I get it with some of these deals. Some others are done by the publisher (Outer Worlds, Metro Exodus etc) and I doubt devs see any benefit from that deal. What I don't like is the attittude of the devs of Ooblets, instances where they bought out exclusivity from Kickstarted games and subsequently didn't deliver what they promised or journalists painting any issue people have re this topic as toxic gamer bullshit.
I was in that Ooblets thread and I bailed because it got too toxic, but I'll reiterate what I said there here.
The devs did not paint anyone disappointed with their decision as toxic people.
They painted toxic people as toxic people for behaving toxicly.
If you're not responding to their decision with toxic behaviour, then they're not talking about you, and if you think you are being spoken to, then perhaps some reflection is order.
We all understand why developers take those deals. However, it is important to point out that understanding doesn't mean acceptance or endorsement. I can both understand why you made a decision and be completely opposed to it because your interests clash with mine.
Absolutely.
These devs are not owed support for their decisions.
All I'm saying is that I wish the discourse wasn't so tribal and toxic.
Posters were rather supportive of the Ooblets angle of needing the money and kept to to the very reasonable "I'll wait for the Steam release" until they read the entirety of the blog post and then later on the devs discord posts. That's when things got heated.
The blog post wasn't great, but would you rather that or boilerplate corporate speak statement.
I'm not saying this applies to you, but so many people complain about PR releases in the industry, but then whenever developers speak, they risk getting torn a new one just for not laying things out as gracefully as they should.
It's not like the Ooblets devs didn't empathise with people that didn't like the decision. That's not what the wording of their statement suggests at all.
I don't use EGS. I don't like Epics way of business and yet I also understand why developers ( less so publishers ) take the deals. Stability is good! It's a tough industry.
I have never wished anything but the best for them that take the deals it just hurts that I don't matter as a customer of said products
The lastest one that I felt a sting directly was Mechwarrior but I never had a go at the Devs.
It just sucks I now have to wait and it sucks that Devs are allowed to act condensing towards me for not agreeing with them.
I sympathise, I really do, but look at it from the dev's perspective on this in terms of what's at stake for them.