No longer for sale?

[Umbreon™]

Just realized that neither this game or the original strike vector are no longer up for sale on Steam, but the store page remains. Also all steam items related to these two games aren't marketable anymore, so I can't even complete my badge without trying to trade with people or crafting the booster packs.

[decizion]

this is a sad news indeed.

[Dark Sun Gwyndolin]

A real shame, I just now decided I was finally going to buy it and it's been delisted. Guess I'll get Sublevel Zero instead.

[Killy.MXI]

Got an official message:
https://www.facebook.com/StrikeVector/posts/3193731884040754
I find it explaining nothing and also disregarding for the community.
Why they always kept this distancing tone despite being indie devs?
For me, it is one of the causes of the failure in the first place.

[Umbreon™]

Nguyên văn bởi Killy.MXI:

Got an official message:
https://www.facebook.com/StrikeVector/posts/3193731884040754
I find it explaining nothing and also disregarding for the community.
Why they always kept this distancing tone despite being indie devs?
For me, it is one of the causes of the failure in the first place.

Well that's kinda sad. The only thing I can get out of that post is that they were basically not working on anything related to the studio anymore and it was just a matter of time for them to have to close up everything. They should have made a warning beforehand though, but with how this post was written it's like they didn't even have the communication to do that.

[xisailuo]

can't find steam key

[Killy.MXI]

The game was never available in any way other than direct-to-library purchase from Steam.
So there were no bundle keys or anything like that.

I understand it won't help most of people here, but for a time being the game still available on PS4.

[livinghell]

should have discounted it before closing the studio, so as much people as possible see their work. Instead locked in "Steam Limbo" forever as no key available.

[Killy.MXI]

Yep. Devs kept true to their habit to mishandle everything.

[Umbreon™]

Nguyên văn bởi livinghell:

should have discounted it before closing the studio, so as much people as possible see their work. Instead locked in "Steam Limbo" forever as no key available.

They also could have done something I've seen out of some developers that drop their games, which is just making it F2P and hosting a separate download. There's quite a bit they could have done better but I guess they were just that unorganized.

[lnxpnk]

Jeez. I just got this game the other day. Gameplay is amazing, really engaging. Idk if I should refund, there still are 2 servers online, but idnk for how long.

Never played this online, just got it a couple of days back and was doing the campaign.

[Umbreon™]

Nguyên văn bởi lnxpnk:

Jeez. I just got this game the other day. Gameplay is amazing, really engaging. Idk if I should refund, there still are 2 servers online, but idnk for how long.

Never played this online, just got it a couple of days back and was doing the campaign.

It depends. If you're fine playing this for just a few more hours before putting it in the shelf until you feel like replaying, then go ahead and keep it. It's basically only good for the campaign now.
I wouldn't look forward to playing on the community servers or something with how it's mostly just veterans playing this game.

[Killy.MXI]

Nguyên văn bởi lnxpnk:

Jeez. I just got this game the other day. Gameplay is amazing, really engaging. Idk if I should refund, there still are 2 servers online, but idnk for how long.

Never played this online, just got it a couple of days back and was doing the campaign.

FYI, all the servers SVEX ever had are community servers.
And one of the goals for SVEX development was to be fully functional without maintaining any infrastructure, so it mostly relies on P2P rooms handled by Valve instead.
It's a shame the game was removed from store anyway for completely different reasons.

The game becoming unobtainable by new players means the community will be only reducing from now on. We will be figuring out how to deal with the new circumstance.

(Even thinking of refunding a good and unobtainable game seems wrong to me.)

[BlackHole]

I wanted to buy this game, so I waited for sale. And now what, torrent????

[Mercenary Orange]

so...is this game abandonware or something now?

[Killy.MXI]

Ragequit Corporation (developer company) was closed, so there is no operating company behind the IP now.
This fits the definition of abandonware. And we had a word from developers, essentially confirming this status. Unless another company show up and decide to pick up the IP.

At the same time, the game still seems to be available for purchase on PS4 while it shouldn't. So not a complete unobtanium yet.
This is probably due to difficulties to communicate with Sony.
Kinda ironic how it can't even be shutdown properly.

Community still exists. I have some sort of plan where to move from current situation, but due to limited resources it might take a long time before we will be able to announce anything.