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I have since stopped following news relating to non-free games entirely so I don't even see GoL posts that call out these developers anymore. Therefore I've decided to share the discontinued tracking list here. I urge to never give money, attention or help to any of the following organizations for any reason:
No Brakes Games
Thing Trunk
Snapshot Games
Transhuman Design
Eric Lengyel
Redbeet Interactive
Facepunch
Stoic
PixelTail
HopFrog
They are perfectly willing to stab their
customersvictims in the back remorselessly. These clowns are no longer worth the 128 bytes of drive space that my list was taking up.Tomas, CEO of No Brake Games, shame on you!
Thing Trunk, Maciej Biedrzycki, Konstanty Kalicki and Filip Starzyński, shame on you!
Snapshot Games, Julian Gollop and David Kaye, shame on you!
Transhuman Design, Michał Marcinkowski, shame on you!
Eric Lengyel, shame on you!
Redbeet Interactive, Andre Bengtsson, shame on you!
Facepunch, Garry Newman, shame on you!
Stoic, Arnie Jorgensen, John Watson and Alex Thomas, shame on you!
PixelTail, Macklin Guy, shame on you!
HopFrog, Mariano Cavallero, shame on you!
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But to remember the "good" ones too, I think it's even, maybe, more important!
It shares the same interest of GOL's Crowdfunded Games List.
So, have you precisions about why these devs are on your list?
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Since I no longer dabble in proprietary anything, your suggestion is motivating. The world could use more positivity right now so maybe I'll start compiling a list of reformed good guys: studios who later freed their game code.
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I only recognize one, the Dev from my childhood favorites, Laser Squad and original X-COM: UFO Defense (or UFO: Enemy Unknown depending on the country), Julian Gollop. I was supper hyped for his/Snapshot Games' Phonix Point. It had Linux in the crowdfunding. Then in the middle of dev it droped Linux. Also it went Epic Games exclusive.
Liam had some posts here:
* Strategy game Phoenix Point from Julian Gollop and Snapshot Games has a new trailer
* Snapshot Games have cancelled the Linux version of Phoenix Point
Quoting Liam in the last post:
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It took community push back to change their mind. "I'm sorry got caught" mentality. And regardless of whether support was reinstated, that does not change the fact that they sold a product to end users and subsequently took it away. I am probably safe in assuming that dropped support never involved automatic refunds to their victims. I feel like they deserve to be on a naughty list.
I was going to include a disclaimer involving my not knowing details of pitfalls they might have experienced internally, but then in dawned on me: when one receives a failed order at a restaurant, one does not care to hear the excuses that the chef dropped the meat or forgot such and such ingredients. As the customer, all you care is that the establishment dropped the ball and they need to own up to it. Either correct the order or waive the fee. Also today is my account birthday so I can post whatever I want, right?
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Nightdive promising a Linux version of their port of Blood, then silently refusing to answer a single Q about why it went MIA. Like if it would hurt them.
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This!
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with blood there's no shortage of... red cells for Linux) This case is mostly about simply answering a Q. Stainless - borderline fraud.