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[007]

But how different are the graphics? Are they really something better? If so, how better? Because the originals looked pretty good IMHO.

PC Gamer did a comparison yesterday - Take a look at some Bioshock and Bioshock 2 Remastered comparison screenshots | PC Game

 

[aniketdawn.89]

I hear remaster is another shitty pc port for controls?

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[anirbandd]

PC Gamer did a comparison yesterday - Take a look at some Bioshock and Bioshock 2 Remastered comparison screenshots | PC Game

looks to me like a HD Retexuring Project + Lighting Overhaul + Increased LOD mod combo from nexusmods

 

[007]

Digital Homicide's response after Valve removed their games.

EDIT: Lol, now he wants to sue Valve. Good luck with that bruh! I don't freaking understand this. How long has this developer been visiting Earth? He talks as if the internet is not-open and each action should be moderated and controlled. Has he used Youtube, Facebook and Twitter where 80% of the posts are nasty abuse and sh1t posts? AngryJoe is one of my favorite guys and I absolutely love him and his angry reviews. So if he reviewed his game will he sue him as well? Death threats! Oh come on! No sane person is gonna kill you for making shitty video games dude, its just a matter of expression and it is the internet FFS. Why can't you just discard those posts like everyone else. This guy needs therapy IMO (and probably a spaceship to return to his home planet).

 

[Desmond]

That guy is a walking joke right now.

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Even Vice.com is covering this fiasco. Now you know that its getting big:

Valve Bans Game Publisher After It Sues Players That Gave It Bad Steam Reviews | Motherboar

Developer That Sued Negative Reviewers Claims Steam Isn't a 'Safe Environment' | Motherboar

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According to those articles, they were crowdfunding the funds for legal fees to sue these guys, so far they have collected $475 out of $75000.

 

[007]

According to those articles, they were crowdfunding the funds for legal fees to sue these guys, so far they have collected $475 out of $75000.

Remote chances of raising such amount and if they do, Valve is gonna crush them like the cockroaches they actually are.

 

[Hrishi]

Digital Homicide's response after Valve removed their games.

EDIT: Lol, now he wants to sue Valve. Good luck with that bruh! I don't freaking understand this. How long has this developer been visiting Earth? He talks as if the internet is not-open and each action should be moderated and controlled. Has he used Youtube, Facebook and Twitter where 80% of the posts are nasty abuse and sh1t posts? AngryJoe is one of my favorite guys and I absolutely love him and his angry reviews. So if he reviewed his game will he sue him as well? Death threats! Oh come on! No sane person is gonna kill you for making shitty video games dude, its just a matter of expression and it is the internet FFS. Why can't you just discard those posts like everyone else. This guy needs therapy IMO (and probably a spaceship to return to his home planet).

Lmao....watch out...he may have his eyes on us/these posts too. lel

 

[Desmond]

Remote chances of raising such amount and if they do, Valve is gonna crush them like the cockroaches they actually are.

Also that funding campaign has been going on for 6 months.

Digital Homicide closes its post with a plea for help with legislation. That, in fact, has been the biggest hurdle in getting its cases to go anywhere. An earlier, still-unsettled suit against game critic Jim Sterling for $10 million has stalled because the studio can't amass the funding for the associated legal fees. After six months, Romine's GoFundMe account still only has $425 of his $75,000 goal.

Online Defamation Lawsuit by Jim Romine - GoFundM

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Lmao....watch out...he may have his eyes on us/these posts too. lel

He will have to sue us in an Indian court. We should dare him to do it.

 

[Hrishi]

Also that funding campaign has been going on for 6 months.

Online Defamation Lawsuit by Jim Romine - GoFundM

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He will have to sue us in an Indian court. We should dare him to do it.

Yes, it will be fun! More fun than his sh!t game. xD

 

[Desmond]

What's even worse is that people are spiting him even more by making $1 payment to his funding by PayPal and immediately issuing a chargeback, resulting in PayPal charging him $20.

According to this reddit comment at least: Wampawacka comments on Valve Bans Game Publisher After It Sues Players That Gave It Bad Steam Review

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But on a serious note, if this guy wins then legislation will come into play. Then in the future, all the shitty game developers will start suing reviewers and start winning. Hell, it might even become a fulltime business for some of them.

1. Make shitty game
2. Get bad reviews
3. Sue reviewers
4. ???
5. Profit

 

[chimera201]

Yes, it will be fun! More fun than his sh!t game. xD

He will be dead before his case is presented in our court

 

[007]

But on a serious note, if this guy wins then legislation will come into play. Then in the future, all the shitty game developers will start suing reviewers and start winning. Hell, it might even become a fulltime business for some of them.

1. Make shitty game
2. Get bad reviews
3. Sue reviewers
4. ???
5. Profit

These guys already have a different, if not cheap way of making money instead of just making good games. There are pixel-graphics indie games that are absolutely brilliant.

while (1) {

1. Make sh1tty game (or) wait until their upcoming games get Greenlit.
2. Enable Steam trading cards
3. Get bad reviews
4. Generate huge number of free keys and give them to giveaway groups like Rex to promote
5. Promote upcoming sh1tty games by them that are on Greenlight using those giveaways
6. Users who claimed the giveaway key will idle and buy/sell cards off Steam market
7. Profit

}

Indefinite money generation as long as Steam market lives.

