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Valve apologizes for ruining a Steam game's launch
(www.polygon.com)
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Damn, that's unfortunate. I'm glad Steam is cooperating though—a lot of platforms would try and bury this.
I hope this ends up being a blessing in disguise for them. Heart-wrenching to lose 10 years to a project and see little return because of a bug you're not even responsible for.
The article says that Valve is only going to make the game a Daily Deal for a single day. The polygon commenters have it right, why not make it a week?
Why not buy 138,000 copies, one for each user that wishlisted the game, and give those out gratis? At $15 per copy, that's only 2 million dollars. That's a pittance for a company the size of Valve. But that would give the devs money and time to improve the game post-launch, something they probably won't be able to do even if they take Valve's offer.
I think they should make it a daily deal, but not for a week. They should also eat the discount cost, which they apparently aren't doing, and entirely waive their cut.
What I think they should do instead of extending the deal, is reset the games launch.
There is absolutdly no reason Valve couldn't re-launch the game, along with all the algoritm benefits an unbugged 1.0 launch should have had.
Also, you seem to have missed that the article says they are contractually obligated to complete their current WIP game. Valve giving them a bunch of money would not give them time to work on further updates for Planet Centauri before then.
Ah, I did miss that part of the article. My mistake.
Based on recent Steam reviews, it seems to actually be pretty buggy, and the Mixed review score doesn't bode well for it anyway.
They meant the issue with steam, not game bugs.