Valve Made Their Position Clear

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@BellularNews
@BellularNews 6 ай бұрын
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@Akula149
@Akula149 6 ай бұрын
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@Akula149
@Akula149 6 ай бұрын
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@internetperson2
@internetperson2 6 ай бұрын
Shilling pseudoscience
@deadadam666
@deadadam666 6 ай бұрын
yeah absolutely do one with your scam sponsor
@dulio12385
@dulio12385 6 ай бұрын
So its essentially Yakult.
@Sleeman0980
@Sleeman0980 6 ай бұрын
As Totalbiscuit once said, stop fucking buying pre-order games. Don't pre order, don't buy pre-release, fuck FOMO and fuck these greedy practices. People still pay for it so greedy publishers(?) keep doing it Edit: I did say devs yes however it's usually not the devs doing this. Regardless of who makes the final decision it's fucking up the gaming industry
@Jokerwolf666
@Jokerwolf666 6 ай бұрын
It's the Publishers that make the final calls on pretty much everything.
@Homiloko2
@Homiloko2 6 ай бұрын
@@Jokerwolf666 Who cares? They make those calls because it makes them money. If no one bought it, they wouldn't do it.
@andrewlodge8065
@andrewlodge8065 6 ай бұрын
Not just pre-order, don't purchase and demand refunds on anything that's full of woketard bullshit or gets censored after release
@DagobertX2
@DagobertX2 6 ай бұрын
@@Jokerwolf666 No, it's the buyers, depends if they have the mental strength to resist FOMO or not. The game won't expire and spoil like food.
@lolsa123
@lolsa123 6 ай бұрын
i miss TB
@finrothsmith7995
@finrothsmith7995 6 ай бұрын
In Australia, due to our customer protection laws, Steam is forced to honour the 30 day return policy, for faulty or misleadingly advertised products. I believe the EU has similar laws.
@richardtorruellas2370
@richardtorruellas2370 6 ай бұрын
We used to have one until a populist socialist movement, the same one that gave us the crap tax system we have, decided that it was unfair for the working class. Not sure how they came to that conclusion but you can see the results for yourself.
@11Survivor
@11Survivor 6 ай бұрын
Fairly certain you are giving too much relevance to Australian laws,​@Bobo-ox7fj . It is more likely the EU is the root cause considering the EU market is roughly 40 times larger.
@Ylyrra
@Ylyrra 6 ай бұрын
@@11Survivor Nope, the Australian government fined Valve for not complying with their laws on refunds. As a result Valve developed a compliant refund policy, and rolled it out worldwide. While the fact that Australia was the first place to test the former policy in law is somewhat random, it's still true that one thing led to the other. The EU probably would have done it if Australia hadn't, but that's not how things shook out.
@jannegrey
@jannegrey 6 ай бұрын
@@11Survivor Don't underestimate Australia. Yeah EU usually has larger sway, but for Steam Australia is too big to drop. And as much as EU laws often are the reason certain policies exist, they most often are the reason certain policies remain.
@tonic316
@tonic316 6 ай бұрын
must be nice to have a loophole to legally pirate video games. I'm jealous!
@JRDeBo
@JRDeBo 6 ай бұрын
For those who watched the first part and are worried, don't be, he left out an important piece of information. Steam counting the first two hours of advanced access does not mean you are "stuck with it" if you spend two hours trouble shooting or the game does not work. It simply means the refund isn't 100% guaranteed. You have to explain why you are asking for a refund and a human being will look at your reason then decide if a refund is warranted. And from what I've seen, refunds for things he mentioned tend to get the thumbs up when manually reviewed. So if you are worried this new policy will affect you, it won't. Unless you were one of the people abusing the loophole to play 10+ hours of the game game then get a refund.
@doltBmB
@doltBmB 6 ай бұрын
That's relying on the goodwill of the person reviewing, sorry, not nearly good enough, the policy has to be better so they can't arbitrarly decide to fuck you over.
@jorencice
@jorencice 6 ай бұрын
​@@doltBmBblame the people abusing the loophole.
@XiaoYueMao
@XiaoYueMao 6 ай бұрын
the other option is that steam and publishers never get money because people can just return the game at any time... refund limits are require, thta said steam has the best refund policy, its fine​@@doltBmB
@iminumst7827
@iminumst7827 6 ай бұрын
@@doltBmB In my experience, Steam customer service is very consumer friendly.
@CyanDumBell_MC
@CyanDumBell_MC 6 ай бұрын
​@@doltBmBthey're more willing to refund games if you haven't refund any games in past months. I haven't encounter any refund issues with steam yet.
@ChitChat
@ChitChat 6 ай бұрын
So players will be able to know from Steam reviews if a game is broken before release? That hurts. Guess the corps gotta ship working games then. How awful.
@Андрей-ц7э6ю
@Андрей-ц7э6ю 6 ай бұрын
Or just not give the Advanced Access to anyone, since it's really up to them
@Zaki_Arx
@Zaki_Arx 5 ай бұрын
or put an agreement that people can't put negative review 🤣
@sparquisdesade
@sparquisdesade 5 ай бұрын
instructions unclear, shipped unfinished game and called anyone who didn't buy it a racist
@joeyghostx
@joeyghostx 6 ай бұрын
TOO ELABORATE ON STEAM REFUNDS: The 14 day purchase and 2 hour playtime still apply according to their version of the announcement and rule changes that are now updated, BUT any playtime ACCRUED will count before RELEASE will be counted. Also, the 14 day rule has a addendum that states the 14 day part of the refund rule does not start until release date and the game can be refunded prior to release if still under the 2 hour playtime. Hope this helps for those that wanted to read a clarification of this rule if you are like me and had a hard time following.
@JRDeBo
@JRDeBo 6 ай бұрын
And remember, that is only for automatic refunds. You can still request a refund after the 2 hour mark/2 weeks if tech issues are a problem. It's just someone will actually review it instead, and in my experience, I've never had a refund get declined that had to be reviewed.
@laurencefraser
@laurencefraser 6 ай бұрын
@@JRDeBo I suspect that's mostly to deal with attempted abuses of the system. If you're not absuing it, they're not going to decline, normally.
@linusgustafsson2629
@linusgustafsson2629 6 ай бұрын
Kind of wish it always was 2 hours playtime, so I could refund games I've yet to play, but that developers changed since I bought it. Sure the option would be to never have a backlog and always finish games before buying a new one, but that is beyond most humans.
@type.
@type. 6 ай бұрын
so just stop at an hour and fifty nine and you good
@eno88
@eno88 6 ай бұрын
your explanation was even more confusing...
@Cdogttv
@Cdogttv 6 ай бұрын
Such a sad state the gaming industry is in right now. Though, they did put themselves in this situation to begin with. So many potentially good games wont get made.
@lrock48
@lrock48 6 ай бұрын
It's all about the fastest return for investors, no longer about making a quality product and building a loyal customer base.
@nodlimax
@nodlimax 6 ай бұрын
The problem is the consumer. They're buying this shit...
@Swordphobic
@Swordphobic 6 ай бұрын
@@nodlimax The consumers don't get to choose what gets made.
@gabrieln8003
@gabrieln8003 6 ай бұрын
You can thank the Jews for that
@d0tsf0rlife
@d0tsf0rlife 6 ай бұрын
@@Swordphobic the consumers dictate the market. Simply economics. When people en masse stop buying garbage, companies will shift. It's the same reason why we have so many garbage games now. People keep buying garbage, so companies will keep pushing garbage. Not complicated nor surprising.
@TheSpazzDragon
@TheSpazzDragon 6 ай бұрын
The gaming bubble is bursting. Companies kept pumping more and more and more money into games and their development and as a result, all those shareholders demanding more and more and more return on their investments. And with people's wallets being spread to thin just trying to survive, gaming has seen a serious drop in consumer spending. Honestly i am surprised it hasn't happened sooner. I can only hope that the industry learns a lesson from this. That you can't just endlessly pump money into things and expect endless growth. The market must be shared if it is to evolve past this boom and bust cycle.
