It’s a familiar buying habit for many of us. A game you’ve - TopicsExpress



          

It’s a familiar buying habit for many of us. A game you’ve been interested in for a while goes on Steam at 50% the original price, and you and thousands of others snap it up instantly. For many of us, Steam sales, Humble Bundles and deals on PSN and Xbox Live are the most affordable ways to buy games, and it seems like a win-win. We get cheap games, whilst the developers get a large - sometimes vast - increase to their normal revenue. But indie developer Jason Rohrer - who is behind the indie hit Inside A Star-Filled Sky, and who is currently working on massively multiplayer home defense game The Castle Doctrine - has hit back at the sheer number and magnitude of Steam sales, predicting that whilst they might seem universally beneficial in the short term, they will have more damaging long-term consequences both for devs and gamers… game-debate/news/?news=10949&game=The%20Castle%20Doctrine&title=Indie%20Dev%20Jason%20Rohrer%20Hits%20Out%20At%20Steam%20Sales%20As%20Bad%20For%20Fans
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:40:00 +0000

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