Cause that's when they expected the Early Access to finish, plans clearly changed.
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Hades, the first EGS exclusive, is coming to Steam on December 10th
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It looks like the game is launching on Steam while still in Early Access if the store page is any indication.
Honestly, if my suspicions are correct, I would imagine they're releasing on Steam in Early Access because people weren't buying it on EGS. A game that launches in 1.0 on EGS doesn't need players as much as it would without a moneyhat unless it's primarily multiplayer, but Early Access games? The entire point of Early Access is to get feedback from players, and if there aren't enough people playing your game, you're not gonna get enough feedback.
I expect this whole mess to result in bigger winners and bigger losers.
Awesome games that have a year to build hype and FOMO will effectively get two "launches", a whole lot of publicity, plus the Epic moneyhat.
Mediocre or underwhelming games will have a whole year of people going "meh" and bad press, and be left with just the moneyhat and anaemic sales.
What about Epic's fabulous developer friendly policies like having no user reviews, no forums, and of course their lower cut?
Surely all of those reasons given for developers choosing the EGS meant something?
Keep in mind SuperGiant pretty small indie devs. And their last project bombed. They needed money. I mean it's one thing when someone big like Ubi take a deal but when it's some small indie dev idk.
Game is already in a pretty good state. Each patch has targeted a salient weakness in the design. It's a very impressive early access period. Highly recommend.
Because this thread made me aware that the devs put their Steam page up... 3 months before release...
I'm sure they will use it to advertise the game a lot until release while also being glad about finally having a forum where people can post feedback
You know you can put it on ignore list and doesn't "brag" about it on forum right?
I know. Just like people don't have to "brag" about how they put it on their wishlist or whatever else they posted in this thread
Why are people even replying to anything? Just read the OP and then don't post anything
edit: I also like how the dev already advertises the Hades release on every other Steam game page they have... scummy af
I'm not posting in the thread anymore so don't reply to this. Way too easy to get banned for posting in EGS threads
It's a bit funny to see them ask for, almost beg, for people to wishlist the game now.
I might very well pick up the game later, on Steam or GOG, but I'm not really in the mood of helping them with their marketing through wishlisting.
The game looks good though. I liked Bastion, but wasn't a fan of Transistor, and skipped Pyre. This looks much more as a game for me though, and you know that the look and feel of the game will be excellent.
And whatever they said about releasing the game on other stores only after Early Access, it doesn't really matter. Anything else but releasing it on other Stores when they can, would have been a strange decision. I just assume that they thought of EA being a shorter period for this game. I see nothing strange about that.
I might very well pick up the game later, on Steam or GOG, but I'm not really in the mood of helping them with their marketing through wishlisting.
The game looks good though. I liked Bastion, but wasn't a fan of Transistor, and skipped Pyre. This looks much more as a game for me though, and you know that the look and feel of the game will be excellent.
And whatever they said about releasing the game on other stores only after Early Access, it doesn't really matter. Anything else but releasing it on other Stores when they can, would have been a strange decision. I just assume that they thought of EA being a shorter period for this game. I see nothing strange about that.
These people shows that they are interested in the game and are waiting for the release. While you acting like a child.
Neat', guess they bumped back the 1.0 date and the EGS deal will be over by then.
Bought it at EGS with credit I got from the UE4 sub days, will def' pay for it when it drops on steam.
And WOZERS, 10 year anniversary already?
Bought it at EGS with credit I got from the UE4 sub days, will def' pay for it when it drops on steam.
And WOZERS, 10 year anniversary already?
this makes sense to me, tho I'd like to hear it from them to confirm. it may not even be that ppl weren't buying, but that steam just holds so much of the pc userbase and that's all valuable data they are missing out on
I'm in the same boat, this seems like it would be perfect (well more perfect than the usual) for the Switch. I'm going to wait until 1.0 regardless but hopefully by that time they will be able to announce some console ports.
Non PC gamers underestimate how useful the steam community is when trying to play an old game on a new machine.
Hades coming to steam earlier doesn't change anything personally. The original plan was to wait for 1.0 and it hasn't changed yet. Maybe releasing on Steam and other platforms will accelerate the process, but that's about it.
Last weapon, complete story, some more NPCs, at least one more God.
Considering the pace they have been able to work so far, I wouldn't be surprised if they went overboard and gave even more, but I think that's what is in their current road map.
Not just for old games. Also for new games. I was just playing Plague Tale: Innocence and had a buck in chapter 6. Typed my issue into google, first result was about my exact issue, someone from Focus posted the solution and I was able to continue playing. Going to an official Discord server hoping someone can answer me quickly is just more work for me or the person responsible for tech support writing the same answer multiple times.
The Steam forums are a toxic place for discussion but one of the greatest places for tech support. The only place that would be able to fill this need would be Reddit but not everyone has a reddit account and some games don't even have a reddit community.
Some are but some of the Steam forums are great for discussion as well, it just varies on the game.
Wow! Weird. They mentioned releasing 1.0 in the second half of 2020 in the steam post, so I assumed they had a lot of planned stuff left for the game. So I wonder if they are going to add a lot more stuff to their road map or if they are just going to spend a lot of time polishing and refining the game.
Thank you! Surprisingly enough, I can't wait for more lore. Supergiant Games is one of the few devs capable of making me care about the characters, and I just love the relationship between Zagreus and his mentor Achilles (as well as Achilles overall story).
It's the only game I own on EGS and it's been a while since I played it, but I'll probably buy it again on Steam since I like Supergiant a lot.
Oh, definitely! They managed to give each god their own personality based on their mythological source, and the voice acting nails it. The little quips between Zagreus and the bosses are always a treat to hear, as well.
It also reminds me the time I finished the game for the first time, when the last zone was not out yet.
How they basically broke the fourth wall and Hades made a comment about things still being under construction so Zagreus couldn't leave either way, and the narrator was forced to kill him every time.
Damn forgot all about this one. Will check it out when its released as I avoid EA games like the plague
Love Bastion, and Transistor is one of my favorite games of all time (not a fan of Pyre), but after the Epic Summer Sale fiasco, when Supergiant raised the price of Hades without notice, only to "escape" from the deal subsidized by Epic, I'm not supporting those devs anymore.
They later reverted that decision, but only after the (very justifiable) backlash. Steam doesn't even allow that to happen.
They later reverted that decision, but only after the (very justifiable) backlash. Steam doesn't even allow that to happen.
Devs will have a rough time. At least, it looks like so on their Steam forum, which was opened a few hours ago.
It's still gonna be in early access when it comes to steam so no
Anyway, game is quite good.
Epic only paid for the year I think, they were just originally going to keep in there longer. Valve isnt going to mind the game dropping on their service sooner even if it is because the dev went back on their original claim.
Valve and Epic are composed of adults. No reason to not be okay with this.
