Grim Misadventure #165 - Bring them to Darkness

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I was hoping someone had seen something semi confirming that Crate was sticking with Steam, and Medea posted a positive comment, I was just hoping to literally see Zantai say “We will never do Epic exclusive!” LOL

I suppose technically Zantai wouldn’t be 100% capable of making that claim - unless, of course, he heard it come direct from medierra’s mouth, the person who calls all such shots concerning Crate.

I would say that this quote from medierra would be somewhat revealing concerning to what extent he’d let money influence his decisions:

Mysterious uptick in sales since Nov 2nd...

To answer your other question about us become a bloated mega-corp - probably not anytime soon haha. The other benefit of being a single-owner company is that I’m pretty happy with how things are and I don’t feel like I need anymore money, beyond us just continuing to make profits like we are.
So there isn’t much attraction to “blowing up big” for me. I feel like the detraction of having to manage a larger company would greatly outweigh any benefit of moar money at this point.

We’ve gotten inquiries by potential investors looking to dump some money on us for some bigger project but that just seems like a headache to me, dealing with investors and suddenly having to schedule milestones and report what we’re doing, convince outside people to let us do this or that… no thanks!

That said, I wouldn’t mind growing a bit more, as I do have an interest in working on different games and it’s fun to see things progressing and taking shape - ideally at a somewhat faster rate than often is the case with us haha. Currently we have just enough people to work on our “new game” plus a GD expansion. I think we’ll be stretched thin if we start another totally new project. We’re actually in a weird spot currently where it would be great to hire another artist to wrap up FG but after that is finished, there would then be a lull before we get the next thing rolling, where we might not have enough work to go around… so it’s better to just try to grind through with the team we have for now, then hire later, once future things are in production.

Anyway, I honestly doubt Crate would do an Epic exclusive, timed or otherwise. Isn’t really their style.

Could it change? Sure. Maybe he abhors the idea of it. Then again, none of us are prophets and seers… it’s just as imaginable that at some future point his view on it changes even if at this point (hypothetically speaking) the idea abhors him.

Who’s to say, really?