The industry appears to be approaching an apocalyptic end, but for the developers of The End is Nigh times couldn’t be better. Announced via twitter by developer Tyler Glaiel following the game’s Steam Workshop integration the sales have exploded.
Not by a mere doubling or tripling, which would be fantastic figures in their own right, but by a whopping 1000 percent. It managed to even continue the strong sales trajectory after the conclusion of the daily deal promotion. For those unfamiliar with this particular promotion as I was, in the daily news once a day there is a special promotion offered by Steam. Often coming with a substantial markdown, the promotion also serves as advertisement for the various games that receive the promotion.
TEIN’s *full-price* sales are up by around 1000% after adding steam workshop to it, even after the daily deal ran out.
if people are making mods for your game, I highly recommend putting workshop inhttps://t.co/T7B55RiojW
— Tyler Glɑiel (@TylerGlaiel) October 27, 2019
In the mad rush of several developers and publishers to denounce Steam as greedy for having the audacity to demand the industry standard 30% there seems to be this loss of the benefits and the multiple features Steam offers to developers. Integrated mod support along with mod directory and hosting just expanded this games reach immensely.
In contrast without Steam Workshop support the developer would have to design their own database, their own curation system, and then pay to host the entire library themselves, all while updating their own code as time goes on, avoiding breaking their own mod support or requiring all the mod authors to return to older mods and overhaul them to work with the new code. Some developers do opt to take this path. Others simply use the tools provided for them by Valve to implement it at lower costs.
Glaiel himself goes on to say if people are making mods for your game it is recommendable to integrate Steam Workshop. Certainly there are advantages going both ways, one thing is clear. Having more options for both consumers and developers pays off in spades for everyone involved.
