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While I don't personally have a big issue with timed exclusivity deals like that, surely can you see that "doing this anti consumer thing is fine as long as you get lots of $$$$$" is a pretty poor argument.
While I don't personally have a big issue with timed exclusivity deals like that, surely can you see that "doing this anti consumer thing is fine as long as you get lots of $$$$$" is a pretty poor argument.
Yeah, but the thing is that it's not "get lots of $$$$$" it's more "guarantee stability and ensure a sensible setup for the future" in most cases. It's not a get-rich-quick scheme - it's not free money. The Epic deals are guaranteeing a certain amount of sold copies, so essentially they're offering you a set advance, that they'll recoup if the game sells. It's not extra money in any way.
Also, consider that when you make games, you're not making a single cent until people can actually buy it.
So, Epic is offering you a somewhat guaranteed success for not putting your game on Steam first. Launching a game on Steam is by no means a guarantee of success, no matter how good your game is. Discoverability is low, marketing is expensive, and there is an insane amount of games being released every day.
The worry that this game might be your last is somewhat eliminated by taking such a deal, and that is why I personally feel that there's a lot of sense for indie developers to...
....in november?
Yeah, all the Christmas stuff starts now, and people are usually booked in the month of December, so it fits.
.. So does that mean you guys aren’t going to do anything? I feel like I’m reading this wrong
He's definitely breaking the Steam ToS in several ways. We're doing what we can, but believe it or not, this is the first time in 3 million copies sold, that this has happened, so the initial handling is a bit of a bother to set up and it happened at an inopportune time. We now have a tool set up for blacklisting SteamID's, and while that is circumventable, it's going to be a bother for him to do it. A bigger bother than for us to block him when he does.
I'll probably also call his mom or something.
Scout leaves the discussion by grappling away, he is above such squabbles
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We just had our annual Christmas party, and I’d like to thank all of you tippers for making it happen.
He's only banned from the Community Hub.
Not the game itself. At least not yet.
He is now.
Your post was removed as it is breaking our rule about naming and shaming other players. We've taken care of the user in question.
Eh, publisher-wise, not a fan. They succumbed to the Epic store bs with Satisfactory for a year. Pretty anti consumer
While I’m definitely no fan of Epic acquiring exclusivity, please don’t blame indie developers for accepting such a deal. Making games is a very costly, time consuming, and risky endeavour, and if you can alleviate that risk with a timed exclusivity deal, guaranteeing you success and continued operation - it’s downright silly not to accept it. Often the next project is very dependant on the succes of the previous one, and if you can make sure that you’ll succeed, your game will most likely also be better for it. I totally get that it sucks from a consumer POV, but it’s a safety net in a risky industry.
Will action be taken?
Yeah, we’ll let Steam handle it.
We know
Sorry, but they are frogs.
See you at 2k!
unfortunately, that won't happen. Only a small percentage of the player base is playing on Haz5, if I had to guess I think it would be around 7-8%. The demand for Haz6 is just not there and with all the new players now, I think we will never get any higher difficulty.
Can confirm that it's around 10% on Haz 5
Read moreif 1000 out of 40.000 players play Haz6 then there is realistically no demand present
CAN. YOU. STOP. BULLSHITTING.
You disgust me.
https://drg.mod.io/starship-troopers - 40k downloads, for f**k's sake, 12k subscribers
https://drg.mod.io/ike - 10k downloads
DRG's peak is 40k players
That's why we have mods.
Mods break with updates, mods replace vanilla hazards and mods confuse people since not much people read description.
Please point out where I said people should shut up
That part when you told there's "absolutely no need for Haz 6"
I'm stopping this discussion, I think it's pretty clear you're full of bullshit. Go back to your hazard 1, dumbbeard and live your miserable liars life.
"1000 out of 40000" while defau...
Please moderate your language. I'm sure you can get your point across without insulting people.