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Re: I have been considering steam since the beging of april.
« Reply #435 on: June 06, 2017, 04:12:49 PM »
Can you imagine what the minimum requirements for the game would have been?  Whoa!

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Re: I have been considering steam since the beging of april.
« Reply #436 on: June 06, 2017, 04:14:48 PM »
Can you imagine what the minimum requirements for the game would have been?  Whoa!

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I don't know skuzzy, I took a look at it on the task manager and noticed it was barely pushing my system (why I thought of it)..

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Re: I have been considering steam since the beging of april.
« Reply #437 on: June 06, 2017, 04:21:06 PM »
You are not even close to an apples-to-apples comparison.  You are not even close to being the same ball park, city, state, country, planet.....
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Re: I have been considering steam since the beging of april.
« Reply #438 on: June 06, 2017, 04:24:30 PM »
... HiTech will buy Valve and shut it down  :devil

No, EA will though. :banana:
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Re: I have been considering steam since the beging of april.
« Reply #439 on: June 06, 2017, 04:25:23 PM »
Right there. Maybe not a direct assert. But it seems like you are assuming. Which you know what assuming does :)


Wrong again.   Read the disclaimer. 

Someone else made the assumption not me.  Pick a fight with him.   All I did was make a general observation.   NOWHERE did I imply ANYTHING about HTC.  I, in fact, specifically stated I was NOT pointing fingers at ANYONE. 
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Re: I have been considering steam since the beging of april.
« Reply #440 on: June 06, 2017, 04:37:40 PM »
No, EA will though. :banana:

Funny thing is that Valve is big enough and has enough money to buy out EA if they want, not the other way around.
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Re: I have been considering steam since the beging of april.
« Reply #441 on: June 06, 2017, 05:04:12 PM »
I alluded to what Drex said earlier as well, it's insulting that a game with AH's record and time having to jump through some "green light" or any light, process, in order to be allowed on to the Steam platform, seems crazy to me.  I don't understand the process or anything really, just figured they'd have someone checking to see how old a game is, and what it's about, and for established products well up and running, would want to fast track them on to the Steam platform instead of some other way.

I'm still hopeful whatever the case may be - I truly believe that with the right moves made, this game has the stones to attract, and KEEP, large numbers of the current WW2/Sim/MM gamers out there right now playing other inferior products.  I'm willing to help anyone with good ideas on how we can help HTC to do this.  I've helped Dolby in the past making his vids as a target dummy or whatever, but there are lots of great video creators, and there has to be other ways to find, fix, and attack other gamers out there who don't know about AH.

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Re: I have been considering steam since the beging of april.
« Reply #442 on: June 06, 2017, 05:20:14 PM »
I alluded to what Drex said earlier as well, it's insulting that a game with AH's record and time having to jump through some "green light" or any light, process, in order to be allowed on to the Steam platform, seems crazy to me.  I don't understand the process or anything really, just figured they'd have someone checking to see how old a game is, and what it's about, and for established products well up and running, would want to fast track them on to the Steam platform instead of some other way.

I'm still hopeful whatever the case may be - I truly believe that with the right moves made, this game has the stones to attract, and KEEP, large numbers of the current WW2/Sim/MM gamers out there right now playing other inferior products.  I'm willing to help anyone with good ideas on how we can help HTC to do this.  I've helped Dolby in the past making his vids as a target dummy or whatever, but there are lots of great video creators, and there has to be other ways to find, fix, and attack other gamers out there who don't know about AH.
I'm with you GMAN - kinda stupid the hoops an established business like Hitech Creations has to jump through when small one-man shops can get greenlit who quickly take their sales from the fad their game had and bolt.

I think that Valve realized the same thing and hence why they're closing the system down. The only caveat is that they need to properly screen everyone who has $100 in their back pocket. And then how to we get noticed?
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Re: I have been considering steam since the beging of april.
« Reply #443 on: June 06, 2017, 06:11:56 PM »
I'm with you GMAN - kinda stupid the hoops an established business like Hitech Creations has to jump through when small one-man shops can get greenlit who quickly take their sales from the fad their game had and bolt.

I think that Valve realized the same thing and hence why they're closing the system down. The only caveat is that they need to properly screen everyone who has $100 in their back pocket. And then how to we get noticed?

The reason why Valve has done away with Greenlight is because how easy it was for some developers to shovel their POS games onto Steam and to also improve the pipeline for developers to get their games onto Steam that would better direct customers to the product they want.
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Re: I have been considering steam since the beging of april.
« Reply #444 on: June 06, 2017, 06:13:40 PM »
I alluded to what Drex said earlier as well, it's insulting that a game with AH's record and time having to jump through some "green light" or any light, process, in order to be allowed on to the Steam platform, seems crazy to me. 

If HiTech was a large development studio, they'd just pony up the large amount of money Valve wants instead of going through the old Greenlight process.  The Greenlight process was put in to help smaller development and indie studios to get their game on Steam when other distribution avenues were closed to them.
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Re: I have been considering steam since the beging of april.
« Reply #445 on: June 06, 2017, 09:10:54 PM »
nice, do you have $5 credit in steam now?

yes I do, just checked, just before this post
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Re: I have been considering steam since the beging of april.
« Reply #446 on: June 07, 2017, 01:55:14 AM »
If HiTech was a large development studio, they'd just pony up the large amount of money Valve wants instead of going through the old Greenlight process.  The Greenlight process was put in to help smaller development and indie studios to get their game on Steam when other distribution avenues were closed to them.

With steam direct though they can do that now also from june 13

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Re: I have been considering steam since the beging of april.
« Reply #447 on: June 07, 2017, 02:44:08 PM »
Thanks Akak, like I said, I didn't know Valve's policies for getting on their platform.  Heh, I can understand the reluctance from HTC a bit better now, I think.  If I understand what you're saying correctly, Valve "allowed" (prior to the changes now) creators to bypass the greenlight deal by charging a large fee, after which they then charge more large fees somewhere around 1/3 of the proceeds of sales...heh.  Isn't monopoly a grand thing...

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Re: I have been considering steam since the beging of april.
« Reply #448 on: June 08, 2017, 12:48:17 AM »
GREEN LIT GREEN LIT


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Re: I have been considering steam since the beging of april.
« Reply #449 on: June 08, 2017, 02:14:02 AM »
Thanks Akak, like I said, I didn't know Valve's policies for getting on their platform.  Heh, I can understand the reluctance from HTC a bit better now, I think.  If I understand what you're saying correctly, Valve "allowed" (prior to the changes now) creators to bypass the greenlight deal by charging a large fee, after which they then charge more large fees somewhere around 1/3 of the proceeds of sales...heh.  Isn't monopoly a grand thing...

That was the case with us when we put FFXIV on Steam.
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