quote="Marv666" post="7.377755.14746784"]I think it would have been really silly for anybody to ever expect EA to do the kind of sales that steam does. Steam is able to do them for the same reason places like walmart and target can. When they put stuff on sale its not them that is eating the difference its the guys who made the product. EA on the other hand is the guy who paid to make the product.
The problem with steam sales is that they do hurt developers. Because of steam sales more people are willing to wait till the game goes on sale to buy it. Because of this you get less sales within the first couple months. Now this forces developers/publishers to agree to put there games on sale on steam just to make up the lost money. This leads to more people wanting to wait to buy games on sale. This leads to a never ending cycle of steam making tons of money and fucking over everybody who created the games.
It is different for small time indie developers though since they cant afford to advertise their games. They are forced to take a massive cut in profits just to get their game known.
Marv666, I realize I'm reaching here but I'll say it, were you hired by EA? No if you have share Marv's opinon that doesn't put you on EA's payroll just please hear me out Ex EA employee's have admitted to creating accounts on EA's and other gaming sites forums largely to act as a sort of counterbalance to all of the inevitable negativity as well as hoping to sway some people to their way of thinking by posing as a "random passerby" instead of a largely faceless conglomerate. I bring this up because simply pu, if developers were getting shanked in any way by steam sales, they would ***** about it, developers these days seem to love bitching about things they don't like so imagining all the major studios and even the indie ones keeping mum about steam seems absurd. Hell there have been tales of how steam saved studios from bankruptcy (most famously the developer of Amnesia the dark descent) as well as how every time studios (for a while including EA) were asked about steams policies and how well it worked for them it was nothing but positive things. All in all Steam doesn't devalue games, GOG stays competitive by offering generally cheap prices (with the occasional sale) with additional goodies, Origin stays in business by having money and titles funneled through it by EA.
The problem with steam sales is that they do hurt developers. Because of steam sales more people are willing to wait till the game goes on sale to buy it. Because of this you get less sales within the first couple months. Now this forces developers/publishers to agree to put there games on sale on steam just to make up the lost money. This leads to more people wanting to wait to buy games on sale. This leads to a never ending cycle of steam making tons of money and fucking over everybody who created the games.
It is different for small time indie developers though since they cant afford to advertise their games. They are forced to take a massive cut in profits just to get their game known.
Luckily though nearly every single one of your complains can be solved by not talking out of your ass and instead learning something about the situations.[/quote]Treblaine said:
Marv666, I realize I'm reaching here but I'll say it, were you hired by EA? No if you have share Marv's opinon that doesn't put you on EA's payroll just please hear me out Ex EA employee's have admitted to creating accounts on EA's and other gaming sites forums largely to act as a sort of counterbalance to all of the inevitable negativity as well as hoping to sway some people to their way of thinking by posing as a "random passerby" instead of a largely faceless conglomerate. I bring this up because simply pu, if developers were getting shanked in any way by steam sales, they would ***** about it, developers these days seem to love bitching about things they don't like so imagining all the major studios and even the indie ones keeping mum about steam seems absurd. Hell there have been tales of how steam saved studios from bankruptcy (most famously the developer of Amnesia the dark descent) as well as how every time studios (for a while including EA) were asked about steams policies and how well it worked for them it was nothing but positive things. All in all Steam doesn't devalue games, GOG stays competitive by offering generally cheap prices (with the occasional sale) with additional goodies, Origin stays in business by having money and titles funneled through it by EA.
