Product Update - Planet Coaster is coming to Steam
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Steam was here before Frontiers launcher. Frontier launcher is the "another launcher"
Steam will replace Frontiers launcher so I don't see how this is an argument. Does it matter if they did it from beginning or waited to see what most people wanted? (Which is to have PC on Steam)
Vampiro
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Im pretty sure UGC was already a confirmed feature for after release
"Jonny Watts :
So, as we've already said; on the Q&A that John Laws did. Is that, we are interested in doing UGC the way you've said it; but it's not for release.
What I can tell you is that the game has been designed from the ground up to be ready for when we're ready to do that; or the way we load things into the game has all been designed to do that.
But for release, we really wanted to concentrate on doing what we call 'UGC in the box'
Which is slightly different. It's to give people ultimate creativity to a very fine level of granularity in the game.
So it's two stages. So to start off with, we want to give you the tools and all the things that our imagineers have made; which I think are incredibly beautiful.
And then once people have got tired of that, then we will start allowing people to model it in Maya or Max or whatever 3D Package they want.
But that's just a little bit later on after release."
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I am happy to see this coming to Steam, that's a big positive! The exposure alone will boost sales immensely.
My concerns will be the problems City Skylines had with their workshop which was the lack of proper organization (proper tagging and enough sub-menus) and creating a proper image for each asset. I'm sure this is being worked out since everything has been stellar so far with this game, but i'd love the ease of use to be much better than we dealt with trying to find good assets with CS. Hopefully there is an exporter in the game that gives you all the tags and options and control over these things.
As for everyone complaining about having a limited access account. My sympathy is slightly low. The cost of PC (at release) is fairly low for game of this caliber, Steam itself is free, so all you'd have to do is spend $5 towards steam to unlock the full account... which by this point you've still spent less than most games cost at base price. But even if you have a limited account you still have access to downloading custom assets and blueprints which is what 90% of you will be doing. Those of you wanting to upload and add to the database and haven't ever used Steam before... that really small minority may have to invest an extra $5... which is very little overall. If that $5 is breaking the bank for you, then maybe sitting around and playing games all day isn't the right corse of action in your life right now.
My concerns will be the problems City Skylines had with their workshop which was the lack of proper organization (proper tagging and enough sub-menus) and creating a proper image for each asset. I'm sure this is being worked out since everything has been stellar so far with this game, but i'd love the ease of use to be much better than we dealt with trying to find good assets with CS. Hopefully there is an exporter in the game that gives you all the tags and options and control over these things.
As for everyone complaining about having a limited access account. My sympathy is slightly low. The cost of PC (at release) is fairly low for game of this caliber, Steam itself is free, so all you'd have to do is spend $5 towards steam to unlock the full account... which by this point you've still spent less than most games cost at base price. But even if you have a limited account you still have access to downloading custom assets and blueprints which is what 90% of you will be doing. Those of you wanting to upload and add to the database and haven't ever used Steam before... that really small minority may have to invest an extra $5... which is very little overall. If that $5 is breaking the bank for you, then maybe sitting around and playing games all day isn't the right corse of action in your life right now.
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Fantastic as always! Thank you for Steam!!! Now all my friends can see me playing your awesome game for HOURS ON END! PERFECT! [big grin]
I pointed out my reasons many times now. Steam and Frontier are seperate companies for me. So your points are not valid for me.
As for your second part. I hope you will always stay on the sunny side of life. Maybe if you had to wish PC as a present or work hard to preorder it you might have another view on things.
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Read the post, it says there will be workshop
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People are complaining about Steam because of the limited account? If you have the money to buy the Alpha version of Planet Coaster, you sure have money to buy one or two decent indie games for atleast $5.00.
Besides that, about the possibility of a messed up Steam Workshop: Developers are able to add tags on the Steam Workshop. Besides that every developer can implent the Steam Workshop inside the game, with even more possibilities. That shouldn't be a problem.
Besides that, about the possibility of a messed up Steam Workshop: Developers are able to add tags on the Steam Workshop. Besides that every developer can implent the Steam Workshop inside the game, with even more possibilities. That shouldn't be a problem.
I am torn about Steam. I am using it from other games, but I feel it is a little dark and messy as a whole.
But I guess it is good for the game really as Steam is so big. So I think it is good decision.
I am funnybunnyhelena on steam btw. Please add me as friend.
Steam is fine Helena [yesnod] Invitation send
Vampiro
Volunteer Moderator
Then you can't play...
I don't want to use steam because I've lost my game collection once when something similar like steam pulled the plug. Ever since I only buy discs but I decided to buy PC anyways. I'm really not happy with this. Come on, first they aren't even sure if steam will be a thing and now you MUST have it? That doesn't even make sense. How were they planning to put the share function in without steam? Or did they know this was happening all along? I don't know if I would've bought it if I had known this earlier. Please don't do this
I never got an e-mail
Look in your Frontier account and enable the Planet Coaster Newsletter Subscriptions !
If you want to make steam as transparent as possible, you can create a shortcut to the game directly on the desktop (an option to do that appears when you install the game). Then you wouldn't need to open steam to access the game. But yes, you will still have to install Steam to make it work.