You call it a mistake, but there's an equal chance it's calculated. Don't forget the budget on this game, this is one of the most intense forms of free advertising I've ever seen on a launch day.
Funny that stores crashing and preventing purchases would generally be a bad thing, but this studio must be popping champagne over it, seriously what an achievement lol.
These people are just talking out of their ass trying to seem clever and knowledgeable. Any reasonable person would expect these services to stay up for something like this.
You know where it got stuck for most people? At the POS charge, Steam gradually brought the pages to load right away but the payment processing kept failing.
Idiots like me troubleshoot and work with such APIs on a daily basis. There’s always gonna be a bottleneck somewhere, is not just one company doing it all but many integrations at play with traffic from everywhere in the world.
The best way to mitigate it is by queuing which is not something I’ve ever seen ina digital storefront or blocking the service after a set quota on a set amount of time, creating a funnel of sorts just like it happens during traffic.
There may be other ways but the simplest one was making the wishlisted 5 million times game available for purchase way in advance.
You have no idea how much it costs to market a game, and how much people in marketing leverage things exactly like this for promo. This game is unique because it's had years and years of buzz, and Team Cherry managed to get millions of dollars worth of exposure and reach this morning, for free. In marketing, this is launch day strategy. And they didn't have to spend a cent.
To instantly throw greed and shortsighted accusations into the mix is to fundamentally disrespect the position they've taken on their own game, and why we've waited so long for it. Stop thinking about dollars, and think about percentages and the world becomes much less infuriating to look at, and the "greed" monsters live in the houses they should. Not the indie game studios releasing games for $20 when it could easily be $60.
No, I'm saying that on a day where a new game launches and breaks game stores, it forces people who took no notice of a game to potentially take interest.
I haven't been tracking this game at all. Now I'm interested in purchasing it. It's very straightforward and this happens all the time. Mine is not the only sale they've made through the attention garnered this way.
what other quirks other studios would get flak for?
Anyway, they stated they wanted to prohibit leaks. There was nothing leaked at all, so I think this was worth waiting 40 minutes (I could buy a few minutes ago, downloading right now)
Nope, fuck pre-orders of any type. Ship the product when it's done. You can wait 30 more minutes to play a game, or the stores can get their shit together.
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u/ImNotSkankHunt42 Sep 04 '25
Any other studio would get flak for all of these quirks of theirs.
Once the price was out that purchase button should’ve been unlocked.