For the higher a part of a decade, French gaming builders Laurent Lechat and Boris Marmontel had their sport Planet Centauri in early entry on Steam. Nevertheless, the sport’s 1.0 launch arrived final 12 months with a convincing thud, and Valve is accepting the blame for not notifying the 100,000-plus gamers who had wishlisted it on Steam.
In a current publish on Reddit (through Polygon), Lechat shared excerpts from an e-mail despatched out by Valve that defined why Planet Centauri’s launch did not get a lot traction.
“We discovered a bug that impacted a really small variety of sport releases (lower than 100 since 2015) the place wishlist e-mail notifications for the launch of a sport weren’t despatched,” wrote a Valve spokesperson. “Sadly, your sport Planet Centauri was amongst these included. We intend for this characteristic to work for each sport and we’re inviting you to a Each day Deal as a approach to assist make up for misplaced visibility out of your launch day.”
Lechat defined at size how the dismal response to Planet Centauri disheartened himself and Marmontel. He additionally appeared cautious about Valve’s provide earlier than different customers on Reddit urged them to simply accept the added visibility of a Each day Deal on Steam’s homepage.
Since Planet Centauri’s story has been making the rounds, there was a small uptick of concurrent players to 105. That is not an enormous quantity, however some gamers have given the sport a shot and shared largely optimistic critiques. Though a few of the different critiques on Steam have famous that Planet Centauri has noticeable flaws and nonetheless looks like an early-access launch.
Lechat and Marmontel are at the moment engaged on a brand new roguelike sport that makes use of the engine they constructed for Planet Centauri. The duo stated that they’ve a monetary obligation to complete that sport earlier than they’re going to be free to work on future patches for Planet Centauri.