Posted September 29, 2014
IAmSinistar: Yes, I'm fine with them holding some back, for example as Moon Hunters did, unveiling more high-tier ones as funding continued to flow in. I think it looks unprofessional for them to be listing all those ??? ones. They should just omit them until they are ready to be revealed. The way they have it done now looks more like "What'll we do with this money? Dunno, something cool maybe!"
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We're in complete agreement. :-) [...]
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And a DRM-free release. That's the real deal-breaker here for me. That they say in their comments "We are currently in the greenlight process to be published on Steam, but aside from that there is no extra DRM!" points to them being open to the idea of a proper DRM-free release, but they are solely looking at Steam for now and for that they get no funding from me.
That's what I meant with "distribution plans" - that's why I compiled that list of questions I posted earlier. ;-) And a DRM-free release. That's the real deal-breaker here for me. That they say in their comments "We are currently in the greenlight process to be published on Steam, but aside from that there is no extra DRM!" points to them being open to the idea of a proper DRM-free release, but they are solely looking at Steam for now and for that they get no funding from me.
I'm not sure that it actually indicates that they're open to a proper DRM-free release - many devs/ pubs (along with many gamers) don't seem to understand why someone would not want to use Steam and prefer a standalone DRM-free installer (you can't imagine how often I had this discussion via Kickstarter PMs).
What I find interesting is that they're so focused on getting on Steam, they don't even have an alternative plan for distribution - not a good sign, imho. Not sure how persuaded I'd be if they later came out and said something more promising about DRM-free.