Oh, look! My feature on Desura has just gone up at Rock, Paper, Shotgun. You should probably go read that. In case you wanted more delightful quotes from the man behind the plan, Scott Reismanis, there were a few bits and bats from my interview that didn’t end up making the edit for the RPS piece. They’re posted below, with a bit of annotation where bits have been chopped about. Read on to find out about how the team are anxious, what the entry criteria for publishing a mod or game are, Scott’s thoughts on Steam and DRM, and how you pronounce the bally thing.
UserCreated: So. More than a year of stealth-working on the project. Excited to have finally unveiled it? Looking forward to launch?
Scott Reismanis: A mixture of excitement and anxiety is what the team of four people felt. On one hand, it was great to finally be able to talk about what we have been working on, and the overwhelmingly positive response from beta users has been fantastic. On the other hand I felt the entrepreneur mantra of “release early, release often” didn’t apply to us, since despite what we say and do, Desura will be compared to Steam, Direct2Drive and GamersGate. Launching an unpolished product wasn’t an option against such established competition, so we wanted to make our first impression last, which lead to the anxiety!
[Talk swings towards the comparisons with Steam. Scott likes Steam, and thinks it's done a great job, but has some reservations. He wants Desura to be more accessible to developers, he says. But will this mean a lack of quality control, I wonder?]
UC: What sort of criteria do you have in place for mods and games wishing to distribute via the service? Do you have the same sort of vetting process as your competitors?
SR: First and foremost, bugs, crashes and unfinished content will not be published. Beyond that our only real criteria is fun. If the game is enjoyable and we feel our community will respond to it, we shall list it. If not we endeavour to be as transparent as possible and help the developers understand what they need to do to get their game or mod on Desura.
[The conversation moves in the direction of Desura's ease of use - it's one-click install and installation wizard features, and so forth. Scott reckons they're both awesome. I reckon it might be even easier to get stuff working than it is through Steam. But I'm still curious as to what Scott's views are on where Desura sits in the market, and whether he thinks people will be accepting of a new digital distribution client.]
UC: Do you see Valve’s client as a direct competitor, or are you aiming at a different audience? Similarly, do you think people will be happy to make the move from one to the other, or do you expect people will use both?
SR: All of the above, really. Valve is a competitor, and yet I believe there is room in the market for two services. Competition is good for consumers and we aim to provide a legitimate substitute for Steam. In the short term we are shooting for a totally different audience since we have a strong focus on mods and indies, but in the long run I believe we can provide a one-stop-shop for gamers. Desura can work hand-in-hand with Steam, so some users may use Steam to buy games and Desura to get mods and add-ons. That’s fine, we expect that but we also expect a lot to buy games on Desura once they know how easy and enjoyable it is to use. We’ve seen a lot of people complain about another “app” to run in their taskbar, but we have also seen a lot welcome our announcement with open arms. Growing will be slow but our differences definitely justify gamers’ attention.
[I then ask something that has nothing at all to do with mods, but which you might be interested in anyway.]
UC: What’s the deal with copy protection methods? Obviously that’s the big controversial topic at the moment. I assume it’s something on your minds…
SR: That really is up to the game publishers. We have various means available to developers, which they can build into their games to authenticate their Desura customers. The main difference between us and Steam is that Desura can run “silently” in the background and doesn’t need to be open. If they want more – a la DRM – which many of the larger publishers will enforce if we are to release their game, that is up to them to implement into their game and to discuss with us. Like gamers, though, we believe there have to be better solutions out there. After all, it’s the pirates that should be punished, and not the customers.
[We natter about Desura's community focus for a while, and the ways in which the service aims to bring together developers and fan-bases. It sounds rather exciting. We talk about the ways in which it's an evolution of ModDB, and how it synchronises with that website. But something's been bugging me all along...]
UC: Okay, confession time: I’ve no idea how it’s pronounced. De-SUR-a? DE-sura? DE-zura? Seriously, I have no idea.
SR: Three syllables each with a consonant and a vowel is how I pronounce it. So De-Su-Ra. Then again if I say it in a sentence I pronounce it Des-Ura. I’ll have to send you a voice recording.
[Scott has not, as yet, sent me a voice recording. Anyway, it's going to launch in April, but it might not be absolutely finished by that time, and they'll respond to user feedback to tweak and improve it as the months tick on. It's time to round up.]
UC: Anything else you’d like to talk about with regards to Desura?
SR: We welcome ideas and suggestions from gamers and press as well as developers and publishers, so if you want to participate in the beta we are available via support@desura.com any time.
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