22cans would like to share important news regarding our games, Godus and Godus Wars. Regrettably, due to an upcoming technical change to Amazon Web Services, affecting our ability to serve necessary game files to new users, these titles are to be withdrawn from the Steam store. Please be assured that existing players can continue to enjoy these games without interruption.
This is the shadiest of excuses. “AWS changed something and now we cannot serve files and offer the game”. WTF is that. Anyone with a programming 101 can see this is bullshit.
Correct. This is not a multi player. Either they’re talking about some devops or internal tooling, or they are just weaseling out of the real excuse, or it was a scam from the start and the day never intended to finish the game (which many people believe at this point).
Whichever is true, stay clear of that studio and those people forever.
They’re talking about “pushing data to new users”. I suspect for some reason their game works like those mobile games that only have a basic installer on the store and then need to download a whole bunch of extra data from their own servers.
You might be onto something, I Believe Godus also launched on Android (and maybe iOS) simultaneously, so maybe they did develop the game with a mobile first approach.
It “launched” (early access of course) on Android a few months after PC, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they anticipated that and made it so all versions work in the same way.
Maybe it was a way for them to get rid of the update submission process on the different platforms.
They also say that new users need to download things from S3, this could mean two things:
The game checks whether you’re a new user and if so downloads something from S3.
The game downloads something from S3 on the first run.
If 1, then they have a server to list known users, how long until that server gets dropped? If 2 users who uninstall the game and reinstall it again will not be able to play. And all to download some data that could be embedded with the game to begin with.
It says they can’t serve files to new users anymore. What if you are an old user and need to download those files again because you uninstalled the game.
They probably have a crappy DRM solution and don’t want to keep maintaining it. They should just remove the DRM entirely in a patch, remove the early access label, and drastically drop the price instead of delisting.
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I’m willing to bet the guy who “won” Curiosity has never seen a penny of the money they promised him from Godus and never will.
This is the shadiest of excuses. “AWS changed something and now we cannot serve files and offer the game”. WTF is that. Anyone with a programming 101 can see this is bullshit.
Also… Does Valve not actually host the files Steam serves up on their own servers? 🤨
Correct. This is not a multi player. Either they’re talking about some devops or internal tooling, or they are just weaseling out of the real excuse, or it was a scam from the start and the day never intended to finish the game (which many people believe at this point).
Whichever is true, stay clear of that studio and those people forever.
They’re talking about “pushing data to new users”. I suspect for some reason their game works like those mobile games that only have a basic installer on the store and then need to download a whole bunch of extra data from their own servers.
You might be onto something, I Believe Godus also launched on Android (and maybe iOS) simultaneously, so maybe they did develop the game with a mobile first approach.
It “launched” (early access of course) on Android a few months after PC, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they anticipated that and made it so all versions work in the same way.
Maybe it was a way for them to get rid of the update submission process on the different platforms.
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A small update to AWS and now your installer is broken, with no hope of updating it?
Ok Molyneux, tell us again about your new game based on cryptobullshit, I’m sure it’ll work out.
Yet another example of why DRM is bad for users.
I’m not disagreeing but it says people who already own it will be able to keep playing it.
They also say that new users need to download things from S3, this could mean two things:
The game checks whether you’re a new user and if so downloads something from S3.
The game downloads something from S3 on the first run.
If 1, then they have a server to list known users, how long until that server gets dropped? If 2 users who uninstall the game and reinstall it again will not be able to play. And all to download some data that could be embedded with the game to begin with.
It says they can’t serve files to new users anymore. What if you are an old user and need to download those files again because you uninstalled the game.
Early access for 10 years, mostly negative reviews, vague blaming of AWS for taking down the game.
They probably just can’t be bothered trying to salvage the game and don’t want to say that.
They probably have a crappy DRM solution and don’t want to keep maintaining it. They should just remove the DRM entirely in a patch, remove the early access label, and drastically drop the price instead of delisting.