I for one went and marked 100% of my dwarf games with the custom title yesterday.
Glad to see that now that I helped, they're gunna change it
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How many dwarf games could there really be?
Is there an entire genre that I'm unaware of?
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So basically this means there is a significant demographic of gamers that will play a game largely because it features dwarves?
Im sorry, I missed all the fuss about this.
I guess look forward to Dwarf Cart Racing and Dwarf Chess and Dwarf MilSim Tac Squad.
I was gonna say A Dwarf And His Horse but uh... well maybe it would work with dwarf horses. Thats probably got some appeal.
Absolutely. I love dwarves
A dwarf and his horse would rapidly become a dwarf and his lifetime supply of jerky
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A Dwarf MilSim Tac Squad would be nice
It would simplify the control scheme somewhat as there would basically be no point whatsoever for a dwarf to crouch. Prone might make sense?
Can dwarves lean left and right around corners without going off balance and just falling over?
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I would lol
OOTL: Can I get a summary?
they rejected the request of Deep Rock Galatic and Dwarf Fortress to add a dwarf tag, the two teamed up on a co marketing campaign to get the decision reversed, Steam acquiesced.
What next? A tag for elves? A tag for tieflings? What a slippery slope!
/s
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Big win for gamers
I think they could have solved a twitter protest buy going with dwarves instead.
lmao that was so fast. Lets goooooo
They went from, ‘That’s stupid. We're not doing that," to "That’s stupid but okay," so fucking fast.
I mean, that's how it should be.
If a mass amount of people want a trivial thing that doesn't harm anybody else, even if you disagree with it, why not?
Disagree but only on a technicality.
Ideally, they could skip the first part.
People make mistakes. And then they fix them.
That's how the world should work.
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Because the team behind Deep Rock Galactic asked their community to start using it to show demand. And apparently they listened.
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I get it from their perspective, featuring dwarves in a game doesn’t really help others find similar games in the same vein. On the other hand, they have a tag for pirates and Black Flag differs quite a bit from puzzle pirates.
Alright, I'll ask the obvious follow-up question: do they have a tag for ninjas?
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But by pretending to make scene they just gave themselves and two other companies a shit ton of marketing and people talking about it.
Its always about the money, they found a way to make a few dollars out of nothing.
"That's stupid but okay" is a very valve thing.
I've played TF2.
Their view of "what? No that's silly" struck me as very odd.
Perhaps Valve might be several people with different opinions wearing a trench coat.
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WE DID IT!!!
Lmao that happed so fast. Deep rock galactic and dwarf fortress teaming up really worked!
Steam gets free publicity (not that it's really needed) and it all cost them was 5 letters.
Seems like short headline.