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I read that kenshi will be released on Desura, but it's not out on Desura yet.
Not that i was expecting it to be upp yet... But a little bit of information regarding the matter would be greatly apriciated.

simply put desura and chris seem to be at odds as they refuse to reply to chris

aka they havnt gat on commen ground enough to release it

imho he should go with steam instead as ALOT more people use steam instead of desura as desura sux

But the problem with Steam is that they tend to take a way higher percentage of the money for themselves than other digital distribution services. So that'd mean Chris either has to increase the price, or settle to make less money per sale, which would hurt production.

Desura are cool, they are just being a bit slow to respond and put the game up. They have the game, I'm just waiting for them.

Steam don't do unfinished games as far as I know.

Overgrowth dudes are currently working on steam integration and steam managed alpha updates, so I guess it would work. But I simply don't see why there should be anyone getting money for Kenshi except Chris.

Edit: MAYBE some artist, too.

Bdc wrote:Edit: MAYBE some artist, too.

Honestly. I looove the art currently in the game.
If this was the best it got, I would be completely satisfied with it. The game is amazingly fun for so little content actually there yet.

Aye, been as excited as a baby. Perhaps as much as the first time I've gotten my grubby paws on a copy of the Mount and Blade demo years ago.

ArcaneSaint wrote:But the problem with Steam is that they tend to take a way higher percentage of the money for themselves than other digital distribution services. So that'd mean Chris either has to increase the price, or settle to make less money per sale, which would hurt production.

Thats not a problem when you consider how many more people will see the game when its on steam. Thinking that sales are guaranteed and basing your price on that is economic suicide for digital goods.

Mattk50 wrote:

ArcaneSaint wrote:But the problem with Steam is that they tend to take a way higher percentage of the money for themselves than other digital distribution services. So that'd mean Chris either has to increase the price, or settle to make less money per sale, which would hurt production.

Thats not a problem when you consider how many more people will see the game when its on steam. Thinking that sales are guaranteed and basing your price on that is economic suicide for digital goods.

I have to agree with Matt on this matter on the soul reason that I have never heard of desura until I heard you folks talking about it. Now Steam on the other hand everyone and their mother knows of them. I see much more pro's to releasing the game through steam then on desura even with losing more to getting the game out there more.


Now, I did have a question in regards to how people can help the game, or join staff so to speak. I try to get my brother in law and his girlfriends name out as much as I can they are both graphic artist's and have a huge passion with games. Not sure if they would be interested but I would be happy to give them a call and find out if they would be interested in helping in this project. Regardless this game makes me very excited to watch for and Chris, if you are looking for help and others to join your staff and what not I'd be happy to give you the websites for them and you can email them to discuss more about the project.

Thank you,

SK

I picked the game up off gamersgate personally.

Vesath wrote:I picked the game up off gamersgate personally.

Yeah same, so just to clarify if we paste the activation code into Desura should it activate? Because I tried and it wouldn't accept it, although I thought it was because I had activated it through the Kenshi Launcher but if it generally doesn't work then can we activate it through Desura in the future?

Found Kenshi at Gamersgate to, but bought from website as I often go to indie websites first to see if possible to buy directly from them to maxi ammount of cash they can get.

I bought it direct after some other forum linked here.

mrthalax wrote:

Vesath wrote:I picked the game up off gamersgate personally.

Yeah same, so just to clarify if we paste the activation code into Desura should it activate? Because I tried and it wouldn't accept it, although I thought it was because I had activated it through the Kenshi Launcher but if it generally doesn't work then can we activate it through Desura in the future?

I was looking for an answer to the same question: did you ever get an answer to this?

No, you don't activate through desura, you only paste the key into the game launcher, no matter where you bought it from.