Quoting: SonataI've been hating on Windows for years (privacy, safety concerns and its general instability) but gaming always tied me to it.

This is always nice to hear. I’ve seen people say that Windows users don’t see what’s wrong with Windows and Linux will never grow because those people are "blind." But I know almost no one that actually likes Windows. A lot of people hate it and love to complain about it, but just believe that they’re stuck with it, the only alternative being overpriced Macs that aren’t compatible with anything.

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Looking forward to that review. I already have a point-and-click backlog, but I’m pretty confident that this will make it onto the list!

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Does anyone know how to get the flac files? Ash of Gods has mp3 and flac but Steam only seems to download the mp3s and I don’t see any option related to this.

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Quoting: GuestSomeone mentioned in that reddit thread that the "timer" should count down upon first launching the game. Sounds pretty good to me at first glance, not sure of any unintended side-effects of it though.

Valve have to pay publishers/developers their share at some point. With third-party porting, a different platform means a different company to pay those shares to, so they can’t really keep sales in limbo until you run the games. I think that’s where the two-week period comes from.

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Bots? Holidays in an emerging large market?

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Quoting: GuestI abstained from voting in several categories because i play too few games to have a good overall idea of what games are better than others.

At the end of the day, these types of awards are just popularity contests anyway. I didn’t know anything about most of the games listed, nor why they were suggested for any particular category. I assume the same is true to some degree for most people.

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Quoting: Alm888

Quoting: SalvatosIt’s also on itch by the way.

Sadly, as for now, the page is just a placeholder. No information as for whether there will be a full release, or the page is just for promotional/demo purposes.

Their website says "The game will be available in these platforms" followed by links to Steam and Itch :)

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That does sound like a pretty intriguing setting. Would need to learn more about the combat side of things, but they don’t seem to be showing much of that yet.

QuoteThis novel does not contain any (...) implicit violence or gore content, but it does contain battles, blood, suffering, narrated violence

So it only has explicit violence? :P

It’s also on itch by the way.

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QuoteInterestingly, the report system takes into account the person reporting as much as the person being reported. If a regular player who doesn't report often makes a report, it will be weighted more heavily than someone who doesn't play often or reports constantly.

Interesting, but I hope it doesn’t start penalizing people who make frequent legitimate reports... I would expect people who are frequently targeted by reports to be weighted down instead.

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Happy to hear that despite all the noise EGS is making, Steam is still going strong when it comes to actual results :)

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