 

[Desmond]

But after the legislation, you also get to sue reviewers for giving bad reviews and rake in millions. Additional income.

Basically similar to patent trolling.

 

[anirbandd]

Romine's GoFundMe account, set up to fund the suit, has made just $425 of his $75,000 goal, even though he claims he "received a pile of feces in the mail" and that he had had messages saying things like "Your wife is a whore," and "I hope you die in a fiery car crash."

how does one do this?

 

[Desmond]

how does one do this?

IDK, airtight container perhaps?

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[chimera201]

how does one do this?

I have heard of customers receiving stones/bricks in amazon package. So it's quite possible.

 

[Desmond]

There used to be a company in the mid 2000s called "Ship Your Enemies Glitter" whom you could pay to have a glitter delivered to those whom you don't like.

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[anirbandd]

IDK, airtight container perhaps?

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oh.. i was thinking like a really thick stationery envelope, reeking and lumpy and damp.

There used to be a company in the mid 2000s called "Ship Your Enemies Glitter" whom you could pay to have a glitter delivered to those whom you don't like.

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oh yeah i saw that.

glitter is evil.

 

[TheSloth]

oh.. i was thinking like a really thick stationery envelope, reeking and lumpy and damp.

PS:just making it sure, that i meant no offense, i am not laughing on you, i am laughing with you

 

[007]

Steam UI overhaul incoming...

We wanted to let you know about some upcoming improvements we're working on for the Steam Store and what it might mean for your game.

When we launched the Steam Discovery Update, we introduced a new and smarter Steam store built around personalization and recommendations. In the time since the Discovery Update, we've iterated on the features and made improvements to support the goal of helping each customer find the titles they are most likely to enjoy playing. We think our progress in this direction has been really valuable in supporting a broader variety of gaming experiences big and small, while better serving individual customer tastes.

We've got another set of changes in the works to continue along this path. All this is subject to change to some degree in response to your feedback and suggestions, but here are the general highlights of this upcoming update:

Home Page Visual Refresh.
The Steam home page will be getting a visual refresh to use bigger game images in some places, add some new ways of surfacing games, and remove some visual clutter.

Additional Left Column Navigation.
The left column of navigation on the home page will be getting a new section of links to main destinations such as new releases, top sellers, recently updated, upcoming releases, and specials. When logged in, there will also be links to sections for you such as popular among friends, recommendations by curators you follow, and your discovery queue.

Friends Activity.
We're adding a prominent new 'Popular Among Friends' section right to the home page that will highlight what your friends have been buying and playing.

Top Selling New Releases.
We're adding a new section to the home page for new releases that have reached the top sellers list.

Global Customer Preferences.
We're adding some new options for users to specify their preferences for which product types they wish to see across the entire home page, rather than managing each section individually. This will let customers opt to exclude particular types of products, such as Early Access, Software, Videos, and VR from appearing on their Steam home page and on a couple other browse pages.

Targeted Visibility For New Releases.
We'll be making some changes to the initial launch visibility of new titles to better reach appropriate customers. While we previously granted 1M impressions of each new titles on the home page, this approach was not scaling well and was an inefficient method for reaching the right potential customers. Click-through rates for most titles featured in this section were low, and it had become clear that not every new release is relevant to every user. We think we can do better.

With the upcoming changes, newly released titles will appear in a few different ways on the "New on Steam" page and in the "New on Steam" Queue. The goal is to reach a more engaged group of customers, and drive more relevant traffic directly to your store page. This change should result in your title appearing to a smaller, but better targeted group of potential customers based on their preferences and tastes. New releases will continue to be recommended to specific users on the Steam Home page and can appear in popular lists if doing well.

Targeted Visibility For Game Updates.
Update Visibility Rounds will be changed to show your game to a better targeted group of customers. While Update Rounds previously caused a game to appear for 500,000 impressions on the home page, we found this method to be too broad for effectively reaching interested customers. We'll be changing this system to instead show the game to a more targeted group of customers. This will include your existing customers, users with the game on their wishlist, and other customers that Steam recommends the game to. This visibility will continue to be on the Steam home page and may show your title for up to a week in this spot.

More Steam Curator Options.
We've noticed that more than a few Steam Curators are using the curator feature to provide valuable information about games, while not necessarily recommending the title. We're going to give Steam Curators the tools to indicate whether their post is recommended, not recommended, or simply informational. This helps us better understand whether a curation should be used to promote a game on the front page of Steam, or if it's intended to be informational that should primarily appear on the individual product page.

Curators in Main Capsule.
The Main Capsule banner will be updated to include titles recommended by Steam Curators that users follow. This means we can better surface appropriate titles to individual users based on who they follow and trust to make recommendations.

Improved Steam Curator Presence.
When following one or more Steam Curators, users will see a specific section on the home page that highlights recent recommendations. This space can include popular new releases or smaller niche titles depending on which curators the user is following. This section is being improved to show off the games in a better way. Additionally, we're creating a new landing page to highlight many of the titles recommended by all the Curators the user follows.

We're actively working on this set of features, and planning to roll out the update in a few weeks. We're looking for your feedback on these changes and your suggestions for how we can best connect your game with the customers most likely to enjoy it.

Source: Leaked in NeoGAF