That someone else does it doesn't mean it's good or a practice that should just be accepted. Raising the price of your game while still in beta is pretty scummy. I understand full launch price increases but it is not that when the game will still be beta even on Steam's launch.
Raising the price of your beta after it got way more content is not really scummy to me.
I understand that there are those that do but I personally don't enjoy or participate in price rises between content updates. As I said, I understand major milestone development increases like alpha to beta and beta to release but patches shouldn't be price hikes because you've got more content.That's how most Early Access games work nowadays:
I think it's an accepted tactic because it's less about punishing late comers and rewarding early adopters. When Early Access became an actual thing, some people were really mad that they were paying a premium to beta test games. So, to warp that view, these games are now usually sold for cheaper the less features they have, as a kind of discount to people wanting to support the developers during that stage. I personally have nothing against either models, and will keep buying indie games in EA.
im struggling to think of any reasons a forum is materially different or better and I can't come up with anything. in fact, discord is probably more widely used and accessible to more people than forums are.
So, if somebody posted a solution to your problem on discord 3 months ago, how are you gonna find it today? How are you even gonna know somebody posted it?
With the search function? Same as you would on the Steam forums.
It wouldn't get indexed in a search engine like the steam forums do, if the discord ever gets deleted you're shit out of luck
... why not? Do you also not want people to charge for DLCs, or later bundle dlcs for higher than the base game?
Search in discord? absolutely.
This is not really true. Once the guaranteed sales have been met, developers realize greater profit from a sale on EGS than they do on Steam, generally, because of EGS's model. The guaranteed sales are a minimum, not a one-time buyout that covers any and all purchases forever.
That... depends o number of units sold on both stores and how much discount is involved in said sales.
i thought discord had a search function, but its probably one that looks for keywords instead of general gist, and it obviously would not push data to google. good point.
It depends on the number of units sold in the EGS store, primarily, yes. (Steam profit share isn't contingent on units sold.) But if you actually read the post I'm responding to, that is the post that says that it would "always" be better for developers for people to buy their games on Steam—I'm the one saying that it depends.
tbh I wasn't sure how to read the "for developers for people" but it might just be the lack of sleep
It's a fantastic game, we had a thread discussing it here. But the large discussion came by when the game had a MASSIVE price drop during the EGS Summer Sale where many of us here got it.
Thanks! I'll add it to the old wishlist then, though I'll wait until it's out of EA before picking it up on Steam.
Taking into account that every single game release in EGS takes some time to set up (as it has to be done manually for now), they pretty much only add new games (or games that were given for free). And only Transistor was given away for free.
Oh right, it was given away for free, that explains it. Completely forgot about that.