@someguy4252
@someguy4252 6 ай бұрын
sounds to me that investors and going public is like selling your soul to demons.
@IEgOImkAwx
@IEgOImkAwx 6 ай бұрын
It's not quite as doom and gloom as KZbin videos like this would lead you to believe. It isn't in a great situation right now, though. Investing into projects and studios has gone on for a long time in video games, and it has involved serious development struggles as a result. That part is not new at all. I think what is new is that people are getting put in charge that literally don't know what a good end product looks like or is, and are lifelong business people. They probably got most if not all of their college in business, managed to get into tech leadership and kept going. Games industry explodes into popularity now you have these people are in charge of 90% of companies in the space.
@Magicwillnz
@Magicwillnz 6 ай бұрын
@@IEgOImkAwx Yeah, something similar happened with the RPG scene where former Microsoft execs were put in charge of WOTC (a pen and paper RPG company) and drove it straight into the ground because they just didn't understand the industry. WOTC was promising insane levels of growth from DnD, like 3x in a few years, and that's just not possible, the monetization models of the computer game world don't map onto the RPG space. Investors have to learn to be satisfied with getting lower and slower returns on investment, and because most CEOs are clinical psychopaths, they won't be.
@formes2388
@formes2388 6 ай бұрын
The market is crashing. For years, cheap debt meant just about anyone could get funding. But beyond this? The government of western countries have been printing money fairly consistently since the 2008 market crash - and that meant not only was their cheap money to be had, but plenty of it, and institutions and so on were trying to find more to dump money into, preferably things that made good, reliable money: Realestate, and media. What has happened is a perfect storm: DEI is proving a failure, ESG investing is proving a failure, and raising interest rates means no more cheap money. So a wave of poor products with no, or restricted returns has had everyone rethinking how money is invested, and what it's invested in. When you couple this with reduced discretionary spending budget of average people: Video games, Movies, and so on are... not as desirable. The truth is, you CAN NOT get past the boom-bust cycle. When things are good, the money flows free - and it flows free past the good times, into the bad times, and this is what creates the bust: Too much bad debt. What you CAN do, is create structures - things like glass steigel were - that reduce the negative impact of the bust, but also limit the expansiveness of the boom which creates a more stable market. The thing you must be careful of, is if you are too restrictive, growth incentive disapeers and you get a downturn that doesn't really reverse until the restrictions are removed. Markets are going to go Boom, then go Bust - it's the net result of an astounding number of factors.
@Magicwillnz
@Magicwillnz 6 ай бұрын
@@formes2388 Yes, there was a sudden uptick during the pandemic, and enough people are deluded into thinking every boom will last forever that you get tons of investment. That's the rhetoric in public, in private I'm sure they're shorting like mfers. Getting rid of glass stiegel has put us in this awful situation where we have to pay out trillions in tax dollars to keep banks afloat every decade or so. We had a dip in 2018 or 2019 that was worse than the Great Recession, but the government quietly shoveled money into the problem without much media attention and as a result barely anyone noticed it
@Lorekeeper72
@Lorekeeper72 6 ай бұрын
1st story: Honestly I thought this was how it was already done and its probably what Valve intended in the first place. The reviews part is good for us and bad for publishers while the refund part is the reverse but its probably how things ought to be anyways. 2nd story: Elite was already a massive grind fest so them selling a way around the grind was inevitable in my opinion regardless of what they already promised. I imagine this might get them new players but anyone who pays to bypass that initial grind probably isn't going to stick around for the long haul because most the rest of the game is that same kind of grind anyways. Also clearly bad for us. 3rd story: That's just sad but not surprising giving the current circumstances; how many 'good' and 'great' games have publishers backed only for it to blow up in their face and them to lose their investment? Granted some of that was because of the publisher demands but still.
@UrbanAgent423
@UrbanAgent423 6 ай бұрын
I've heard the pre-built ships have pretty bad builds as well, so it'll give a false idea of what "good" means for inexperienced players
@Fiffelito
@Fiffelito 6 ай бұрын
elite's money & ship engineering grind became dead easy, however with 3rd party databases shutting down and the new gun/suit engineering using horizons mk1 engineering material storage was godaweful considering the tedious work to get the materials. I ended up spending around 300 million credits just straight up buying the materials from peoples carriers. but then.. after ground combat rank 5, what was left to do... so I quit. and the thargoid motherships wasn't "wow", the spires were.... "meh" unless you went there to money farm but you know... can't farm those forever. Buy back to the buyable ships... I bet those ain't engineered or just uses the wrong internals.... i.e. grade 6A distributor for an "explorer ship" or something that stupid (instead of grade 3 with engine focus (and stripped down) to reach the boost breakpoint). And... because I just know Fdev is going to feck things up... I bet you can't switch out the internals, I wouldn't be surprised, infact I am betting on it.
@bibby659
@bibby659 6 ай бұрын
As for the 3rd story, not only was it due to publisher demands, but talent that couldn't be replaced either retiring or leaving due to poor mismanagement, or more so, poor treatment.
@asdion
@asdion 6 ай бұрын
@@Fiffelito The ship engineering grind is easy, yes, but you will still spend literal hours to collect garbage all over the place. And it's simply not fun and Frontier knows it that's why they refuse to make it tradable. After all, how else are you going to make people stick around? allowing people to play the game? nah force them to grind engineering materials /s
@cmdrreggit
@cmdrreggit 6 ай бұрын
@@asdion I've never grinded for materials...I just plan ahead and pick stuff up when I see it - no grind. Currently have 45 ships (mostly combat ships) entirely grade 5'd and maxed out - much better than any of the pre-built ships. You only have to grind if you're in a big rush for something very specific. Even the brand new 'Anti-Guardian Zone Resistance' - I modded all my ships the day it became available - I already had _all_ the materials I needed.
@IDESTROYER236
@IDESTROYER236 6 ай бұрын
2:46 to skip the ad.
@McCarthy_Was_Right
@McCarthy_Was_Right 6 ай бұрын
Oy Vey! They know! SHUT IT DOWN!
@duckmeat4674
@duckmeat4674 5 ай бұрын
Gets sponsorblock extension. On chrome and Firefox, skips these
@tomikun8057
@tomikun8057 5 ай бұрын
or use sponsorblock
@lazersstuff53
@lazersstuff53 5 ай бұрын
Also the sponser has its own chapter-
@Caligulove
@Caligulove 6 ай бұрын
This goes beyond gaming. Money is drying up all over the place. Entertainment is just one of the first things to go in tough times.
@GrimnirsGrudge
@GrimnirsGrudge 6 ай бұрын
Around 5% on borrowing money isn't terrible, the industry is just used to close to 0% which is obviously a lot better. A lot of business models that relied on cheap loans will fail, but that doesn't mean business models can't exist and thrive on 5%-ish rates. In the grand scheme of money borrowing over the past say 50 years, 5% is around the average, and 0-1% is the outlier. Corpos gonna corpo, they'll get over it.
@TheAyanamiRei
@TheAyanamiRei 5 ай бұрын
​@@GrimnirsGrudge Corps will adjust, but we have already seen some fallout from that, like closing studios, even though the Corps have made bigger profits
@TwistedFireX
@TwistedFireX 5 ай бұрын
We’ve got decades worth of games to play nowadays. If the industry ever collapses we’ll be able to pirate to play what we want and make physical copies. Not a big deal.
@nikkiofthevalley
@nikkiofthevalley 5 ай бұрын
​@@TwistedFireXAnd we'll always have indie games. Even if all the studios vanished, there will always be indie devs who will just make the game anyways.
