Originally posted by Doko:It's being pubbed by Gearbox, and so far they've been doing every deal they can make with EGS, so I wouldn't be surprised if gearbox still wants to abuse Steam as an ad platform for wishlisting, then pull it off to make EGS exclusive for 6 months to a year. I am highly concerned after that process, that I now have to count on Fig's closing systems to actually deliver on my $160 spent and physically deliver it to my address - especially since I am obviously years outside of Paypal's dispute transaction window if they fail to deliver.Įdit: I think my one consolation here is that I did fill out the backer survey that went out like 6 months ago or so, in which I did confirm all my personal information and address to Gearbox themselves, so they should have all my data regardless, "should" being the operative word in that sentence.It's being pubbed by Gearbox, and so far they've been doing every deal they can make with EGS, so I wouldn't be surprised if gearbox still wants to abuse Steam as an ad platform for wishlisting, then pull it off to make EGS exclusive for 6 months to a year.Įither way, if they pull it from Steam, it will cause damage to the HW community, and as OrangeBox pointed out, the community has been burned multiple times, and since the RTS genre isn't nearly as popular as it was in the 90's today, it would be financial suicide to make it an EGS exclusive, and thinking you'll get double/triple the sales a year later, because that frankly isn't going to happen, and it doesn't always happen for those that take the exclusivity deal.Īlso, if it's ripped from Steam and made exclusive, I flat out will not be buying the game, 6 months or a year later, I just don't support EGS exclusivity deals, even when the game comes out later on Steam, I'm not going to be counted as a "second launch sale", because sod that greedy mentality. It took a senior project person over there to dig through Fig data and fish my transaction out of the Fig records just using my backer number to merely deliver digital keys to me. I only pitched like $25 into theirs and all their goods and keys were digital only, and they still lost me in the transition off of Fig. I funded both at the same time, but Unexplored 2 completed their distribution at least a year ago now. I have funded two Fig campaigns Homeworld 3 and Unexplored 2. Not to be an alarmist, but honestly I am too. I don't think there was a ton of people who went down the investor route though. The investor arm closed down about a year or two into the campaign and most of them became regular backers. These were not backers in the sense of the backers described above (ie pre-orders), because they were paying for success in the final product, rather than the pre-order bonuses most people were purchasing. The investor arm, which is the bit that was shut down, is where you’d pay to invest in the game by effectively buying shares in the profits. Such tiers did not translate to making money for the backers however, and this element remained open for the whole time of the site existing. The general backers were equivalent to pre-orders with various perks based on tiers. The game will now be titled Homeworld: Shipbreakers as part of a deal signed by Gearbox and developer Blackbird Interactive at PAX. The HW3 fig campaign had two elements: general backers and investors. Hardware: Shipbreakers, the spiritual successor to the Homeworld franchise being developed by founding members of Relic Entertainment, is now, thanks to Gearbox Software, officially a Homeworld game. Whether due to incompetency by them or just a failure to understand the situation, thats anyone’s guess, although gearbox didn’t help themselves when they made a pretty terrible pr statement at the time which was easy to misinterpret. The media likes to distort things a fair bit. A delay shows Gearbox has faith in the developer BBI and allows them to make the game better. For more information: /r/NoParticipationĤ) No discussion of piracy or circumventing DRMĥ) Use Spoilers and/or do not post spoilers in the titlesħ) No direct questions to BBI or GBX staff as posts on their ownĨ) Low effort posts will be removed at our discretionīlackbird Interactive (Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak) The worst thing they could have done is release an unfinished game - or even in Early Access - knowing they have to patch it for the next 6-12 months, but choosing to collect the money, they can get in the short term. Banner images adapted from Walter-NEST's reimaginings of Homeworld 2 skyboxes, found here
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