Could Steam please take an interest in old Amiga games

[8-The-General-8]

Been perusing gog and the focus is mainly prepackaged dos emulator games, I am pretty sure?

I miss some Amiga titles such as :

Original Pirates!
Overlord
The Battle of Britain
Lords of the Rising Sun
Blood Money

Various games for sure.

Found a few publishers on Steam for a few classic Amiga titles but none of the great ones...

Emulators are tricky as at times... I would pay 5 bucks at least, hands down, for a *working* classic Amiga game for convenience of play.


I hope Steam can consider endeavouring into this.

Any advice on getting above titles to enjoy again I would appreciate greatly.

Thanks!

[rawWwRrr]

Steam... doesn't put games on the platform unless they're Valve's. They don't just throw games onto Steam that they like. The games' IP owners need to make that decision.

[8-The-General-8]

rawWwRrr の投稿を引用：

Steam... doesn't put games on the platform unless they're Valve's. They don't just throw games onto Steam that they like. The games' IP owners need to make that decision.

Hmm well Gog is making a killing on Syndicate series for sure. Seems to me that IP's can be negotiated with. Better to earn something when conveniently offered to a customer base than get nothing from skilled silence.

Valve only takes 30% last I heard...

Thanks for reply

[Brian9824]

8-The-General-8 の投稿を引用：

rawWwRrr の投稿を引用：

Steam... doesn't put games on the platform unless they're Valve's. They don't just throw games onto Steam that they like. The games' IP owners need to make that decision.

Hmm well Gog is making a killing on Syndicate series for sure. Seems to me that IP's can be negotiated with. Better to earn something when conveniently offered to a customer base than get nothing from skilled silence.

Valve only takes 30% last I heard...

Thanks for reply

Gog really isn't making a killing at all, thier store even lost money last year and they recently had to lay off a chunk of their staff..... Other years they might only make a profit of 1-2 million..

Valve makes billions a year...

[8-The-General-8]

brian9824 の投稿を引用：

8-The-General-8 の投稿を引用：

Hmm well Gog is making a killing on Syndicate series for sure. Seems to me that IP's can be negotiated with. Better to earn something when conveniently offered to a customer base than get nothing from skilled silence.

Valve only takes 30% last I heard...

Thanks for reply

Gog really isn't making a killing at all, thier store even lost money last year and they recently had to lay off a chunk of their staff..... Other years they might only make a profit of 1-2 million..

Valve makes billions a year...

ok, sorry.... Was expecting a response like this. About to buy ten games later today from them anyway.

They should maybe endeavour into Amiga titles as well?

[Haruspex]

The Amiga was pretty great in hindsight, but it did a lot better in Britain than in the states. Most Americans are more familiar with DOS as their first computing platform for games, and Steam is a US based company.

You can find the DOS counterparts to some of these classics here, like;

https://store.steampowered.com/app/327380/Sid_Meiers_Pirates_Gold_Plus_Classic/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/326590/Cinemaware_Anthology_19861991/
(Can choose between DOS and Amiga. LOTRS is there, as well as the classic Defender of the Crown.)

Valve doesn't really scout out for games and offer the owners to release it on Steam. Instead they just sort of leave the platform open to anyone who wants to publish. This means it would be up to the IP holders to take an interest in releasing on Steam, rather than the other way around. Some of these old games can get complicated as to who even owns the rights anymore, after several acquisitions occur.

[8-The-General-8]

8bitbeard の投稿を引用：

The Amiga was pretty great in hindsight, but it did a lot better in Britain than in the states. Most Americans are more familiar with DOS as their first computing platform for games, and Steam is a US based company.

You can find the DOS counterparts to some of these classics here, like;

https://store.steampowered.com/app/327380/Sid_Meiers_Pirates_Gold_Plus_Classic/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/326590/Cinemaware_Anthology_19861991/
(Can choose between DOS and Amiga. LOTRS is there, as well as the classic Defender of the Crown.)

Valve doesn't really scout out for games and offer the owners to release it on Steam. Instead they just sort of leave the platform open to anyone who wants to publish. This means it would be up to the IP holders to take an interest in releasing on Steam, rather than the other way around. Some of these old games can get complicated as to who even owns the rights anymore, after several acquisitions occur.

