#44446: Add the game to steam Open Date: 2022-04-23 15:46 Last Update: 2022-10-29 07:18 URL for this Ticket: https://osdn.net//projects/freeciv/ticket/44446 RSS feed for this Ticket: https://osdn.net/ticket/ticket_rss.php?group_id=12505&tid=44446 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Last Changes/Comment on this Ticket: 2022-10-29 07:18 Updated by: cazfi * Component Update from Deliverable to Project --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ticket Status: Reporter: (Anonymous) Owner: (None) Type: Feature Requests Status: Open Priority: 5 - Medium MileStone: (None) Component: Project Severity: 5 - Medium Resolution: None --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ticket details: Why I think it will be beneficial: * it is very popular and it's website has a lot of visitors (Alexa ranks it as the 314 most popular website on the internet). * Seeing a lot of good reviews can really tip the scales and make me (and probably others) take a chance on trying a game (it's basically social proof), it could lead to more exposure which will mean more developers and more feedback (former developer of naev said it brought new developers). * Steam is the only game review system that i know of which is able to rank games only based on "recent reviews", so if a game starts badly and keeps getting developed and becomes good the old review don't prevent it from getting a good rating, this is especially good for open source games that can have a very long history of development (being developed for more then a 15 years is common). * Another nice feature of steam is that you can find reviews for players that played more then a certain number of hours , some games can be half done and a review after three hours of play time might not reflect problems, a review after say 30h indicates you can pour some time into it without the game failing (and you will have to wait for a newer version and maybe play it until the point you reached before because save files are not always compatible with future versions). * Some FOSS projects on steam have a price (for example the game Mindustry ). Maybe you could use that for funding and paying freelancers to create graphics and sound (iirc this is what shattered pixel dungeon does). * early feedback can be useful, there is a saying that if you are not embarrassed when releasing the software then you released it too late, steam can mark a game as early access (like supertux does) so there is no danger of disappointing players because the game isn't fully polished. -- Ticket information of Freeciv project Freeciv Project is hosted on OSDN Project URL: https://osdn.net/projects/freeciv/ OSDN: https://osdn.net URL for this Ticket: https://osdn.net/projects/freeciv/ticket/44446 RSS feed for this Ticket: https://osdn.net/ticket/ticket_rss.php?group_id=12505&tid=44446