• Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.

GAMEPUMP - Service cancelled, everyone refunded + 2 bonus apology games

T

TheBrainninja

Member
Haven't received my (unrequested) refund yet, but very sad to hear it's imploding. I hope someone is able to resurrect the idea of porting old/lost games to modern distribution methods, because that's the real thing I fell in love with.
 
M

Miker

Member
Wonder what will happen to Lit. I imagine Wayforward will self-publish, I guess? Also, how long until duckroll updates the thread title :p
 
L

louiedog

Member
The Super Villains are still holding on to my money.

I wonder if the fairly low order numbers kept them from getting the necessary funding to really get going on this.
 
L

Lafazar

Member
Weird, I had two Gamepump subscriptions, both over Paypal.

One has been refunded, the other has not. The one I did later (after the supposed release date) has been refunded.

Maybe they are just refunding orders that came in after the deadline?
 
S

Stop It

Perfectly able to grasp the inherent value of the fishing game.
Lafazar said:
Weird, I had two Gamepump subscriptions, both over Paypal.

One has been refunded, the other has not. The one I did later (after the supposed release date) has been refunded.

Maybe they are just refunding orders that came in after the deadline?
Click to expand...
I ordered before the deadline and just got a refund e-mail. Shows on PayPal too. What's going on here?
 
T

TyMiles2012

Member
I literally got on to find this thread because I got refunded unexpectedly. Guess I'm not the only one. lol I actually forgot GamePump existed, honestly.

EDIT: Speaking of which, anyone know what would have caused this? Did they just shut down or something?
 
K

kulapik

Member
Tagyhag said:
I'm really bummed, this could have been something great.

They should have done a better job advertising it.
Click to expand...

It probably has nothing to do with the number of subscribers. What probably happened is that once those that they teamed up with saw that they had no publishing license and had to go through Greenlight, they said "fuck that" and backed out.
 
R

Ryo Hazuki

Member
Update: https://www.gamepump.com/announcements

SUBSCRIPTION CLOSED WITH FOCUS ON PUBLISHING

We have been working on GamePump for nearly a year and during that time we have been negotiating with nearly every major publisher in the world on rereleasing their back catalogs which currently do not appear on modern OS or PC marketplaces.

Over the course of these negotiations, some big games fell out, and several catalog's our lawyers were working on getting out of the graveyard of bankruptcy did not work out in our legal favor (meaning we weren't granted rights to commercially rerelease them).

By the end, we had a few great games we could republish to Steam, but when I evaluated the final slate of games that our subscribers would be getting, I felt we were not living up to the standard I had for the service.

Every game I produce, every service I launch, is because I am passionate about it.

If at any point, I feel that a project isn't going to blow you away, I'd rather face the disappointment and refund your money, than take your money and have you feel under served.

It is with that philosophy in mind that I have instructed our team to refund every subscriber their money and cancel the GamePump subscription.

Those who subscribed prior to cancellation will still receive the two promised games for Jan / Feb once they're on Steam (in the next 2 weeks, I'm told), as our FREE gift and our thank you for supporting this risky and experimental attempt at archiving our favorite and forgotten games of the past.

"What will happen to the great games you did find or develop?"

We will continue our focus on publishing the great games we did secure and the ones we had originally developed for the service, however since there isn't enough of those to justify a 12 month subscription, we will simply be publishing them to Steam, GOG, Humble, and other PC marketplaces as standard releases.

I genuinely want to thank you for your support and I'm sorry we weren't able to deliver on the promise.

It was important to us that we achieved this without using any subscriber money, so that we could ensure that you all received your full payment back if satisfaction was not guaranteed.

Many of you have already received your refund confirmations and if you have not, do not worry, our team is working overtime to ensure every customer is refunded their full amount in the next 48 hours. It takes 1-4 days depending on banking/payment method used to make your payment.

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Sincerely,

Robert Bowling

Founder, GamePump
Click to expand...
 
L

louiedog

Member
Announcement made

We still get 2 free games

Those who subscribed prior to cancellation will still receive the two promised games for Jan / Feb once they're on Steam (in the next 2 weeks, I'm told), as our FREE gift and our thank you for supporting this risky and experimental attempt at archiving our favorite and forgotten games of the past.
Click to expand...
 
K

kulapik

Member
"These games are niche as fuck and no one was going to subscribe to our subscription with them so we might as well get as much money as we can"
 
MulderYuffie

MulderYuffie

Member
Got refunded at least we get those two free games still I give them that I was pretty excited to see how this would turn out but at least they are trying to make this right even if it did fall through.
 
Wok

Wok

Member
SAD!

Hg6tYIy.png


YEY7eF2.png
 
T

Type40

Member
This is what they get for trying to do a Lootcrate style setup with digital games. A promise of mystery games will only attract the most gullible of people.
 
P

Parsnip

Member
Type40 said:
This is what they get for trying to do a Lootcrate style setup with digital games. A promise of mystery games will only attract the most gullible of people.
Click to expand...

The cheap price and the promise of games that have never been on PC before is what was attractive about it, not the mystery.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Sega considering Netflix-like game subscription service
News Business 2
98
4K
nial replied
Concord is being taken offline on September 6, purchases refunded
News 63 64 65 66 67
3K
182K
ArtHands replied
[Famitsu] Hulst: focus on service games despite Concord failure; UC2 has greatest impact in 30 years; aim to leverage legacy IPs, and more
Game Dev Platform 2 3 4 5 6
294
12K
mckmas8808 replied
Steam is getting proper season passes support, all DLCs must be listed with expected release dates, refund for cancelled season pass content
30
2K
geary replied
Project Boundary (Playstation China Hero Project game) is dead
5
1K
CamHostage replied
Top Bottom