RipTen: "I’ve never been a fan of Steam, but I understand why others like it: Instant updates, community support, digital sales, and a profile space for achievements and friends. You know, it’s Xbox Live for PC gamers … but it’s free."
The Outerhaven writes: While Steam has come out recently, stating that Steam accounts can't be transferred, we need to think about it since we all will eventually kick the bucket. But if Valve is denying transferring accounts, what can be done? Plenty, actually.
It goes to my kids because I gave them the passwords.
To Steam: Missio has a song that conveys my feelings about you stealing my purchase after I die. It's called "Middle Fingers"
Yeah worrying about digital ownership when you’re on the other side of the grass seems a little strange, but also on brand for these millennial journalists to worry about.
I suppose if I have kids, I'd just give em my account details by retirement age. If I die young then...idk lol.
Yea, I mean just give someone the password to your account. Is that difficult to do or something? Like, I’m legit asking because I don’t know.
It's not difficult but It's against the policy. If they find out, they will lock the account permanently.
Ah ok, I had a feeling there was something like that. It seems kind of weird that you can’t just hand your account over to a family member or friend and let them take over the account.
On 16 May, the long-awaited release of the PC version of Ghost of Tsushima took place. And the game proved to be a great success on the first day.
It has surpassed spider man now
it's 71k+
game did this with way shorter time than spider man.
@prince
I'm confused. Does that number mean total players at one time playing like a snapshot
or total sales? If it's the former that's not very accurate because I know I'm not the only person that buys games and plays them later and that number is not included.
Is this going to be the new thing thing? Articles about Steam reviews? Which of course was in response to the false article about the review bombings in the first place.
Hey, just a heads up that the new owners did open news to Steam updates, but we try our best to not allow them to go on daily updates unless relevant to some other news. I understand this isn't everyone's cup and tea and sympathize, but the door has been open. If you feel it's 'too much' please do PM me or submit a ticket to the mod team. Thank you.
I came here to post this link in that specific article. 84 perce t is pretty good. How many bad reviews were there like 5
I always get confused by this, but is 72k good sales numbers for a game? I keep seeing games fail at selling 2.5 million and that they need to be on multiple platforms but is an additional 72k adding much?
Im not sure how its confusing :\
72k actively playing. Not 72k sold.
A good example is Helldivers 2, 6m sold, 450k (at its peak) active players.
But how many swords swung is what we're all really waiting for.
for one they already had a huge launch on the playstation, they don't need to sell 5m to make the porting to pc profitable and as pointed out below that number you see is just the people playing it at this moment.
Also from the insomniac leak we know these PC ports are a quick turnaround and budgeted around $2-4 million. At 100k sales they break even including Steams cut. They may not sell millions but they are a great ROI
72k concurrent. That is a global number. People who bought the game are not playing at the same time because of timezones, working schedules, holidays, events... There is no good rule of thumb but you can extrapolate based on other games that also released sales data. Then it is clear that the PC release alone accounts for at least 500K copies sold on steam, maybe closer to 700-800K. Probably will sell over a million this extended weekend.
According to steamspy and other data gathering sites games like Days Gone, Spider Man, God Of War, Horizon Zero Dawn have sold 2 to 5 million copies on Steam. So I expect Ghost to reach similar numbers. Probably even surpass it.
Mecha Party brings the VR MOBA to Europe and Asia on PSVR 2 and Steam, while the Quest 3 version targets a summer release.
This looks pretty good. RIGZ made me queasy but I've got better VR legs now (I think).
Let me be the first to say. What it means for me is that my Xbox 360 is all but useless now.
Hear me out. I'm a PC gamer. However, I AM a gamer nonetheless and I have owned nearly every gaming console since the NES simply because I love to play all types of games. However - being a PC Gamer - Steam is my social gaming platform of choice. (I own over 100 full retail games on Steam)
Although I have always been fond of my PS3 - especially with the recent and soon to be released exclusives in the works - I felt it was always missing the user friendly social aspect of Steam or Xbox Live. Well, now that Steam is coming to PS3 - that is no longer the case.
Other than the few Xbox exclusives coming this year that I am interested in (Gears 3, Forza 4) I really have no reason to use my Xbox anymore. I don't need it to play DVD's (and it can't play Blu Rays) I don't need it for Netflix - and now my PS3 will link into my social gaming platform of choice - Steam.
So, as a PC gamer - what this means for me is that my PS3 is now my console of choice.
Sorry for the wall of text - but this is kind of a big deal to me.
It means cross-platform play.
It means cross over gaming. Which will be a HUGE step for the PS3. It depends how you look at it.
Some PC gamers will say that this is a bad thing while other will say it's a good thing because the Valve community will get bigger.
I'm positive that most PS3 users will say this is a great thing.
For me personally, this means I can play portal 2 with a few friends who play mainly on their PC.
steam should enable m/k for ps3 then we have a huge leap in gaming.
Cross game chat and cross platform chat. Be cool if it happens i dont see why it cant