Desura

[erico]

Hello chaps,

I´ve heard about late payments from Desura to devs since a while ago.
Latest news report their owner filed bankrupcy.
Here:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/#more-293199

We do have a few friends here selling their games over that store,
It would be interesting to hear what they have to say, did you run into any trouble?

Well, that is bad, I always thought good about Desura from the start.

Do we only have itch.io and humble bundle store left besides Steam?

[MrTAToad]

And on their website they said they were financially okay

[erico]

The magik about PR and industrial/institutional marketing.
Some say that they were lying, others state that at THAT time, it was their reality.

Strangely enough, last week I met a friend that I haven´t seen for about 7 years.
She is working with startups on digital marketing.

We had a little argument about the company´s work, as that as she said with fancy words seemed purely an excuse for SPAM to me.

[MrTAToad]

I wouldn't be surprised if there were dodgy goings on, or the parent company took on the company without a) checking its books anf b) making sure it was viable.

[erico]

There might also be the "kill the company, create a new one" move, but as the service is getting this kind of public attention,
I doubt such is viable.

[bigsofty]

Surprisingly enough they seemed to be a victim of over sales. Supposedly they were mid way through automising the sales processing as it currently was a manual system. They simply could not keep up with sales and we're falling more and more into debt in the process. If this is true then it's a monumentally stupid situation.

[MrTAToad]

I'm going to see what itch.io is like for showing off programs - I'll be starting off with my Triority/SDL2 games first to see how it all goes.

[erico]

I like itch.io system a lot, the owner seems to work really hard on the many usual app-store questions.
Either way, a good place to check is their blog here:
http://blog.itch.io/

some very nice info.