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Re: Itch.io – Marketplace for Indie Games

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Post by seba_dos1 »

tiborsaas wrote: post #35
nindalf wrote: post #19

I'd love to support this service. They do everything right - they take 0% of the game and give the entire amount to the devs. In contrast Steam takes 25% (earlier 30%). The tools itch offers to devs to package/upload their game are considered to be best-in-class in the industry and they're all open source [0]. There's an excellent article that talks about the difficulties in creating a competitor to Steam, and the ki…

> they take 0% of the game Not exactly, they charge 10% or allow you to setup your own merchant gateways. https://itch.io/docs/creators/payments That 10% is well worth it for having them deal with the tax/VAT madness.

Well, not exactly too. They charge 10% by default, but allow you to set any percentage (including 0%) regardless of the chosen payment mode. The only fees still left are the payment processor ones.

Personally I have set 30%, because they deserve it.

Re: Itch.io – Marketplace for Indie Games

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Post by eggsome »

fredophile wrote: post #36
bscphil wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note that if you purchase Hollow Knight from Humble or GOG, you get a DRM-free binary that runs anywhere. You own the game and don't need a client like Steam running in the background. For those who don't know, gog.com is basically the same as itch.io, although I'm pretty sure GOG has a strict policy against DRM, whereas Itch seems to just say "we don't implement any DRM ourselves". GOG also has a much wider selectio…

I'd disagree with your characterization of GOG. I'd say they're more like a DRM free Steam. Just like Steam they also charge 30%. I also have a somewhat negative bias against them because several years ago they announced they were shutting down in under a week. This turned out to be a PR stunt but I haven't bought anything from them since. They're also an excellent example of how tough this space is. Even though they…

I agree that the "shutdown" stunt was poorly executed, but it did have the effect they intended.

Here is a quote from discussions on slashdot at the time:

> Plus, they must suck at advertising. This is the first I heard of them.

https://www.slashdot.org/story/141308

Also, as people pointed out at the time - with GOG at least you don't need their servers to be online to reinstall from your backups.

Re: Itch.io – Marketplace for Indie Games

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Post by tough_luck »

fasterthanlime wrote: post #38
Randomswiss wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

@fasterthanlime was in the same uni I was, he basically lead a project for students in first year when he was in second year, a really impressive coder.

I remember that! We guided first-year CS students through implementing a complete BitTorrent client. I put a lot of work into that project (giving extra presentations to students who had additional questions, uploading unofficial slide decks with extra information about the protocol etc.) It's one of my favorite memories of EPFL! We had a ton of fun organizing it, and it was exciting to have students work on somethin…

Hi I'm from India and would love to buy from itch.io if you support regional pricing. I know it is a hard problem to solve and requires a lot of variables like payment processors and such, and is probably not lucrative enough, but this is what prevents me from buying from itch.io.

Re: Itch.io – Marketplace for Indie Games

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Post by failrate »

leafo wrote: post #37
failrate wrote: post #10

Itch is great. Their search by tags system is broken, but everything else is wonderful. Full disclosure: I publish on itch. Https://failrate.itch.io

how is it broken? (I do know our search results page isn't ideal, but if you search a tag there's a link that takes yo to that relevant page)

Well, in recent memory, I tried searching by tag, and it straight up didn't find a known result with that tag.

To be completely fair, I will regress the bug and see if it is still present. If so, I will submit a bug report.

Re: Itch.io – Marketplace for Indie Games

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Post by failrate »

failrate wrote: post #45
leafo wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how is it broken? (I do know our search results page isn't ideal, but if you search a tag there's a link that takes yo to that relevant page)

Well, in recent memory, I tried searching by tag, and it straight up didn't find a known result with that tag. To be completely fair, I will regress the bug and see if it is still present. If so, I will submit a bug report.

Could not reproduce. It was maybe user error.
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