Should We Go To Steam Early Access?
Romans! Attention! The Senate needs your advice and vote!
Lately, new nations are forming, new tribes are seeking power and land. The latest culture we, Romans, face is the "Steam" at the land of "early access". As the saying goes... "If you want peace... prepare yourself for war". We are not sure what to make of this new land and so, the question must be asked... should we declare war, or join forces... at least for now?
In other words.. do you think we should get the game to Steam early access ;)? Would love to hear your thoughts on the matter!
For Honor. For Glory.
The Senate.
Comments (20)
Ajouter une fonction manette s'il vous plait, c'est injouable par la plupart des joueurs. Et une langue française serait bienvenue, c'est les jeux multilangue qui ont le plus de succès des ventes...
English? :o
If you are putting the game on steam make sure there is a non steam version as well not all of us want to put adult games on our steam accounts nor do we wish to have to switch back and forth
Oh, that's not even a question - the patreon will keep going no matter what and will be our first priority. We also won't go to Steam if we feel you guys are strongly against it - but you guys here on patreon were the first to support and this what allows us to do what we like so in any case it won't be just Steam. Never.
With Steam behind the game, there would probably a whole lot of pressure for finishing your work - wich usually ends in loss of quality.
True.. but also will probably speed up the development :P
Would be kind of worried that some censor group would get it banned.
Well.. steam now allows adult games but I see your point.. we have the same concerns
As said before... you have a proof of concept here... I wouldn't call it a MVP. You need something (beside the slave and punishment) which makes it special... parts of the "world" just empty... so either concentrate (which means reduce - compress) or add content... and do something about the emptiness of your game... if this is Rome... you need to add a lot more center of the world feeling... which means population... so are you ready for Steam / Early Access... nope... how long may it take? At the current seed maybe 2-3 years. You asked... my honest opinion.
Great points, thanks! We are always debated if to "take it to the extreme" and do what you suggest or release a shorter game (and not take 2-3 years, as you said) - if I understand you correctly you rather us taking longer but doing it "right"?
I would rather my friends not know when I'm playing a game like this
Gotta make alternate Steam accounts for games of culture ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Honestly, big no. I'm still waiting to be wowed by this game. It has very little gameplay atm. The mechanic of it being a slave nullifies any consent no matter what sort of disclaimer you put up and that's a big red flag alone that could get the game crucified by the steam community. Despite what you're saying about equal gameplay for all genders and sexualities it's clearly built by and for straight men with very little effort apparent to cater to anyone else in a serious way. There's very little dialogue, and the very little available atm is riddled with grammar and spelling errors with not much put into the writing quality. The sampling of world available is boring and the graphics leave much to be desired. I signed on as a patron and have stayed out of curiosity and hope this will all improve as I understand it is early still. But having known indie developers personally who have put up a boatload more effort over a much longer period of time out of their own pockets without patreon and not succeeded because of stupid reasons, it's honestly an insult to the industry imo that you're even billing this game as AAA, let alone considering making this leap rn.
Thanks! A harsh feedback but appreciate it - this is how we can get better! :)
To be honest I feel as though any adult game that gets put on steam doesn't seem to last long. But on the other hand it is a great way to distribute a game.
What do you mean by 'last long'?
Get the game on early access. Adult games need to become more visible. Make the industry take note how a small group of devs can make a great adult game and make money. It will help legitimize adult games.
"Adult games need to become more visible." there are many children out there on Steam. Adult games on Steam is a bad idea.
The game would get eaten up by early access right now I think, though it could go either way.
What do you mean eaten up? Like not be very visible there?