@wisnoskij
@wisnoskij 6 ай бұрын
I am glad that Valve fixed that Advanced Access issue. It was insane that Starfield was able to launch at full price and just not allow reviews on 90% of the internet for a week because they told the review sites that the game was not ready for reviews yet. That was really broken, no idea why anyone thought that was a good idea. As for refunds, sounds fine. Steam has historically been very accommodating and understanding. That is is not automatically refunded after you played the game for a week is completely reasonable.
@Utrilus
@Utrilus 6 ай бұрын
Lol yeah. Advanced access was just the game costs way more during the first week of it's launch and you can't review it.
@DrZaius3141
@DrZaius3141 6 ай бұрын
Both the 14 days and the 2 hours are ridiculously short and not reflective of how many people play games. In fact, after getting burned, I now buy fewer games than before because of that restrictive policy. Regarding the 14 days: When a sale is going on, I used to shop heavily and sort it out later. If I'm playing a game at the time, it might take a few weeks before I get to trying them out. Even if I figure out after 5min of playing, that the game is garbage, there's nothing I can do. Logical conclusion: I don't buy as many games. Regarding the 2 hours: Some games have that initial hurdle you need to get past. Back in the day, I gave games the benefit of the doubt, hit my head against the wall, see if I could get through and find the fun part in the middle. If I only have 2 hours, I won't be as forgiving. Also, I know that many games deliberately tailor their early game experience to be smoother than the rest of the game, so I might be even harsher. Hell, with some games, 2 hours isn't even enough to explore the character creation screen.
@wisnoskij
@wisnoskij 6 ай бұрын
@@DrZaius3141 Sure, but the refund policy is not designed to be "play the game to figure out if you 100% satisfied", it is similar to a retail story policy, you have a week if it is in pristine condition to figure out if it is either broken or maybe in some cases if it fits your need. If you played the game for 10 hours and ultimately decided, you dont really recommend the game, that is not a refund situation that is a negative review situation. Also, my understanding is that the 2-14 is for no question asked refunds. If you find that 5 hours into a 60 hour game that it is broken on your hardware and you cannot continue, you can still ask for a refund I think?
@DrZaius3141
@DrZaius3141 6 ай бұрын
@@wisnoskij But the point is that it's easy for a game to mask its horrible issues from appearing in the first 2 hours. And if a game has janky controls, do you want players to try and get over them or be on the save side and return the game? There are even games that I like which have this as an issue. In the first 2 hours of Mount & Blade 2, you have distinct story beats that vanish entirely later on. If you want a story driven game that's kinda false advertising. Yeah, you can ask for a refund theoretically, I don't believe there is any practical chance of getting it, though. And for the 14 days not even the heaviest Steam shills can find an excuse...
@artemis1993
@artemis1993 5 ай бұрын
@@wisnoskij You can. I've personally refunded a game once with 4-5 hours of playtime, and refunded another one with 16 days of purchase. The 2-hour/14days period isn't set in stone
@RumpelGameSkin
@RumpelGameSkin 6 ай бұрын
In the majority of cases, if you spend 2 hours in a server queue/not actually playing the game steam will still issue the refund, you just have to be clear with your reason for requesting the refund.
@mrcool9090
@mrcool9090 6 ай бұрын
so basically mainly targeting beating games in 2 hours and refunding them?
@Braxtonkai
@Braxtonkai 6 ай бұрын
This is very debatable, they cannot tell what you did in that two hours. I had to fight to get a refund for the exact reason you listed.
@Braxtonkai
@Braxtonkai 6 ай бұрын
@@mrcool9090 If it were only this, this is an attempt to likely do two things. Protect big companies and reduce the number of transactions as in many cases someone (often the merchant) is paying a small fee for transaction
@IEgOImkAwx
@IEgOImkAwx 6 ай бұрын
@@Braxtonkai I think generally Steam will work with you if you're professional and clear. Never had an issue myself and I've refunded many, many games.
@fajarn7052
@fajarn7052 6 ай бұрын
Man, if I bought a game that I had to queue even up to more than 30 minutes, and its new...I would refund it myself before the 2hrs mark
@mrsmith5114
@mrsmith5114 6 ай бұрын
There are youtube channels dedicated to buying the game, speed running, getting every achievement, and then refunding it. They normally already own the game on another account, but still entertaining to watch.
@dustojnikhummer
@dustojnikhummer 6 ай бұрын
Early Hunt Down the Freeman speedun? Refund%
@corruptedplayer
@corruptedplayer 6 ай бұрын
@@dustojnikhummer wait, hunt down the freeman costs money?
@Sniperbear13
@Sniperbear13 6 ай бұрын
i seen some of those videos and its interesting to watch. the good ones really aim for the more Difficult games to 100%.
@LyriXris
@LyriXris 6 ай бұрын
If that’s possible the game sucks anyway
@flaminghead1va
@flaminghead1va 6 ай бұрын
​@LyriXris how do you figure that? We're talking prior to this valve change where you could have sometimes up to 2 weeks access before the countdown timer even starts. 14 days is plenty of time to speed run a game if you wanted to
@breytac
@breytac 6 ай бұрын
Regardless of Steam's refund "policy", in Australia, businesses must either repair, replace or refund if a product is faulty. In the case of a subscription, a cancellation of the subscription. Valve tried to take away gamer's basic consumer right in Australia some time ago by stating they didn't do business in Australia (the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission took them to court), the judge didn't accept their bs excuse and they were fined for breaching Australian consumer law. As far as Elite Dangerous is concerned, I don't know if the game is dieing, but Fdev's decision to sell ships stinks of desperation. Their share price never really recovered after the Odyssey debacle.
@retched
@retched 5 ай бұрын
So being able to play through a game fully to its realization... is faulty? That's kind of bad faith.
@BellularNews
@BellularNews 6 ай бұрын
we simply cannot resist a knife gabe thumbnail
@Jukantos
@Jukantos 6 ай бұрын
Gabe should give me back the ability to share my games with my poorer buddies in Macdonia and Egypt :(
@КГБКолДжорджКостанца
@КГБКолДжорджКостанца 6 ай бұрын
KZbin has no chill
@SteelOnyxYT
@SteelOnyxYT 6 ай бұрын
Let me out of the basement I promise I won’t pay $250 for a tarkov bundle again I promise I just want to see my family again
@n1m4re77
@n1m4re77 6 ай бұрын
Me neither
@gulox8241
@gulox8241 6 ай бұрын
@@Jukantos You cannot do that ? Beta Steam has "family" mode where you dont need to give others your account so that you can pair game libraries, make family, add up to 6 people to it then you can play same games at the same time, idk tho if you can play coop/multi using the same game.
@DanielCollins85
@DanielCollins85 6 ай бұрын
I got shafted by Steam with Payday 3. I was in the server ques for hours, crashes and everything. I tried refunding it at 17 hours "played" and even told them that it was unplayable. Refused refund. Uninstalled the game and have never played it again, nor will I.
@StargazerBirdYT
@StargazerBirdYT 5 ай бұрын
Seems like steam isn't the savior that it is
@rompevuevitos222
@rompevuevitos222 5 ай бұрын
Being clear, this is rare, i have never had an issue like this myself. And i have refunded late games before. UNLESS it has been 2 weeks, at which point you should have had enough time to figure out that the game does not work.
@user-rv8yv4yh9n
@user-rv8yv4yh9n 6 ай бұрын
Relabeling 'early access' as 'advanced access' also means the classic defense of 'oh, well it's easily access! You can't judge this game yet it's not done!' Falls flat. Better make sure the game you're releasing in advance is ready
@boyishdude1234
@boyishdude1234 5 ай бұрын
There are early access success stories like Subnautica.
