"Dark Matter" releases incomplete on Steam - Drama Ensues! UPDATE!

"It is a finished product, but not as big nor as expensive as it could have been. Any sequels will depend on this game's success." -[ICE]_Beastman (DEV)

I stand corrected.

That's the most bizarre thing. Steam is set up to be able to do exactly what they needed to do, but instead they just abandon it and toss it up half done. Disgraceful.

Because that would indicate continued work, which quite possibly won't happen from what I've read in the comments in the related forum.

The sad thing is that it's apparently quite good up to that point. 'Tis a shame.

Your comment is very dark.

Appease the buyers? I think this is more of an "once you have their money, you never give it back" deal. If there's enough of an outcry Valve might refund, like they did with The War Z, although this doesn't look nearly as bad as that (where the game wasn't just terrible but the developers were actively being asshats).

lel, what part in the store page are referring to specifically?

Everybody loves quick cash grab.

Both had failed Kickstarters but tried to make a full game anyways and failed.

Dark Matter simply didn't reach it's goal, ran out of funds and released the game as-is.

Day One: Garry wasn't going to reach the goal until the CEO put in his own money to force it to, but that's not real fundraising it's just paying an expense with a loan.

Id hardly say its "all current developers". Ya, 2 "big" headlines in the same week, no differnt then any of the previous weeks or years in this or ANY industry. This time, they got caught in the same week is all.

they don't know the game is incomplete... developer of course haven't announced it and since greenlight, there's a lot of new indie games on Steam every day and only few people, usually youtubers, are reviewing them so you don't expect to buy incomplete game because you trust the developer...

I don't think that is generally considered to be going to a worse direction. Quite the opposite actually.

I don't think that is generally considered to be going to a worse direction. Quite the opposite actually.

The developers ran out of time and funds to finish the game, as the game was up as a kickstarter. Unfortunately, you aren't really missing anything. It's just that Valve didn't properly run through the game to see the end product, so one could say Valve's partially to blame. But really it all boils down to the developers. I sympathize them to a certain extent but they should have notified the players that due to shortage of funds and time, they couldn't "complete" the game, but could've left it for the players to decide if they still wanted to buy the game.

They were self publishing at first, hence the Kickstarter, but when that failed they packed up what they had and sold it to Iceberg Interactive. Since it had an established Steam publisher now, it was allowed to skip Greenlight and can go right to Steam.

I hope Iceberg is held responsible by Steam, as this is abuse of what Steam allows them to do.

Yay!

Steam Game = Good game
Desura game = Maybe good game
DRM game = !?

It is pretty hard to know if a game is decent before you play it yourself. Opinions vary pretty strongly, and the only way to get a good feel for whether you'll enjoy it would be to watch a lets play. Reviews only give you a rough outline and can be pretty deceptive of the games actual feel and quality. Sure, they can catch the big game-killers like this "END!" thing, but that assumes the reviewer plays far enough in.

Why would somebody blindly buy a game? I dunno, maybe they're stupid enough to trust the gaming industry to provide full products?

So you expect valve to hire an army of play testers to go through ever game they release, even just under the green light program, thats and awfully lofty goal.
Hell, even studios like EA who make and publish the game end up releasing shitty cash grabs like Sim City. To expect a digital retailer to play test each game they add to their catalog is akin to having say Amazon test every item they sell, or for sake of equal comparison just the games they list on their store page. Its laughable.

Personally, I blame the idiots that voted for it to be green lit before Id blame steam for selling it.

Hah!