Cold Stars

[PINBACK]

Interesting reply about the retail market.

[Darkone]

The comments do have some merit I think Pinback. I seems space combat/sim games are popular in Russia than in USA/EU. But hopefully SSC and the fans can change that over time and supporting the indie devs

Even though I would like to see Cold Stars on my PC soon i'm not sure it will happen unless the devs allow the fans to do it. I mean the Precursors was in the same boat until the community did the translation. All we can hope for is that more developers leave certain files editable to the community for them to make changes when the company cannot.

[PINBACK]

Bit of catch 22 situation with Cold Stars in that people need to be able to get the game in order to do the translation patch.

[Geraldine]

Thinking about Pinback's last post, there could be an opportunity here Darkone. Perhaps you could help these Russian devs by providing an area in the SSC for them to get a foothold in western markets? An SSC shop if you like?

[Darkone]

That is very interesting idea Geraldine. Just one problem... I don't know how to set one of those up or any legal ramifications in doing so But I do get the idea that's for sure, I just don't see why more developers don't digitally publish there own games because it is only paying for bandwidth and if your selling games bandwidth isn't an issue.

I also think before I try to do something like that I might have to move hosting providers because right now SSC does not have a unlimited bandwidth account and I would definitely need one to host a store front or something like that. But I will definitely look into that and maybe see if they would do an affiliate type of situation where I will host a english forum for them and put links up to buy the game.

We'll see.... thanks for that idea Geraldine.

[PINBACK]

I always prefer to get a box over downloads as my so called broadband is terrible,I can have trouble downloading 10mb never mind any thing in 1gb range.
Guess I will just have to wait and see if any thing comes up on ebay.