Pay to get paid offers, decline the offers to get nothing

The new changes in full are as follows:

• Xbox Series S 512GB – $399.99 (was $379.99, launch price was $299.99)
• Xbox Series S 1TB – $449.99 (was $429.99, launch price was $349.99)
• Xbox Series X Digital – $599.99 (was $549.99, launch price was $449.99)
• Xbox Series X – $649.99 (was $599.99, launch price was $499.99)
• Xbox Series X 2TB Galaxy Black – $799.99 (was $729.99, launch price was $599.99)

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37741347

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More than 10 years ago we started creating Planet Centauri, a 2D sandbox with terraria as main inspiration.

We released the EA many years ago and this is our start just before the 1.0 release :

103 400 units solds

138 675 Wishlist

the sells seem incredible but it's not with so many years behind, when you work for 10 years and have to paid many people helping you with the ten of thousands of monsters frames animations and thousands of pixel art items, you don't have much left on your wallet at the end.

So we were eager for the release of 1.0 because with so many wishlists, the game's visibility would be good, we would appear in the new and trending categories due to sales, etc...

The 1.0 happen in december 2024... we sold... 581 units in 5 days.

The game didn't even appear on page 2; we were invisible; the release was a total flop. And we never understood why until today.

We just received this mail from Steam

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Steam Launch Wishlist Email Issue

Hi there, We found a bug that impacted a very small number of game releases (less than 100 since 2015) where wishlist email notifications for the launch of a game were not sent. Unfortunately your game Planet Centauri was among those included. We intend for this feature to work for every game and we’re inviting you to a Daily Deal as a way to help make up for lost visibility from your launch day.

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It's incredible to win the lottery like this: 100 games impacted in 10 years out of the 86,000 games on Steam. And to reward you, we're giving you 24-hour visibility (which is nothing special; there are 6 slots available for this visibility every day of the year for various Steam invitations).

I don't even have the strength to be angry. We've been so frustrated, disgusted, and in total confusion . Now we know, we understand better, it's unfair, and we can't change anything. We've started a second project because it's financially impossible to continue patching our game, and we're moving forward, because it's the only thing to do.

This article was my way of expressing my anger, I guess, but also to see all the problems that a platform holding 99% of the PC gaming market can cause when the cogs don't work as they should.

Have a nice day everyone, may luck be better to you

Comments

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Seriously though. It's far past time for a new wolfenstein game

Now I won't need to block out a weekend to hold friends hostage to play it.

Hades, Call of Duty, and more join the Xbox Game Pass roster.

These days it's so hard to sort the marketing from the reality isn't it?

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Like most sensible people, I long ago wrote off the Postal series as an idea that started terribly, enjoyed some fleeting glory in the same wave of cultural disaffection that brought us Limp Bizkit and the Attitude Era, and has spent the decades since thrashing around in search of relevance. Yet several times over the last few years, I've heard furtive whispers from various corners of the internet that there is one Postal game which is actually, genuinely good.

No, I'm not referring to Postal 2, which despite inexplicably having the same Steam rating as Half-Life 2, is a pretty shoddy game. Its open world may have been ahead of the curve back in 2003, but even when I first played it as a socially awkward 15-year-old (the primary audience for Postal games) I could see through the fountains of blood and voluminous arcs of urine that it wasn't a good shooter.

Rather, I'm referring to Postal: Brain Damaged, a spinoff FPS released in 2022 that, crucially, is not developed by series creators Running with Scissors. Instead, it's made by Hyperstrange—a team of Polish indie designers that specialise in shooters. Hyperstrange's other projects include the sword-and-sorcery hack 'n' slash Elderborn and the grimdark cowboy blaster Blood West, both enjoyable retro shooters that are infused with modern ideas. But is it really possible to take the crusty tube-sock that is Postal and make something worthwhile out of it?

Hello my name is Daniel Hanrahan are my latest two games fun and do you guys think I allow donations on my site.

My site: https://daniel-hanrahan-tools-and-games.github.io/

My latest 2 games:

A historically accurate strategy simulation game about the crusade campaign for Iberia/ crusade parts of the reconquista in Spain and Portugal: https://github.com/Daniel-Hanrahan-Tools-and-Games/The_Crusade_Campaign_For_Iberia

A turn-based fighting game like Pokemon Stadium but with in fight cutscenes similar to Dragon Ball Gokuden Legend Of The Super Sayian but it is text-based and a roguelike: https://github.com/Daniel-Hanrahan-Tools-and-Games/Superhero_Tournament

I'm pretty much a Xbox gamer. Rarely play PC. I'm interested in a handheld, would you go with the upcoming ally for Xbox or whatever the Lenovo one is called? I'm not very techy, just want something that's going to play games for at least the next 5 years. Something with great battery life.