You create/fund a massively popular game, then you tank it so hard that Steam won't even cover for you like they normally do when a game gets "review bombed". Good job Sony.
Even with this backtrack you aren't getting that goodwill back. You could've continued selling the game for $40 almost indefinitely on that goodwill and people still would've bought your game for that even years out. But now you've made people hesitant to buy it even if it's on sale. I haven't seen a fuckup this colossal on a released game maybe ever.
tank it so hard that Steam won't even cover for you like they normally do when a game gets "review bombed".
I think steam is probably more than happy to let any publisher get curbstomped for trying to cram their third party logins or launchers down customers throats.
They might cover for other shitty business practices with "off-topic review" bullshit, but Valve likes the loyalty being the biggest userbase launcher brings, they're not gonna help anyone usurp that even a little.
You create/fund a massively popular game, then you tank it so hard that Steam won't even cover for you like they normally do when a game gets "review bombed". Good job Sony.
Even with this backtrack you aren't getting that goodwill back. You could've continued selling the game for $40 almost indefinitely on that goodwill and people still would've bought your game for that even years out. But now you've made people hesitant to buy it even if it's on sale. I haven't seen a fuckup this colossal on a released game maybe ever.
I think steam is probably more than happy to let any publisher get curbstomped for trying to cram their third party logins or launchers down customers throats.
They might cover for other shitty business practices with "off-topic review" bullshit, but Valve likes the loyalty being the biggest userbase launcher brings, they're not gonna help anyone usurp that even a little.
Also this has potential to be mutli national class action lawsuit and breaking EU laws, valve isn't going to cover for Sony