timetokill
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Bad month, or is Desura dying?
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Bad month, or is Desura dying?
Could be both, but I do get the impression that Steam being more open led to more of the interesting developers neglecting Desura outright and switching to a self publishing style or a self-publish-until-steam-release, especially considering that more and more games on Desura seam to be Steam key purchases, which the Desura community hates as well.
Just my impression though.
timetokill
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I see. Dealing with the Steam behemoth seems to be a tough battle.
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Super annoying, nobody can win vs Steam, but Steam is about to monopolize PC gaming. Sales are fun and all, but I dont think there are many cases in history where a monopoly was purely good.
I mean we are already used to people not buying games, just because they arent on steam. I hope GOG galaxy or whatever they want to call it now takes a good jab at Steam.
"Requires Steam to Run", so that just proves my earlier point.
But yeah, that was easily the best thing I saw. Might be adding that to the new release list anyway.
I can't seem to find the indie devs that mentioned sales but Defender's Quest has this chart:
But I have read different accounts were direct was 0~% sales and GoG was 13% while Steam was 80%
Yeah, that doesnt seem far off from what I imagined, too bad really because Desura gave me quite a few good and cheap gems. Probably need to switch my release checks to other websites at one point.
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IndieGameStand and itch.io are your best bets
Especially itch.io, probably the best place to find good freeware games and under-the-radar gems
I think if Activision or Ubisoft signed exclusively to Origin it would shift the dynamic somewhat - but it would be a huge risk, probably one neither are willing to take.
Yeah, I will likely take my under-the-radar gem picks from itch.io starting next month and see how that goes.
I think one key part(setting aside massive sales) is all my games in one place that puts some people off buying games from anywhere but steam.
As you say ultimately a monopoly doesn't do anyone any favours but with so many others places selling steam keys and have regular discounts it hasn't had a negative impact on buyers yet.
As you say ultimately a monopoly doesn't do anyone any favours but with so many others places selling steam keys and have regular discounts it hasn't had a negative impact on buyers yet.
This looks fascinating: http://duangle.itch.io/nowhere
Has anyone tried this out?
Has anyone tried this out?
Sorta, but the whole discussion about devaluing game prices plays a lot into that (which in turn also led to more F2P mechanics and DLC to keep games profitable). There is a point to be made about game prices becoming cheaper anyway and I never would argue that Steam is the root of it all, but I definitely feel like Steam sped that up a LOT in favor of increasing their userbase.
This description..
sounds so molyneux-ian, haha. Seems like a hard sell for 21$ currently considering the game doesnt have anything other than some space movement.
Thread closed, new thread up:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1003333
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1003333
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Edit: wrong thread