I’ve about $50 in my steam wallet and I’m wondering what this community would think are must-haves. I’m currently eyeing Satisfactory and Potion Craft and am worried I’m missing out on any great deals.

  • yads@lemmy.worldEnglish
    341·
    1 year ago

    Isn’t there something with disco elysium and whoever is profiting off of it now is not the original creators?

    • LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      40·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, iirc the developers, who’d spent bloody ages developing the world for the game, we’re effectively kicked out during a hostile publisher takeover. They’re seeing none of the money from sales, nor do they hold the rights to their own property.

      I might be misremembering some parts here, but the main point is that the devs were fucked over, aren’t profiting off their property, can’t do anything new with the property.

      • ntzm [he/him]English
        2·
        1 year ago

        There’s definitely more to it, Kurvitz seems like a bit of a loose cannon. I hope we’ll get the fully story of what happened soon, but I don’t think it’s that simple.

    • Coelacanth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      1 year ago

      It’s a clusterfuck really, but yeah the lead writer, designer and artist were all fired and lost the rights to the IP. Litigation is still ongoing I think, and hopefully Kurvitz, Hindpere and Rostov can regain the right to at least produce more work in the IP in the future. Heartbreaking for Kurvitz especially since he’s built the IP with and for his friends from the age of 15.

    • iusearchbtw@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      The original developers were forced out of the studio, allegedly through fraudulent means, but I’m not sure whether they lost royalties from sales as well. I can’t find anything confirming one way or the other, unfortunately.