It would be an extremely risky strategy. The studio’s whole portfolio are offbeat shortforms (indeed one of the higher profile indie devs) and I don’t think getting banned from Steam and losing sales there was something they anticipated. Using this for publicity is plan B for damage control, never has been plan A.
please share your theory. also, why popularity matters.
sad that she was so regretful about her work in the end.
Good you don’t have any.
It already is a unique art form. This is not defined by the commercial availability, and this game wouldn’t be the first art piece that understands controversy as part of its essence.
What’s CSAM?
Stardew Valley totally would have taken staff and money if you can’t live in your parent’s house forever. edit: I didn’t want it to sound mean towards Barone, it’s great what his family did for him, but this game was made possible with a very strong support net – a luxury not many have.
Nominating EA for “worst company” always has been ridiculous. Gamers need to touch some grass.
Chatbots aren’t the worst use case, too, even though we are headed in a wrong direction.
like Comic Sans
legitimate use of a LLM
I’m not impressed by ripping off Pokemon and giving them machine guns. \s
well if there’d be a local digital game store for me that’s as good as GOG I’d exclusively buy there.
They ignored (legitimate) youth protection laws long enough, they could ignore this one, too.
weird revenge fetish
… or their disposable energy after working 10h and caring for the kids.
Sometimes if a game is available on GOG and Steam I choose Steam simply because I will play the game exclusively on the SteamDeck and there Steam’s eco system and UX is obviously better.
I don’t want to discredit Steam’s features like compatibility layers, but the software itself is a mess. It is an unnessecary RAM-heavy chromium instance, to be fair, just like most other launchers. I replaced it with Playnite which is streamlined, responsive and more feature rich for managing a library (Steam still needs to be installed of course because they don’t offer offline installer like GOG). And I’d argue that console user saren’t free of launcher, they are locked into a very specific one.
But as someone who’s neither been to Costco nor Walmart, what is the difference?
not always
Yes, as I said, plan B. Do you expect the studio to say “ok fuck it, let’s close up” when they projected a huge loss of sales after Steam denied their release?