@SmallSpoonBrigade
@SmallSpoonBrigade 5 ай бұрын
They should really just label those sorts of things as alpha, beta or in production. If it's to the point where it's mostly just bugfixes, that's a bit different, so long as there aren't any bugs that prevent completing the game.
@roadsweeper1
@roadsweeper1 6 ай бұрын
It's also down to consumer spending... a lot of us simply don't have the money any more. I live alone, and, 10-15 years ago, I was buying anywhere between 5 to 10 full price games a year, regularly... sometimes more. Let's take my food bill as an example, probably was getting away with 30 quid a week. Now... be lucky if I buy one full price game a year, and thats only guaranteed hits like God of War etc, something I KNOW is going to be a good game, or the odd DLC or a module for DCS, or a new plane for MSFS2020. My food bill, anywhere from £75-100 a week now. I simply can't afford to take gambles on indie games I may or may not like, or pre-order AAAs. With the cost of living crisis, I no longer have the disposable income I once had. My wages have gone up a couple of quid an hour in the last 15 years, my bills have trippled. I can see publishers just not willing to take a risk on a mid range game these days, because there's a strong chance they won't make their money back. This current trend of releasing every game into early access these days and not finishing it for another year, or releasing it half done and utilising day 1 patches, and "fixing it live" has hurt the games industry too. What happened to actually finishing a game before releasing it. Me, the consumer wants an enjoyable product from the get go, not a half baked, bug filled mess I've got to wait a year to actually enjoy.... No wonder people aren't buying games and being a lot more careful with what little money they have.
@doctahjonez
@doctahjonez 6 ай бұрын
Same brooo I don't think I've payed full price for a AAA game in like 3 years. All I play now is whatever's already in my library and that money goes to food and computer stuff
@admiralkaede
@admiralkaede 6 ай бұрын
for me money is a factor but its really about the space games have BALOONED they are so massive now and my motherboard can only hold a few SSDs
@roadsweeper1
@roadsweeper1 6 ай бұрын
​@admiralkaede yeah tell me about it lol, I have 4 clients for Star Citizen. Pretty much takes up most of an NVME.
@admiralkaede
@admiralkaede 6 ай бұрын
@@roadsweeper1 why so many
@roadsweeper1
@roadsweeper1 6 ай бұрын
​@@admiralkaedeLive client, PTU client, Evocati client, and sometimes I have the Tech Preview client as well.
@johndoe-is2fw
@johndoe-is2fw 6 ай бұрын
3rd story: I rather have 100-150 indie studios funded then 1 AAA.
@ameliamohsin8430
@ameliamohsin8430 6 ай бұрын
They still needs to do something about games that we bought that has been permanently gone from our library.
@FriezaReturns00001
@FriezaReturns00001 6 ай бұрын
Personally, I'm doing what Raychevick is doing; gunna make a request via GOG and see if they can upload the game there as that's what he did for Alpha Protocol since the liscencing was axed due to songs --- ugh it sucks but there aren't too many ways to get games back outside of physical copies [i have several, i would like on steam or GOG but] I doubt they'll do it. ESP Not EGS since they only give a shit about fornite and not much else, not their legacy, nothing...
@Nick-ue7iw
@Nick-ue7iw 6 ай бұрын
You mean taken? I've never had a game removed from my library. Delisted from the store sure, but not removed.
@XiaoYueMao
@XiaoYueMao 6 ай бұрын
​@@Nick-ue7iwyeah steam doesnt remove games from libraries unless a court orders them to do so
@admiralkaede
@admiralkaede 6 ай бұрын
what games? even delisted games stay in the library unless legally forced to remove it
@dieyng
@dieyng 6 ай бұрын
It even happens to studios with well-known and received games. Mimimi Games, the developers of Shadow Tactics and Desperadoes III had to self-publish their last game, and they managed with help from the German government in form of a grant. And then it did indeed become their last and final game. Because while it was well received by critics and fans, the sales weren't enough to fund development of a new project, and they couldn't find funding elsewhere. That's why they closed shop late last year. Some games, might be great in their niche genre, but if that genre doesn't generate enough sales, your game can be as good as possible and still not make enough money. Pretty tragic.
@BigQuadsOnCampus
@BigQuadsOnCampus 6 ай бұрын
your sponsor clip is really loud compared to the rest of the video
@Sypitz
@Sypitz 6 ай бұрын
Gotta get peoples attention somehow
@LyriXris
@LyriXris 6 ай бұрын
Double tap fast forward. Problem fixed
@fiiral5870
@fiiral5870 6 ай бұрын
I always skip 60sec once a sponsor segement starts
@lethaldream50
@lethaldream50 6 ай бұрын
probiotic jumpscare. seriously though guys skipping past it doesnt undo the blast to the eardrums , it already happened lol
@Festivejelly
@Festivejelly 6 ай бұрын
Just use sponserblock these horrible baked in sponsors are annoying as hell.
@levitomlinson5617
@levitomlinson5617 6 ай бұрын
mmm the morning coffee industry news *this comment is a sacrifice to algorithm
@nickolaiproblem
@nickolaiproblem 6 ай бұрын
@BellularNews will you be talking about the BSG and Escape from Taskov $250 doc scandal?
@mmaldonado103
@mmaldonado103 6 ай бұрын
Doubt it, they wouldn't even cover Sweet Baby harassing and doxxing gamers...
@Homiloko2
@Homiloko2 6 ай бұрын
@@mmaldonado103 This channel has really gone downhill. I think having a game and being in the industry is a huge conflict of interest for a gaming news channel. And besides, Bell has some weird takes too, he hates Steam for pretty much no reason. Last video I saw he made about Steam had some horrendous false claims.
@clovernacknime6984
@clovernacknime6984 6 ай бұрын
@@mmaldonado103 Pandering to the lunatic fringe has the downside of driving everyone else away, thus dragging you ever deeper down the rabbit hole of alt-right nonsense as you compete for attention with other grifters. You can't sell your soul just halfway, it's all or nothing.
@alithahnar7957
@alithahnar7957 6 ай бұрын
Why Age of Sigmar does not sell could also be because it is Age of Sigmar. Would have bought a Warhammer Fantasy right away not a fan of the Endtimes.
@Darthvegeta8000
@Darthvegeta8000 6 ай бұрын
I like both settings though Fantasy vastly more. But the AOS game simply has nothing to appeal to me. None of the factions I like and seemingly nothing that interesting campaign, story or gameplay wise.
@Nick-ue7iw
@Nick-ue7iw 6 ай бұрын
Considering Warhammer is alienating their entire fan base as we speak, AoS would be in a great place, if it had content.
@akantor0811
@akantor0811 6 ай бұрын
It plays like a bad mobile game its basic and slow the story was boring with a terrible main character who's only character is she's a strong woman who is better than her male counterparts and has no flaws
@mikeloeven
@mikeloeven 6 ай бұрын
Keep in mind even after the 2 hour window you can still get refunds for certain issues. I had one such issue with a game that had a major control issue I could not work around. By the time I had confirmation the issue would not allow me to properly play the game on my system the time had lapsed. I submitted my evidence to steam support along with a legal template letter citing the UCC right to void sale if inspection of the product reveals a major defect. I got the refund.
@doltBmB
@doltBmB 6 ай бұрын
Not good enough, if it's not in the policy it doesn't matter and they can always fuck you over for no reason.
@dhgmrz17
@dhgmrz17 6 ай бұрын
You probably didn't even need the letter, you could have just asked for a refund due to the game being broken after the 2 hour mark and they would have refunded you. I imagine they also if an advanced access game does a bait and switch upon release Steam would probably still give a refund.
