Steam?

[RedStorm58]

Dont you guys know that minecraft actually finished development a Looong time ago. They just update it to keep players interested.

[Untrustedlife]

Dont you guys know that minecraft actually finished development a Looong time ago. They just update it to keep players interested.

I think we should let tynan do things as he desires.
But yeah minecraft will never be on steam.

[Fernbhoy]

Dont you guys know that minecraft actually finished development a Looong time ago. They just update it to keep players interested.

minecraft is one of these games that are finished, but not finished, and will never be "finished" until Notch gets bored of it.

[Architect]

Notch no longer develops Minecraft and hasn't done so for a long time thankfully. From the updates they have been rolling out, I'd argue they're already bored of it, but that's just my opinion . Minecraft was never on Steam because Notch wanted to sell merchandise, and Steam wouldn't allow for it. That is legitimately the biggest contributor (of many) to that decision.

[Fernbhoy]

tbf their lego deal has worked for them at the very least

Rimworld legosets anyone?

[Semmy]

tbf their lego deal has worked for them at the very least

Rimworld legosets anyone?

There awsome.

[FrozenSnowFox]

I understand there's no rush or reason to put the game on steam.  However wouldn't it be a good idea to speak to valve and use it as a distribution platform for people who currently own the game?  Project Zomboid, Divinity Original Sin and many other games used steam to deliver game updates months before they were actually buyable on the store.  It makes updating much easier and stops the updates from burning a hole in your pocket with bandwidth usage.

[Tynan]

I understand there's no rush or reason to put the game on steam.  However wouldn't it be a good idea to speak to valve and use it as a distribution platform for people who currently own the game?  Project Zomboid, Divinity Original Sin and many other games used steam to deliver game updates months before they were actually buyable on the store.  It makes updating much easier and stops the updates from burning a hole in your pocket with bandwidth usage.

Interesting idea; I'd never thought of that.

[Architect]

Aye Tynan, do that! It would make your life much easier as well as many current users life's easier too. Whilst you're at it, maybe another way of making payments not using paypal?

[GC13]

If Steam would do that for you, I know I'd love it.

[Bobthefarmer1]

If Steam would do that for you, I know I'd love it.

Aye Tynan, do that! It would make your life much easier as well as many current users life's easier too. Whilst you're at it, maybe another way of making payments not using paypal?

+1

[FrozenSnowFox]

Interesting idea; I'd never thought of that.

I forgot to mention steam has a beta section on the games panel.  Project Zomboid has been using it to do constant releases of their game for testing purposes.  Anyone who's interested in helping find bugs and doesn't mind an unstable version can opt into the beta.  Everyone else can wait for the normal stable release builds that come out.  If you need people helping you test the game and finding bugs between stable releases the ability to opt into test versions would be useful.

Aye Tynan, do that! It would make your life much easier as well as many current users life's easier too. Whilst you're at it, maybe another way of making payments not using paypal?

For that I suggest speaking with Humble.  From what I've seen they handle a lot of indie developers who need someone to do transactions such as Faster Than Light and Starbound.  Their widget does Paypal and Amazon, it may do others but I'm not sure.  At the very least Amazon should work as an alternative method if Paypal doesn't work.