What Valve is thinking*: First true online TRADING card game instead of simply collecting cards, and with a radical twist on gameplay that adds much more strategy.

Oh nooo, chat without moderation? Oh the humanity... Oh wait, nearly every online game has that and they do fine. Don’t read the other person’s text if you…

I wouldn’t call that greed. Greed would just be to say “sorry about that, we’ll do our best going forward”, the typical corporate response. Doing refunds for something like this is a lot more complicated. Because how do you tell which boxes were paid for in some direct way and which weren’t? Giving the re-rolls is a…

Releasing a card game is in no way likened to jumping on the BR bandwagon. A card game actually makes sense for Valve given their market place, the fact they already have been dealing with “card” trading for ages now and the huge amount of lore they have to work with.

Also, many people still don’t seem to be aware that…

This one has a fairly unique premise and has the creator of MTG designing it. Not sure when a “good time” to release a card game is.

This game will be one of the first online TCGs, nearly every other card game online is only a CCG (you can’t trade/sell/buy cards with other users). And that’s exciting in its own right. 

That’s entirely different. Games like Just Dance license publisher catalogs, they don’t generally do it on a song-by-song basis. And all the licensing is dealt with before the games is out and sold, not done dozens of times a year.

They are open to them after large scale community discussion happened over the letters that were sent to various NSFW game developers on Steam. It required Valve to reassess and clarify what types of games they’ll allow on the platfom.

They didn’t outright say “we’re accepting all games now no matter what”, despite…

Sorry but that’s wrong. The reason Valve reacted was due to the notices that went around to various “lewd” game studios saying their games were under review and likely to be removed. This caused an uproar in the community and Valve end up creating a more clear submission terms as a result, along with better parental…

If you’d actually read more than the clickbait headlines you’d know they are still going to be reviewing and banning games meant purely to troll/offend.

Backwards progress? Being more open to adult games now is great progress. Working towards better family filter controls instead. The only real “backwards” progress they had this year is this Steam Spy issue, but at least with that they are saying they’re working on their own tools to replace that.

This is what happens when the cops don’t have to worry much about any random person carrying a gun. A society of trust instead of fear of eachother.

Brig-eat*-teh

Shkreli was at least investing the money from those raised drug prices into research to find a more affordable solution for what that drug treated. Shkreli’s company provided the drug free to those who couldn’t afford it. It was basically the tax-payer and general insurance funds that were covering the cost of that…

Well the thing is, even getting into the “copying is stealing” arguments, that would apply to this situation, because these collectors did not make these games, they do not hold the copyrights to them, and thus the only “feeling” they can have is that they don’t get to be in an exclusive club anymore.

Both of you really fail at analogies. It isn’t like either of those things. In your examples, a person has been deprived of wine. Nobody has been deprived of their games here, merely more people have been given access to their own bottle of that type of wine, and now the first person to have that a bottle of it is…

These people aren’t liberals, they are extremists.

Those kinds of games aren’t what brought up the policy change... This was about the “adult games” being told they were being removed from Steam a couple weeks ago (such as HuniePop) that resulted in everyone talking about Steam’s policies. This change will make it less vague as to what is and isn’t allowed on Steam,…

Yes, and your reply truly makes you look like the intelligent and mature one here. Good luck with life.

Care to source this tiered investment system you talk about? Because friends convincing other friends to come invest in the game is not the same as a pyramid scheme, even if the friend is getting a referral bonus. There has to be a referral TREE for it to be a pyramid scheme, referrals of your referrals of your…

You do realize that this isn’t a sunken-cost game, right? The point of crowd-funding is that people are already paying for the game over the past years, they’ve funded the game through donations instead of the developer waiting to get paid for that development time when it sells.

And it’s like you didn’t even look at…

You do realize that this isn’t a sunken-cost game, right? The point of crowd-funding is that people are already paying for the game over the past years, they’ve funded the game through donations instead of the developer waiting to get paid for that development time when it sells.

And it’s like you didn’t even look at…