Pitchford's prediction that Steam could be "a dying store" have not come to pass.
  • @Val@lemm.eeEnglish
    2•4 months ago

    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@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•4 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.