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GeoGuessr is making its way to Steam next month after almost 12 years of sticking it out as a browser game
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Why?
I found out recently that steam now let's devs create subscriptions as opposed to one-time charges, so it's 110% that
Ain't no way I'll pay that.
I would have discussed if it meant a one time payment but hell nah.
Google Maps API isn’t free
I mentioned one time pay.
If it's that expensive, I can't help you (or the devs) because I won't play it then :-)
Money.
They already added a subscription.
Up front cost cannot cover the ongoing API costs they must be paying for Google Maps. So either this has to be free and just a front end for the same shit, or they'll still end up net negative.
They are adding a "Steam pass", which doesn't let you play on the web and your web subscription doesnt let you play the Steam version. Just play Geotastic instead.
Trading Cards and probably TF2 hats.
Can run a little bitcoin mine in the background this way