Capcom, would have had their pitchforks ready if the companies listed above did this
Good article.
I wish PSN had huge sales like Steam, i guess the "PSN Loves DLC" sale is a start.
Ill use Steam when they sell games that is exactly like buying the retail copy in the store. Which means WITH NONE OF THE UPDATES ALLREADY INSTALLED. Bought gta iv and steam version is the worst for mods because it came with the latest update. I don't like companies controlling what I want to do with my game.
"Why Steam is miles ahead of the competition"
Because of Summer Sales. Because of Winter Sales. And everything in between those too ;D
Another crap load of stuff bought today from steam. It is killing my wallet. Just looking now and I have 125 games all of them installed and ready to play at the click of a button.
I would say the main reason steam is ahead of the competition is that they try and make the sale items available to ALL countries (you heard me EA, D2D and Gamersgate). Steam is successful because they realised one crucial tiny small detail and that is PC gaming is GLOBAL and not limited to the US.