In an interview with GamesIndustry, Rockfish’s CEO Michael Schade explained why EVERSPACE 2 will not abandon Steam. While Rockfish had some discussions with Epic Games, it decided to honor its fan base and release this new space game on Valve’s distribution service.
As Schade told GamesIndustry, Rockfish wouldn’t exist without Steam. Therefore, and in order to keep its fan base happy, the developers decided to ditch Epic’s offer. Not only that, but the team needs all the features that Steam currently has for its Early Access phase.
“Without Epic, Rockfish and Everspace wouldn’t exist, but it’s the same with Steam. Without Steam, we wouldn’t exist… In our case, it doesn’t make sense. We need Early Access, the full feature set, the forums, the constant updating, the whole infrastructure. Valve has the best platform, by far, to roll out a game as an independent developer. It’s by far the best tools and the best communities. This is exactly what we need.”
Schade has also confirmed that a two-hour demo for EVERSPACE 2 will be available to all Kickstarter backers once the campaign ends.
“They can play the game right away. It has to be one of the very few Kickstarters where you get the actual game after it has ended. We want to double down and make the studio even more financially independent, but we also want the Kickstarter to have this early feedback. Everspace wouldn’t have been such a good game without feedback from the community.”
The Kickstarter campaign for EVERSPACE 2 will launch on October 2nd!
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i see a new trend growing: independent devs rejecting epic for their customers.
i dont care if its honesty or just pr talks but thats a good trend screw Epic and their scummy practices.
if they want exclusives they should make their one game and make it exclusive to that sorry excuse of a software they call a “store”
and when i mean exclusives go make a real game like a good old unreal tournament with modern day visuals and not cancernite.
i dont know why you see that so many indies left steam for epic.
I think his point is that now it will become a trend to make sure to tell your consumers that your game will not be an Epic exclusive. It’s the same way devs say “we won’t have loot boxes in our game”. It’s actually kinda funny because they wouldn’t do that if there wasn’t some merit to the idea that games on Epic store don’t do that well or that even with the higher cut devs still make more money on Steam.
TBH Any Indies that did leave got bribed by Epic and it probably has a clause demanding nothing but sucking on their shaft in every interview
translation “mofos wont pay us enough money to cover up the kickstarter and sht. Stupid fans, pay up our kickstarter so we can screw you later by going to epic store once the game is ready like shenmue”
“Valve has the best platform, by far, to roll out a game as an independent developer. It’s by far the best tools and the best communities.”
Hateful and corrupt NPC games ‘journalists’ to be triggered in 3, 2, 1…
What ? No one disagrees that Steam has the best features by far. No one faults a dev for not taking exclusivity. Can’t remember that ever happening. Stop attacking a non existent viewpoint.
But what about the first part of the statement
“Without Epic, Rockfish and Everspace wouldn’t exist…”
I think that is what will really trigger some people. Really goes against their hate boner fantasy of Epic Games as a company.
Another day, another disingenuous f*ckwit logic EGS-related comment from you. gg
lmao. Whatever dude.
Fact is, you were attacking a strawman. That is how big your hate boner is. No one attacks developers for releasing on Steam, so you have to act like people do that.
Dismissing my comment as ‘dis-ingenous’ isn’t going to change that.
Check your reading comprehension AGAIN.
Check your projection AGAIN.
gg
yes, gg Bub&Bob, there’s clearly no use.
“HUUURRR SJW JOURNOS TRIGGERED BY THIS” on article about developer not using Epic and saying Steam has better features.
You literally construct a fantasy because real life doesn’t conform to your circlejerk
Mom says Im not allowed to play with you guys…
So you’re criticizing him for bringing up hypothetical complainers, and to counter that you bring up hypothetical complainers. No one likes a hypocrite.
So you’re criticizing him for bringing up hypothetical complainers, and to counter that you bring up hypothetical complainers. No one likes a hypocrite.
What ? He is the complainer, he’s not hypothetical. How is he ‘hypothetical’ if he’s doing it right there.
Try and wrap your head around this, thanks.
Mostly Kotaku Steam haters, pretty sure they will ignore what was said on this interview.
Plus PC Gamer, Eurogamer and more. Basically all the most notorious SJW garbage tier big name sites all despise Steam ever since Valve refused to bend the knee.
Bend the knee to whom?
Well if your looking at asking people to help via Kickstarter it’s a good attitude to have. Good luck to them. Surprised so many indies lately don’t seem to get it, treating customers like crap after pan handling to them.
Robo-Fernando advanced shill AI wont like this…
To the devs: “After this game you will not exist anymore.”
Well put and you have my respect Rockfish folk