Off topic but I wonder how profitable are lewd games on Steam, shame we don't have reliable sales data anymore.
but I will check the Steam reviews for DA just to see if anyone lament not getting it on with X girl which was in the game but they just missed it.
There was never reliable sales data for Steam. Always just ballpark estimates at best. It's even worse now because of the privacy changes and game information on profiles being private by default. So any game data gotten from profile fetching is going to be much much higher than it says.
Profitability wise, I'd say Steam is likely responsible for most of the sales for games that release on Steam, along with Mangagamer, JAST, Denpasoft, DLsite, etc. In fact we've already heard some developers come out and say that. It's just much easier for people to buy on Steam. Everyone is generally able to buy a Steam card or get Wallet funds. Not everyone is going to be able to make in some cases international transactions or pay for things with a Credit or Debit card only.
Some people just buy the stuff on Steam regardless because they want to support Adult Only content on the platform. It's a good and bad thing though, because you will see circles / developers start to cater to what Steam approves of, and if they decide to ban the title then it's very damaging. There's certain things Valve doesn't want on Steam, and that's anything clearly walking within a gray area on underage content. So loli content, school settings, etc.
I doubt you'll see any reviews like that. Most people know what's up, and the game has a clear scene selection playback for people to see what they've missed.
If you want to have a mandatory 2-4 weeks waiting period of beta testing and beating all the bushes on every update .. sure, tell it to the dev. Has no one noticed they made the dev effectively delay the launch for 2 weeks because it has to be ... incoming to build hype?
You wouldn't need to have that every update. It's just a two week period once the Store Page is created before you can actually sell it.
I was asking
Philly_Games about CoBD early access, not the DA preorder. It could conceivably be a way to get a nice flow of funds from a wider audience since a lot of people already have Steam. Plus there is a lot of Cyberpunk interest to take advantage of, with CP2077 coming up next year, the new tabletop Cyberpunk that just came out, the recent release of BR2049, etc.
I'd say probably early access isn't a good thing. It's honestly kind of frowned upon, and some users just block all early access titles to begin with. Then you have to consider what is fair to Patrons also, because you can't re-charge per update for an early access title. There needs to be pricing parity also. So it would be best to just wait until CoBD is finished and then release it on Steam. Hopefully with DA release you will even gain some patrons because of it.
Also, you have to opt-in to even be able to see Adult Only content on the store, so the visibility of AO titles is smaller than normally.
