![]() But it's not making an appearance in these highest grossing charts. It's selling like crazy, because of course it is. It's currently cheaper to buy that 52-part pack than just Borderlands 2 on its own. Here's why: Borderlands, as in the entire franchise and every scrap of DLC, has a mindwatering 97% taken off, making the £182 package yours for less than a fiver. They've knocked 35% off their already extremely decent £12 tag, which makes this all the more remarkable. Still, even though, it's impressive to see this one charting during a sale week. ![]() It's a wonder I'm ever not covered in thrown milkshake. It was in a weeny section for tiny indie games, and I had a play and thought, "Um, guys, Terraria already exists." I don't think I even wrote about it. Reason I'm an idiot and you should never listen to anything I say #4583: I was invited to take a look at Starbound at GDC in 2012. And I suspect it's most likely because the game has been developed by some bots. Rust's mere six years of continued extraordinary success, 7.5m copies sold by the end of last year grossing over $110m, its being the fifth most played game on Steam as of Friday, and selling a further six thousand copies an hour during the sale, is clearly very likely about to come undone. This week: an excellent suggestion to remove cheaters! And I think it'll have to be returning to the wellspring of joy that is the game's suggestion page, where anyone can offer up an idea for a new feature. If this ancient of days is going to keep appearing, I'm going to have to come up with a runner for it. Shall I dare? Shall I try to pick only 5 traditional RPGs (not including JRPGs, about which I know diddly-squat) and correctly declare them to be the best, and any who disagree are embarrassingly, stupidly wrong? Yes! Although with some cowardice, I declare they're in no particular order. I just installed Divinity: Original Sin 1. I genuinely only restarted the game a few weeks back to get some new screenshots for its frequent appearances in the Charts, and now we're here. But I finally outpaced them, and saw the credits role. Like a cartoon character adding train tracks in front of the train as it hurtles along. I began to suspect Larian were still developing the game faster than I could play it. I finished it! For a while there I wasn't sure it was actually going to end. Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition But explain to me why it's perfectly normal. And more, that fans of the clearly excellent game don't demand more for the enormous price. It seems extraordinary that a publisher the size of Activision just dumps and runs like this. Now, I'm old, tired and confused, but this seems like a really strange approach to a four month old game. Not a single official announcement on its Community page. Which is to say, when I don't have a dumb joke to make, I'll reluctantly resort to trying to be useful. When it comes to games like Sekiro, about which I have absolutely nothing of interest to contribute ( last week's attempt to rile the wretches didn't even catch a tiddler), I like to check the various updates and additions that have occurred since release. But I still wonder how much various competition watchdogs would appreciate Valve's woeful inability to separate church and state on its store. And it's here in the Charts because this is about gross, not numbers. Of course, "Top Sellers" is an ambiguous term that could mean anything they wanted. They just happen to have their own product there, first in the list, every day, at over eighteen times the price of the next most expensive seller. I've no proof to support my wild accusations, but I'd be really bloody surprised if they did either. Sorry to get all You And Yours, but I'm not entirely convinced Valve is absolutely angelic in its featuring its own monstrously expensive VR goggles in Steam's sale Top Sellers. ![]() Next week will likely still be afflicted by the last couple of days of the sale, but then arrive the green shoots of hope that come with the summer release lull, and the prospects for smaller, more interesting games being bought by better people. ![]() 5-1 are all games for which I've developed running jokes! But we can get through this, if we band together. If someone were to have followed this column since even the days when some guy called Alex Mere wrote it, and malevolently came up with a parody of the most cliched possible list, it'd look like this. The Summer Sale has had its wicked way with us entirely this week. I leap into my trousers both legs at once, same as anyone else. ![]() While it's obviously very exciting to have a celebrity as handsome and excellent as me writing you some Steam Charts, I'm still just a regular ordinary guy underneath it all. ![]()
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