Headup Games are trying an interesting tactic to get more Steam Greenlight up votes for their game, Bridge Constructor: they’re giving it away for free. Expressing their frustration at not getting into the Greenlight top 100, the company have suggested that people might like to vote them up in exchange for getting the game entirely for no pennies (and DRM free). It’s a bold and brave move, and you can see from it just how important getting on to Steam is for companies like Headup, that they’ll give their product away to Greenlight voters in order to get noticed. It’ll be interesting to see whether anyone else employs similar tactics to get those vital upvotes as competition hots up.
After all, Steam is continuing to grow as a market, and recent peaked with six million concurrent users over Thanksgiving weekend. PC Gaming/Dead, etc,
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Let's try something new: Get the game for free and kindly give us an upvote!
November 26th, 2012 - Headup Games
So got stuck are just a small step from making it into the Greenlight top 100.
This is very frustrating :-)
So how about this: For the next week you can simply get the game for free (no DRM as well) and hope that you will give us your upvote as a kind gesture. Everybody wins (hopefully). And if you are super-nice please also tell your friends and point them here.
So feel free to get the full game from this link: Bridge Constructor download
One thing we can't offer of course are free STEAM keys later for the people who download the game now, but we would assume this to be understandable as the downloads are untraceable. We don't record them.
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