It is fun, bes money I spent in ages. I loved everything about it. I am glad of it's success...
CAPITALISM HO!
CAPITALISM HO!
Steam's First Indie JRPG Is a Hit
- Thread starter Tom Goldman
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Gods bless the Internet. By completely eliminating retail overhead from the distribution channel, one need only concentrate on revenue-to-cost-of-development in absolute terms (make $5 off Valve---or whatever the devs get from a $20 sale---times units sold - amount spent making game = profit. No middleman involved.)
Hell, the Minecraft guy didn't even need to go THAT far, he distributed his little game HIMSELF.
This augurs extremely well for the future of gaming because it minimizes the role of guys like Bobby Kotick.
Mind you, where regards Kotick, I propose SimuLord's Corollary to Godwin's Law: "As the number of posts on a thread related to video games rises, the probability of Bobby Kotick's name being mentioned approaches 1."
Hell, the Minecraft guy didn't even need to go THAT far, he distributed his little game HIMSELF.
This augurs extremely well for the future of gaming because it minimizes the role of guys like Bobby Kotick.
Mind you, where regards Kotick, I propose SimuLord's Corollary to Godwin's Law: "As the number of posts on a thread related to video games rises, the probability of Bobby Kotick's name being mentioned approaches 1."
Play the demo. It's free, and it's on Steam, and it's a tiny download. If you still think it looks shitty after that, then, and only then, will I get annoyed.AxCx said:
That's fair enough, I suppose, although the demo can be downloaded here [http://www.carpefulgur.com/recettear/downloads.htm]) for free, too. It's also purchasable from Impulse or GamersGate... Impulse uses a Steam-like download manager. I don't think GamersGate does.AxCx said:
I'm curious to know why you're opposed to Steam, though. A lot of the initial problems it had are gone, it's not a resource hog (and can be easily disabled), and insofar as "DRM" goes it's the single most liberal download manager I've ever used... it's still a form of DRM though, so you're welcome to object to it in that regard, as well as anything I've missed.
That's fair. You can force Steam into offline mode provided it's up-to-date, as well as disable game updates so you don't get patches forced on you, but you still need to run Steam to play any given game downloaded using Steam. It prevents you making copies, but gives you unlimited ability to re-download the game anywhere, on any machine with a copy of Steam. So in theory, you have all the same rights as you would buying a game, provided you use Steam... it's essentially only one hoop to jump through, and has a lot of fringe benefits if you do so (cheap games on special, unlimited lifetime updates, achievements and ingame chat across different games...)AxCx said:
It IS still a hoop to jump through though, and it can be annoying. For example, I registered on it using my old account name, and now can't change it, update it, or transfer my games to a new account. Utter pain that is! Thankfully, even though my account name is locked, I can still change my username (what other people see).
You know the best part about this game? The company that translated it only consists of 3 people.
One of the best games I've played this year.
One of the best games I've played this year.
