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Val@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoWube (creators of Factorio) have the best customer policy in game development.
- Don’t go on sale so you will always pay the cheapest price.
- if you have the game on steam you can download a DRM-free version directly from their website. (alongside all old versions)
- Encourage the community to create mods, host your own mod portal accessible inside the game.
- Make a good game.
- Be open about game development through monthly blog posts.
The only way I would like it more is if the game was open source but since that’s impossible to sell I will take this.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t view games as needing to be open source as the end users doesn’t need them to be productive in work. They aren’t a part of a productivity pipeline and the discontinue of a game’s support or radical change in fuction can’t throw a person’s livelihood into jeopardy.
Games should have a plan to release the source and assets if support ever gets dropped and I believe that it should be a requirement if a games gets to enjoy copyright protects that there’s a plan for when it enters public domain, but that’s a different discussion.