grinninglich: Wow. That sucks. The guy is very polite yet offensive answers keep coming. Also developer(or representive from the company) is stubborn as a goat. Man keeps telling he lived awful things with Steam yet developer suggest that to buy their games on Steam. And not thinking about other distribution for now? Steam is helping us a lot? What? What is Steam doing to you? Doing your laundry and dishwashes?
Are you giving a good amount beforehand money to sell your game on GOG.com or Gamersgate? Why you can't be on Steam and GOG and Gamersgate at the same time?
"We are testing first, swimming in safe waters first". This is not a scientific experiment this is sales. The more place you are the more unit you sell.
Maybe the only logical reason could be that they made an exclusive deal with Steam.
Some fool named wretchx even say something bullshit like this:
"...But first, you threatened, in a respectful manner, to not pay full price for the Ys games unless they were sold without DRM."
Like he have to buy the game for a full price. Like it is a "must". Like it is a "must" to buy the game. Like discounts is a crime that Hectan causes and if he buy on discount it is criminal activity. He is the bad guy. He is threatining the company for "not buying with full price."
Funny.
I've been in contact with the same company, and I got a response from them only a few days ago. They said that they would like to publish on stores other than Steam, including GOG, as soon as they can. I think what's going on is, they are entitled to distribute the translation of the game, but they may have limited 'rights' about where to distribute it. They may need permission from the original developer/publisher, especially since GOG makes things a little 'complicated' by being DRM-free, and maybe more importantly, by having worldwide distribution for the same price. And apparently, that takes time.
