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Naarel2 days ago(+6)

I think the issue with people not downloading the remaster is fairly simple: it's not that people aren't interested, it's that they have a whole game available to them right now and the description actively discourages from downloading the remaster if you're interested in completing the game.

There are other developers doing remasters and expanded editions of their games and having separate pages for them (for example, my beloved Killer Chat, which has a page for the full original game and for the expanded edition) so I assume that it's allowed. Putting the remaster on a different page seems like a good move: it won't compete for attention with the old version, it essentially serves as a demo for the full remaster, and it has the potential to bring new people to the old version. 

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justacarrot2 days ago(+3)

Yeah that is a really good point, it's true. I guess it's also from a lot of people telling me specifically that they don't want to play it for some reason, usually because they want to wait or for some other reason. But at this point it's going to potentially be years before it's done, so it makes me feel a bit sad 💦 But yeah also new ppl to the game, it doesn't make much sense to play the remaster since it's not finished. It's really only interesting to those who've played the OG game.

Ohhhh that's really interesting about Killer Chat though and giving me more confidence that something like this could work 🤔 And you're right that it does feel like a bit of a demo in a way. Thanks a lot for this info. I may end up now going the Steam route as I've gotten a kind offer to help me publish, so we'll see if that ends up working. Though I would probably still do the remaster game page too even if Steam works out.

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