No.17870
The death knell of japanese doujin gaming.
No.17872
Not really that surprising anymore. There have been a lot of Japanese developers releasing their games on Steam lately.
No.17874
>>17872I know that some doujin developers have been releasing to PSN and there's even a Touhou doujin game on the Switch eshop now but I thought ZUN would hold firm to physical distribution with his games.
No.17876
>>17874Actually there already is an official digital version.
http://playism-games.com/game/215/double-dealing-characterOf course it's Playism, so literally everyone forgot about it a day after it released.
No.17890
>>17881scariest thing I ever read just in time for halloween
No.17896
>>17894Stop being a bully.
No.17904
>>17899i'm not completely against it because i'm not the type who sees touhou as a 'secret clubhouse' but touhou + steam DRM makes me uncomfortable. I'd much rather if ZUN wanted to distribute digitally he used a service that respected players right to play privately or offline like gog
No.17906
>>17904>I'd much rather if ZUN wanted to distribute digitally he used a service that respected players right to play privately or offline like gogI thought Steam didn't have DRM (I don't use it) but I looked it up and I found out it's optional. Maybe ZUN would opt-out?
No.17907
>>17906Steamworks, which has the DRM, used to be optional long ago. Don't know if it still is. It also handles stuff like achievements and cloud saves but touhou doesn't really need those. Steam DRM alone is easy to crack anyway; All you have to do is replace a dll in the game folder.
This assuming he even can implement it. He's still building the modern games off MoF I believe.
No.17923
>>17904You can play games in offline mode on steam though, you just can't download them since you need to be connected to the steam server! I usually play spooky games in offline mode so messages won't ruin the spooky mood!
Personally I like steam since it's convenient to have all your games in one place and uninstall or reinstall them whenever you want but I can see why people would be skeptical about it or dislike the platform!
No.17926
>>17923I read that even in offline mode you need to re-authenticate every few weeks. I'd just rather own something physical (or own my games at all, instead of just licensing them).
No.17927
>>17923I just hate how you have to have steam open to play steam games. I'd rather just run an exe and have the game come up with no middleman. The only thing steam should be getting involved in is my purchasing of games, it shouldn't be getting involved with me playing my games.
Also I hate how steam broadcasts everything you're doing to people on your friends list. I don't like drawing attention to myself so I don't want a popup showing up to everyone whenever I load steam or start playing a game. There's a reason I don't use social media platforms like Facebook, and I don't really want my games being locked behind one.
Of course you can say I can solve that by just deleting all my friends but then I'll be worried that they all think I hate them.
No.17929
>>17926I guess I never noticed that since I usually log in anyway to see if there's anything I like on sale!
>>17927Yeah I don't like how every game requires you to start steam but I just got used to starting games through my steam library at this point instead of using desktop shortcuts, at least it saves space on my desktop!
If you're worried about people seeing what you do you can set your profile to private and disabling logging into "friends" automatically in your friends settings so you appear to be offline for them even if you log in.
No.17932
>>17929Wouldn't it be just as convenient to have shortcuts to all your games in a folder? That way it's still saving space on your desktop.
There really aren't many advantages to steam's forced DRM from a consumer standpoint, it feels like people are just so used to it that they start to see it as a good thing for some reason.
No.17933
I don't really like all of steam's social stuff either, but most people are the same way.
The people that use it like a second facebook are easy to spot and avoid. They always have their profile full of irrelevant shit and "Don't friend me without mailing me your resume; level 300 minimum!"
No.17938
>>17932Logging into steam once a day isn't that much of an inconvenience in my opinion but I can see why some people would be put off by the fact that it has to be running in the background in order to play your games. I wish there was a better alternative to steam but I don't really see one for me personally.
I prefer digital copies over physical ones since I don't have to pay shipping costs and wait for the games to arrive, I can just download the game and play! Ordering stuff from abroad is a major pain, it's very expensive, takes forever and in most cases I have to show up at customs and open the package so they can make sure I'm not smuggling anything illegal into the country along with my anime figures…
While GOG offers a great alternative I can understand why some publishers would be unwilling to sell their games without any DRM whatsoever. Some of the games I **pirated** over the years were straight up GOG installers… Aside from the fact that a few games will probably never show up on GOG it's probably the best alternative there is for steam!
No.17949
>>17933Do people really do this? I haven't seen any examples myself but I'd also prefer to keep it that way.
No.17950
>>17938>customswow i've never actually had to open anything from customs, usps just drops it off at my door
No.17952
Ive never had to go to a customs office thankfully but I have had to pay big import fees to the customs agency to get packages moving again ($100 for a $75 laptop in one instace)
No.17955
>>17952yikes! i never understood why most places let you mark your stuff as gifts and i guess i understand why now
No.17968
I've found that Japanese products almost always stop at customs, and the tariffs are insanely expensive, sometimes 2x the price of the product
No.18572
It's out. Turns out it is using the steamworks DRM. At least it's using cloud saves too.
No.18573
>>18572>At least it's using cloud saves too.I'm not sure what that means in the context of steam but it doesn't sound positive. Is it saving your data on steam servers, presumably requiring the use of proprietary steam software to fetch and decode? No thank you!
No.18575
>>18573It just copies and backs up your save data on their servers. The saves on your PC aren't effected and still usable without an internet connection.