Steam release date: Friday 22nd Aug
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*sam* Posted Aug 15, 2014, 5:58 pm |
The release date for Steam has been set to next Friday, 22nd Aug.
Please visit the store page (which shows a 'coming soon' status at the moment) and say nice things about the game! http://store.steampowered.com/app/295710 |
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Joel Autobaun Posted Aug 15, 2014, 6:10 pm |
Congrats. How is it going with the steam launcher? / install? | ||||||
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*sam* Posted Aug 15, 2014, 6:18 pm |
Thanks! :-)
The steam launcher/install is all figured out yeah. Their install/patch system is pretty slick. Playing thru Steam is totally optional, of course - you can still play as normal with the version you download from the DW website itself. |
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*The X Man* Posted Aug 15, 2014, 7:05 pm |
Congratulations Sam, its been a long time coming, but definitely worth the wait. As always, you have my support and I am sure the rest of the player base during the Grand Opening to help with new players. We all hope this is a huge success because you deserve it for all the time and hard work you have put into it. | ||||||
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*Brunwulf* Posted Aug 15, 2014, 7:24 pm |
Yeah- I will definately look out for new players and help anyone to get started. Just getting together a few decent cars to give away, and set up a squad to scout with new players who are in in the (UK) daytime when there's not many players in. |
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*StCrispin* ce.services.mh@gmail.com Posted Aug 15, 2014, 9:13 pm |
Awesome. I'll probably download the steam version so it is displayed in my list of games and in the steam statistics showing how many people play it.
Will subs and CHR be purchasable via Steam Wallet or will it still be from the website? Will there be Steam Achievements? Steam collector cards? I know those 2 things are important to some steamys and drive sales. I've bought a cheap game before knowing I can make back what I spent selling the collector cards. And I've played F2P games solely for that reason but most of those done seem to offer the cards |
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*Longo* Posted Aug 15, 2014, 9:26 pm |
When is Into the Ruins coming out?
Congrats to you Sam. Alot of hard work is paying off. 
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Flaming savage Posted Aug 15, 2014, 10:46 pm |
Might be worth organising a few community events on release, help the newbies settle in. | ||||||
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Joel Autobaun Posted Aug 16, 2014, 12:37 am |
Are you serious? Gamers never cease to amaze me. |
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*Bastille* Posted Aug 16, 2014, 1:05 am |
Lovely Jubblies! All the best for the release!
Great promo vid on the steam site, captures the game well. |
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*StCrispin* ce.services.mh@gmail.com Posted Aug 16, 2014, 2:43 am |
Yeah, some of them refer to themselves as "achievement chasers" and buy even the worst games just to get achievements. And they admit it freely. Personally I'll play a bad game if I can make a profit from it. I got one not long ago for 98 cents and made $1.25 off the collector cards. Although playing the game for 3 and a half hours to profit 27 cents is pretty stupid. |
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*sam* Posted Aug 16, 2014, 4:53 am |
Basically the 2 versions will co-exist: if you're running the Steam version then purchases are all via steam wallet whereas if you're running the version from the DW website they're all via PayPal. I definitely want to do achievements and collector cards, yes. But not an immediate priority - I don't particularly want to drum up more traffic than the regular Steam publicity will produce, at least until I know that the servers won't struggle |
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*sam* Posted Aug 16, 2014, 4:55 am |
Good idea! |
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*sam* Posted Aug 16, 2014, 4:57 am |
One thing I have come to realise is that gamers are a very varied lot, and enjoy quite different things. I'm not a collector/achiever type myself but its quite a common approach |
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*Rev. V* Posted Aug 16, 2014, 6:31 am |
My nuns collect serious injuries.
They are total achievement whores in that regard. |
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*goat starer* Posted Aug 16, 2014, 9:02 am |
I have 2 races ready to roll... Just a bit short of organisation time (for some reason my wife thinks making nursery is more important than playing darkwind). |
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Racing Robbie Posted Aug 16, 2014, 9:23 am |
Funny that - I wonder why :-p GEEk Events has Hammer Time lined up, we could schedule that to fit in with the Steam launch |
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*Bigspenner* Posted Aug 16, 2014, 9:57 am |
what is steam?
I dont really play many other games. |
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*sam* Posted Aug 16, 2014, 10:13 am |
It's the biggest (by far) "app store" for PC and Mac games. So it's a big opportunity to get discovered by lots of new players :-)
I think games such as XCom have helped "normalise" turn-based play so I'm hopeful that it will be broadly well received. I'm sure there will be plenty of negative comments too, but that comes with the territory. |
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darthspanky Posted Aug 16, 2014, 10:57 am |
just slip a few chrome in my account and you wont have to worry about negative comments from any stinkin noobs | ||||||
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*Rev. V* Posted Aug 16, 2014, 5:46 pm |
Yeah, what Darth said. We can handle things "in-house"....
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*StCrispin* ce.services.mh@gmail.com Posted Aug 16, 2014, 7:19 pm |
Steam USED to be the WORST digital Download store on the web. It was forced on me when I bought Civilization V and I hated it. For some games it acted as a DRM copy protection thing and you could ONLY play the game if connected to the net. But now that open Wi-Fi is so much more common that's not much of an issue anymore. GameStop's "Impulse Driven" app Used to be the best app. and cheapest. then Steam got the brilliant idea to allow people to put in a code from a retail version (or Impulse version) and it would be available to play via Steam With steam your computer could blow up and your dog could eat your game disk (or cat could pee on it) and it could be trash, and you wouldn't lose it! Just re-install from Steam! (yes these 2 things happened to me, Cats peed on Sims 2 and my puppy ate Space Empires V). Then Impulse Driven / GameStop started losing their edge as "cheaper" when Steam started summer sales, weekly deals, flash sales, daily deals, achievements, sell-able collector cards... And now GameStop no longer sells digital DL through its app. In fact they also erased all my DL codes for all the games I bought from them and wont return my angry emails! lol One problem with Steam is the Greenlight Early Access games are often scams. ---People make a demo and get it greenlit, then sell it early access and take the money and run. do a google for Earth: 2066 or Air Control for some examples. |
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*Rev. V* Posted Aug 16, 2014, 7:22 pm |
Steam HAS come a long way, agreed.
But I know a lot of folks who still thinks it's the devil in bit form, just because of past experiences. |
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*StCrispin* ce.services.mh@gmail.com Posted Aug 16, 2014, 8:34 pm |
So far the Steam forums are leaning towards "skeptical" but I'm sure the negative flames will come. DW is not your typical twitch shooter action game that many people on steam seem to expect. I tried to leave some positive comments without looking like a Dev Alt. Some changes / improvements in areas we have mentioned in the past (like more dynamic behind the scenes politics, economy, faction things... Stuff that required more players that we have talked about from time to time) would undermine a lot of negativity | ||||||
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*sam* Posted Aug 16, 2014, 9:23 pm |
Yeah I saw your comments there, thanks for that!
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*JeeTeeOh* Posted Aug 17, 2014, 5:43 am |
Congratulations on the upcoming big day. Can't wait to see an overfull lobby again! | ||||||
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*Boonwolf* Posted Aug 17, 2014, 7:35 am |
one thing to look at would be the town events don't het pop up to [PLAY] anymore, and if there are a bunch of events running it may be hard for a noob to find the event. | ||||||
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*sam* Posted Aug 17, 2014, 10:40 am |
I had noted that - thanks for the reminder. |