"... My life doesn't revolve around mere video games."

Yeah, a game developer whose "life doesn't revolve around mere videogames" will never make a decent game.

well :D

I think that the reason is not critics, but new refunding feature. If it's works like refunding in AppStore and Google Play (the developer returns full price, the store keeps it's cut - the reason is that they have expenses for keep item in shop, download trafic, bank transfers and etc... and they are not responsible for developers fails... also developers are more careful what they relise and quality is better), then developer can lose a lot of money... and this can make him very angry... He made a bad game to milk the community, but now the comunity strikes back :)

I agree with him. The Steam community is full of entitled children. If a game is not perfect in every possible way then the community will bash it until the developers give them what they want to quiet them down, or the developer either abandons the game or removes it.

A good example of how bad the community would be these threads. The developer had enough and shut the game down but instead of letting it be the community shifts into this uproar of thread posting and makes a thousand threads of the same topic to continue bashing a game that is now gone.

I feel sorry mostly for the people who obtain games from bundles and still have the balls to bash the game in forums knowing they payed a whole 10-20 cents for it, and they probably didn't even buy the bundle for that specific game in the first place.

I will agree that some developers are just in it for the money but it doesn't change the fact that they are still normal people with a day job like some of us here. How would you like to get yelled at and name called all day long by the public while you worked? After a while you would get sick of it and quit your job.

You can go right now to ANY game forum on Steam and you will see nothing but threads about people complaining. Even if the game has great reviews people will find something to hate on. I think forums for free 2 play games are the worst because you'll find 200+ threads saying the game is "pay 2 win" (I hate that term the most). People with 0.1 hours on record complain the most about games from what I have learned.

Bottom line is, if the community was positive and patient chances are the developer will be too. But good luck ever getting the Steam community to do that. People need to learn that most of us are like mirrors, if you give us the finger we'll give the finger right back but if you put on a smile then we also smile right back.

He posted thread from his gaming account instead of dev alt one... bad mistake.

Another developer? Let's see the rest! This was very entertaining.

Hello everyone,

Someone from our audience pointed me here.
I own and operate DailyIndieGame (where Dark Base 01 is currently bundled) and also I am an indie developer who has games published on STEAM before the whole Greenlight thing (when you actually had to deliver quaity and proven games).

I usually spend time around communities so here is my 2 cents on this.

• One line comments like: "this sucks" and a downvote is in no way criticism. Personally I never liked GTA. Would I bash that game? Absolutely not. It's a great game but it's just not my kind of game.

• As for taking criticism, one thing I always did with my games is to gather a community of trusted fans and release them early builds to play as we develop. Kind of like Early Access, but we were doing this 10 years ago. Most of those people are still around for over 10 years now.

I will never be able to to make our games and products satisfy everyone's wishes, but I will do my best.

When we opened DailyIndieGame we got a chance to see how it is on the other side of the fence. Being a publisher.

A lot of people come to make games for money and fame. I always get these questions: How much money did you make?
Whatever happened to making games for the love of it?

When we released our games on STEAM, I think STEAM was about 4 times smaller in terms of users than today.
And we made 20x time more money in our first month than the average new indie release does now, on a 4-5 times bigger market.
Quality must have gone down a lot since then.

I own badrats. there's no option for me there.

Steam Community gives, Steam Community takes.

Some idiot made a shitty game and now he's mad because people don't like it? I'm so happy refund system finally works, people can refund shitty games. I don't understand people who buy such games. Yeah if you got it from the bundle or if you're a game collector it's understandable, but why people are buying it directly from steam?

At now his reputation as a game developer is dead.
To all game developer take him as a example. Don't complain about the community and just improved your game.

I don't get it, he removed the game from the store to not see more reviews there. But in theory people who purchased it, can still play the last version, or the dev can completely remove it without compensation to owners???
In the other hand there are tons of other sites where anyone can review the game, and of course metacrituc...
Alsi the entire market press will make fun of the dev. So where's the point???

Browse the page in all it's glory.

Hmm, game gives an Uncaught node.js Error now for me, it was working fine the other day. Wonder if it had a trashing patch sent to it, or if this old machine just can't run it right (not my personal computer). I'll have to check when I get home again.

To be frank, we are kind of shit.

This is another product of Greenlight. People need to stop voting for everything just to get free keys.

The devs of this game should learn from the Uriel's Chasm devs. They literally don't give a fcuk about criticism and keep creating game.

Your two choices for the poll are a lot of crap and make you look just as bad as the Steam community you are calling full of assholes.

One ideea I had, (and I will forward it to Valve) is to allow people to vote for a Greenlight game only if they played it for at least 30 minutes.
This would however involve the Greenlight games being available through the STEAM client.

That should solve 99% of problems.

Awful game, I was going to write a review after I finished getting the cards, but there is no point now.

Jim Sterling already wrote a review about it.
And reddit users also noticed it.

Still a better game than Grass Simulator.

I surelly dont agree with giving BS to MOST of the devs but then they should grow a thick skin like every other denizen