@dhgmrz17
@dhgmrz17 6 ай бұрын
@@doltBmB However it actually benefits Valve in most cases to refund the customers, because being lenient on refunds ends up making people more likely to buy products in the future. If customers know they can easily be screwed over, they are less likely to buy from the merchant. Also on PC there are alternative ways to get game unlike consoles, so it's in Valve's best interest to keep players wanting to buy from Steam rather than either pirating the game or moving to another storefront that may offer the game.
@rompevuevitos222
@rompevuevitos222 5 ай бұрын
Steam is famous for respecting costumers and have consistently kept up their word. There is no reason to believe they will soil that reputation over a couple of refunds.
@cyan_wings5420
@cyan_wings5420 6 ай бұрын
To translate for Star Citezen; "This will give players a better opportunity to fork-over heinious amounts of money for pay-for-power advantages that we will continue to push onto our playerbase for the purpose of giving them FOMO (fear of missing out), so they will spend more money in the hopes of not falling behind. We will then proceed to release even mroe packages with upgrades for those exclusive ships, and we can price them however we like, because the people who bought the ships are going to buy them anyway because they're already invested. Not that we care, we're just happy that your giving us money for a service that doesn't even respect you X;'D"
@HikariLight121
@HikariLight121 6 ай бұрын
Star Citizen gives WEEKLY updates on the development process of the game. How many other games do that? Also Star Citizen is a playable ALPHA state game. Also, no one is forcing the players to pay extra money for anything, many just buy the basic pack to get access to the game and never spend another penny on the game.
@Coconut-219
@Coconut-219 6 ай бұрын
Oh boy I wonder when they will close the loophole of companies scamming customers. * Crickets *
@Maty83.
@Maty83. 6 ай бұрын
What Frontier have done pissed all over the rep they had. For example, people who paid 90+ quid for the 'lifetime expansion pass' don't get early access despite that. The length is also a kicker: For the past 3 months FDEV had been building a hypetrain and now... Well, 3 months early access. FDEV have had financial issues because of the nature of being publically-traded.
@Boredom_Incarnate
@Boredom_Incarnate 6 ай бұрын
I've always considered the two hour play timer something to keep in mind when I buy a game I'm not already set on, I'm not sure why it would be any different for "advanced access". Sure a game can be broken or simply not be functional with your hardware etc, but that wouldn't make me less cognizant of the time I'm spending with the game "running" on Steam and eating away at my refund timer. If anything this should be bad news for developers because even "advanced access" players will be part of that potential pool who will have to refund the game and probably won't bother to follow it and see if it ever gets fixed at a later time.
@flanflanjp_
@flanflanjp_ 6 ай бұрын
If they wanted to make money on new ships and not be greedy goblins they should have bundled 8 or 9 new ships to be earnable in-game together with some new content and sold it as an expansion pack.
@niklot5046
@niklot5046 6 ай бұрын
We also have BSG asking $250 for a pay2win package in Escape from Tarkov, which includes an offline co-op mode DLC. At the same time, since 2017 BSG was selling Edge of Darkness edition that was supposed to get ALL DLCs, but not this one apparently. Drama is still going on btw, game's Discord is on fire, even moderators are striking.
@JosiahBradley
@JosiahBradley 6 ай бұрын
Worried advanced access might affect your refund? Don't pre-order and buy it ffs. Wait for reviews. It's your fault rushing in and getting disappointed in your own impatience.
@stillshallow
@stillshallow 6 ай бұрын
I hope developers realise what's happening to Paradox's reputation and start choosing other partners (if they can) because I, and most of my friends are now avoiding any games associated with them
@GeorgeNoiseless
@GeorgeNoiseless 6 ай бұрын
6:36 I'm pretty sure most Steam users didn't even know this was a "feature" they could rely on, automatically presuming they were ineligible for refund due to play time. If anything this closes a loophole for publishers and even makes Advanced Access less attractive to them. Honestly, "ÄAA" and "Live Service" games should just have a bigger refund window. Proportional to the price of the game, even! Starts at 2 hours minimum and increases in tiers from $20+.
@kurrwa
@kurrwa 6 ай бұрын
Not really, you just need to launch game to realize if is it good or not. 2’hours is enought
@BlackSun90
@BlackSun90 6 ай бұрын
@@kurrwano its not. Sometimes games have an hour of tutorial. Sometimes you have to tweak settings to see if you can get it in a acceptable play state for your specific rig. So again . No. It is not.
@fransmith3255
@fransmith3255 6 ай бұрын
@@BlackSun90 By the time you've spent an hour, even if that's all tutorial, you should have a pretty good idea whether the game is for you or not. And if you're spending THAT much time trying to make your games work for your 'rig', than perhaps you need to either buy a new 'rig' or be a bit more careful in considering the specs required for the games you're trying out. Most games you should just be able to plug and play. I have hundreds of games, many of them pretty intensive city builders, and I've never had to spent an hour getting it to work with my 'rig' and my 'rig' is a 6 year old laptop dinosaur. Two hours is plenty of time.
@schwingedeshaehers
@schwingedeshaehers 6 ай бұрын
especially if you have a linux setup, and want to play a Windows game, tinkering until it works can take time. independent of your gaming rig is strong enough for a game​@@fransmith3255
@XiaoYueMao
@XiaoYueMao 6 ай бұрын
to clarify, the 2 hrs is just for an instant no questions asked automatic refund, you can still get a refund after 2 hrs, a human just has to review it, and they rarely deny it
@runeseeker993
@runeseeker993 5 ай бұрын
2 hour window doesn't apply to australia, rally your lawmakers to make refunds work as long as there's a decent reason.
@ServantOfBoron
@ServantOfBoron 6 ай бұрын
The new refund policy might actually work in our benefit in the end. When enough people get burned by crappy pre-release games and day 1 patches then publishers might actually stop doing it. Just maybe, but there is always a chance.
@Based-wn9jg
@Based-wn9jg 6 ай бұрын
one key information left out is that, while playing for more than 2h does exclude you from *automatic* refunds, you still can get a manually reviewed refund when you're well over the 2h mark or owned the game for over 14 days
@KK-fs8rm
@KK-fs8rm 6 ай бұрын
@Frontier That's not advanced access. It means the real release date of the Python MkII is May 7th.
@tywren2486
@tywren2486 6 ай бұрын
Steam's 2 hour policy for refunds have always been bullshit, because any game that kicks over to a 3ed party launcher to download updates (Paradox games, most MMO's) start ticking your refund time as soon as you open the launcher even though the launcher is going to patch for more than 2 hours.
@Planetdune
@Planetdune 6 ай бұрын
Do we even need any new games at this point? There are already so many I want to try one day that my lifespan is not enough as it is.
@alanarzh6356
@alanarzh6356 6 ай бұрын
You have such a good and beautiful question here!
@jarretticeearthguard8614
@jarretticeearthguard8614 6 ай бұрын
New games are always welcomed, you just don't have to get it, let others get the game if they want it or not.
@nilaier1430
@nilaier1430 6 ай бұрын
Just to remind, you can play some single player games with Steam closed by opening it through an exe file instead. This wouldn't count to your playtime. Plus, when you refund the game, it doesn't disappear from your PC. So, even if you can't play it through Steam or receive new update, you can still launch its exe without problem.
@DccToon
@DccToon 6 ай бұрын
mm yes free game glitch
@j-swag7438
@j-swag7438 6 ай бұрын
Hopefully this encourages developers to make more demos for their games. I'm honestly sick of being forced to abuse steam refund policy just to see how a game runs on my computer
@bunnybreaker
@bunnybreaker 6 ай бұрын
To be fair, making and maintaining a demo isn't usually a small task for most devs. Don't get me wrong, I like when games have demos, but the 2 hour automatic refund system should suffice if one isn't available.
@Nick-ue7iw
@Nick-ue7iw 6 ай бұрын
Making one level playable isn't hard. The same devs who whine about demos being hard are the ones that can't fix their game with months of dev time, only for a single mod maker to fix it in an hour.
