Massive respect to the developers of Darkwood [Official Site, Steam, GOG]! They've released a news post about how things have gone for them and inside is a link to an imgur post, containing a little story and a free torrent if you can't afford the game right now.
Here's what they said
Steam lets you refund a game if you haven't played it for more than 2 hours, and as a developer we can see the reason why people refunded it. When we read the explanation from someone who wrote that he needed the refund because he didn't want his parents to be stressed out when seeing the bill at the end of the month... well, it made us feel quite bad.
So we decided to do something about it! If you don't have the money and want to play the game, we have a safe torrent on the Pirate Bay of the latest version of Darkwood (1.0 hotfix 3), completely DRM-free. There's no catch, no added pirate hats for characters or anything like that. We have just one request: if you like Darkwood and want us to continue making games, consider buying it in the future, maybe on a sale, through Steam, GOG or Humble Store. But please, please, don't buy it through any key reselling site. By doing that, you're just feeding the cancer that is leeching off this industry.
Here's the torrent link. However, it's only for the Windows version currently. If you do use that (dual booting?), I urge you to support the developer with a purchase in future, they seem worthy of the support.
The game is actually scary/tense. I didn't believe it when I read it. There are some jump scares in there, but for the most part it's the atmosphere. I still have next to no clue what is actually going on story-wise. I'm positively surprised by Darkwood.
Quoting: scaineyes I mean g2a exists for a reason and that's because the payments options are not enough in some countries. I just see it from the practical point, if I have to transfers funds from three different accounts and besides of taking time to verify some deposits it's not "pick up and go" as is supposed.Quoting: DribbleondoQuoting: chancho_zombieDevelopers like to point the finger on users. But this is actually a steam problem, steam is suppose to by the solution for the middle-man problem. If there is something I learned from reading the linux kernel mailing list, is that you never take it on users.
How...how is this a Steam problem? The devs set the price, not Valve.
But he wasn't talking about the price, I thought? I understood him to be referring to Steam's lack of support for his credit card.
Gabe Newell is very clear he views piracy as a service, and g2a is also piracy or worse because is not only stealing but making the victim (devs) pay the thief a compensation. It's like some crazy judge that's thinks that stealing food is right and puts to jail the victim for being "cruel" with the thief and not giving him free food. I don't know if in this case the judge is steam, or the credit card companies, I'd like to think that steam tries to defend the developers.
People still keep coming over to buy games to g2a, so the service they provide (even if it's piracy) maybe it's not that bad. Something are surely getting right, that's what steam needs to analyse.
After all steam fights piracy and g2a is a new form of piracy, a new contender steam has.
But I get it I feel bad for buying a couple of games on g2a, if the devs didn't express that so bluntly maybe I wouldn't understand it so clear.
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Quoting: chancho_zombieyes I mean g2a exists for a reason and that's because the payments options are not enough in some countries.And because it's cheaper, most people probably just buy there because it's cheaper.
Quoting: chancho_zombiePeople still keep coming over to buy games to g2a, so the service they provide (even if it's piracy) maybe it's not that bad.Then just pirate the games without paying fraudulent stores already.... even the developers prefer that way. Better getting free than paying someone in the middle money that the devs won't ever see.
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Quoting: chancho_zombieafter trying with a second visa debit card, over steam, it finally worked!! you are right @Comandante Ñoñardo, debit cards work!! but not all of them.
Are you sure that it's not some geographical security setting on your VISA? On my bank I can select and deselect various geographical regions where my VISA can be used, the default is enabled for my local country only.
Quoting: chancho_zombieafter trying with a second visa debit card, over steam, it finally worked!! you are right @Comandante Ñoñardo, debit cards work!! but not all of them.
As I told You, It might depend on the bank..
Only You know if the successful card and the failed card belong to the same bank.
Now, if You can, try to add funds to the GOG wallet, the Humble wallet and try to buy a Greenman gift card.. Is exactly what I did.. and bye bye G2A...forever.
Is this a Linux thing or is it me getting old? I don't know.
I salute the developer for what they did, but I will buy the game as soon as I can to support them in the best way I can.
Quoting: Spud13yLike many others here, I'm inclined to pay full price for this now. Next week though; real life taxed me heavily on my last paycheck, lol.
*Homer Simpson voice* Stupid real life, stupid taxes, stupid mortgage, stupid phone that was the same as my mortgage payment.
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