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The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread - WINTER SALE 2024
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Baron Dupek
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https://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=Mirrorsoft
old MirrorSoft games are available on Steam
old MirrorSoft games are available on Steam
Analed in Rome is a classic.
El Presidente
Arcane
I wonder if Cthulhu has nipples, they sure are milking Lovecraft to no end these last few years.
I can't even tell the difference between these games, they all look the same to me.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of copyrights and trademarks. In some parts of the world all of Lovecraft's works are in the Public Domain (as opposed to just some of it) meaning it's fair game to money-grubbing bastards everywhere looking to cash in on someone else's success.
For reference, see how George Romero's failure to secure trademarks and copyrights to the term "zombie" led to the proliferation of zombie films, books and games that we all know today.
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rusty_shackleford
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The idea that someone's IP should be protected 100 years later by a government is absurd.
Do you know how long patents last in USA? 20 years. And that's still probably 10-15 years too long. Patents are for things that actually matter(e.g., inventions,) unlike copyrights.
The government should not be in the business of protecting cartoon drawings, and your own post is the best argument against it. Lovecraft & Romero's works have both directly impacted so much modern fantasy/sci-fi/fiction-in-general work that you'd be more likely to pick a game at random that does have a part inspired by them than one that doesn't.
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Tell me about it. Do you know how much exposure everyone has had of entertainment that's based off of Dracula and vampires? Why is that, I wonder? Could it be because of the Public Domain? By comparison, look at Conan the Cimmerian. The year the IP truly came into the Public Doman, Marvel Comics inducted him into its line-up of characters (See: Various current-era Conan-titles and Savage Avengers.)
Copyright is a straightjacket on IP. I foresaw this many years ago, and looking at it today it's only gonna get worse, ESPECIALLY as it's Disney who are the ones lobbying for the constant extensions in copyright law in the U.S. Their next wave of lobbyism is due in 2021-2022 in time for the current 2023 deadline on Steamboat Willie, which will make Mickey Mouse enter the public domain.
The straightjacket term is a reference to the original court ruling roughly a century ago where a judge ruled that recordings of music were subject to copyright, thereby ingraining the current system. As society has accelerated greatly in the ~100 years since then, options for budding musicians have only gotten fewer with every passing year... to the point where we will face a wall of creativity brought upon us by copyright. I would say that if we haven't faced that wall already (and spend massive time probing said wall for cracks) then we're gonna hit it very soon. And honestly, just look at the music industry today. It's in shambles. Wanna guess why that is?
Copyright is a straightjacket on IP. I foresaw this many years ago, and looking at it today it's only gonna get worse, ESPECIALLY as it's Disney who are the ones lobbying for the constant extensions in copyright law in the U.S. Their next wave of lobbyism is due in 2021-2022 in time for the current 2023 deadline on Steamboat Willie, which will make Mickey Mouse enter the public domain.
The straightjacket term is a reference to the original court ruling roughly a century ago where a judge ruled that recordings of music were subject to copyright, thereby ingraining the current system. As society has accelerated greatly in the ~100 years since then, options for budding musicians have only gotten fewer with every passing year... to the point where we will face a wall of creativity brought upon us by copyright. I would say that if we haven't faced that wall already (and spend massive time probing said wall for cracks) then we're gonna hit it very soon. And honestly, just look at the music industry today. It's in shambles. Wanna guess why that is?
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rusty_shackleford
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Call of Juarez series is on sale
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/7421/Call_of_Juarez_Bundle/
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/7421/Call_of_Juarez_Bundle/
Latelistener
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Released, from the creators of The Last Door:
rusty_shackleford
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Looks like someone took the haunted mansion from VTMB and made a game about it
Heretic
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Popamole 5
This could be of some interest
Thread here: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.p...lonial-themed-action-rpg-from-spiders.113394/
This could be of some interest
Thread here: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.p...lonial-themed-action-rpg-from-spiders.113394/
Finally, a bullet hell game with thumping dance music?
Baron Dupek
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though they send Zork "remake" to the trashbin
yet it's going to receive a sequel
yet it's going to receive a sequel
Dexter
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Baron Dupek
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another game from the series is out, and people hate it
the only good part is 64bit engine
STALKER have that too and it's day and night compared to 32bit
the only good part is 64bit engine
STALKER have that too and it's day and night compared to 32bit
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I think humble already gave this away but Dirt Rally is free on steam, didn't notice it right away so only 12 hours left
https://store.steampowered.com/app/310560/DiRT_Rally/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/310560/DiRT_Rally/
rusty_shackleford
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I just realized this is an officially licensed game.
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Something weird happened,I clicked to get the free a Dirt Rally copy but I can't install/play it.It doesn't appear on my games list although when I go to the store page it says in library but when I click on play button to install it a pop up apears and disappears in a second.
Has this happened to anyone else?
Has this happened to anyone else?
It's because Steam is improving. Exit and restart Steam.
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