Isn't that just a "social group" thing (similar to the Steam groups)? I don't think that includes all Desura accounts by default, so the 10k are just the people that bothered to join this group to get updates, news and such.

Possible, 10,000 Desura accounts seems like a very low number to me. But even if the number of accounts is much higher, I doubt that most members ever really bought a game on Desura. And if Defender's Quest sold only 53 copies there, I'm sure that there are a lot of games, that didn't sell a single copy.

Indeed. There are actually 8,600 people online right now and 989 members joined in the last 24 hours, so a user base of 10,000 is highly unlikely.

Edit: Apparently the record number of people logged into Desura at any one time was 18,815, which blows the 10,000 theory out of the water. I would guess by this around 60,000-70,000 accounts. How many of them are still used is anyone's guess though.

Yeah, I own a lot of games on Desura and I've only bought one game on there (Longshot for 5 cents). I get all of my other Desura games from bundles.. which I assume is what most people do.

From the promo email: Lying bastards.

your right.its currently $8

It's 6€ here.

http://www.photoshack.com/albums/userpics/13125/2014-02-06_183702.jpg

Also they used to (probably still do) charge in $AUD...

...Assfaces. They promised 6 USD in the email.

Before the Linden shit, when I was logged into Royale and had my Desura location set to Norway, I got billed in euros at standard dollar prices (converted directly according to the current rate). So I saw prices like E4.33 etc. It was annoying, so I officially emigrated to the States where Desura was concerned and got both the offer and the actual bill in USD.

So IR now has regional pricing.

Screw them.

Mystery game is Stonerid

I read that as stoner-ID so what I saw was not what I expected.
Doesn't look terrible, but I already have way too many platformers so I'm not interested (for now).

lol, looks like I wasn't the only one.

Started reading the description on Stonerid "Stonerid is an unusual and really difficult [...]" and you lost me...

The general concept (switch between two different dimensions, utilize their differences to progress) sounds exactly like Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams. Which was a game that was challenging _and_ fun.

But yeah, if a game explicitly advertises its difficulty as an asset, I get skeptical too. T don't mind challenging games, I don't mind easy games either, I simply want it to be _my_ decision in which way I play a given game. Sometimes I enjoy a challenge and sometimes I just want to relax. Games that explicitly advertise their difficulty often do not give me that option, they seem to operate on some ill-conceived assumption that providing a difficulty setting would "compromise" or "water down" the experience even for people who don't use it.

In any case, since the game has appeared elsewhere as well - has someone played it? How does it play in comparison to "Giana Sisters"?