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[–] 148 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (30 children)

60+: Haha, I can't imagine it's worth it.

20-59: Buy if it comes strongly recommended.

10-19: Impulse buy if the description and screenshots look cool.

1-9: Buy if I like the store thumbnail.

0: Hahaha FUCK no this will hold the game flow hostage every few hours to get me to pay infinite money.

EDIT: YES I know proper - often Open Source - free games exist. :) OpenTTD and good ol' Nethack are my faves

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Quick question for a game dev:

    How does getting steam deck verified work? Like do you reach out? Or do they just check whenever they get to it?

    Cool looking game! If I wasn't deeply unemployed right now I would buy! Hopefully soon

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    It's an optional part of getting your game on the steam marketplace, but I've had a friend try on steamdeck without messing with it and had no issues. Ymmv, I'm one example and this is my first project.

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    0: Hahaha FUCK no this will hold the game flow hostage every few hours to get me to pay infinite money.

    https://supertuxkart.net/
    https://www.wesnoth.org/
    https://xonotic.org/
    https://freeciv.org/

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago

    Mine is more:

    $0.00: Is it FOSS, or is it on GOG? Is it DRM-free? Cool. (see: Luanti/MineTest, OpenTTD, Battle for Wesnoth, Beyond All Reason, FreeCiv, FreeOrion, Remnants of the Precursors, Endless Sky, The Ur-Quan Masters, Mindustry, Jill of the Jungle Trilogy, etc)

    $0.01+ - $4.99: Is it in eXo? I'll get it that way.

    $5+: I can't imagine buying it if there's anything either in the FOSS category or in eXo that does the same thing.

    And 99% of the time, if there isn't, straight to torrents.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    For me it's

    1-4 might buy and never play it
    4-12 eh if it's got good reviews and it's my genre it's a potential impulse buy
    12-25 it's got to be very acclaimed and I have to desire it strongly
    25-35 if it's like the sequel of a game I loved A LOT, and has good reviews, and it gets me on a good day
    35+ no way, I'll wait for a discount

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Oh, this is fun, lemme do mine:

    1-5: It's most likely worth the money because I'll likely beat it and have fun even though it won't land in my all-time favorites.

    5-10: I'm hesitant, but it's probably worth the risk or it's niche and I need to support the developer.

    10-15: I either know for sure I'll have a lot of fun with it or I'm desperate to play anything new because my library feels a little stale RN.

    15-20: It better be fantastic and end up an all-time favorite because why would I pay this much for a video game.

    20-60: I'm good. I can wait.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Unless it's free because it's open source!

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago

    There's been a lot of good games for free on epic, and epic still pays the dev/publisher for it, so it's worth clicking the button even if you don't download it and play it from thier client.

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