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simple@lemm.ee to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

GeoGuessr is making its way to Steam next month after almost 12 years of sticking it out as a browser game

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GeoGuessr is making its way to Steam next month after almost 12 years of sticking it out as a browser game

www.rockpapershotgun.com

simple@lemm.ee to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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GeoGuessr has been around for a long time now, but the popular geography guessing game is making its way to Steam for the first time.
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    Why?

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      I found out recently that steam now let’s devs create subscriptions as opposed to one-time charges, so it’s 110% that

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        Ain’t no way I’ll pay that.
        I would have discussed if it meant a one time payment but hell nah.

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          Google Maps API isn’t free

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            I mentioned one time pay.
            If it’s that expensive, I can’t help you (or the devs) because I won’t play it then :-)

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      Money.

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        They already added a subscription.

        Up front cost cannot cover the ongoing API costs they must be paying for Google Maps. So either this has to be free and just a front end for the same shit, or they’ll still end up net negative.

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          They are adding a “Steam pass”, which doesn’t let you play on the web and your web subscription doesnt let you play the Steam version. Just play Geotastic instead.

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      Trading Cards and probably TF2 hats.

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      Can run a little bitcoin mine in the background this way

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