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It’s kind of amazing how much money and faith people dump into games for “nothing”. Crowd-funding and pre-orders are both money for “nothing” (no idea if you’l

It’s kind of amazing how much money and faith people dump into games for “nothing”. Crowd-funding and pre-orders are both money for “nothing” (no idea if you’ll even get what you expected). Gems and other game items are “nothing” (they’re not real things, the day the game server dies they go away). The overwhelming majority of previews are cinematics that show an idealized story with NO gameplay, and again people invest based on this “nothing”. Yet heaven forbid Netflix raise its prices by a dollar, or a restaurant, etc. There are so many miniscule investments that people refuse to make. Game company promising the world though? Wallets open!

LoSboccacc 8y ago
It was weird to watch the NMS train wreck happen in such fashion. Critical people were actively warning people this would happen, and yet everyone went literally nuts for a scripted cinematic. The whole thing smelled from the beginning, because there's people showing demos, there's people showing cinematic, but Murray showed a cinematic with a controller on hand pretending it was a demo. That's, like, as red as a flag could get. I'm glad the studio survived the whole con job, because the 500000 or so people getting sold on a dream actually made possible for them to survive to the NEXT patch, which is making me even consider the possibility of a purchase if the reviews are good and the netcode/servers are proven able to handle the load. But a word of warning, this is just them doing marketing before a major patch, so I'd be wary of the article content given the suspicious timing. That said, I wish people could live up to their mistakes instead of throwing death threats and harassing other people. For whatever Murray did, that kind of behavior is never warranted.

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It’s kind of amazing how much money and faith people dump into games for “nothing”. Crowd-funding and pre-orders are both money for “nothing” (no idea if you’l

by makecheck 8y ago

LoSboccacc 8y ago
It was weird to watch the NMS train wreck happen in such fashion. Critical people were actively warning people this would happen, and yet everyone went literally nuts for a scripted cinematic. The whole thing smelled from the beginning, because there's people showing demos, there's people showing cinematic, but Murray showed a cinematic with a controller on hand pretending it was a demo. That's, like, as red as a flag could get. I'm glad the studio survived the whole con job, because the 500000 or so people getting sold on a dream actually made possible for them to survive to the NEXT patch, which is making me even consider the possibility of a purchase if the reviews are good and the netcode/servers are proven able to handle the load. But a word of warning, this is just them doing marketing before a major patch, so I'd be wary of the article content given the suspicious timing. That said, I wish people could live up to their mistakes instead of throwing death threats and harassing other people. For whatever Murray did, that kind of behavior is never warranted.