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

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

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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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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.

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.

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

Thanks Zaghadka!

rms

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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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.

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

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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