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Yeah, especially considering Summer Games Done Quick just ended, it seems like a weird take on things. An entire week dedicated to speedrunning the love of the
by mkane848 7y ago
Yeah, especially considering Summer Games Done Quick just ended, it seems like a weird take on things. An entire week dedicated to speedrunning the love of the various franchises that were on display.
To see people speedrunning as a negative is just...odd. People played it, and not only that, put the time and effort in to explore it and share with friends. What's the problem? How is spending literal hours collecting secrets and brute-forcing new tech "destroying" the game? Someone's clearly never run a game of D&D before, because I'd be ecstatic if people took literally anything I created and expanding it into a new form I couldn't have gotten on my own.
Imagine, instead of complaining about the exposure, the game's creator used the feedback for another level (LEAVING the exploits in) and leaning on them as intended tech instead of seeing it as some "look how they massacred my boy" pity party. Crazy, doesn't even have to rewrite any engine code, just design a new level that emphasizes the new tech for these speedrunners.
Average Joes can still play the "normal" version to practice, then ramp up to the new one. Why piss on a community that's shining a light on and celebrating your work? Author even ends with "It was difficult to watch them do this to my game but I learned to love watching them" - so is it just a clickbait title? Have I been played? Should I have listened to DJ Khaled?
- jowsie 7y agoWorth noting this post is from 11 days ago, before SGDQ started.
- hdfbdtbcdg 7y agoAs the game's author says in the article > but I learned to love watching them. Their skill truly amazes me. I got the impression that the game's author is seriously happy about all this. The timing of the article before a speedrunning event looks like it is intended for maximal publicity. I'm not sure where you got the impression you did about the content of the article?
- c0vfefe 7y agoIt's called clickbait, guys.
- ddrdrck_ 7y agoDidn't it occur to you that this little piece of rambling was not meant to be taken literally ?