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Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] Duamerthrax 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes. It's not like you can't even buy linux games on it. It was some jumping through hoops, but if you buy Factorio on GoG, you can get the linux version.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wube (creators of Factorio) have the best customer policy in game development.

Don't go on sale so you will always pay the cheapest price.
if you have the game on steam you can download a DRM-free version directly from their website. (alongside all old versions)
Encourage the community to create mods, host your own mod portal accessible inside the game.
Make a good game.
Be open about game development through monthly blog posts.

The only way I would like it more is if the game was open source but since that's impossible to sell I will take this.

[–] Duamerthrax 1 points 3 months ago

I don't view games as needing to be open source as the end users doesn't need them to be productive in work. They aren't a part of a productivity pipeline and the discontinue of a game's support or radical change in fuction can't throw a person's livelihood into jeopardy.

Games should have a plan to release the source and assets if support ever gets dropped and I believe that it should be a requirement if a games gets to enjoy copyright protects that there's a plan for when it enters public domain, but that's a different discussion.