While Steam is something that has revolutionized PC gaming and is single handedly responsible for its revival, in the days of its amazing summer sales I have come to wonder if Steam is actually spoiling us, and if so, what could the consequences be?
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
Well think of it this way when Steam is not running sales Amazon is your best bet (pretty much always) if not Amazon then you are left with other stores: Best Buy, GameStop, etc. Yet I have found in-store that Game stops's selection is getting smaller and smaller anyway. So competition is definitely still there and thrives much more so when Steam is not doing a sale. Case: Bought Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II (First and then it's first expansion) 22.00 Steam at the time wanted I think 40? so it was a deal for me and it was on Amazon. Steam then threw up Retribution (sequel) for 20 (? Maybe less) a few days into their sale. So overall combining both I was able to get it for a bit less.
So I don't think there are any forseen consequences just yet other than PC gaming getting more in the stream I suppose. More people playing their games more developers turning their eyes toward it. More games for us all on PC and look at what we have so far developers are throwing stuff out left and right and sometimes getting free updates/dlc on those games. So as of right now I think the kick back to these sales are pretty damn good :).
P.S. I'd say spoiled I have a lot of games but hell I barely finished half of them I got from winter and my wallet is slightly crying because of it.
yup $60 is outrageous for a game!
Yes.
It's pretty simple. Yes...
Last time I paid $60 for a game was MGS4. Had to have it on launch day. Before that, I can't even remember.
Battlefield 2 was the first game to cost $50 as far as I can remember. But that game was worth every penny for what it did back then.