I don't want to support lack of choice, and I don't want to support someone making me feel like I don't matter. I'm sorry but quite a few people that were waiting for several years do feel as DynamicDragon said, stabbed in the back.

I also, as a consumer, am irritated by pretty much everything Epic has done so far. It was a rather rude move to those of us that have been following, wishlisting, and discussing this game here. Originally posted by Hosscatt:Same feeling here. Thank you for all your efforts, I truly hope, only for the sake of such hard-working team, that my predictions are wrong and you do indeed find profit. Making us all wait for so long and then locking us for extra time because the most worthless company decided to 'help' you. Yes, I'll probably miss out on a great game (or not ), but I'll only pay for it when it has a price dumb enough to be worth this royal insult to your fan/player base. I'm not going to buy Maneater because of this. But I'm not going to support this decision. I'm sorry to all of you, to the entire team, specially after so much effort and so much investment. I know this will sound overly dramatic but that's just how it feels: you metaphorically stabbed us all when locking us for an entire year, after waiting even more years, out of a game we were so hyped about. I, along many others, were ready to support you, to make all that investment have it's due profit, even if the game turned out like Last Tide. But don't count on Steam users buying it, not even getting EpicGames again just because of your game (as amazing as it may come out). You may release on EpicGames, and maybe all the users playing Fortnite still (which are less and less each week) will buy your game. I'm sorry to say this but you should've considered ALL angles, not just the ones based on necessity. So, you're just basically telling us, your fans that were ready to throw their wallets at you *whatever the price*, that you took the offer from an increasingly unpopular company because they saw you struggling and offered a deal that basically drove all of your potential buyers away in exchange for money. As it stands, Epic’s deal was the equivalent of being told you get to pay half as much tax for the rest of your life.Īnd yes, I’m aware that Valve *did* recently change their profit sharing rules, but the change was aimed at huge AAA publishers, not guys like us.

If Valve had changed their profit sharing agreement to help indie devs keep (and re-invest) more of their sales proceeds, we would have had to think much harder about the EGS offer. Unfortunately, bringing Maneater to life meant sinking insane amounts of our personal cash into the project, and hoping that we’d make it back later. If we could make an incredible open world shark game with pocket change and dreams alone, we would do it in a heartbeat. I’m not talking about a few thousand bucks, more like hundreds of thousands (even millions) for a small to moderate sized indie product. But not all.īefore you get your pitchforks out, try to remember that indie games are super costly to make.

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