Prey Dev Diary

We would love for the downloaded version of the game to be cheaper, but retailers have a noose around our necks, at least for the time being. If we sell the game direct for cheaper that they do in stores, they will not carry the game in stores. And since retail still represents 90% of sales, that's too big to mess with.

Also, digital delivery isn't free for the delivery service, or anywhere close to free. Bandwidth eats a pretty penny, plus Triton is a 30 person company that's been developing this tech for years, and that's dug quite a whole to recover from. They've survived on investor money up to this point.

I think in a few weeks Triton will have most the kinks worked out, and the service will take off based on its technical strengths, which are significant.

Welp, I just pre-ordered through that Triton service. I chose a nick with 5 characters. No problem. After paying my $50 (BTW, so much for games being cheaper when distributed digitally) I'm asked to "click here to donwload" (SIC) the Triton app.

I go to log-in to the app and I get "Name must be at least 6 characters!"

What a fucking brain trust. Hey George, what was the criteria in choosing these guys over Steam which at least has most of the bugs worked out of it?

The demo was kickass, I hope the rest of game does as well.