Hornet
Supreme [H]ardness
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Has anyone ever stopped to think what this says to producers? It screams "We don't need to make a quality game, we just need to make something with neat screen shots or a quirky game play idea and people will buy it off steam if we put it on sale!"
Anyone buying shit on steam 'just because' is hurting the gaming community as a whole. Anyone can come up with some random idea, throw a game together, put it on steam for $30 bucks then on the next big sale discount it to $5 and make tons. Way more then that shit pile would normally merit. Large companies spend tons of money doing research, you think they haven't seen this?
Sure, if the company don't mind people buying their games only when its $5. That may apply for indie games, but then again no one expects indie games to have the same quality of a $60 game.
As far as AAA titles are concern, I'm sure most companies would prefer people buying their games on day one at $60 or $50. That's something they still have to work for. And I don't think it will be profitable for the bigger dev to drop their quality down to the indie level and sell their games at indie prices.