They have 30+ bundles listed at the moment and I’m sure some of them are great but I’ve unsubscribed from their notifications, they’ve lost some focus and quality control from when each bundle was a notable event.
You can still customize it, but it has hard minimum at what I think is $7. The old humble had no minimum at all. They also deceptively set the “default” cost 1 tier above the actual “get all the items” cost for bundles. A very irritating and obvious dark pattern.
Just IGN brutalizing a beloved name in gaming via enshittification to make its money back.
I think they’d already lost their way a long while before that.
They started as indies grouping together to get visibility, at a time when Steam still curated every game and accepted maybe 4 games a month (yeah, hard to imagine today. It’s still hard to be noticed, but for the opposite reason). Back then they distributed only DRM-free games too, with eventually a Steam key option.
At some point they opened their own store and started including big publisher games, and really became just another store, and mostly a key store too. They spew some bullshit about not being specifically a DRM-free store, but really “DRM-agnostic”. “We don’t restrict publishers’ choice of DRM, they can be DRM-free if they want!”
And I’m like, dude, it’s not a stance, Steam technically doesn’t either. You may need the client to install but plenty of games don’t run on any DRM, not even Steamworks.
It’s utterly shocking that RS is still going… everything about the game has not aged well in any sense and yet there’s still 50K people who still play that trash at a time.
So I don’t know this figure except I’ve seen it a couple of times in no particular context and I always thought that it was supposed to be a mouth with 1 tooth, I didn’t ever think of it as a nose when seeing it.
7k wishlists doesn’t directly translate to sales, but it can give you a good indication. Still, it’s good to be aware of the risks, and the consequences of this new, temporary life balance.
Thank you! Yeah I’m not planning my future spending based on wishlists. I know that many things can go wrong. Some within my control and some out of it. In the end of the day I just want to say I did my best and worked as hard as I could. Will streamers play it? Will people buy it? I have no idea and no way to know really…
Will streamers play it? Will people buy it? I have no idea and no way to know really…
You can influence some of this directly, but yeah, there will be a lot of unknowns.
In the end of the day I just want to say I did my best and worked as hard as I could.
Valid and healthy goal! I do want to add: you can’t do everything yourself. Don’t be afraid to lean on your network to get help where possible. You can fill in some of those unknowns with resources from the indie scene, but that will also take time, effort and sometimes money.
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