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.
Metallinatus Aug 26, 2017
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.
Last edited by Metallinatus on 26 August 2017 at 11:01 pm UTC
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.
Comandante Ñoñardo Aug 27, 2017
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.
lucifertdark Aug 27, 2017
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.
slaapliedje Aug 27, 2017
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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