• Free: Divine Knockout on Steam

    From Zaghadka@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 12 16:20:57 2022
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/1294660/Divine_Knockout_DKO/

    Cutesy anime third person beat-em-up. Might be fun?

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Zaghadka on Mon Dec 12 17:09:28 2022
    On 12/12/2022 2:20 PM, Zaghadka wrote:
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/1294660/Divine_Knockout_DKO/

    Cutesy anime third person beat-em-up. Might be fun?

    It has good ratings so I took it: "Divine Knockout (DKO) is now
    registered to your account on Steam.

    To access your new content, simply launch this product from your Library
    on Steam." Thanks. :D

    Lots of freebies these days. ;)
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  • From Mike S.@21:1/5 to Ant on Tue Dec 13 07:05:03 2022
    On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:09:28 -0800, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:

    Lots of freebies these days. ;)

    Lots of freebies for sure. Thank you Zag.

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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 13 09:38:39 2022
    On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 16:20:57 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
    wrote:

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/1294660/Divine_Knockout_DKO/

    Cutesy anime third person beat-em-up. Might be fun?

    Also, it's a a pay-to-win game. To quote one of the reviews:
    "Just like the other games of this publisher, they start with a
    "Founder's Season" as basically an Early Access for people who pay,
    plus other bonuses" and then later make the game free. Other reviews
    take issue with the monetization scheme and grind.

    Not really my thing, this game. Don't care for cutesy (fuzzy animals
    aside), don't care for anime, don't care for brawlers, definitely
    don't care for grindy pay-to-win games. So, I think I'll pass. "Free
    is free", except this one really isn't.

    But thanks for the update, Zaghadka. At the very least, it alerts me
    to know types of games I might not have looked at otherwise.

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  • From Zaghadka@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Tue Dec 13 15:27:32 2022
    On Tue, 13 Dec 2022 09:38:39 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
    Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 16:20:57 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
    wrote:

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/1294660/Divine_Knockout_DKO/

    Cutesy anime third person beat-em-up. Might be fun?

    Also, it's a a pay-to-win game. To quote one of the reviews:
    "Just like the other games of this publisher, they start with a
    "Founder's Season" as basically an Early Access for people who pay,
    plus other bonuses" and then later make the game free. Other reviews
    take issue with the monetization scheme and grind.

    Not really my thing, this game. Don't care for cutesy (fuzzy animals
    aside), don't care for anime, don't care for brawlers, definitely
    don't care for grindy pay-to-win games. So, I think I'll pass. "Free
    is free", except this one really isn't.

    But thanks for the update, Zaghadka. At the very least, it alerts me
    to know types of games I might not have looked at otherwise.

    Yeah sorry. The line between "free" and "free-to-play" is getting blurred
    as the gacha and pay-to-win companies keep trying to do away with the "-to-play" suffix and the justified stigma that comes with it.

    Funny thing is, if you refuse to pay such a publisher, you can usually
    get as many hours of enjoyment as you would out of the solo campaign in a
    AAA shooter; so there's that. Such companies mostly rely on personality disorders becoming cash whales as their business model.

    It's sick and predatory. Shame on me for supporting them, even by
    accident. Thanks for the heads up, I'll be more careful in future.

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  • From rms@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 13 19:37:03 2022
    Cutesy anime third person beat-em-up. Might be fun?

    Thanks Zaghadka!

    rms

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  • From Zaghadka@21:1/5 to Zaghadka on Wed Dec 14 09:57:12 2022
    On Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:27:32 -0600, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
    Zaghadka wrote:

    On Tue, 13 Dec 2022 09:38:39 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
    Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 16:20:57 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
    wrote:

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/1294660/Divine_Knockout_DKO/

    Cutesy anime third person beat-em-up. Might be fun?

    Also, it's a a pay-to-win game. To quote one of the reviews:
    "Just like the other games of this publisher, they start with a
    "Founder's Season" as basically an Early Access for people who pay,
    plus other bonuses" and then later make the game free. Other reviews
    take issue with the monetization scheme and grind.