@bunnybreaker
@bunnybreaker 6 ай бұрын
@@Nick-ue7iw Sure, make wild generalisations with nothing to back it up. Whatever, the refund system is there regardless.
@Coconut-219
@Coconut-219 6 ай бұрын
(it wont) 🙂
@xkblxcripple
@xkblxcripple 6 ай бұрын
@@bunnybreaker Creative with TWW3, every patch has broken previous paid content and modders have to fix it literally within hours. It takes CA 6 months to fix what they brake its been almost 2 years and they still haven't fixed the base game
@gabbonoo
@gabbonoo 6 ай бұрын
acetaldehyde isnt effectively broken down by those with "Asian Flush". The drink might grow pretty huge in places with drinking problems like Korea... the alcohol still greatly lowers the quality of deep sleep
@Arcademan09
@Arcademan09 6 ай бұрын
Well, there's always ESG funds. Oh wait...
@8h8_illustrates
@8h8_illustrates 6 ай бұрын
Drying up
@Plutonia001
@Plutonia001 6 ай бұрын
What Frontier is doing is a brand new business strategy for an MMO. *Pay 2 Lose microtransactions.* Pay 10£, get a ship that can't defeat anyone in PvP. 👌
@akitake_
@akitake_ 6 ай бұрын
Steam's changes are justified and sound in my opinion. It closes a loophole customers were abusing because the refund rules were most likely written before advanced access was a thing AND it allows reviews during said early-access so that the customer may make a more informed choice prior to purchase. It's simply Valve saying stop abusing our policies, check reviews before you purchase something that would warrant a refund.
@darkoni95
@darkoni95 6 ай бұрын
PC player lover stealing game aka play for few hr then refund
@blacksamuraisoffendme
@blacksamuraisoffendme 6 ай бұрын
Found the corpo copers
@markobucevic8991
@markobucevic8991 6 ай бұрын
@@darkoni95 got any data, statistics or evidence for that? I know that console players try all kinds of ways to break their security system to pirate stuff on their consoles
@handsinthefire
@handsinthefire 6 ай бұрын
@SYI-cc I honestly wish more countries had consumer laws more in line with AU and NZ. Steam actively loses court cases over there all the time for denying refunds.
@adamleblanc5294
@adamleblanc5294 6 ай бұрын
I will say that steam support is very generous with manual refunds after the 2 hours. I played AC1 for 4 hours, trying to get a setup that would work well with gamepad because I wanted to play it on my TV. Said that was the reason why I was refunding and that I had only played the first couple of missions and they issued a refund within a few hours of sending the ticket.
@GamingInfested
@GamingInfested 6 ай бұрын
big part of this decline is 70-250$ games, couple years ago AAA games were 30-40 and it was booming
@sevenfacedsin
@sevenfacedsin 6 ай бұрын
This is a hot take. Get ready to stave off the deniers. Been there done that months ago saying this.
@GamingInfested
@GamingInfested 6 ай бұрын
@@sevenfacedsin yup and on top they put out less and less content, last 3 years we got bunch of remastered 12 year old games priced at 50-70$ its sad really sad.
@wardy4903
@wardy4903 6 ай бұрын
Wut AAA generally means full price which was $60 for about 20 years and before It was $70 in the SNES era
@snark567
@snark567 6 ай бұрын
True but as a whole the games just aren't captivating either. Most triple A games just use bland realistic assets and honestly I want to boot up a game and experience an adventure, not look at some bland realistic environment that reminds me of the real world I want to escape from.
@lucasLSD
@lucasLSD 6 ай бұрын
Not really though, it's the budget that is the issue, Spider-man 2 being a sequel, meaning it reuses a good amount of things, but costing so much more that it needed to sell 8 million just to break even is INSANE.
@BFTBGSFTST
@BFTBGSFTST 6 ай бұрын
Darktide is an example of advanced access counting towards the time played is anti consumer. They made players think they were holding back a lot of content for a launch update, but that was the mostly full game. This is anticonsumer changes.
@supersoftsantino6351
@supersoftsantino6351 6 ай бұрын
I'm very upset about the Elite changes w/the new ship. It's some bullshit. Ships should be released for all CMDRs at the same time, especially if the ship is better than what's available. They are trying to strong arm us to spend more money, which is super easy. If they wanna sell cosmetics they should make a lot more and cut the price down like how Helldiver's has it. I gladly spend more money on that game cause it's very very good and the prices are actually micro.
@Jolis_Parsec
@Jolis_Parsec 6 ай бұрын
I blame the Cult of Chris Roberts and their obsession with giving him vast sums of money for the technical demo known as Star Citizen. Clearly Frontier saw that and were a bit jelly about how he gets money without actually having to provide anything in return.
@mlgrocket
@mlgrocket 6 ай бұрын
the builds are awful, i was worried at first, but the chieftain build sucks, it can't jump to any of the titan or spire systems, so you'd have to use apex interstellar or a fleet carrier to get to a nearby system, and the gauss cannon isn't very good for either of those things anyway. using apex will cost a new player far more than they can afford at the start. the mining build is even worse, you don't need max range on a mining laser at any point, especially since limpets have a maximum range that is far lower than the max range of the mining laser. the python mk2 build will also be awful. something to note as well, there are no rebuy costs, but you can't change the modules on the pre-builts, and they don't sell for anything, not even the ship sells for anything. so it's a lose lose for anyone that buys them.
@mlgrocket
@mlgrocket 6 ай бұрын
@@Jolis_Parsec have you been seeing anything star citizen has been doing? they are currently testing everything that wasn't in the game at the time of the engine update trailer. meaning everything in that video is currently in game.
@smokedbeefandcheese4144
@smokedbeefandcheese4144 6 ай бұрын
@@Jolis_Parsec This is a good point star citizen has completely corroded the minds of business people to the point where they think they can strong-arm us with nothing that they can just walk up with an idea and get our money without any actual tangible game.
@CMDR_Elizium51RA
@CMDR_Elizium51RA 6 ай бұрын
@@Jolis_Parsecspoken like someone who doesn’t actually play Star Citizen.
@aaronhumphrey3514
@aaronhumphrey3514 6 ай бұрын
How the hell does money dry up in the gaming industry when the gaming industry is producing more revenue than ever? Where is all that money going?
@smidlee7747
@smidlee7747 6 ай бұрын
There is only so much money to be made while there are so many games to compete with now. Even if the gaming industry as a whole is making more money than ever there are also a lot more competition including older games you can buy for a lot less money.
@Andrumen01
@Andrumen01 6 ай бұрын
There are things that gamers can do to stop corporate abuse, like: - Don't buy games that abuse customers. - Don't buy games from companies that abuse their employees. - Don't buy early-access passes and/or games. - Don't trust shows (e.g, Blizzcon, etc.), they are made to hype you and just portray a small percentage of the whole product. - Take what reviews say with a grain of salt. In particular, live with the philosophy: "Gaming is just a hobby. If you don't get to play a game, it is fine...it will not hurt you." There is much more that can be said, but this is the basis.
@ETXAlienRobot201
@ETXAlienRobot201 6 ай бұрын
*all* large coporations are abusive. and at some point, your first two suggestions boil-down to "quit being alive" because the things necesarry to keep us alive are ALSO controlled by exploitative corpos. how do your recommend we deal with them if not slam the hammer of government regulation right through their skulls as sane people realiize? [and most governments are far more willing to do than the US]
@misterspalk
@misterspalk 6 ай бұрын
I find it weird how hollywood is transparent about how much they spend on films, but the games industry is very obscure about it's budgets.
@T.R.75
@T.R.75 6 ай бұрын
money is drying up everywhere. concentration of wealth affects everybody.
@oliverh.2450
@oliverh.2450 6 ай бұрын
That is absolutely right, everyone wants more and more security (Mortgage, Life Insurance...) before they think about giving someone money or a track record with an excellent reputation.
