charge standard market price for shitty mp3s, premium price for flacs
games
Saturday, February 3, 2024
Yeah that makes sense
For sure actual orchestra pieces would be more important for lossless formats
A lot of DRM is to make the barrier high enough that normies do not care to steal it
Replying to taxes #tzfi this has beenthe practice in the tripple A gaming industry for like 5+ years now
I feel like I've seen one or two games that tried to make the digital extras an "experience", but most just give you an MP3 folder.
Honestly why the fuck do people care though, just download the flac/MP3 files yourself, from a better source quality anyway.
Some devs don't even bother with a separate Steam listing, it's just a folder in your game directory
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 I feel like I've seen one or two games that tried to make the digital extras an "experience", but most just give you an MP3 folder. Honestly why the fuck do people care though, just download the flac/MP3 files yourself, from a better source quality anyway.
tripple As all do EXEs or baked ingame stuff now
Elden Ring
It was just a folder
i mena a lot of indie devs probably don't even have lossless sources availible
That's the most recent AAA one I bought that I remember
I usually rail against DRM, but given that it's Steam(where you shouldn't be buying music anyway)
no come on spooky, everyone needs to buy the phijkchu quest ost on steam
I do like the new Steam music feature
it's annoying how it doesn't show you any file metadata at all
Where you can have a soundtrack you own be BG for the store/client
and how the "media viewer" has no order
Uh, are you on the beta client Pirate?
I think it does
well it has an order
but the devs can't set it (us)
so it's basically random
it doesn't show you tags or even artist names
even the fucking track names it just takes from a csv file the devs have to supply
mine has order
pika i mean the media files, images included
which most soundtracks probably won't have
I'll install one to see what you mean
Ok yeah, this is more barebones than I thought
Again, don't buy music (or anime) via Steam
i mean it's not like anyone really wants or needs it to be that good, it's basically just a way to donate to devs
or for devs to hope people buy it for some reason
you can't beat just having the files loaded into foobar2000 or whatever other audio library player you wanna use
Yeah, only ost I actively bought was the huniepop one, but that was only because I wanted to throw the dev more cash
i just download from youtube if it's availible now, it's high quality and has decent metadata
it is though
based rabi-ribi ost
the autogenerated music playlists aren't as compressed as just videos
well the actual problem with youtube is sometimes the publishers pick a bad mix of a release to be the one that gets sent to all the streaming shit