Guess the long stretch of silence means....

[Nightmarian]

You're in deals with Epic games? Seems to be the trend now, especially since Epic forces that silence through NDA until the deal is done. Either that, or the game is dead, but little difference there for me.

Whelp, you had a great premise, I guess, and I'm sad to see you go, but there's a lot of games out there this year so meh my tears will dry.

[GamerWolfOps]

Originally posted by backohead74:

As long as you release on Steam, Im happy.

same this game looks promising.

[Player One]

Originally posted by ZAUM_Dani:

In the meantime, please do let us know what you'd like to see from us.

I think many here would like to see a straight up, yes or no answer on whether you plan on jumping ship to Epic Store?

[mm.324]

Originally posted by Jon:

Originally posted by ZAUM_Dani:

In the meantime, please do let us know what you'd like to see from us.

I think many here would like to see a straight up, yes or no answer on whether you plan on jumping ship to Epic Store?

Good question!

[clarkeveritas]

I'd still buy it either way- ESPECIALLY this game. This game looks like it could really be something special and i never really cared which launcher I used. I sure do hope this game surprises me with an early release date..... I want them to take as long as they need but I feel like I've been waiting for a while for this one.... I remember when it was called something about Furries. I'm guessing those are like Furbies, those little animal creatures, but not confirmed.

[jorg]

I really do hope this one manages to escape the clutches of EGS, and launches on Steam and/or GOG.

[Nightmarian]

Originally posted by jorg:

I really do hope this one manages to escape the clutches of EGS, and launches on Steam and/or GOG.

2020 is going to be a crazy year for Steam/GoG releases, and all of them are going to be so damn polished too! Mechwarrior 5 just went exclusive and Iron Harvest is strongly hinting at it, but will give GoG/Steam keys to anyone already in beta, so meh.

My only concern is that these boyz will try to come back home to Steam/GoG and offer their year-old games at full price.

Gonna be interesting to see what happens...

Not that it wil really matter. Cyberpunk, Bloodlines, and Baldur's Gate 3 coming out that year too so eh.

[jorg]

So Humble Bundle is no longer listed on the Steam page as a publisher... I seem to remember it being there before.
I'm not sure if that is a good sign, or a bad sign. I guess we might know tonight...
It kind of sucks that these days I actually cannot look forward to big game shows, as I mostly have to worry about which soon to be released game I'm looking forward to (or in some cases backed at a crowdfunding site) will be turned into an EGS exclusive...

[Carniflex]

There was an interview from May 2019 in French which was recently published on the developer web-page as English translation. There is one sentence which indicates that the currently planned release is "end of 2019".

There was closed beta early this year in Steam. So considering that a small number of people already have, supposedly, the game on Steam this makes an exclusivity deal with Epic somewhat unlikely in my opinion. Disco sure is a game of sufficient caliber to make Epic interested in my opinion. But with all the controversy on the Epic store going Epic exclusive would be like soiling oneself in my opinion - a warm feeling for a short time - but then it gets cold, wet and other people think you smell of urine.

I believe that after the early 2019 closed beta they just might have decided they needed more time to address all the stuff found and rather than burn themselves out by a unsustainably long sprint/crunch they might have done the hard decision of taking enough time to the needed things without killing their devs in the process.

Based on what I have seen so far - this is, in my opinion, one of the few gusts of fresh air in the genre in an otherwise bleak landscape of things doing same things with little to no fresh ideas. Getting it to the point where technical issues are not ruining the experience is the right decision, I think. I am sure looking forward for the release of this game. Whenever this happens.

[jorg]

Thanks for that info, I didn't know there was a closed beta earlier this year. The game does look like a breath of fresh air.

[Nightmarian]

Iron Harvest did the same (beta on Steam) and still had to fight to not be an EGS exclusive. All they could promise was that anyone that already had it on Steam would get to keep it on Steam (which obviously isn't the case here; you can't buy into beta/alpha).

They were adamant about not being able to promise anything else (and most people didn't even believe that promise as it smelled of trying to sell early access). What made it worse was that their publisher has made nearly every other one of their games an EGS exclusive.

They eventually announced not being exclusive, but we don't know whether it's because they fault or Epic simply laughed at their game; they refuse to comment about it.

My point is that we're sadly in a state that until you ACTUALLY HAVE THE GAME ON STEAM then you can't safely believe anyone - not even the devs.

Having a beta on steam does not exclude it from being an EGS exclusive as many other games like Metro Exodus show us. Likewise, they could very likely be approached weeks before release, again like Exodus, and swap gears.

Until you're playing it on Steam we're always going to be i doubt /shrug.

[ZAUM_Dani]

Hey all, we completely understand your concerns about where the game might be available at release and I just want to reassure you that it's definitely going to launch on Steam.

[jorg]

Originally posted by ZAUM_Dani:

Hey all, we completely understand your concerns about where the game might be available at release and I just want to reassure you that it's definitely going to launch on Steam.

Thanks for that, it's nice to hear something official! Your game looks great, and I hope that launch will happen in the not too distant future :)

[Cyber Moduled]

We're getting lists of achievements on SteamDB so the answer should be obvious at this point.

https://steamdb.info/app/632470/stats/

[dukecrom]

As much as I like the STEAM platform for the convenience it offers, I dislike the awful support, that it is impossible to change your STEAM user = login name and that they take 30% commission on games. So no wonder that devs/publisher are going to Epic.

[R2zi3l]

Originally posted by Sarevok:

Originally posted by dukecrom:

they take 30% commission on games.

It seems that not many people remember that Sony and Microsoft take 30 % as well

I thought it was 40% but yea I really don't understand why people who complain about steam's cut don't have a problem with sony/ms/nintendo taking a similar cut.