Installer Steam
connexion
|
langue
简体中文 (chinois simplifié)
繁體中文 (chinois traditionnel)
日本語 (japonais)
한국어 (coréen)
ไทย (thaï)
Български (bulgare)
Čeština (tchèque)
Dansk (danois)
Deutsch (allemand)
English (anglais)
Español - España (espagnol castillan)
Español - Latinoamérica (espagnol d'Amérique latine)
Ελληνικά (grec)
Italiano (italien)
Bahasa Indonesia (indonésien)
Magyar (hongrois)
Nederlands (néerlandais)
Norsk (norvégien)
Polski (polonais)
Português (portugais du Portugal)
Português - Brasil (portugais du Brésil)
Română (roumain)
Русский (russe)
Suomi (finnois)
Svenska (suédois)
Türkçe (turc)
Tiếng Việt (vietnamien)
Українська (ukrainien)
Signaler un problème de traduction
I understand you've had your fill of trolls or obnoxious people, and that sooner of later things would escalate.
It was decent of you releasing UC for free on steam. Kudos for that. Just like you did with the older titles.
Your move to make the patch available for the paid version only stings, but it's well withing your rights.
#sigh# Another day on the NET
I do hope however, that UC:ADV will come as a stand-alone to steam one day.
Cheers
It never crossed my mind to look at the review page since, frankly, a large number of reviewers are absolute cretins. Not all of them, mind you, but most of the stuff posted there is absolute dreck.
That is still the plan. That way, I know that only those interested in the series, will bother to pay for it in Early Access.
Exactly. Which is why I am only going to release the patch for them because anyone who is a fan of the series, won't mind paying for the game. After all, it's currently only $19.99
But the fixes and tweaks in the new patch will make the game even better and more enjoyable, so I think it's a fair and sound decision to save this update for the true supporters who enjoy the game as-is version enough and are into the genre enough to want to enhance it. Heck the free version will act as a teaser!
Can't wait for the update I'll have to dive deep into my dozens of emails and find that electronic receipt or nah I'll just buy the game again give you some well earned beer money, nobody expects you to work for free!
Keep up the good work
As an example, this person never posted a "review" before. He was banned from the forum yesterday, and immediately posted this review, which has now been flagged.
Correct me if I'm wrong but what was said in the review seems to be accurate. Announcing a patch and getting people's hopes up and then dashing those hopes is not appropriate, IMO.
That said...
Yes, you are right to think that saying that I was going to release a patch, then changing my mind is probably upsetting. However, this is a free game. I didn't promise anything, to anyone.
Most especially, I am not going to allocate resources (nobody does this for free) to patch a free game when we can't even get people - who btw are downloading and playing it in large numbers - to post reviews (good or bad). The number of people playing the game, totally outnumbers those who are not (and thus posted silly reviews).
I run two "for profit" companies, making various products. They are not charity. And everything comes at a price. Which is why I mentioned in a previous post that it is a two-way street.
Also, if you actually took the time to look at the v2.0 changelog[www.3000ad.com], you will see that this free release is NOT even the full game, like the paid version.
This means that releasing a patch, which has seemingly grown beyond what I had originally planned, means building, testing, patching, for not only the free Steam release, but also the various paid versions[www.3000ad.com] (which have DRM that also has to be patched and tested).
And the issues that I was planning on addressing in this patch, do not break the game's functionality in any way, shape or form. In fact, most, though annoying, have workarounds.
Even those that result in a crash, have a workaround; and one of those crashes (the docking with a foreign shuttle) isn't even supported in the game; and the only "fix" is to prevent you from doing it.
Aside from those, everything else are interface graphics glitches which don't break the game, nor take away from the experience in any way, shape or form. There are recent and newer games currently on the market with similar issues. And they are paid games.
Basically, there is no way that I would release a patch to a free release, and not release it for people who have PAID for the full game, and who continue to buy it.
And FYI, over the years, I have released free versions of various games[www.3000ad.com], and never went back to patch them.
Anyway, this morning I released a minor update that doesn't add/fix any functionality to the game.
Doing so will allow me to not only roll the patch into the non-Steam paid versions, but also allow the DLC to patch the free version.
So anyone who buys the DLC, will get the new campaign scenario, the full game (remember, the free version is NOT the full game like the paid versions) and the patch. The free non-Steam paid versions will only get the patch as planned, as I won't be releasing the DLC outside of Steam.
Doing this will bring both the Steam and non-Steam versions up to par; with the added bonus of the DLC paying for maintenance of the free Steam version.
What do you guys think?
Downvoted o/