Nah. I’m sure SD had a similar development time, we’re just aware of it at this point, so it feels “delayed”.
It’ll be done when it’s done. Declaring it a lost cause just because the solo Dev hasn’t whipped it up in a year or two is misguided, to say the least.
There is also dwarf fortress, cogmind (which says it’s early access, but in reality the dev just loves his game) and many others. Some devs are just really awesome.
It’s kinda insane what No Man’s Sky is doing, too. Multiple free updates a year. They recently pushed an update to design and build your own corvette-class spaceships, and broke all their records for players ever.
NMS isn’t even a live service game! Sean and his team just do that free, and keep putting the game on huge sales at the same time. WTF Sean
Oh yeah each times Sean does this shit, forums and chats are filled with people mock-angrily ranting that now they need to find some more friends to buy it for lol. I’ve bought it for several friends myself. And some people buy it for several different platforms
And that meme of the dad with the belt? Every update, there’s a version on the reddit sub of Sean’s avatar “ITS FREE UPDATE TIME” (sometimes they put the update img on the belt), and the cowering kid being like “SEAN PLS NO! I have money”
Warframe is also the only f2p model game I’ve ever actually felt fairly treated in, they’ve even changed systems when they noticed they were ‘too’ profitable and didn’t feel comfortable with how that was affecting the players paying for them. Warframe is a live service game by design, but it also has a community of players happy to pay for it because they love it and want to show that to devs, rather than being strong-armed.
Players - or rather, people - really are willing to be a contributing part of the things and communities we love. We WANT the things we care about to succeed. Fear/control is easier, simpler; but love is so much more powerful.
Not sure why anyone would buy games at this point.
There are so many games available for free, and any new ones kinda suck donkey balls. Couple that with a shitty economy, grocery prices are through the roof, and it’s no surprise people aren’t wasting money on video games as much.
From what I saw of this whole debacle was that the CEO himself uses GenAI for mocking up things for presentations he gives to the rest of the staff, and not something they do in general at the studio.
All I wish for is Clint to get an online girlfriend, my wife to be able to hang out with her friends again, and the cute Joja cashier to move into town
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