What's next?

holy shit no it would be a lloooonnnngg time before this game gets 100,000 people, and one thing I noticed is that an indie game usually either gets next to no players or it goes crazy popular like minecraft/terraria/limbo/etc etc

 

I remember a thread of people updating the wikia and everything it should be half way done by now, they are doing two links (one for beta and classic for the other) but they just removed it and narrowed it down to 1 site, if not we could just start now ! :3

 

Oh man I want an old fag server with a password so i can actually have a challenge against people i know are at least half decent. Not that i wont play with the new comers its just that i dont want to not be able to get to my friends in beta. this way we would actually have a place to go to like club house :3

 

You make it sound like it's going to instantly have as many players as TF2.
I wouldn't think it would be that hard to play with people you know, Kstalk might help in that area if you are though.
I do though, advocate for a private server for the guys of pre-steam just for the sake of playing a good game if you're having trouble with the plebeians.
EDIT
I thought I would to add (since it might not be clear), I have no bias against the upcoming
'steam wave' or the people associated with it.

 

You know KAG devs. When they say 'next month' they actually mean next year.

 

Is this for classic too?

 

I'm so happy, the game is finally coming to steam

 

My guess is that classic will get phased out at some point, kind of like how minecraft classic did

OT: A few questions about the steam release I have,

1. Will KAG use steam workshop in anyway?
2. Will KAG use any of the steam social features? like inviting my friends to a game, having an icon appear next to my friends name on the scoreboard, things like that.
3. Will I only have to log in once if I start the game? or will it be steam players will have to log in again after the game starts like in half of EA's games.
4. any chance of some KAG trading cards on steam? I don't even like trading cards but I would still love some KAG ones XD

 

I can answer question 1 and 3

1. No KAG wont be using the steam workshop

3.Since you are an oldfag and already have an account on kag, you get a steam key, redeem it,link you're steam account then open kag and continue to use the same name as eamono, and you can just tick 'remember me'

 

What happens when y'all make a shit load of money? Will you and MM finally go on that honeymoon to Aruba?

 

I would highly suggest at least adding Steam Friends features right from the start. It doesn't matter how good a game is, if the Steam implementation is bad or incomplete then people will call it a buggy / frustrating game.

It might take extra time investment to make Steam integration feel "perfect" and this might give it more features than Steam-less KAG (like a friends list). However, in reality Steam is actually 90% of your investment. If we were talking about Desura it would be a different conversation.

KAG is a primarily multiplayer game. A friends list where you can instantly join a buddy's server is expected. If you don't add the ability to quick join a friend off Steam's friends list, anyone who naturally goes to try and do it is going to ask themselves "Why doesn't this just simply work?".

"I don't expect much in the way of integration though, you probably shouldn't either"
Ultimately, purchasers on Steam will have expectations about integration and it will hurt the game's image without them.