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Is it OK to let's play and live stream the alpha?

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Is it OK to let's play and live stream the alpha?

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Hey everyone, just curious if there has been an official stance on being allowed to do lets plays and/or live steams once the Alpha is out.  Tried a search, couldn't find anything.  Thanks!

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Reply #51 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Tridus, reply 44
Sadly, the experience really soured me on Amplitude.

Thanks for enlightening.

Guess I either played it after they've fixed it, or haven't played too much.

As for metacritic, I think I'm quite reluctant towards them, because in many cases I don't exactly understand how and why they "appraised" certain game.

 

Quoting Tridus, reply 50
If you sell a game for real money on a platform where public reviews are allowed and where it doesn't do a particularly good job of screaming at people "this game may not work very well when you first get it", that is the inevitable outcome.

It's not a surprise at this point when it happens. Steam is not the best place to put something up that doesn't have the "fun" part nailed down yet, alpha label or not.

Especially when no alpha label is presented, yet game is far, very-very far from being "fun" (or "stable"). And good luck telling anything negative about it anywhere but in reviews - tags now are moderated and some well-deserved ones are removed and forbidden, because devs are "offended", and posting anything negative (even if polite) met with banhammer.

So it works both ways, I think. :)

Reply #52 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Rudy_102, reply 51

Thanks for enlightening.

Guess I either played it after they've fixed it, or haven't played too much.

Maybe. I don't know if they ever fixed it, because the release version was so much worse than vanilla Endless Space that I never really went back.

As for metacritic, I think I'm quite reluctant towards them, because in many cases I don't exactly understand how and why they "appraised" certain game.

One of the metacritic user reviews on DIsharmony is mine. I think I was pretty clear in exactly what I didn't like. :)

Especially when no alpha label is presented, yet game is far, very-very far from being "fun" (or "stable"). And good luck telling anything negative about it anywhere but in reviews - tags now are moderated and some well-deserved ones are removed and forbidden, because devs are "offended", and posting anything negative (even if polite) met with banhammer.

So it works both ways, I think.

Tags are an organizational tool, not for commentary. The reviews are for commentary. Steam is far from the only place to enforce tag restrictions like that.

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Reply #53 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Tridus, reply 52

Maybe. I don't know if they ever fixed it, because the release version was so much worse than vanilla Endless Space that I never really went back.

Guess I never played it to extent it deserves anyway... When GoG will be selling time to play games?


Quoting Tridus, reply 52
One of the metacritic user reviews on DIsharmony is mine. I think I was pretty clear in exactly what I didn't like.

Sorry, I haven't read all of them. :)

Quoting Tridus, reply 52
Tags are an organizational tool, not for commentary. The reviews are for commentary. Steam is far from the only place to enforce tag restrictions like that.

So you think "shovelware" or "premature release" shouldn't be organized into group, informing other gamers of potentially broken software or "not so trustworthy developers/publishers"? Some teams should spend more time on polishing their software, not on witchhunt for angry gamers.

Reply #54 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Rudy_102, reply 53

So you think "shovelware" or "premature release" shouldn't be organized into group, informing other gamers of potentially broken software or "not so trustworthy developers/publishers"? Some teams should spend more time on polishing their software, not on witchhunt for angry gamers.

No, they shouldn't. Those aren't useful groupings, because they're too subjective. One person's premature release is another person's fun game.

Commentary belongs in the reviews. That's what they exist for.

Reply #55 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Let's agree to disagree. :)

We use tags (not game-related, though) to tag anything, including problematic areas and I think censoring that game-wise is, well, rather oppresive act, because until Valve changed their policy, I think only three or four games were tagged as badly made, yet, apparently, not so badly to be removed from Steam.

Currently I see no point in tags because all info is already present on game's page, including type, genre, or anything else, making tags to be redundant and feature for feature sake.