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FYI, the parent commenter had never read Penny Arcade either, hence we were interacting from a position of presumably equal information regarding it. > Penny A

FYI, the parent commenter had never read Penny Arcade either, hence we were interacting from a position of presumably equal information regarding it. > Penny Arcade is massively popular within the gaming community (because it's a comic strip about computer gamers), and the decisions to showcase your indie game (or not) at one of their conferences has a direct impact on sales. Exactly. What his critics are essentially saying is, "We want him to stop making certain kinds of comic strips, but we also want to use his platform to sell our games." For an artist, that is ridiculous.

anigbrowl 13y ago
No they're not. The article is titled 'why I'm never going back to PAX'; the author's position is that she's given up on it. She quotes and links to two other developers who already don't go or won't go there again for the same reason, and quotes a 4th person who says that not going is difficult because since PAX is the biggest end-user game conference, staying away impacts sales. Generalizing from that observation as you did is inaccurate and misleading. Just because the other person is also uninformed on the subject doesn't mean you should skip reading the source article.