They will win in court if you sue them. The 2014 Kickstarter terms protects them.
I'm not sure taking a fat payday and then switching the product is the same thing as being unable to deliver the product as promised. I'm not a lawyer but I don't think a lawyer would have much trouble tearing that argument to shreds
The terms we agreed to, say
That last bullet point just kind of kills it.
There probably wasn't any money that changed hands here. That only happens much later if the games falls to sell a certain #.
Starlink makes sense for Steam, since they are probably desperately trying to liquidate all the physical toys off of store shelves. I doubt that Steam will be able to pick up many games that aren't reliant on physical merch.
From a legal perspective, each backing pledge creates a "contract" between the creator and backer, based off of the Kickstarter campaign page. If backers were promised a Steam key in the backer survey on Fangamer.com and/or the SlackerBacker campaign, I think that provides them some leeway to change platforms. But I'm not sure exactly how pledging on the SlackerBacker page really works, or if they covered their bases in the Terms of Service.
I wouldn't agree uPlay is stagnating at all
Urg please no.
I mean they allowed the people who pre-ordered Metro on Steam to have it there, so there is always a chance that they just give the keys to the backers.
They don't necessarily have to give Take2 some huge money bag, so much as they have to guarantee sales that are 20-30% lower than they would be on Steam.
It costs them nothing to give out Steam keys to backers. Issuing refunds would directly take money out of their bank account. I think they will find some way or another to give out Steam keys.
It's stalling for sure, but if they end up coming out with a statement like that, they would pretty much only be rebooting the anger.
I doubt that they would have issued this statement if they weren't completely sure that they could alter the deal at least for the Kickstarter backers. If they come back in a week and say "Nevermind, no refunds, you're all fucked" that would be insanity. They almost certainly have something up their sleeve, though I don't expect it will satisfy everyone.
Keeping quiet will get more journalists on their tail especially after Ys Net denying refunds. This is another application of bait and switch, promise that they will do something but keep quiet until the game release.
They didn't say they were going to do anything about it, they said they were going to assess the situation. Assessing does not mean fixing, they're not even admitting that anything is wrong.
Them communicating a second bait and switch will also get the press on them, as the E3 news cycle dies down.
No one can call out of the bait and switch since they didn't promise a date to decide. Next they will update that they are in the middle of a discussion. Then during the Epic launch, they drop the bad news.
Are people still hyped for RDR2 on PC? Me and my friend group just kinda don't care if it comes at this point.
If they do that, they would have to make it available for purchase generally on Steam, unless they could negotiate something with Valve.
