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I must now force all my friends/family/Anyone I know/Anyone I don't know to purchase this game!
Everyone!, Do the same!
I believe it is, at least for now, a factor of size. We're not large or popular enough to attract more than, well, normal people. (Otherwise SpaceDrake and BlondRobin would have to add forum administration and community relations on top of their existing jobs. I would not envy them if so: community relations people have to be trained to, quite possibly, eat bees.)
And sometimes people just lose it, for brief moments. Maybe a bad day, or just a not so good day, and something someone says is read the wrong way, and something snaps. Otherwise intelligent and rational people do this; I'd like to say I don't do this now, but I definitely did it before. (Now, I just wander off to cool down.) Except the angry rage posts remain on the boards until deleted, and even then they remain in our memories, tainting further conversation.
Besides, I've found that the real firestarters aren't the rageposts, but the snarky ones. It's very difficult to try to be clever on the Internet without offending someone inadvertantly. For example, the statement about the "collective intelligence of the Internet", which actually hit a little too close to myself.
I should clarify that I'm usually quite happy to answer questions, and when I'm not I simply don't answer or post.
People who actively look for a FAQ outside of idle reading material are often looking for an answer to Something Going Wrong, and they would like some way to Make It Not Go Wrong Anymore. A FAQ will not stop the ones frustrated enough to want to vent from asking questions anyway, but it might ease the ones from those not quite so annoyed.
I like the automatic patches/updates too, although some games/services are better about that than others. It's just nice to know without even checking that I'm always playing the latest version, and can easily see right before I run it if there's any new optional DLC for a game.
(...)although my problem was more related to the uncommon placement of a FAQ buried in the steamapps directory,(...)
Maybe you're right about collective intelligence or attention spans, but I prefer to think everyone here is capable of being intelligent, focused individuals. Whether they act like it or not has to do with a million other factors.
My MMOG of choice is City of Heroes, so I'm used to answering repeated frequent questions. I might not be able to do polite and friendly, but at least I can be helpful, if terse.
I think your statement is a pretty wild jump to conclusions, and very unnecessary. Has there ever been a poll to estimate the collective intelligence of the internet, or does that come from some entirely personal idea of global stupidity that has nothing to do with this conversation? I think people here need to be a little more open to others trying to help or asking a simple question. It doesn't matter how easy the answer is, or if an idea won't reduce 'obvious' questions by a certain percentage. Am I really on the forums created to discuss the game and ways to make it more successful? The general attitude of some of these responses seems to discourage that.
The F.A.Q will be in the Manual folder inside the Recettear directory.(lol...missed this one earlier)
Thank you again TGJ for your help.Just needed a little nudge in the right direction. Very fun game so far.
I think the custom.exe thing, or at least the ZXCV keys thing, needs to be emphasized up top in bold or something. I see a lot of questions about it in various places, like the Steam forums.
The next most frequently-requested answer is that you can exit the dungeon at every five levels.
After that, probably a general catch-all for how Carpe Fulgur is not responsible for the code, and EGS is busy with Territoire.
And who cares if he didn't read the FAQ!
This is a support thread and we are supposed to help.
I (think I) have the game now...
Now how do I play?
We added this to the FAQ for a reason. ;.;
The controls ARE somewhat different from what I'm used to. It took me a little time to figure them out myself. Maybe you should put up a note somewhere so people know instantly what to press? .w.
Steam does prompt you if you want to start the configuration utility or the game itself,(...)
Not a bad idea to stagger these features anyway. Sales slow down, you go "Hay we're adding achievements and to celebrate you can buy it for $15 this weekend only!!". Then roll in piles of money.
I want to play the Demo but my internet connection downloads 6.9mb and says it's done...
More people buy cheap priced games than dearer games?
Really? Hm. I know that on Garry's blog (creator of Garry's Mod) he posted all sorts of sales statistics. They were something ridiculous too, several hundred thousand. Of course, the NDA could be pretty recent.
If the numbers for "top seller" on Steam are by dollars and not by numbers of copies sold, does anyone else find it kind of surreal that Recettear is not only consistently outselling Civ V, but is doing so at a 2.5 to 1 ratio?
Sadly,since valve almost always NDA's the sales data,we'll very prolly never know...
But to put it a slightly bit more into perspective,the top sellers list is actually not set by the number of sales,but by profit made.
