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KickStarter Underworld Ascendant is a disaster
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Nifft Batuff
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MasterLobar
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"Peak concurrent players yesterday: 4"
Via SteamSpy.
Via SteamSpy.
Mikeal
Arcane
Well fuck you too.
MasterLobar
Angry OtherSide Refugee
Meanwhile on the Steam forum:
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Please include a trigger warning next time Infinitron.
MasterLobar
Angry OtherSide Refugee
According to Steam, "Dr. Cherry Valentine" has played UA for 1,550.4 hours: https://steamcommunity.com/id/dr-cherry-valentine/recommended/692840/
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Probably got two more sales out of that article. They'll be able to finish System Shock 3.
Eli_Havelock
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I love how that article ends all optimistic. So who wants to shit in their sundae?
Hah, trick question. Just wait until they found out that OSE already dropped that turd long before this puff piece hit print.
Hah, trick question. Just wait until they found out that OSE already dropped that turd long before this puff piece hit print.
Katana1000S
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Dr. Cherry Valentine, LOL, is that your Steam user name Efe? Just kidding 
This is a wind up for sure, has to be.
Who the hell would play that amount of hours on this train wreck of a game? There are some serious shill's out there who would go to great lengths to pretend the game is good, seen it first hand on their forums, is it possible someone fired up UA and left the PC going for that long in a non action area, possibly made saves and then did it again to build up hours? My theory may seem ridiculous, but how in the name of hell can you find 1,550.4 hours worth of gameplay in a game this shallow.
I smell a rat.
This is a wind up for sure, has to be.
Who the hell would play that amount of hours on this train wreck of a game? There are some serious shill's out there who would go to great lengths to pretend the game is good, seen it first hand on their forums, is it possible someone fired up UA and left the PC going for that long in a non action area, possibly made saves and then did it again to build up hours? My theory may seem ridiculous, but how in the name of hell can you find 1,550.4 hours worth of gameplay in a game this shallow.
I smell a rat.
People leave their computers to idle in Steam games to meme on the review pages with their bloated playtime. Others do it for that reason and to trickle trading cards into their accounts because they're playing Steam's economy metagame rather than the actual games they buy. And guess what: Underworld Ascendant has Steam trading cards. It's a side effect of Steam's social media bullshit that you have people with thousands of hours of "playtime".
Anyways, this game is a DISGRACE. Warren Spector had something to do with this, right? He really shot the Dookie Howitzer at this one and hit the target dead center.
Wait for Monomyth.
Anyways, this game is a DISGRACE. Warren Spector had something to do with this, right? He really shot the Dookie Howitzer at this one and hit the target dead center.
Wait for Monomyth.
Katana1000S
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What else does Dr. Cherry Valentine play on Steam I wonder? cant be much if he/she has sacrificed that many hours genuinely playing the worst game of all time?
Kaisergeddon has hit the nail on the head though, its a company fan boy or rep, or a trading card troll with game on idle for that many amount of hours ... surprised it never crashed actually, but if you start it and do nothing, perhaps it wont?
Some desperate shills out there for sure.
Kaisergeddon has hit the nail on the head though, its a company fan boy or rep, or a trading card troll with game on idle for that many amount of hours ... surprised it never crashed actually, but if you start it and do nothing, perhaps it wont?
Some desperate shills out there for sure.
Katana1000S
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I mean, if they had stopped at 1.5 hours, it might be more credible, 150 hours would be borderline lunacy and need to be sectioned, but 1500 hours is just taking the piss and pulling chains and making a mockery of Steams review system for hours of genuine play to be considered anything of merit.
Our Dr Cherry Valentine should be reported for scamming stats.
1500 hours would equal 8.928571 weeks of non stop solid game play, well over 2 month solid of your life playing this hunk of crap, no damn way, uh uh.
Your average busy Career pilot does not log that many hours in a lifetime career of Flying.
Our Dr Cherry Valentine should be reported for scamming stats.
1500 hours would equal 8.928571 weeks of non stop solid game play, well over 2 month solid of your life playing this hunk of crap, no damn way, uh uh.
Your average busy Career pilot does not log that many hours in a lifetime career of Flying.
It's absolute decline, but a lot of developers on Steam already make """"games"""" with the sole intention of making their income from cards, profile badges, and achievement hunting, and I'm certain they launched this game with trading cards precisely because they knew a lot sales are contingent on that rather than the quality of the game. And when you're scraping the bottom of the barrel with a Unity asset flip like UW:A, you have to take your sales wherever you can get them.
MasterLobar
Angry OtherSide Refugee
The funny thing is, I don't believe there are any more paid shills out there. I am 100% convinced Otherside solicited paid or otherwise manipulated reviews after launch and after their big update in February. Thinking of our friend Joe who still hasn't played one more minute one year later:
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198836210988/recommended/692840/
But why would they (or 505) still use fake reviews now? OS abandoned the game, 4-5 people are still playing it according to SteamSpy, it doesn't even have a score anymore for "recent reviews". It's dead. Why would Dr. Valentine still shill for it?
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198836210988/recommended/692840/
But why would they (or 505) still use fake reviews now? OS abandoned the game, 4-5 people are still playing it according to SteamSpy, it doesn't even have a score anymore for "recent reviews". It's dead. Why would Dr. Valentine still shill for it?
Eli_Havelock
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Regarding cards, I don't understand why leaving the game running would get the player more cards, since all the available cards for a game drop in a few hours.
Regarding how it did happen, I remember once with TR4, the game crashed/didn't start correctly, but there was still a small exe running, so Steam was still counting the hours and continued to do so while I locked my PC/put it to sleep (up to ~40 hours). I only spotted it because I saw it was still running in my library. So it could have happened by mistake/not intentionally. Not likely but possible.
Regarding how it did happen, I remember once with TR4, the game crashed/didn't start correctly, but there was still a small exe running, so Steam was still counting the hours and continued to do so while I locked my PC/put it to sleep (up to ~40 hours). I only spotted it because I saw it was still running in my library. So it could have happened by mistake/not intentionally. Not likely but possible.
Eli_Havelock
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Even Celery could meme Dankest Dungeon's review time better.
Katana1000S
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Accidental time happens, exe stuck, perhaps and maybe ... I accept, but this person is actually claiming 1500 + hours of UA STEAM gameplay, its outright fraud and needs to be reported for the sheer ludicrous and nonsensity of it.
Its a big difference
Its a big difference
DDLC is a good VN. at least
Eli_Havelock
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