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.
Credit to wolfyrion for posting it in the forum.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: TheRiddickHalf the YT gamers support G2A and embed ads to them, the other half think their the spawn of Satan. Honestly you can't win, I will use G2A if I miss a special on something, and from what I have seen most games are fine on G2A its just a few developers that get hit with credit-card fraud and charge backs.
IMO those keys should be forcibly invalidated and then G2A will need to provide a new key, this is doable if you pay via paypal because there are big repercussions if they don't deal with it correctly.
I would guess that deep inside you know that you are not doing the right thing here.
I can't blame the studio's if they are turning their back on Linux if the market is already that small but people are still feeling the need to use questionable sites just to safe a few bucks. Greed is sad :(
PS: But thanks for being honest and letting this discussion happen in the first place.
Last edited by jens on 26 August 2017 at 4:58 pm UTC
Sir_Diealot Aug 26, 2017
Instead I'm going to buy it today, full price.
I prefer to use anonymous pre-paid cards for my games purchases, even if there's no need to. That's why I haven't bought it yet. I have to run to a store first.
Regarding g2a, this is one of the videos TotalBiscuit made about it. There were some more before/after that one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cac0ACHux-Q
lucifertdark Aug 26, 2017
QuoteIt is set in an isolated forest somewhere in the Soviet Bloc, where the main characters have been trapped for an unknown amount of time.
sounds interesting. Any chance for a linux torrent? I would like to try that game out first. Demos are something that I truly miss these days :/
Dribbleondo Aug 26, 2017
Quoting: 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.
UnixOutlaw Aug 26, 2017
Quoting: tomaszgThe torrent seems to be Windows only :(Dangnabbit!
Waited all day to download torrent (Australian crappy copper network - thanks Turnbull ya c**t!) and turns out to be not native Linux version! :><:
Also thanks for the tip @tomaszg - got it working on Wine (it "just" worked!)...
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.
Since you mention Paypal, have you considered buying steam wallet codes directly from them? I don't think there's any mark up and it was a great way to give my kids wallet money when they're too young for credit cards.
https://www.paypal-gifts.com/uk/brands/steam-digital-wallet-code.html
(Just realised that this looks like phishing, because of the domain. However, you can see the link is endorsed from Paypal themselves here: https://www.paypal.com/us/selfhelp/article/how-do-i-buy-and-send-a-digital-gift-card-through-paypal-faq3432
Last edited by scaine on 26 August 2017 at 11:17 am UTC
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.
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