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Steam：Immortal Darkness: Curse of The Pale King
https://store.steampowered.com/app/868060/Immortal_Darkness_Curse_of_The_Pale_King/
Immortal Darkness: Curse of The Pale King
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The game was on Steam since 2018. They've done bug fixes and improvements, but not for the Steam version. Why wouldn't you put those on Steam for the people who bought the game?
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Probably costs more money than they make to maintain it on Steam?
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well the dev is retiring and I guess they don't want to give false hope that the game will be updated again.
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Probably because there was no point for them to support a version they weren't selling anymore on steam anyways. Like so what if there were updates, if no one else could get the game? They'd have to go reactivate the purchases, then go through some sort of approval process with steam to make it free to play, pay the fees for that, etc. and who knows if steam likes that considering it has no way of generating any revenue.
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Yeah I saw from the article below, said he retired and that's why he removed it from steam, since the author himself said it, its basically the definitive answer.
I just figured if they were gonna do that anyway, it would be easier to just post it somewhere else and make whatever changes somewhere else rather than go through steam every time.
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I mean you're not wrong that paid customers might feel cheated since they paid for it and they got abandoned, but as a customer, you technically could always get the updated free version from his website. Maybe that's part of his strategy.
I'm also not sure how he pushes out bug fixes, maybe there were issues with him removing everything from steam to upload the updated version, since I think the way he sends out bug fixes seems to be by sending out a whole new release rather than updating specific files. He might have had trouble with that or just didn't want to do the whole process again.
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Yes, as a customer I could do that. But that also means that I always have an eye on the game. And one advantage of Steam is the automated update procedure, so that I don't have to keep an eye on the game or if there is another version of it.
This would be an explanation, but there were updates in the past for the Steam version - at least sixteen, so Steam updates seem to work.
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they retired this game from Steam last year https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/868060/view/3640627050778752379
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I know, I read it. There's been improvements and bug fixes that are on website version that weren't applied to the Steam version.
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No point in supporting a version that new users can't download. Why would they make the steam version amazing if it's no longer purchasable or downloadable for new users? I can totally understand if they thought steam's 30% share was too much. I too don't think steam does that much, kind of like fortnite avoiding apple fees and removing the game from all apple devices. Apple taking 30% seems okay at first, but when you think of a bigger picture like when a game generates hundreds of millions or billions in revenue, there's no way the company that takes 30% did hundreds of millions of work to sustain it just to allow a download on their platform.
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Why? For the people who already purchased the game.
It's not like it was removed from sale years ago, it was last month. The game has been selling on the store since 2018 and the last update was in 2019. If you're a developer why wouldn't you want to provide these things for the people who bought the game?
I'm not sure what Steam's 30% has to do with pulling the game and updating it as it's free on the website.
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I'm guessing he pushes updates by basically uploading the whole full game again with the fixes in it, and he might've just had troubles or difficulty deleting and uploading everything again, but doing it on his own server it's probably pretty easy.
Regarding the 30%, I think in the article he claims to have been a game dev since like 1989 or for like 40 years or something, however, this is the only game he had listed on steam in his entire career, unless he used other aliases of course. I think he also said this project was his biggest one or the one he was most proud of. But yeah I'm just guessing, I mean why else would someone not push updates to steam but give updates to their own site version, either steam gave them trouble, it wasn't worth the money, they didn't like the steam cut, had other expectations of steam and steam didn't deliver, etc. It doesn't make sense for someone going into retirement to keep working on the project afterwards somewhere else but ignore steam, steam just wasn't worth it to him vs his own website. Maybe he's trying to target a specific audience looking for his game.
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Thanks for the link!
I certainly understand the author's labor of love and wanting to share it being more important than being paid. The only copies of my book of poetry that "sold" were copies that I gave away. It will probably be the same if I ever manage to finish a labor of love game of my own - I am already "old" and just getting started.
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