Jagged Alliance 2: Wildfire Gets Steamed

News has come in that Jagged Alliance 2: Wildfire has been released on Steam. The classic tactics game is well worth its current asking price of $7.50, that’s for sure.

However, Gaming Blend is reporting that the version on Steam is currently very buggy and the money it makes does not go to the developers of the original game, but rather a team of modders, so you may want to stay away until the issues are sorted out or buy it from another digital service instead.

One of the reasons I love Kickstarter is because it cuts out this pesky virus known as a publisher. This virus basically feeds on currency of any and all kinds and usually it serves very little purpose other than to sometimes make people aware of a product, but in some cases even then they aren’t necessary. Well, one virus oops, I mean publisher has decided to take things a step further by denying a developer the necessary funds for their work on the game and in result, a very broken version of Jagged Alliance 2: Wildfire is on Steam right now.

The modding scene for Jagged Alliance 2 used to be pretty big back in the day, so I was surprised to see that a community-favorite project had found its way onto Steam’s store called Wildfire, designed by a group of modders going by the name I-Deal Games. However, it’s not all roses and daffodils.

There’s a pretty blatant warning on the forums about staying away from JA2: Wildfire because the proceeds of purchases will not go toward the developers and that the game itself has some pretty glaring bugs and glitches due to not being properly finished. What’s worse is that none of the planned patches have been released due to the hold up in funds.