Come back when you have something showing most backers are getting refunds. Ask them in their AMA. Much safer assumption that it's a minority.
I checked, and it seems that Axiom Verge will run without requiring it, but I've only tested it and Subnautica.
These are people who have given you their money based on promises, not just consumer who pre-ordered the game. If you break that promise, you've broken the trust. Again, crowdsourcing is not the same as pre-ordering the game - It's an interest free loan to develop the game. Even if these people are not the majority (I don't know how many they are) - It's very understandable that they would be mad when the terms of what was agreed upon change, considering they put the money down to kickstart the development.
The game being DRM free on Epic is an improvement to the situation. If we can download it once, and then won't need it again for additional installations.
no see they got enough for everyone to work for a year and then sales...
The game being DRM free on Epic is an improvement to the situation. If we can download it once, and then won't need it again for additional installations.
A lot of business people even those who should known better are shockingly short sighted and don't understand the value of positive perception m
It doesn't need over half of backers getting refunds for it to end up with a total PR disaster. Inertia is a thing, but it works both ways - people who are silent will probably remain silent. At the very least Snapshot's (and lackeys') current behavior does not suggest they expected this amount of pushback, which, given how tame it is, suggests they really didn't think this through. Which promises us potential for chaos. Someone fetch me the nachos.
Honestly, not sure what's wrong here. The Donald poster in question was posting tons of offensive shit in the Discord. He was absolutely being a toxic cock waffle.
Unfortunately, the job of the PR person is to take it, or take measures to minimize the damage quietly. That poster is quite right that it was unprofessional, because it was badly handled, regardless of whether it was justified or not.
Meh, I'm fine with PR people insulting bigots for being bigots.
Then call them bigots, don't call them names, in a highly charged situation, you shouldn't be inflaming people. As demonstrated there, it is just causing them more problems.
Sorry, I was responding to the second screenshot where the toxic cock waffle got called out. I don't see an issue with a developer moderating their own discord, but he probably shouldn't be a reddit moderator.
It's been confirmed that investors will get money from the Epic deal.
It has. They have since hurriedly posted that investors get paid out of the epic moneybags (I doubt they considered it in the first place).
Oh OK. I guess that's the least they could do in this situation. Hope the payout is nice then.
Try putting games by less known devs on it. Maybe Epic will start to offer money and exposure to devs that actually need it.
The game being DRM free on Epic is an improvement to the situation. If we can download it once, and then won't need it again for additional installations.
You know, if Epic would just say "Hey, we gots the monies, if you have an interesting game and want us to help you, send it and we'll see" I actually wouldn't mind what they're doing as much. At least then I'd be able to say they actually have SOME positive impact on PC gaming.
See no that would be a form of moneyhatting that would it look at least superficially good and pass some value on to the consumer to increase Goodwill, that's far too intelligent for the level Epic is operating at.
No.
There are a number of good ways they could have played this.
Valve has a "treat our customers fairly" rule, which would cover $40 vs $60 undoubtedly. Now, this doesn't appear to be particularly specified to mean setting end user price to be equal, so you could try to argue with them that "fair" means "I get $42" and set EGS price to $48, but you better lawyer up if you expect them to listen. Other stores may have, indeed, codified that they want the best end-user price. This can still be worked around, as presented by Humble and Nintendo (and maybe Ubisoft, not sure), implementing consumer loyalty programs to cut the price down a little - but only for returning consumers, so it's not an instant hook you're suggesting.
What they're doing here isn't either, quite the opposite. They're just burning bridges before they have even crossed them.
I feel like they'll gain quite a bit of traction if the Borderlands 3 rumors, that I posted above, were to occur.
I'm not arguing it is. But $40 vs $60 probably would - if Valve allowed to be so screwed.