@ChristopherCricketWallace
@ChristopherCricketWallace 6 ай бұрын
a possible benefit of 2 hour timer starting in early access is that MAYBE people will eventually stop buying early access because they could be playing 2 hours of a rushed game. Maybe this can help kill early access and advanced access BS. We need more market forces like this. I don't actually have a problem with early access... I have a problem with taking money for broken games and never fixing them... even at "launch". Indies get a pass; but AAA's DO NOT.
@Dumbledoresarmy13
@Dumbledoresarmy13 6 ай бұрын
You have to go into it knowing that you are willingly entering new, unexplored territory and if anything happens you're the one liable because you knew the risks. Is it bad that people will need to think harder before pre-ordering a game? I'd prefer it if people only did that when they are extremely interested in the project/product so I don't know that it's a bad thing. A game's quality should be reflected in its sales, and not have those sales inflated too much by pre-orders going in blind.
@smokedbeefandcheese4144
@smokedbeefandcheese4144 6 ай бұрын
I feel like the problem is early access game are still games. Like at the end of the day people expect to have something there to play. You can’t just sell a bunch of walking simulators anymore and call it a game you have to have a good game play loop Or else people will be dunking on you
@derisgaming9773
@derisgaming9773 6 ай бұрын
It's almost as if the gaming industry has brought this on themselves.
@ekurisona663
@ekurisona663 6 ай бұрын
the audio on your advertisement is way too loud
@JamesMichaelDoyle
@JamesMichaelDoyle 6 ай бұрын
these rules are for automated refunds. you can still convince them to give a refund. i have not heard of a refund being denied when there is a legit complaint.
@_Ekaros
@_Ekaros 6 ай бұрын
Problem with games like Elite Dangerous is that once you are done... Well you are done, unless you find way to generate revenue there is really no money to develop it beyond maintenance...
@laurencefraser
@laurencefraser 6 ай бұрын
... so... you mean... it's Finished? Yeah, what you're supposed to do then is Move On To The Next Game. ... that applies to both player and developer/publisher.
@Fender178
@Fender178 6 ай бұрын
Not too surprised with time counting with advanced access games because there have been several games where people got refunds no matter how much play time they accumulated one being Starfield. The one thing that did surprise me is that Valve not doing it sooner.
@КГБКолДжорджКостанца
@КГБКолДжорджКостанца 6 ай бұрын
Between the news with Tarkov and this, it's obvious what the picture is, corporate greed, obviously, a huge obstacle of bourgeois to OUR FUN!!!!
@d33pblu3
@d33pblu3 6 ай бұрын
All this means is funding has dried up and everyone needs to actually start making money.
@Yorkington
@Yorkington 6 ай бұрын
Thanks communist spy, very cool!
@Crowald
@Crowald 6 ай бұрын
>People keep their money instead of blindly spending it on games "The well is drying up. There's a lot of games we won't be seeing as a result." Yeah. What did everyone think would happen? This is half the point. Some games won't get made because everyone is withholding their money, but that's what has to happen. Nothing will ever change otherwise.
@Coconut-219
@Coconut-219 6 ай бұрын
When you realize businessmen never knew anything about economics, they're just really convincing bullsh*tters...
@corystarkiller
@corystarkiller 6 ай бұрын
It's your choice to preorder and pay to play early. You made bad life choices, now live with them. You don't have to preorder a digital product, you choose to.
@shadows_star
@shadows_star 6 ай бұрын
That last studio coming from Lionhead, their style reminded me so much of dungeon-keeper
@macmartin86
@macmartin86 6 ай бұрын
What if those developers from Flaming Fowl Studios call up Peter Molyneux and buy / get the rights to the game Black & White and make a good VR version of Black & White, it will both give every gamer an awesome game and secondly introduce a boost in popularity to the VR platform, because let's be honest, Black & White is the perfect title for VR.
@ColdOsburn
@ColdOsburn 6 ай бұрын
I wonder if this stuff that you were talking about would work on Auto brewery syndrome
@bodaciouspizza
@bodaciouspizza 6 ай бұрын
We need to force games to be more transparent in early access ... the prerelease for PGA 2k23 was amazing and made me give glowing reviews and i even talked my friends into giving it another chance. then when it dropped it became paid grind full price freemium battlebass nonsense and i felt so bad
@MAXIMILLIONtheGREAT
@MAXIMILLIONtheGREAT 6 ай бұрын
There's 2k golf?
@_Gorrek_
@_Gorrek_ 6 ай бұрын
I prefer that we force games to never release in EA, it has bred a culture of shit games and Minimum Viable Product.
@dorklymorkly3290
@dorklymorkly3290 6 ай бұрын
They're escrow anyway, so they might as well go a step into a better direction by allowing resale of early access games, and not to launder money, put it as steam wallet currency. Then simply prioritize user sold copies over dev sold copies and that will solve several glaring problems. Actual market feedback: If the game is bad, and noone buys user copies either, then the game is really bad. If the game is good at first, but then changes direction and the initial backers don't like it, they can sell their copies to someone who is fine with the new direction, increasing overall satisfaction. If the game is good, and stays good, few people will resell and any new players will have to buy copies from the source, increasing funding, and acting as positive feedback. And the slaying of shills like: Well it sold so much! etc. In a better world, this would be implemented.
@tamerofthewilds9987
@tamerofthewilds9987 6 ай бұрын
A sponsorship to encourage unhealthy drinking habits and ways to get out of the hangover, that’s…really not a great look. That’s advertising an addiction and a ‘cure’ for it, which…I mean…we’ve had hundreds of those, none of them have actually done anything.
@Silenceyousillycant9793
@Silenceyousillycant9793 6 ай бұрын
People drink. Regardless of the health factor. Its fun. And the demographics that watch this lad happen to drink. Your the odd one out. Also when it comes to hangovers, there are atleast a dozen functional cures from a pill to just eat bloody fruit
@smokywaterstudio
@smokywaterstudio 6 ай бұрын
funding drying up? I blame Bobby Kotick
@Scarecr0wn
@Scarecr0wn 6 ай бұрын
So sad abou Elite Dangerous for last couple of years. Very few games gave me experience comparable to that game. But Frontier is just so clueless since Braben stopped working on the game. I miss that guy.
@Jmvars
@Jmvars 6 ай бұрын
Anything but stop drinking...
@NaoyaYami
@NaoyaYami 6 ай бұрын
Time saving tool would be something like a discount coupon you can buy with real money that'd simply lower requirements of whatever it is for in game (so 50% coupon means 50% less rep and materials needed). Combine with boosters for stuff you grind upward (like reputations) for honest time saving. Now the most important part: make them reasonably priced and don't fuck with f2p progression in order to funnel players into spending more than they want to. You'll end up with happy f2p players that have time (or at least patience) to grind stuff the proper way, happy rich players that can simply reduce amount of grind required with their extra disposable income and plenty of good will all around. (money making can be thought of as skill just as great reflexes is in action game or cleverness in strategy games) I dont think advance access to ships is that big of an in-game issue since ED has solo play mode anyway (though using psychological tricks like that is scummy on it's own).
@oldoneeye7516
@oldoneeye7516 6 ай бұрын
can we stop whining about dying studios and actually start looking at reality? The gaming market is hopelessly oversaturated. The cake everybody is fighting over is not endless, in fact, it is getting smaller, since gaming is a luxury article. So, you either have to live from bread and *work* for a while in order to earn yourself a piece of the cake (like Larian), or you just blindely hope that someone will simply hand you a piece. And if this hope does not become reality, you starve. That is life! Sad (maybe) but true.
@DaBoomDude
@DaBoomDude 5 ай бұрын
Not here in Australia - 30 day refund guaranteed by law.
