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[likaq]

Vince was kindly to share with us some stats from AoD greenlight:

Steam posted more stats (our data/avg top 50 games on Greenlight)

Unique visitors: 158,141 / 90,521
Favorites: 5,164 / 3,155
Followers: 4,980 / 2,950
Yes Votes: 59,385 / 37,822

60,000 yes votes. Jesus... If I had to guess, I would have said 5-8k. Thank you so much, guys.

Fucking sweet!!!

 

[likaq]

AoD won "Game of the Year Awards 2012" in category "Most Promising Indie RPG".
Second Place Winner: Dead State.
The Contest was organized by RPGWatch.

Gamers' Choice: The Age of Decadence

This is another year in which The Age of Decadence could be released. Like the previous years there is again the hope it will.

The Age of Decadence is a 3D isometric turn based game with quite some promises for a rich RPG experience with different solutions to quests, deep factions, action point based combat, crafting and alchemy and combat that is thrilling and requires tactics in order to survive. If it will live up to its expectations it is bound to be a great game and if released in 2013 will be a contender for next year's GOTY award for best indie RPG.

Incline of rpgwatch.

 

[Elhoim]

2013 will be the year of ITS

 

[Zed]

Wow. Those Steam greenlight stats are very impressive.
2013 is looking to become a helluva year for kvlt RPG gaming.

 

[Jaesun]

Yeah those steam stats are impressive. I just fear for VD's sanity when people from STEAM start to play The Age of Decadence and ask questions on the forums.

 

[Boris]

Yeah, when they got on Steam, I lost all my hope for a bunch of bawww and drama after a failed release.

 

[villain of the story]

Post-release Steam statistics:

Average total playtime 0h 13m
Games completed 3.58%

 

[felipepepe]

Post-release Steam statistics:

Average total playtime 0h 13m
Games completed 3.58%

GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE.

(Although that kind of kills any hope for a second ITS game... )

 

[tuluse]

Post-release Steam statistics:

Average total playtime 0h 13m
Games completed 3.58%

GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE.

(Although that kind of kills any hope for a second ITS game... )

As long as they buy it we'll get a 2nd game

 

[laclongquan]

And we will sucker in the next generation suckers when the sequel is out~

 

[curry]

actually 60k isn't that much when you realize how many users Steam has.. 60k is a drop in the ocean

 

[felipepepe]

Considering how hidden, slow, dumb and un-intuictive the steam greenlight system is, 60k is a MASSIVE feat.

 

[Vault Dweller]

Especially when the avg yes vote for top 50 games is only 37k.

 

[Modron]

So does that mean most of that other 100k voted no or just didnt bother to vote at all?

 

[tuluse]

From ITS forum, 46,219 no votes.

So that leaves about 53k abstainers.

 

[felipepepe]

Voting NO is such a dick move, unless the developer is known to lie or the game a unplayable bugfest...

 

[evdk]

Voting NO is such a dick move, unless the developer is known to lie or the game a unplayable bugfest...

Fucker's clearly stealing ideas from Elder Scrolls, I would've voted NO as well.

 

[deuxhero]

Voting NO is such a dick move, unless the developer is known to lie or the game a unplayable bugfest...

From what I'm told, a "no" vote doesn't actually do anything.

 

[Modron]

Voting NO is such a dick move, unless the developer is known to lie or the game a unplayable bugfest...

From what I'm told, a "no" vote doesn't actually do anything.

I have voted no on 700 hundred things, there are a ton of trash entries in greenlight and I felt that I was pretty fair in my evaluations. Admittedly, I might have been a bit hypercritical towards the umpteenth or so super meatboy clone around the 500-600 mark in the process of voting on all the games. Oh and I voted no on a ton of free 2 play mmos because I don't see why those need to be on steam in the first place.

 

[deuxhero]

Voting NO is such a dick move, unless the developer is known to lie or the game a unplayable bugfest...

From what I'm told, a "no" vote doesn't actually do anything.

I have voted no on 700 hundred things, there are a ton of trash entries in greenlight and I felt that I was pretty fair in my evaluations. Admittedly, I might have been a bit hypercritical towards the umpteenth or so super meatboy clone around the 500-600 mark in the process of voting on all the games. Oh and I voted no on a ton of free 2 play mmos because I don't see why those need to be on steam in the first place.

Yeah, but there isn't a count taken or have any effect on what happens, only the number of "yes" matter.

 

[Vault Dweller]

Yep. Valve doesn't care how many don't want to play it, as long as enough people do.

 

[Hobbit Lord of Mordor_]

Hiya VD, congrats on the Steam deal. Any comment on whether you will still beat Grimoire?

 

[KidBoogie]

my greenlight rule: if its indy i vote it up

fuck aaa corporate assholes well show them how its done from grassroots

 

[likaq]

GoG impressions with AoD demo:

"... And this is one ambitious project. In one sentence, “The Age of Decadence” is a post-apocalyptic hardcore RPG game when your choices have very serious consequences.

I did not write the “hardcore” world by accident - this is a big strength and at the same time weakness of this title. It’s a real CRPG game with huge number of numbers, statistics and build that matters, that you can play with, but also break them until the game becomes almost unplayable because of the difficulty of situation you will be put in. For example I can choose to make a mercenary who is a very good trader - but when it comes to combat he can be beaten by normal thief.

So you need to think smart and think like an RPG gamer would. This is good because of the simple truth that this is a very solid RPG game, and a bad thing because it’s a niche and very demanding RPG game.

What am I trying to say is that this is not the game that I would recommend even to RPG gamers (after Skyrim and new Fallouts they became a little more simple minded). This is an old-school RPG, when you need to have a passion for this kind of gameplay, or you will be bored after first couple of hours. (...)

Pros:
- Great RPG mechanic.
- Nice graphics, not revolutionary but there is a big attention to detail.
- Focus on choices and their consequences.
- Scale of the game - it looks like a huge adventure.
- Original setting - post-apocalypse meets roman empire.

Cons:
- Hard and unforgiving mechanics. (Which actually might appeal to hardcore gamers)
- Poor tutorial and generally not friendly for new gamers.
- Combat can be very long and boring.
- The story is not special in the beginning.

Questions:
- Is it possible to release some kind of adventure editor or maybe even game editor for this title?

(...)

This is the game for hardcore RPG gamers who will invest the patience and time to get to know it very good and only then draw a huge amount of fun from it. (...)"

http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum/index.php/topic,3228.0.html

How about newspost about this?

Calling Infinitron Crooked Bee VentilatorOfDoom

 

[Infinitron]

I'm on it.