I started cycling on the wrong side of the road because I can be responsible for my own safety that way. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been endangered by some driver acting like I wasn’t on the road at all while going on the right side.
A couple years ago I had a similar reaction with folks saying that Drake (who at that point I had never heard of) was a bigger name than Taylor Swift. I laughed and googled his name only to find out that the claim was not as far fetched as I first imagined. I guess no name is truly universally known.
Did people pay for the game before or after the developer removed any references to it being an MMO?
If they made something that is not an MMO it’s only natural that they won’t want it to be presented as if it was one, even if they originally intended to create the game as an MMO.
I don’t think the game deserves to be cruficied just for failing to reach the goals the devs had in mind, as long as it is not being sold as if it had. Folks can buy the game, realize it’s not what they hoped for, refund and move on. Or better yet, hopefully they can realize it’s not the game they were expecting based on the store page and not even buy it in the first place.
Now if the dev is misleading people about what the game is, or if people paid for one thing long ago and received another in the end, then nevermind me and carry on.
I think they’re just talking about the game being open world in a full planet that you can clearly see is a planet and is large and diverse enough to actually feel like a full planet.
Still not the first at that either. Valheim for example is a round planet and open world and has several biomes. But there the world isn’t really impressive, so maybe that’s what they are trying to be the first of?
Based on the trailer they are clearly trying to be the first game to actually achieve something but it’s hard to define what that something really is.
Because it wasn’t a game, it was a gamified data collection app. If someone actually wanted to make a game with this concept, it could turn out well, but that was never Niantic’s intention.
Feels like any dev who wants to use the regional pricing will have more work now and before the change. This was probably done in favor of big publishers who treat the regional price as a small discount instead of a fair price.
Not exactly. Of course Gabe could be replaced by some idiot who fucks everything up, but if Valve doesn’t become publicly traded it will continue to be in the best interest of whoever ends up owning it to continue doing things this way. Gabe doesn’t do good things just because. He does it because happy customers means more money in the long run.
Publicly traded companies on the other hand need to extract as much money as quickly as possible and have no regards to what will happen to it a few months later. So even if Gabe dies, all Valve needs is a leader interested in what’s best for itself.
I just had a revolutionary idea: what if every time you reach a new point in a game, it showed you a certain sequence of icons related to that point in the game. Then, if you ever want to play that part of the game again you can just insert that same sequence of icons into an option of the game and it’ll play from there.
Then people could also share the sequences they discover with their friends, allowing said friends to skip part of the game if they want to.