Game cards can be sold on the Steam marketplace. Whenever someone puts a card for sale on the marketplace, a fee is added on top. Steam adds (and takes) 5% of the set sell price. The game's publisher can set a custom % to add (and take) to the transaction.

So if you were to put a card for sale for 5 cents, this generally means 2 cents gets added on top. 1 cent for Steam, 1 cent for the publisher.

I have no idea how much money publishers actually make from cards alone on Steam. Given it's a matter of cents I don't imagine it's all that much in the grand scheme of things. Maybe a few hundred bucks over a few years.

I just read about the release date on fb. Now i can't wait for the preorder button to become available! (and of course a "thank you" to J.A.W.)

Oh, ok. I thought only steam gets additional profit per card sold

I guess ill eat my words, Scratch the Dec 2015 release date, looks like its going to come out 10 months early ;)

Will Alf’s Escape be out on PC at launch?

It has a image from Alf's Escape on the blog post. So one will assume so.

Why preordering the game?

Well I'm going to pre-order it because

1) I would buy it on the first day of release anyway
2) -10% off? Count me in!

Wait that's all the reasons I have, I am just looking forward to play it and I am definitely going to pre-order.

10% off = 2 bucks to spend on the game's trading cards and complete the badge.

what he said.

besides, they mentioned something about preorder bonuses? maybe alf will be free for those who preorder hopefully? or it may have a better price?

I'll pre-order even though though pre-orders are stupid and the discount is tiny. God knows why.

They're on Steam!

Theyre on ps3 as well...

Yes but I'm almost certain that STM doesn't have a PS3.

e: And PSN is over double the price.

I hope that the game will have auto configurations for Xbox One controllers in the Steam edition. With all the fancy rumbling ta boot.

I know but nothing beats the old PS1 for me. I think Oddhunter gifted them to me.

You know me so well <3

2 bucks won't get you very far. Unless you only want to craft the badge once :tard:

The PC version was running with an Xbox 360 controller at Play Expo last year, so I think it's safe to say that New 'n' Tasty on Steam will work very nicely with one. :fuzwink:

Alf's Escape will of course be on Steam, although exact date and price details aren't yet revealed.

I guess so... ;)

Excellent! I can hook it up to my brothers tv then. Just hope my new laptop can handle it on the best settings. <.<

Depends on the laptop, I guess. We'll announce specs in the coming weeks.

My PS4 handles it on the best settings.

The PS4 version doesn't have any setting sliders. :)

I need to get as much of that gorgeous bloom as possible! ;)

But it does have my name on top of the leaderboards :D

Ha, you win! :fuzgrin:

Yay, go me!

Here's a wee suggestion - don't know how realistic it is given the timeframe - but I think you should advertise the ability to switch to Old School controls within the game somehow. Considering, on twitter, the amount of people you guys reply to that have no idea that it can be done. Similarly to how some FPS (like Halo) give the player a short tutorial on camera movement and tell them they get switch to inverted controls.

If not perhaps it's something to think about if you guys ever get to working on Twice the Flavour and are remaking this screen:

http://i.imgur.com/lHETnxo.jpg?1

Quoting Wil's post to ask the question: did anyone else think that he was implying that there's still months of work to do now?

Emphasis on the 'implying' rather than 'saying'.

I hope not.

That's how I thought it sounded. But I'm dumb.

I even started a sentence with a conjunction.