(Can choose between DOS and Amiga. LOTRS is there, as well as the classic Defender of the Crown.)
wtf? how? lol!

[Pierce Dalton]

Things work the other way around. The game devs/pubs ask to put their games here, so the best thing you can do is press them to make their games available on Steam.

[Brian9824]

8-The-General-8 の投稿を引用：

brian9824 の投稿を引用：

Gog really isn't making a killing at all, thier store even lost money last year and they recently had to lay off a chunk of their staff..... Other years they might only make a profit of 1-2 million..

Valve makes billions a year...

ok, sorry.... Was expecting a response like this. About to buy ten games later today from them anyway.

They should maybe endeavour into Amiga titles as well?

There are millions of games in the world, steam isn't going to chase them down and try to negotiate. Developers know about steam. If they feel there is money to be made they will list them. The cold hard facts are that the work involved for some of those older games often isn't worth it.

if you really want it then contact the developers they are the only ones that can make it happen

[8-The-General-8]

Pierce Dalton の投稿を引用：

Things work the other way around. The game devs/pubs ask to put their games here, so the best thing you can do is press them to make their games available on Steam.

Suggestions?

[Start_Running]

8-The-General-8 の投稿を引用：

rawWwRrr の投稿を引用：

Steam... doesn't put games on the platform unless they're Valve's. They don't just throw games onto Steam that they like. The games' IP owners need to make that decision.

Hmm well Gog is making a killing on Syndicate series for sure.

I'd hardly call three games (only one of which was actually good) a series. And no they really aren't killing it. Certainly there *is* a market for those games but it's pretty niche yet.

At the end of the day it is up to rthe license holders as to whether they put their games up for sale.. assuming the license holders even know they have the license.

[8-The-General-8]

brian9824 の投稿を引用：

8-The-General-8 の投稿を引用：

ok, sorry.... Was expecting a response like this. About to buy ten games later today from them anyway.

They should maybe endeavour into Amiga titles as well?

There are millions of games in the world, steam isn't going to chase them down and try to negotiate. Developers know about steam. If they feel there is money to be made they will list them. The cold hard facts are that the work involved for some of those older games often isn't worth it.

if you really want it then contact the developers they are the only ones that can make it happen

95% of games aren't worth playing.

That leaves uhm... some serious number to play still : )

[Start_Running]

8-The-General-8 の投稿を引用：

brian9824 の投稿を引用：

There are millions of games in the world, steam isn't going to chase them down and try to negotiate. Developers know about steam. If they feel there is money to be made they will list them. The cold hard facts are that the work involved for some of those older games often isn't worth it.

if you really want it then contact the developers they are the only ones that can make it happen

95% of games aren't worth playing.

That leaves uhm... some serious number to play still : )

And the problem is no two people on the planet will agree on what the 5% is.

[8-The-General-8]

hehehehe I disagree

Anyway, as much insight as you fellas have given me there is still the question.

Can we please get Amiga old real classics on Steam. And, according to responses, how does one approach a publisher/developer to get it to happen?

Battle of Britain would be awesome... Gosh, that was a game and a half. I don't care about graphics... Any modern day game with physics et. al. DCS whatever, have not approached the campaign play of that game and possibly never will.

Prove me wrong at present and I will buy that Tomcat dlc ...

[Brian9824]

You can start by emailing them, but honestly there isn't much you can do. Most of the time those old games just aren't worth the hassle.

I mean to make them work on steam they have to emulate them anyways. I mean they aren't going to rewrite the code to work on modern machines.

[8-The-General-8]

brian9824 の投稿を引用：

You can start by emailing them, but honestly there isn't much you can do. Most of the time those old games just aren't worth the hassle.

I mean to make them work on steam they have to emulate them anyways. I mean they aren't going to rewrite the code to work on modern machines.

There are many old game offers on Steam and I presume they have a dos box emulator included.

The price point is usually high. Fair enough if that nostalgic I suppose. As long as it works, many reviews prove contrary...

Finding a current licence holder could be like finding a needle in an haystack.

I just hope they are alive or their descendants and can maybe see this or similar threads and make passive bank...