Desura goes bankrupt

[Destroid]

zwanzig_zwoelf Desura won't give you any more exposure compared to itch and humble and those stores have a more favourable royalty split anyway.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

zwanzig_zwoelf Desura won't give you any more exposure compared to itch and humble and those stores have a more favourable royalty split anyway.

Thanks for the tip, I've heard about itch.io before, but I didn't know about the reliability of the store.
And didn't know that Humble offers non-Steam games too.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

*doesn't have Desura account*

*shrugs*

But yeah, interesting to know how they'll resolve the gamer catalog issue.

 

[Severian Silk]

Only game I bought on Desura was Underrail, and I already got the steam code for it.

 

[Turjan]

I was waiting for this. I always wondered how they made any money, and the changing ownership was not a good sign. I guess I theoretically have a few hundred games there, but never spent a single dime. Which does not sound like a good business model, if I am somewhat of a typical user.

 

[Don Peste]

Super important news update

Games that might get lost if Desura closes:

https://twitter.com/IndiePlague/status/607194116712222721
https://twitter.com/IndiePlague/status/607195824636985344
https://twitter.com/IndiePlague/status/607199277559988225
https://twitter.com/IndiePlague/status/607224597247852544

One of them is Star Prospector. Remember the MS Paint Competition? I was who contacted the dev and got the keys for the competition. But never got credited... I should brolapse the OP.

Anyway, Lagole Gon, AngryKobold, dibens, felipepepe, Primordial Soup Nazi, Telengard and Gakkone you should all hurry and make sure you have a copy of the game properly stored, in case they shut down the place!!!1

 

[FeelTheRads]

Next is steam and gog.

Steam is too big to fail!

That's what's been said about all big companies that went tits up. Oh, they are too big to fail!

But... "The bigger they are the harder they fall".

I bet everybody felt perfectly safe with Desura too. After all digital is the future! How can you fail with such a profitable and well intended business? Save PC gaming, make billions over night and live forever!

 

[amdus]

For fucks sake, bought Underrail from Derpsura, should've got it on GamersGate instead or Humble Bundle if it were available from there. I hope Styg get his payments from Desura.

 

[PeachPlumage]

I only have two games on Desura - Project Zomboid and Xenonauts. Only the latter I am concerned about when Desura goes tits up.

 

[Athelas]

Next is steam and gog.

Steam is too big to fail!

That's what's been said about all big companies that went tits up. Oh, they are too big to fail!

But... "The bigger they are the harder they fall".

I bet everybody felt perfectly safe with Desura too. After all digital is the future! How can you fail with such a profitable and well intended business? Save PC gaming, make billions over night and live forever!

At this point Steam is no longer just a company, it's an infrastructure.

 

[mindx2]

Infamous Quests ‏@IQ_Adventures 7m7 minutes ago
Well, I guess we're NEVER gonna see our money from Desura now. Bummer. Our best to those in the wake of this.

That sucks. :/

Yeah, that's got to hurt the small indies. I hope he didn't have too many sales through Desura...

 

[Metro]

Next is steam and gog.

Steam is too big to fail!

That's what's been said about all big companies that went tits up. Oh, they are too big to fail!

But... "The bigger they are the harder they fall".

I bet everybody felt perfectly safe with Desura too. After all digital is the future! How can you fail with such a profitable and well intended business? Save PC gaming, make billions over night and live forever!

You will fail before Steam fails.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Those who think physical copies are perfectly safe clearly never had to deal with nosy women who thought they were being helpful by getting rid of those old boxes that were just taking up space.

Spoiler

 

[Norfleet]

Next is steam and gog.

Steam is too big to fail!

That's what's been said about all big companies that went tits up. Oh, they are too big to fail!

But... "The bigger they are the harder they fall".

Let's not also forget that the bigger they are, the louder the squish you make when they step on you.

 

[Fizzii]

Well, that's a bummer. I'm guessing most of Crystal Shard's sales of Quasar was through Desura and we won't see a cent of that now. Though it probably didn't amount to much anyway, so not a big loss.

 

[Telengard]

Next is steam and gog.

Steam is too big to fail!

That's what's been said about all big companies that went tits up. Oh, they are too big to fail!

But... "The bigger they are the harder they fall".

I bet everybody felt perfectly safe with Desura too. After all digital is the future! How can you fail with such a profitable and well intended business? Save PC gaming, make billions over night and live forever!

A better example would be Atari, which had a market share the likes of which today's bigs can only dream of. It ruled uncontested as a multi-billion dollar company in the 80s. And it blew it all in only a few short years, taking down the entire infrastructure it had built with it.

 

[Makabb]

Gaben giveth, Gaben taketh away.

 

[JarlFrank]

For those that have Underrail on Desura, no worries. Styg has provided a steam key for everyone. Go to http://www.desura.com/collection , log in and claim your key.

I don't see a Steam key there, only a Desura key, when I click on "Your Keys".

 

[ghostdog]

For those that have Underrail on Desura, no worries. Styg has provided a steam key for everyone. Go to http://www.desura.com/collection , log in and claim your key.

I don't see a Steam key there, only a Desura key, when I click on "Your Keys".

Strange. When I click "your keys" it opens a pop-up with a "select -> steam key" button.

 

[Burning Bridges]

Next is steam and gog.

Steam is too big to fail!

That's what's been said about all big companies that went tits up. Oh, they are too big to fail!

But... "The bigger they are the harder they fall".

I bet everybody felt perfectly safe with Desura too. After all digital is the future! How can you fail with such a profitable and well intended business? Save PC gaming, make billions over night and live forever!

A better example would be Atari, which had a market share the likes of which today's bigs can only dream of. It ruled uncontested as a multi-billion dollar company in the 80s. And it blew it all in only a few short years, taking down the entire infrastructure it had built with it.

I think Atari and Commodore are not good examples. They were small compared to todays giants, and also because they were not successful because of a good strategy but because they were there when the market exploded.
When they tried to establish and repeat their luck had run out and one mistake followed another. In Commodore's case just think of incompatibility between Amiga versions, or CDTV, or Amiga killing off C64 which was their greatest success, or C128 and so much more.

 

[Infinitron]

The real reason that Atari isn't a good example is because manufacturing and distributing Atari consoles and cartridges cost lots of money.

Even if PC gaming went to shit for a year or more, Steam's operating costs can't be so high that it couldn't just keep on going indefinitely. At worst, Valve would have to cancel a few luxury projects.

 

[Barbarian]

Who ever used it? That's what I thought. There's a good reason why it closed.

 

[SniperHF]

Steam as a service will always be valuable due to its subscriber base. Even if Valve was headed completely down the drain the line of venture capitalists and such to buy it and continuing operating it would be enormous. Valve can fail, Steam would live on.

 

[Morkar Left]

Maybe if a Steam - Amazon war errupts.

 

[Don Peste]

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