Aces High has been Greenlit on Steam!

[nugetx]

EA BOUGHT Air Warrior and then closed it out as they only wanted the code.

Steam is nothing more than a portal, doorway to a huge library of games. Millions of players log in and search the library and buy/subscribe to the games they want to play. Steam has no control over what HTC does with HIS game.

Two completely different scenarios. What is hoped is that Aces High gets a lot more people to look at the game, and enough to subscribe that it makes the work HTC will have to do to link with the Steam portal/Library to cover the cost, and maybe a bit more 

+1

steam only shows the game to 135 million players

[Ramesis]

So... HTC doesn't have to pay anything to get on Steam?
Really! No fee or anything?
I'm sorry call me paranoid.... I really doubt that 

[Lusche]

So... HTC doesn't have to pay anything to get on Steam?
Really! No fee or anything?
I'm sorry call me paranoid.... I really doubt that 

Basically Steam gets a percentage of every sale(=monthly subsciption) generated through them. That's all. Steam doesn't have anything to do with the game itself, has no share in it, no say about gameplay. It's a distribution platform.

[Wiley]

So... HTC doesn't have to pay anything to get on Steam?
Really! No fee or anything?
I'm sorry call me paranoid.... I really doubt that 

What you're saying is roughly equivalent to saying a product you like being sold on Amazon is going to cause the product to change.

Wiley.

[Rich46yo]

It will be a sad day if HTC affiliates with Steam 

It will be a "sad day" if they dont get more players and improve game play. Even the slight bump, which we seem to have lost, from the post AH-3 upgrade caused a noticeable improvement in game play. Instead of a 130 to 160 number of USA prime time players we went up to 200 to 230 and the fighting improved quite a bit. Some of the nights even brought back some of the old excitement.

[oboe]

Basically Steam gets a percentage of every sale(=monthly subsciption) generated through them. That's all. Steam doesn't have anything to do with the game itself, has no share in it, no say about gameplay. It's a distribution platform.

What about all the Free-to-play games on Steam?  I can't figure how they make $$ on those, unless the game supports micro-transactions (but I'm not sure all do that)?

[Lusche]

What about all the Free-to-play games on Steam?  I can't figure how they make $$ on those, unless the game supports micro-transactions (but I'm not sure all do that)?

So far I have not seen any game on steam where you can not spend money in any way. Does anybody here know one?

[AAIK]

They do have some say on what game goes on, so they do control "gameplay" to an degree.

[JunkyII]

There is not any benefit to players using steam. There are some detriments.

It's benefit to HTC would simply be added exposure.

HiTech

There are some added benefits in the user interface if you play other games through steam or don't use a second monitor.

Shift Tab brings up the steam interface overlay over your game play so say a player could look at the forums, look up information on a plane, a specific date in history, what ever you could think of on the internet without closing the game and if you got a check 6 while looking something up you can just shift tab back into play.

honestly going to try to talk POTW into all being through steam when it happens just so we can send messages through the steam chat system.

[Ack-Ack]

What about all the Free-to-play games on Steam?  I can't figure how they make $$ on those, unless the game supports micro-transactions (but I'm not sure all do that)?

Steam takes a cut of all sale transactions (subscriptions, micro-transactions, etc.) that uses the "Steam Wallet".

[guncrasher]

Sorry but this pig is not joining steam.



Semp

[Owlblink]

Steam has now Discontinued the Green Lite program and is moving onto a new and more clear cut way for developers to get their games on Steam.

Previously greenlit games will be reviewed and added over the next several weeks, that is if Hitech chooses to as well. I E-Mailed Skuzzy sometime back about getting on steam and they claimed the fees charged from steam for hosting the game would increase subscription fees. Wonder what has changed…

[nrshida]

Hopefully, you are joking.

Yeah almost totally  I did shoot him down twice before realizing but after PMing him I was unable to get a response despite chat instructions.

[Owlblink]

January 24, 2017:

Steam is too expensive.  We would have to double our monthly subscription rates to make any money.  Steam is suited for one time charge games or fremium/free games.

[Ack-Ack]

Sorry but this pig is not joining steam.



Semp

You don't have to join Steam as HiTech already stated that the non-Steam version will remain if he decides to go the Steam route.