seems to be having the opposite effect

unfortunately not for the Steam Reviews overall

is a service or product receiver only a customer if they are paying money?

It’s a statement of support of minorities. I think that’s a pretty good, fair reason, and not “just to cause drama”.

Not making a statement is letting the original statement stand.

damn, that jump height for such short legs

FYI I took it over and created an updated PR, no need for you to tackle it

if there is someone willing to take over the PR so we can add you as a community supported community

Done https://github.com/godotengine/godot-website/pull/841

OP speculation. I don’t see them closing it off after an open source release, under AGPL, and linking self-hosting as an alternative on their cloud offer page.

Steamworks allows you to distribute dedicated server release.

The W4 cloud allows you to manage your dedicated server instances (fleet) beyond dedicated server release distribution.

The release distribution/upload seems to happen within the Godot editor.

• The GitLab repository

• https://cloud.w4.gd/

• AGPL release

• Cloud page explicitly mentions and links Self-Hosting

• k8s folder in repository

They seemingly intend to offer cloud hosting with SDK integration, while also allowing to setup your own Kubernetes cluster.

There’s no sign of them maybe revoking open source. Quite the contrary.

Steam Greenlight ended in 2017 and was replaced with “Steam Direct”, which introduced a 100 USD app fee.

The app fee.

There is now a $100 recoupable app fee for each application to release on Steam. Steamworks developers will pay this fee once as part of the initial paperwork, which will unlock the first appID. Once all the paperwork has been completed, and the developer is set up in Steamworks, additional appIDs may be purchased for $100 each. This fee for each appID is returned in the payment period after that game has at least $1,000 in Steam store or in-app purchases.

I see, thank you for your insight :)

I’m somewhat surprised the Showreel shows (some) unreleased games.

Seeing that’s on Steam too, I am wondering, do you pay 100 USD to get listed on Steam? Are you hopeful you will be making that money back? Are you paying it for different reasons than monetization?

Really cool that you’re sharing the source code

Maybe you can include the activity/kind of activity/what is happening in the name?

Ghost is well known. [As a non-native speaker] Spectre is not.

No idea what Hijinks is.

Ghost Mansion sounds like a Mario game level.

I think Haunted Mansion could be good. But surely games with that name already exist. So I would try to make it more unique. Including the activity, or personalizing it (using a character or something) could make that possible.