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The Indie folks are easily wooed away from Steam, just look at how successful Epic has been with their free games, which they paid pittances for (eg. Super Meat
by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
The Indie folks are easily wooed away from Steam, just look at how successful Epic has been with their free games, which they paid pittances for (eg. Super Meat Boy for $50,000).
Look at No More Robots titles on Xbox Games Pass (which is also on PC).
The problem is that Google just didn't put any money into buying up rights for titles. Plus, as other mentioned, the outdated pricing model. It should have been $20/month for unlimited gameplay of any title with maybe a discount tier of $15 for 900p.
- ikiris 5y agoI honestly don't believe Google can ever be successful at a consumer product that is a paid service.
- doikor 5y agoSuper Meat Boy is a 10 year old game that probably had sales close to 0 at this point (it has been on sale for a couple bucks multiple times by now). Taking 50k now a decade after release and losing practically nothing as anyone who was going to buy it already did makes a lot of sense for a small indie dev (literally just 2 people if I remember right)