www.gematsu.com
Good for them but pretty lame for who just got the digital version instead. Wish I knew about that so I would have got the PS4 physical version and got the PC version for free...
I think we all would have wished we'd known back in February that the world was going to end in a month or so, but of the available options this seems like the best way to proceed.
The point is that it isn't fair for who had the foresight to avoid the physical version other then the fact that not everyone have a PC, so ppl will just sell those Steam keys for cheap, in this way Platinum are not making happy the people that wanted to play the game on console anyway and at same time they are diminishing the value of the PC digital version since those backers have bought at full price something that will be sold for much less on ebay in few days.
I mean this is their first self-published title and figuring out a solution that would make everyone happy is pretty much impossible. Fact is you are getting what you paid for and the people that dont get what they paid for get something to make up for it.
Not the same thing, you have to buy a 300€+ GPU for having those games, and even by sold them on ebay you need to have the same exact card for reedem them so no, they doesn't diminsh the value of their games by getting paid by AMD and Nvidia for but those games on expensive GPUs, totally different solution.
The game has 33K backers, a good 10K of which only ordered the digital version. Of the remaining 23K, even if 10% sell their keys on Ebay (a percentage I highly, highly doubt) that's nowhere near enough supply to flood the used market and drive down the price. 2,300 keys out there is nothing, even for a smaller developer like Platinum.
Steam gives out extra keys to devs for free while I believe Sony and Nintendo still require their 30% cut to generate keys. I don't know the second part for sure, but that's how I understand it.
Same, my laptop is nowhere near powerful enough to run this so it's basically useless for me.
Consoles charge developers to generate codes. Steam codes are (more or less) free to generate.
A very often overlooked feature of Steam/PC gaming that people either aren't aware of or can't grasp.
Ah, I see. Makes sense then. I don't really have an issue waiting considering the state of the world at the moment, just curious why this route was taken.
I'm a digital-only PC backer.
I'm not treating any KS like that, THIS KS was just a marketed pre-order and they have admit it:
www.gematsu.com
Saw the email the other day - I'm hyped!
Did you try e-mailing them or using Kickstarter's private massaging system?
