Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Discussion Topic Part 1

[Naked? No]

Quote:A company don't need to grow up permanently, they also can stay as they are and make games as they always did.

That may be true in very rare cases but it's not the case with Frictional, they have grown and that's a fact. I don't know how this is relevant.

Quote:And I think, there are more copies sold through the Frictional Games
store than through Steam. Because there are many people who doesn't like
steam and want an offline installation without an account obligation to
the game of lifetime. So I think, the people who find steam is cool
will buy games via steam. But it will only work, if steam is an optional
choice and not a commitment.

If Amnesia would be only for Steam, I'm sure, the people who would buy
the game via Frictional Games Store will even pirate this game and in
the internet are many of cracked steamless versions.

You are just assuming this, Frictional themselves said that the steam discounts are one of the reasons their sales got through the roof, especially the first year. This made Amnesia go to the top list in steam which made it visible to more people browsing the steam store, which increases possible sales. Also, it doesn't matter whether it's steam only or it's sold through a normal store, people are still gonna pirate the game, because (as opposed to common belief) pirates don't care about DRM and they never have, pirates were around even before the big DRM systems got into the business.

I believed it was because of the DRM at first too but then I did some research and found out that it doesn't matter whether you have serial key, steam activation, internet activation/connection check, they don't care about that, they are just lazy and don't want to pay money for games, it's really that simple.

Quote:I'm one of the guys who will never buy a game for what you need steam to play.

But before you call me a troll, we all know, Steam is 100% cool.
Because you can chat with friends when you play Amnesia - yes it's so immersing!

I used to dislike steam but nowadays I don't have a problem with it, I actually think it's a pretty nice way to keep my games organized and easily accessible.