Thanks for all of those

Awesome GA, thanks SeTuR :))

Thank you for all those giveaways :)

I prefer all the game at once so I can play it all and not have to wait. It's like watching a movie that was designed to have a sequel and just leaves off mid story. In addition, I am not sure episodic content is worth the prices they charge for it; always seems much higher cost for less content.

Hate episodic content, I like to play the whole game at once because if I have to wait months inbetween, I forget what happened. Also, I always worry the debs will drop the game and I'll be stuck with an incomplete game.

Thank you! I've wishlisted this game (these guys are probably the best in the HOG genre right now - well, aside from Goblinz, but we've been waiting for True Fear 2 for 2,5 years already), but haven't bought it yet exactly because of the reason you've mentioned. Simply put, I don't play episodic games until they are complete. I hate it when game experience is interrupted, and you have to wait for the next part for months or even years; I have enough time to forget a considerable part of the plot, not to mention that unfinished gestalts always pain me. Oh, and sometimes episodic games just remain unfinished, developes go bancrupt or just lose interest to their games, so cliffhangers remain hanging forever. Don't know about other genres, I rarely play anything aside from adventure games, but I actually think that episodic format is the worst thing that happened to the adventure genre in the last several years.

From a SteamGifts perspective I think it's terrible. If you have only the first episode you are very often locked out of being to enter for future episodes or complete seasons because it sees it as already owned. So thanks for offering the complete season! :3

Thank you SeTuR! (^_^)

Nice :3 thanks for all the chances!

appreciate the higher level chance! thanks Setur!

Unless it's a series that I'm a die-hard fan of, I wait until the entire series is out. Having to wait anywhere from 1-3 months between episodes would kill all sense of cohesion and whatever else I should be feeling at the end of each episode.

I like to play a game from start to finish, so no, I am not fond of these episodic releases. They can be beneficial for some smaller developers who fund the later episodes from the money they got in the previous ones, but when a game like Life is Strange pulls this shit with a large corporate backup and financing, it is just plain laziness and greed. If you have the money and time to make the full game, don't push it out when only one-fifth of it is finished.
Same goes for the DLC craze, when the downloadable content eventually has more things in it than the game it belongs to.

Thanks for so many Adams! =)

The "episode idea" might be ok, if the game is really finished. Especially for smaller developers this is the question.

Thanks! I entered all the gas but comment only on this one. I don't really mind the episodic nature either way. I'm perfectly fine with it but I don't need it. Too often games are far too long for my tastes and the episodic nature offers natural breaks.

Anything that says it is episodic, in my brain it says "this game is going to be incomplete, abandoned, or it's going to cost a lot more than it appears". So I prefer to have the completed game all at once.

I'm the same with TV, rather than watch the new episode each week, I wait until it's finished and I can watch the whole thing at once. :)

thank you :).

Not particularly fond of episodic games, hate waiting to play the next one.

Thanks for all the chances. Episodic content is terrible. Half life 2 started it all with promises made by one of the most respected game company around, Valve. It's been downhill since. So many titles either never have all the content released, or much too long in between with a nosedive in quality.

I hate waiting. Playing several hours and waiting for one month(most of the time even longer) after another kills my patience.
I would prefer waiting for the whole game to complete to get it.
But I think it is a good thing for the studios to devide games in parts while collecting gamers thoughts to make the game better!

episodic can mean both good and bad depending on how it's done story-wise and pace-wise. If game is thought as episodic from the beggining it can benefit from it - like TellTale games or Life is Strange - it plays like a TV Shoiw then with each episode having beggining, middle and end, having good cliffhangers, building atmosphere etc. Sadly some devs use episodic only as an excuse to develop game in smaller prts and to more capitalize from it. Biggest offender for me was Resident Evil Revelations 2 - it felt like a finished game was forcefully cut into episodes, pacing was all over the place, in some episodes there would even be no action scene at all for 2 characters - just 1 puzzle, while pther episode would start in middle of scene of previous and end befre scene ended etc. I still enjoyed it but game would be much better if was not forcefully episodic.

Thanks for sharing. The upside is it gets you a feeling of new content coming in and getting a lot for your money plus the developers have some more time to improve on stuff while already getting some revenue. The clear downside is that you usually don't know whether the end product is good or not plus you'll have to wait to play on which can suck for different reasons.
All in all it's neither a pro nor a con point for me. As long as the game seems interesting episodic and "normal" releases are something I'm fine with. As long as the don't sell the episodes as DLC without an option to get the whole thing.

Thanks for the giveaway and for me it's annoying because I don't want wait for the next episode ^^

It's acceptable when the episodes come out with exact dates (which often doesn't happen)

if something is episodic, i will more often'n not just wait for the whole experience to drop. i can appreciate that feeling of suspense and tension - it is reminiscent of that feeling you had as a kid, with every passing day bringing Christmas (er whatever comparable holiday for you) closer. but i am a pragmatist usually an idealist when it suits me :/ and thus am not really interested in supporting such practices in the moment.
i wish i could have worded it better but i enter day two of being awake so it is what it is xD
thanks for all of these!