Introducing Wargame Design Studios

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I dont said that Steam force developers offer discount, i say that using Steam made you enter in a bigger "sea" where you are not the only "shark" and if your plan is not offer discounts with developers offering them you are going to be eated by competitors.

Most wargame developers on Steam rarely do any discounts at all and if they do its mostly -10% or -15%.
PzB would have no competition on Steam because there is no other platoon level WW2 hex&counter wargame currently on Steam.
It would be the shark !

Some years ago find wargames in Steam was at least rare, now the "big sharks" of wargames "niche" are in Steam, they can offer similar products (not all close to the type of games Tiller offer) and with discounts in a range of 20-50% (i see bigger discounts for example with "Hell" even few weeks after release) and this help them sell with the discount bait... enter in Steam with no plans to release some kind of discounts to buff shells to mantein interest in serie... outside launch of game wargames appear in first line with discounts, new releases of that kind of "indi" wargames are not in the front page of Steam and for many guys this is where know about invest money.

Just because some obscure "Hell" game by Slitherine Ltd. was discounted this means nothing.
Its most likely a deliberate move by Slitherine Ltd. to attract more people to the game thats all, most real wargames dont need any sales because they attract enough people without it.
Slitherine Ltd. is maybe the biggest wargame dev on steam and even they do rarely big discounts.

Apart this Tiller games are not "cheap" cheaper than Matrix-Slitherine YES but are the kind of games that people want "touch" before invest money specially for guys that are out of wargaming... this is why i find interesting offer Demo in Steam, explore if there is enough interest and well, try have Steam as alternative plataform to offer the games and if we can see in future somekind of discount for them better for customers and better for devs because this means that games have good sells and is possible "lose" money to sell them.

Thats basically what i said (without the discount part because you dont need them).

1) Release the free demo on Steam
2) Do a Steam Greenlight for PzB3 (you will see many people are interested in such a game !)
3) Release PzB3 on Steam
4) Enjoy your success and release more PzB titles on Steam.