My guess is as a result of their deal with Epic, they are going back on their distribution agreement as the game will never be distributed on Steam. Who knows, this is uncharted territory and I'm guessing special considerations would have to be made if Deep Silver even attempted to approach Valve about this, but I see zero reason Valve would want to be amicable in this scenario.
Oh FFS. EGS isn't a platform, PC is a platform.
Thanks, I changed my pledge to PS4 since they aren't doing refunds.
The same thing that stops them from taking your money and retiring to Brazil never to be heard from again. Which is to say there's nothing stopping them.
He's also over 60 years old. He may not have been planning on crowdfunding another game before retiring
when you have to tell people that you don't want their money, in the way they want to give it to you, and they start talking about pirating a product they would normally buy
The whole article just reeks of greed while wishing they could pull it under the rug. Its clear to me that deep silver are the ones who are at the center of this issue because they are the ones wishing to ignore the luggage they got with a kickstarted game. What a bunch of assholes
I don't know why Valve even leaves the store pages up for games that take Epic's money. They're just giving them a free forum and community hub to use for a year.
Especially when you use the platform they would have bought it on to communicate it, days after denying the same people what they paid for four years after they legitimately handed you an interest free advance for it.
Yeap, they should make a policy that if a game gets time exlusive on different store, then game page doesn't go up till close to release on Steam.
It was mentioned here and the poster was rightfully banned (albeit temporarily) for it.
I was more talking about DS mentioning it on Steam. I don't think I've seen discourse regarding piracy of S3 until I saw the screencap of that post. It's so weird.
I mentioned it earlier, but it's barely been 24hrs and I'm guessing they mentioned it during E3 so it would hopefully blow over. With any luck the it being during E3 might even amplify it.
eh
I very rarely see piracy discussed as an alternative to epic games store stuff on here or the steam discussion pages (bannable on both)
They should absolutely draw a line in the sand here and tell Deep Silver to deal with this themselves. That's the second time this happens.
Steam allows this though. Any dev can generate keys and sell them elsewhere.
Ys Net likes to "think" and "discuss" but never do things when there's issue.
Steam Keys (Steamworks Documentation)
partner.steamgames.com
Relevant portion:
My guess is as a result of their deal with Epic, they are going back on their distribution agreement as the game will never be distributed on Steam. Who knows, this is uncharted territory and I'm guessing special considerations would have to be made if Deep Silver even attempted to approach Valve about this, but I see zero reason Valve would want to be amicable in this scenario.
I think I mentioned it earlier, but that's the sort of thing most Kickstarters would discuss via their backers and not through the publisher. That leads me to believe it's more on Deep Silver/Epic than YsNet (though I don't think it absolves them).
I think the general idea is that they allow that if you also distribute it on the steam store. Which makes sense, people would abuse the system otherwise.
Can I get a link to the EGS Game Forum thread?
I hope Valve prepared a tag, moneyhat for this special occasion. Steam users need to recognise this kind of developers.Steam Keys (Steamworks Documentation)
Relevant portion:
My guess is as a result of their deal with Epic, they are going back on their distribution agreement as the game will never be distributed on Steam. Who knows, this is uncharted territory and I'm guessing special considerations would have to be made if Deep Silver even attempted to approach Valve about this, but I see zero reason Valve would want to be amicable in this scenario.
Probably for positive pr for steam as being "above the fray"