@dabun4704
@dabun4704 6 ай бұрын
straight up giving a dislike cause FUUUUCK that audio balancing for the sponsor read
@sir_topcat
@sir_topcat 5 ай бұрын
Greetings, fellow Helldiver!
@MAXIMILLIONtheGREAT
@MAXIMILLIONtheGREAT 6 ай бұрын
Ah yes, the decline of Steam. Fantastic. P.s. Terrible take saying this "loophole" "had to be closed". This was nothing but an anticonsumer move.
@Syllaren
@Syllaren 6 ай бұрын
It's still completely fair. If you aren't sold on a game after an hour. Close it and refund.
@_Ekaros
@_Ekaros 6 ай бұрын
@SYI-cc Food?
@Syllaren
@Syllaren 6 ай бұрын
@SYI-cc tons of products have no refunds at all. Games in general were very likely not to have accepted refunds. Because of the tendency people had to abuse them by beating it and then returning it. Fact is an hour is more than enough of a chance for a game. If it grabbed your attention and it's fun, it's probably worth playing. If it hasn't, it probably isn't.
@j.d.4697
@j.d.4697 6 ай бұрын
And Age of Sigmar is mostly hated in the Warhammer community. But I don't understand why Flaming Fowl don't just crowd fund.
@seanpayne1260
@seanpayne1260 6 ай бұрын
Ad read was a tad loud this time around, elsewise, love the content, thank you.
@RubberStig
@RubberStig 6 ай бұрын
Frontier are absolutely dreaming! The vast majority of their community already left because of the "latest expansion" which was released in a terrible state and is still rated as Overwhelmingly Negative on Steam, which you have to own to buy the new Python??? That's a whole bunch of nope!
@AnomalousVixel
@AnomalousVixel 5 ай бұрын
As a Helldiver, I'd like to point out that Steam WILL make exceptions to their refund policies. They ARE refunding Helldivers 2 for people regardless of how long they've played in response to Sony's shady behavior. They're refunding it for as little as "I didn't sign up for this" so if you're in a region where PSN is now PROHIBITING play of the game you spent $40 on, you can be sure they'll refund it. IMO it's worth a try even if you received it as a gift - they might be able to do something, and they probably will if they can.
@Stevo.100
@Stevo.100 6 ай бұрын
You shouldn't be buying a game before, or on launch day anyway. This is a video game, it isn't going away any time soon, there's no FOMO here. If you wait a couple of months you'll get the game for 50% off.
@FluxNoise
@FluxNoise 6 ай бұрын
Frontier tryes to milk the remaining playerbase of their dead game as hard as possible before shutting down. They had a good foundation, but they screwed it up with lazy development. Really a sad story of wasted potential this one.
@Outfrost
@Outfrost 5 ай бұрын
People working at AAA studios aren't more experienced than indie devs, and experienced devs aren't necessarily looking for big bucks over a more creative, fulfilling project. I'm an engineer who has worked in AAA and seen the behind the scenes of indie development, and I'm now an indie dev myself. People of all skill and experience levels develop games at all studio sizes and budgets, but that's not what defines quality. AAA studios have been suffering from an increasing lack of creative direction, mountains of tech debt piling up, counterproductive workplace organisation, and heavier and heavier focus on bringing in as much profit as possible. The higher pay can compensate a bit for dealing with that, but indies being small studios can also only hire so many people, and the experience of AAA devs is often not so transferable - a senior dev of 10 years working in AAA inhouse tech might not have 5 years of experience in Unreal needed for an indie job.
@blueredingreen
@blueredingreen 6 ай бұрын
In theory, I could get behind some idea of "pre-built" builds, especially in e.g. RPGs with highly complex builds where there's a lot of theorycrafting (you can just follow someone else's build that you found online, but it would be nice to have this supported in-game). But what I'm talking about wouldn't be something you pay extra for, and it wouldn't save you playtime - you'd still need to grind for all the things in that build. So that sounds nothing like what Elite are doing.
@mimszanadunstedt441
@mimszanadunstedt441 6 ай бұрын
responsible drinking is better than basic drinking
@CDubHL2
@CDubHL2 6 ай бұрын
Still waiting 20 years later for half life 3 and LFD3 😂😂😂 🤦‍♂️
@shadowofthesupremo7898
@shadowofthesupremo7898 6 ай бұрын
Let's make it simple: early access - no release time Mid access - release time within 2/3 years Advanced access - release time within less then a year
@cozymonk
@cozymonk 6 ай бұрын
I dunno... The hangover is probably the only thing that moderates my drinking.
@ExtraWeirdable
@ExtraWeirdable 6 ай бұрын
Regarding the customers affected who would have a pre-release bad experience: they can just as well refund then and there and see if they wanna re-invest post release if it seems like it has improved. It’s on them to actively play the in development product; if they really had such a bad experience that warrants a refund they should have refunded it then and there.
@firstconsul7286
@firstconsul7286 6 ай бұрын
Watching for the last few weeks, and I'm honestly glad I chose to go onto another career path rather than game developing. I knew, from the experience and stories from my professors that jobs were hard, and I've seen stories of all the layoffs, but seeing how the industry is going now, when I would have been out there trying to get a job with my fresh degree, makes me real glad I stopped spending money on it. I am happier with what I moved on to anyways, but looking at this now makes me even more glad I didn't choose to persevere through anyways, because that would have been a lot of money on a degree I wouldn't end up using.
@asdion
@asdion 6 ай бұрын
Frontier deserves what they are getting now. I have been playing Elite since day 0, and they have lied about most things, especially with the release of Horizons and the implementation of Engineering. Every since Horizons things have been going downhill and it all culminated in the obviously low grade attempt at copying Star Citizen with the garbage FPS mode (while ignoring the original promise of being able to walk in the ships and actual piracy etc) in Odyssey, and they haven't released another expansion ever since, and not just no other expansion, they have made no attempt at even implying that they want to make another expansion. In the devlopment of the past 3 years they have focused nearly exclusively on an extremely obnoxiously specific gameplay style, combat vs aliens, while letting every other gameplay style rot.
@HuntertheWolf
@HuntertheWolf 6 ай бұрын
ed should mark any prebuilt ships with a border of silver or gold depending on how powerful they are over their normal brother ships
@plannein
@plannein 6 ай бұрын
This industry is in the shitter. On the current trajectory, I figure I will probably quit gaming (a hobby of mine since I was 4 years old - three decades) entirely within a few years.
@JohnnyMaverik
@JohnnyMaverik 6 ай бұрын
Why?
@plannein
@plannein 6 ай бұрын
@@JohnnyMaverik because it fuckin sucks and is actively getting worse. I mean I'm not gonna throw away my computer - so _perhaps_ might still grab something every once in a while for that if it seems interesting, and probably emulate old stuff here and there. But I'm getting very close to being done with the bullshit. The industry is garbage and the people controlling it are disgusting vampires.
@Mario583a
@Mario583a 5 ай бұрын
Valve: 2 hours minimum on game release to refund. Early / Advanced access: Valve: No! This isn't how you are supposed to play the game.
@jedipadawan7023
@jedipadawan7023 6 ай бұрын
To be fair to Valve, although this is going back many years, before Proton, I had a game that was supposed to run under Linux. It would not start up. Being a bit techie, I tried various fixes before I reported an issue. I cannot remember whether I asked for a refund or just help but I did contact Valve and explained the situation the following day and pointed out that that I had a grant total of 14 minutes playing time which was just "It starts! Opps, no, it's crashed again." The refund was given just like that. No arguments. In that clear case, despite my hanging onto the game for longer than two hours, where the game was clearly not working, there was no problem at all. What is interesting with, although I am only an occasional gamer, Proton on Linux has let me run, to date, anything I have purchased on Valve.
Uhm, Valve...
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