Valve says it’s refining its approach to how customer reviews are handled on Steam, announcing today that it plans to identify and remove “off-topic review bombs” that might affect user review scores.
Rockstar has launched an official marketplace for "every server and every player" to buy mods: Cfx Marketplace.
I wonder how much of this isn't just taken work of others who have modded for free.
Edit: Also, great way for R* to take popular ideas and build them into GTAVI based on demand.
What I see happening here is, R* is going to ban mods in GTA6 UNLESS you buy them from the marketplace and R* then gets a cut of that sale.
Ah, perfect timing with them taking down the Bully online fan mod. Greedy a$$ company.
Yep, right there with you. I'll happily donate to a mod creator if it looks really cool, or if I enjoy it. But expecting payment up front? Nope, not touching it.
I'm not entirely sure how to read this, as it doesn't seem exactly like an exact parallel to Bethesda's paid mods shenanigans.
Rather than single player stuff, this appears to be aimed solely on Cfx Servers. From what I've gleaned, apparently Rockstar bought the Cfx mod team several years ago, coming a few years after weird contentions led them to ban a few of their members. Ultimately, the question is if they plan to keep this contained to only online/servers.
I have to guess to a degree yes. It'd be pretty hard to "force" paid mods for single player when modding files locally on your own machine, but much easier for servers they'll control. So perhaps this is their soft launch ahead of GTA6 online and they'll clamp down more tightly on non-official servers going forward? Ever since they've become a 1 or 2 property studio, I haven't really cared much for Rockstar stuff, so I'm not entirely up on everything surrounding this. Sounds like it has the potential to be problematic further down the line, but right now fairly easy to ignore...I think lol.
Former CEO describes lawsuit filed by Swedish pension fund as a "collateral attack" on Activision Blizzard.
Kotick Made $155 million from MS in the buyout, the little b*tch needs to stop whining. Thanks to this Microslop deal and massive industry consolidation thousands upon thousands of devs and other workers lost their livelihoods. This greedy piggie pervert needs shut up and f-off.
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If technical issues are deemed to be off topic, as I have heard they will be, then you might as well get rid of Steam user reviews. It would seem that how well a game is optimised is pretty damn important.
I would also suggest that reviews which discuss micro-transactions and anti-cheat software, should be left up for people to read. I have a real bad feeling about the way things are going down.
Steam is now going to try to stop the bleeding by going after user friendly features that developers do not like. Of course, Steam would rather throw a wrench into popular features, rather than bow to lowering their profit take.
Personally, I wouldn't bow to pressure from Epic. Yes, they may have to take a smaller cut (20% - 25%), but Epic is just acting as a market disruptor. Epic will not be able to grow their marketplace on a 12% profit over the long-term. Lets also not forget that Epic is a publically traded company, and to investors, a 12% profit margin is absolut nonsense. Steam should stay strong, particularly since there is no platform that can touch the features that they offer.
Epic will either raise the cut they take from developers at some point, or they will go out with a wimper sooner or later.