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Posted August 22, 2014
Sale right here.
http://www.showmethegames.com/dirtydozen.php
Post edited August 22, 2014 by realkman666
Posted August 22, 2014
The footer of the site says "Positech Games", but there are also other developers on the site. It needs in my humble opinion improvements, like a page for each game, system requirements, available platforms, DRM-freeness etc. easily discoverable. In fact, it's not a store, but a catalog/link collection.

Will the developers get more percentage of the price paid by the customer? Yes, but not 100%. They have to care about transaction costs, hosting, a store on their own.
Posted August 22, 2014
Frozen Synapse and Infested Planet are both excellent games. Anyone have any experience with Bionic Dues? I'm a bit intrigued by that one.
Posted August 22, 2014
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The-Business: The footer of the site says "Positech Games", but there are also other developers on the site. It needs in my humble opinion improvements, like a page for each game, system requirements, available platforms, DRM-freeness etc. easily discoverable. In fact, it's not a store, but a catalog/link collection.

Will the developers get more percentage of the price paid by the customer? Yes, but not 100%. They have to care about transaction costs, hosting, a store on their own.
Maybe Positech takes care of the logistics?
I'm not sure what you mean about the other stuff.
Posted August 22, 2014
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Crassmaster: Frozen Synapse and Infested Planet are both excellent games. Anyone have any experience with Bionic Dues? I'm a bit intrigued by that one.
only if they are also crude dudes.


krak!
Posted August 22, 2014
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realkman666: I'm not sure what you mean about the other stuff.
Show me the Games is basically a directory, where developer can submit their games' sales, and it may organize a few sales with the developers as well. So there isn't any "Show me the Games" sale, it's the developers who are discounting the games.

Now, as to the 100% to developers, that is also not accurate. Defender's Quest for example using the Humble Widget, so 95% goes to dev and 5% to humble. Loren uses bmtmicro, so no idea what the cut is, or if the cut is standard for all bmtmicro transactions, or different per developer. Then there's also fastspring, and puppy games links to humble widget and steam, so 95% or 70%, depending on how you buy it.
Posted August 22, 2014
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realkman666: I'm not sure what you mean about the other stuff.
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JMich: Show me the Games is basically a directory, where developer can submit their games' sales, and it may organize a few sales with the developers as well. So there isn't any "Show me the Games" sale, it's the developers who are discounting the games.

Now, as to the 100% to developers, that is also not accurate. Defender's Quest for example using the Humble Widget, so 95% goes to dev and 5% to humble. Loren uses bmtmicro, so no idea what the cut is, or if the cut is standard for all bmtmicro transactions, or different per developer. Then there's also fastspring, and puppy games links to humble widget and steam, so 95% or 70%, depending on how you buy it.
Oh, it's only the games on sale that are direct. I thought it was the whole website.
Posted August 22, 2014
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realkman666: Oh, it's only the games on sale that are direct. I thought it was the whole website.
Again no. The site links to the developers' sites for all games, discounted or not. Where the developer sells the game is up to the developers.
Go to the RPG category, and the 5th link should be Numen: Contest of Heroes. Numen's site gives you links to buy Numen on Steam, Desura or Impulse, without the option of buying directly from Cinemax.
Posted August 22, 2014
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realkman666: Oh, it's only the games on sale that are direct. I thought it was the whole website.
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JMich: Again no. The site links to the developers' sites for all games, discounted or not. Where the developer sells the game is up to the developers.
Go to the RPG category, and the 5th link should be Numen: Contest of Heroes. Numen's site gives you links to buy Numen on Steam, Desura or Impulse, without the option of buying directly from Cinemax.
I didn't see it, but I just saw another in the sale that links to Humble. That's pretty sad that the website would lie like that.
Posted August 22, 2014
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realkman666: I didn't see it, but I just saw another in the sale that links to Humble.
Do open the link. It may be the Humble Widget and not the Humble Store. So far the Humble links I opened where the widget one, thus the direct from developers.
Posted August 22, 2014
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realkman666: I didn't see it, but I just saw another in the sale that links to Humble.
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JMich: Do open the link. It may be the Humble Widget and not the Humble Store. So far the Humble links I opened where the widget one, thus the direct from developers.
It's just that the cut is smaller.
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