Ready Your Wallets For the "Not On Steam Sale " - UPDATED
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So your complaining that Valve doesn't arbitrarily say no to games that thousands of Steam users had voted for?AzrealMaximillion said:
You can't have it both ways, the Greenlight system was created due to people complaining that Valve could just (and in several cases did) say no to a game and that was it. Now you Valve to just say no to games again in-spite of several thousand users voting for it? Even when excited devs post on their Greenlight pages that they are now in the top ten/twenty/one-hundred?
So what if some games are not coming out now (if ever?) There isn't a limited number of slots to Steam, in fact there are several games/mods from the first wave that have yet to come out and that hasn't stopped Valve confirming over one-hundred and fifty Greenlight projects in the past few months.
Finally who says those games won't eventually come out? A confirmed place on Steam is a good selling point for potential investors and the devs have paid the
Greenlight is a messed up system, its essentially a popularity contest but if you are going to to complain about it, make sure you remember that in the end of the day the majority of people voted in Yogscast Adventures.
Ahhh, the joys of democracy at work.
These look like a bunch of subpar alpha-state indie games...
A few look nice and even promising, but I far prefer the curation that steam offers for these kinds of games. Thanks for reporting on it though! I like the idea of a few of these and look forward to seeing what they turn out to be post-alpha.
A few look nice and even promising, but I far prefer the curation that steam offers for these kinds of games. Thanks for reporting on it though! I like the idea of a few of these and look forward to seeing what they turn out to be post-alpha.
I'd rather wait and see if they get Greenlighted on Steam. So far, it seems like a pretty good way to do some basic, community-based quality control.
Interesting idea though.
Interesting idea though.
Neat, I've been following a bunch of the games from this sale. Might as well buy them all now.
Has anyone played Richard and Alice? It's the only one I'm on the fence about.
Each week every character can choose a location in town to visit and one of the corresponding occupations (e.g. go to tavern and either have a drink or be a barkeeper) which raises certain stats (charisma, strength, mind, etc). Each location has a number of random events with multiple choices (partly mundane, partly very weird), the outcome of which depends on stats (e.g. you can break up a fight in the tavern with enough charisma, otherwise you fail. Or you can join the fight.). Some events have lasting effects or can be witnessed by other characters.
This goes on for six or seven weeks until the Yahwg, which is a sort of catastrophe, and depending on each character's actions there's an ending wrapping everything up.
There're quite a lot of events for the game to last a bunch of playthroughs but a single playthrough is very short (15-25 min maybe, depending on how fast you read). The music is very nice, though. I wouldn't recommend the game for $10 but for half the price it's worth a try if you're into this sort of stuff.
Has anyone played Richard and Alice? It's the only one I'm on the fence about.
Strazdas said:
Only a fraction is unfinished (indicated by the hourglass icon), most of the games are complete.Lightknight said:
Basically it's a co-optional choose-your-own-adventure kind of game (although you can just as well play alone of course) with 2-4 characters.rofltehcat said:
Each week every character can choose a location in town to visit and one of the corresponding occupations (e.g. go to tavern and either have a drink or be a barkeeper) which raises certain stats (charisma, strength, mind, etc). Each location has a number of random events with multiple choices (partly mundane, partly very weird), the outcome of which depends on stats (e.g. you can break up a fight in the tavern with enough charisma, otherwise you fail. Or you can join the fight.). Some events have lasting effects or can be witnessed by other characters.
This goes on for six or seven weeks until the Yahwg, which is a sort of catastrophe, and depending on each character's actions there's an ending wrapping everything up.
There're quite a lot of events for the game to last a bunch of playthroughs but a single playthrough is very short (15-25 min maybe, depending on how fast you read). The music is very nice, though. I wouldn't recommend the game for $10 but for half the price it's worth a try if you're into this sort of stuff.
Only a fraction? Like 9/10ths?Smertnik said:
Joking aside, I think it was the listing I saw yesterday that made me think that. Revisiting the site today showed a lot more innovative and finished games.
I might buy something, if they had a damn tag system. You'd think with the aim of increasing accessibility to these games, they make them a bit, well, accessible. I am NOT going to rifle through several dozen youtube videos in the hopes of finding my kind of RPG or simulator. I do enough of that crap when voting on Greenlight.
So what happens to a game on NotOnSteam if the game ends up on Steam (gets Greenlit)? Does the game get removed from the NotOnSteam service? And if so what happens for all those people who bought the game? Do they lose access? And if NotOnSteam keeps a game that ends up on Steam then won't that make their name a lie?
Not On Steam isn't a service, it's just a list of games that are currently available for purchase on other platforms or directly from the developers that aren't on Steam. Nothing happens if and when they make it on Steam, except that they're on Steam. (And I read somewhere that at least some devs have promised to provide to provide Steam keys to everyone who purchases the game pre-Steam if they get through Greenlight.)Kuala BangoDango said:
To me, it just seems like I shouldn't have to pay for most of these games because it seems like most of these games belong on a flash game website.