Phoenix Point - Video Review

[ChienAboyeur]

This studio has played the stream game and distributed sponsorship to streamers.
Streamers who would have streamed it anyway usually reject this kind of deal but others are attracted. Others whose forte is not this kind of products.
Which gives another insight on the difficulty level.

This assumes you know how much of that extra money went toward the product and how much of it went toward their pockets.

The result of two centuries of institutionalized double standard. It must be different this time.

Unneeded. In all cases, this deal put more money in the devs'pockets. They do as they want with the money. Same as for any other distributor. Steam not excluded, especially versus other kinds of retailers.

Going that way, if they had released on Steam, it could have been said that devs had taken from their own money to make up for the larger cut taxed by Steam.

Or that any dev releasing on Steam and not exclusively on Epic takes from their own money to compensate.

 

[ChienAboyeur]

After one week, streaming of this product has slowly died.

Sponsored streamers took the money (considered who took up the opportunity, it must have been quite open) but even dedicated streamers are somehow out. Some even reverted to XCOM.

Big surprise with all that talking about XCOM turning into a genre etc Not sure that this product sold enough to fund further developpment.

Knowing whether there is a XCOM 3 on the pipe is the question right now.

Demand for this kind of products is not as high as expected.

 

[ChienAboyeur]

After investigation, sponsorship was indeed open and news, quite rewarding.

And this was coupled with a salesperson operation: streamers were given a discount code with an interest on it.

They tried to use streaming to ramp up sales. Might not be that a success.

Developpments are worth monitoring.