Steam Greenlight Failure Leads Indie Dev To Torrent His Own Game
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And your point is?Micalas said:
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It's not that his game didn't get chosen that's the problem. It's the sheer randomness of the process, as illustrated by the standing rejection of his game while crap like Residue and a pre-release version of Turbo Dismount make the cut. And it's not the only one: Bret Airborne is another excellent game (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/04/25/born-three-bret-airborne-is-an-airship-match-3-rpg/ [http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/04/25/born-three-bret-airborne-is-an-airship-match-3-rpg/]) that's languished on Greenlight for more than a year. There just no sense to the system.Kahani said:
Yeah, I'm gonna go with everyone else and say that I have never, ever heard of this game. Not to mention, I went on reddit and the developer himself said:
No Let's Players wanted to play this because he would say it's a turn based game where you rotate the floor and get the gems. He said everyone just went "meh" and never learnt the true gem that the game was.
No, it just sounds like you designed a shitty mobile game, didn't market it AT ALL and had exactly one game mechanic: rotate.
This is where Greenlight works - something that no-one would buy or want wasn't published on steam.
No Let's Players wanted to play this because he would say it's a turn based game where you rotate the floor and get the gems. He said everyone just went "meh" and never learnt the true gem that the game was.
No, it just sounds like you designed a shitty mobile game, didn't market it AT ALL and had exactly one game mechanic: rotate.
This is where Greenlight works - something that no-one would buy or want wasn't published on steam.
Okay, you guys win - The Pirate Bay link is gone. Linking directly to the file wasn't an issue in terms of "promoting piracy," but I forgot that some of the ads on that site are a liiiiiitle bit sketchy.
Anyway, back to the actual conversation: No matter what you may think about an obscure little game from a dev you've never heard of, the fact is that there are plenty of them on Steam already, and plenty more getting approval with every new round. And that's the point: Not that his game isn't selling, but that the Greenlight service is overly capricious, almost to the point of randomness, which can be a serious problem for indie devs given Steam's absolute dominance of the digital market. Even Valve has acknowledged that Greenlight is becoming increasingly unworkable and needs to go - that's a tough position to argue against.
Anyway, back to the actual conversation: No matter what you may think about an obscure little game from a dev you've never heard of, the fact is that there are plenty of them on Steam already, and plenty more getting approval with every new round. And that's the point: Not that his game isn't selling, but that the Greenlight service is overly capricious, almost to the point of randomness, which can be a serious problem for indie devs given Steam's absolute dominance of the digital market. Even Valve has acknowledged that Greenlight is becoming increasingly unworkable and needs to go - that's a tough position to argue against.