• Valve's Artifact drops to below 1,000 players two months after release
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why post this reply here when you can print copies of it and hang them up in public places for us to read
For real why would anyone play Darkest Dungeon? We could do 2D animation in like, the 1900s. Cuphead basically is the 1900s! RimWorld, FTL, god, how can anyone have fun without 4 billion polygon models with real-time, eyelid blinking physics
Yeah exactly
These are the few brave souls still streaming Artifact. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/230993/e8c1c6cb-8471-4c63-8759-3e544908d52c/image.png
Well you can have the take the base mechanics of card games and do things that otherwise would be cumbersome or impossible, for starters. When I played Hearthstone, I pretty much exclusively played priest with cards that copied cards from the opponents deck.
You're looking for one of the most under-rated video-card games of all time: Yu-gi-Oh! Duelists of the Roses for PS2: https://media.playstation.com/is/image/SCEA/slus-20515-game-ss-20?$MediaCarousel_LargeImage$ Engaging in card combat shows the two monsters actually fighting. For Ps2, it was incredible. Sadly, the unique gameplay never caught on with the industry.
I was somehow hype by Artifact, the gameplay looked really cool, I love Dota 2 characters and I liked turn by turn games. When I saw it was 20€, you can't get new card without using your credit card 💳 and no refunds if you play the game, I was pissed off. And some friends told me to check out Magic the Gathering Arena since it's free, I didn't regret trying that game. I enjoyed it so much that I bought a construction deck pack along with a planewalker deck.
I feel bad because these two are clearly streaming because they enjoy the game but I'm also just feeling intense glee over its failure. Man, why can't they just release good shit?
I'm still amazed that Duelists of the Roses did this. The game has hundreds of monsters, and every one was given a unique model, complete with flashy attack animation, idle, victory, and death animations. The gameplay was flawed but definitely gone somewhere with some tweaks. I always have wished they'd make a sequel. It's one of those tabletop style games that can't be fully replicated physically.
Speaking of Yu-Gi-Oh. Considering Valve's boner for VR why not just make the hologram monster device they use to duel a reality? I feel silly for the need to clarify but yeah, I get it is nowhere near as easy to actually do
https://youtu.be/WChTqYlDjtI thread theme song
To an average of 13 viewers each. https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/841/476/62d.gif
Well, this but played with one of those shitty recorders you get in elementary school.
there are a group of people that bought a steam link and controller that wasn't compatible with their computer even though valve said it was. as an apology these users got all past and all future valve-made games for free. over 3 years later, artifact is the only new game they have received.
they still get more viewers than me
I think I'd rather Valve told me to fuck myself
Up here in Canada, we aren't allowed to buy Steam hardware directly through Steam. The hardware section of the store doesn't even exist for us, not even to look at Valve's own promotional materials for their own products lmao (unless you trick the store into not knowing you're Canadian, obvs). If we want to buy Steam hardware, whether it be a controller, Steam Link, or Steam machines (rip), we have always had to go to Amazon.ca, because Valve couldn't be fucked to set up Canadian supply and distribution and just fobbed it off on Amazon. Admittedly, if you're going to fob your fulfillment onto anyone, Amazon is about the best choice for the job up here. But the downside is, whenever Valve's run those crazy deals with controllers or Link for $10-15 or whatever, we're totally left out and meanwhile Amazon's sitting here going "I don't know what you're talking about." Amazon likely discounts Steam hardware from time to time but absent receiving spam from Amazon telling me when a product I actually give a shit about is on fat discount I never hear about it. And thanks to the infinte number of times Amazon's sent me sales notices about shit I do not want or care about -- including trying to shill the PSPGo to me an unironic three days in a row -- I won't hear about it unless someone notices and alerts everyone (and it doesn't sell out before I get there) because I unsubbed and spamfiltered that shit years ago. On the other hand, if Amazon shipped an item to me that was listed as compatible with my computer but actually wasn't and the manufacturer acknowledged a packaging fuckup, Amazon would let me return it no strings attached and give me a refund, and possibly some kind of make-nice on top of that like a coupon for next time or something, or even just refunding it to me and not caring if I send it back so I could give it away or put it up on ebay/etc. I wouldn't get a Valve Complete pack, but I'd get my hypothetical money back. And for this reason I'd consider that a win.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/657/7d31f712-ebfa-49a4-9705-9e2ef39c3e4c/image.png Is it over? Can we close the coffin?
Let's be fair, it's more like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kcF7E69C6Q
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/441/62c87396-eba6-4f6d-9198-afd862254a2b/artifucked.JPG https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/441/7c96c63a-69e0-438c-87fd-7ca8d41f0991/hl2.JPG
I look forward to the ever-decreasing number everytime this thread has a new post.
Don´t forget making a game that is just that unwanted, which I personsally figure is the bigger factor.
Valve has been making things that haven't really been asked for for a while now. It's like they're trying so hard to come out with something new without considering whether or there is an audience for it.
Artifact isn't actually a bad game though. Under all this predatory bullshit is a solid card game with some heart and soul behind it. But who the fuck wants to pick up a shiny coin buried under 10 tons of animal shit?
they should really spin their game dev team off into a separate company from Valve. Valve can work on steam, and the spinoff can work on whatever games they want under a new moniker so they can make whatever games they want without people complaining about the other Valve franchises. I think that Valve is too restrictive with creativity; from what I hear the idea is that anybody can work on whatever games they want, but the overwhelming pressure at the company is to add features/support for pre-existing products like Dota, CS:GO, and, above all: Steam. If the new company is completely divorced from those products, then they can focus on new things entirely
I do like their statement of in it for the long haul being completely discarded by the fact that the game hasn't gotten in update or blog post in nearly two months.
Valve time.
Bi-monthly TF2 comic
I want to see what "long haul" translates to according to valve time, if "Coming Soon" can be several years
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