    Not really my thing, this game. Don't care for cutesy (fuzzy animals >>aside), don't care for anime, don't care for brawlers, definitely
    don't care for grindy pay-to-win games. So, I think I'll pass. "Free
    is free", except this one really isn't.

    But thanks for the update, Zaghadka. At the very least, it alerts me
    to know types of games I might not have looked at otherwise.

    Yeah sorry. The line between "free" and "free-to-play" is getting blurred
    as the gacha and pay-to-win companies keep trying to do away with the >"-to-play" suffix and the justified stigma that comes with it.

    Funny thing is, if you refuse to pay such a publisher, you can usually
    get as many hours of enjoyment as you would out of the solo campaign in a
    AAA shooter; so there's that. Such companies mostly rely on personality >disorders becoming cash whales as their business model.

    It's sick and predatory. Shame on me for supporting them, even by
    accident. Thanks for the heads up, I'll be more careful in future.

    That said, it would be nice if Steam listed "in-app purchases" as Google
    Play does on its games. There is nothing in the store page about it.

    Slimy.

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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to All on Wed Dec 14 13:43:23 2022
    On Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:27:32 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    On Tue, 13 Dec 2022 09:38:39 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
    Spalls Hurgenson wrote:


    But thanks for the update, Zaghadka. At the very least, it alerts me
    to know types of games I might not have looked at otherwise.

    Yeah sorry. The line between "free" and "free-to-play" is getting blurred
    as the gacha and pay-to-win companies keep trying to do away with the >"-to-play" suffix and the justified stigma that comes with it.

    It's sick and predatory. Shame on me for supporting them, even by
    accident. Thanks for the heads up, I'll be more careful in future.

    No need to be so hard on yourself ;-)

    /ESPECIALLY/ since Steam doesn't make it easy to tell these games
    apart from the usual sort. I just wanted people to be aware of what
    sort of game they were getting.

    As I said, it's the sort of game I normally don't look at, so having
    them brought to my attention is a welcome diversion, even if I've no
    interest in playing them.

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  • From Justisaur@21:1/5 to Zaghadka on Sun Dec 18 11:06:55 2022
    On Monday, December 12, 2022 at 2:20:59 PM UTC-8, Zaghadka wrote:
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/1294660/Divine_Knockout_DKO/

    Cutesy anime third person beat-em-up. Might be fun?


    I don't know why I tried it, but I did. It was just sitting there in my new games. I'm actually finding it fairly fun, and actually played against
    people. I did 3 vs. 3 and I think I was doing pretty well, our side
    won at least. The goal is to knock the opposing team off the platform
    you're fighting on, which while you can knock them off, between air
    jumps, long air jump power and other special powers is pretty
    hard to accomplish.

    I'm usually not into arena pvp games, nor do I like things with
    falls, so it's surprising it's fun to me.

    - Justisaur

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Justisaur on Sun Dec 18 15:05:52 2022
    On 12/18/2022 11:06 AM, Justisaur wrote:
    On Monday, December 12, 2022 at 2:20:59 PM UTC-8, Zaghadka wrote:
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/1294660/Divine_Knockout_DKO/

    Cutesy anime third person beat-em-up. Might be fun?


    I don't know why I tried it, but I did. It was just sitting there in my new games. I'm actually finding it fairly fun, and actually played against people. I did 3 vs. 3 and I think I was doing pretty well, our side
    won at least. The goal is to knock the opposing team off the platform
    you're fighting on, which while you can knock them off, between air
    jumps, long air jump power and other special powers is pretty
    hard to accomplish.

    I'm usually not into arena pvp games, nor do I like things with
    falls, so it's surprising it's fun to me.

    OK, fine. I will add it to my Steam account. Oh wait, "Divine Knockout
    (DKO) is already in your Steam library". Ha.
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