Wo bleibt der deutsche Patch zu GalCiv

Wo bleibt der deutsche Patch zu GalCiv? Ich finde es echt eine sauerei, dass ein Spiel verkauft wird und dann auch noch Bug Fehler hat, die einen Patch benötigen. Ok lade ich mir das Teil (Patch)runter, aber das Problem ist nur, ihr .... habt die deutschsprachigen User vergessen. Aber das Geld wollt ihr schon. Und erzählt jetzt nicht den Mist mein Rechner sei falsch konfiguriert. Ich besitze dutzende von Games und habe selten so einen schlechten Suport wie hier gesehen, der einfach seine Kunden links liegen lässt. Gruss Jak

Und was Michael angeht, Es ist nunmal so das die Entwickler auf die Publisher keinen einfluss haben, also nicht dafür sorgen könnem das eim Patch in jeder Sprache erhältlich ist, und übrigens reicht Schulenglisch locker zum verstehen der englischen Version aus!!

Why are we doing this?
The PC game industry model has some issues as a business model. The problem has to do with the developer/publisher relationship. Here's how it typically works - publisher pre-pays developer a huge advance on royalties to develop the game. The contract usually commits the developer to release 1 "bug fix" (i.e. patch") after the game is released. The game comes out, often buggy since the developer gets paid most of their advance upon delivery of the "gold master" to the publisher, creating an incentive to get the game out. Then, typically 8 weeks later, a "patch" is released that fixes most of the significant bugs and hopefully with game play tweaks.

So what happens? Well, for one thing it means that the typical lifespan of a PC game is only a couple of months. Imagine that. Spending 2 years of your life working on a game and having it die off the minds of people after a couple months.

We have a different model. Stardock paid for GalCiv's development itself. No advances on royalties. We also have the right to sell the game directly from the GalCiv.com. Statistically, only a tiny fraction of the total sales of the game occur direct. 90% of sales still occur at some retail store. But with that 10%, a different incentive is created -- keep the game fresh and improving over time in order to help sales over a long period of time. That strategy involves being responsive to your customers with frequent updates and instead of the game dying out after a couple months, it can keep growing its user base over many months. This keeps sales of the game going for longer. Everyone wins this way -- the developer (us) has happy customers and continued sales over a long period of time. Customers get free updates and their $40 purchase doesn't end up being a disposable game. And the retailers and publishers see continued sales during the long run.