I mean, you literally defined cosmetic DLCs as microtransactions.
They are microtransactions.
I'd sooner TFP start up a donation page if they really need the money that badly.
last time I checked a poll isnt an argument.
no one makes a game start to finish without feedback from other people testing the game.
two thoughts can exist at the same time...what I was highlighting was that he has no idea how long it will take to get Bandits done, let alone the entire game, but, they put "overly optimistic" dates on the road map. THAT is what I have been calling BS on. Yes, they should release features when they are actually ready...also Yes, they should not have put out a "reasonable" timeline for how long it would take them to finish the game....when they knew they could not meet it.I've never said that. Can't speak for anyone else.
I don't think console manufacturers are an unnamed entity. Shadowy? Debatable.
Like it or not, independent studios have to work with console manufacturers to do any number of things, including getting their games rubber stamped for mod support on console. As I said, I don't how their negotiations went or even if TFP were involved as much as the partner they chose to port the game to console. All those processes, especially across companies, are unknown to us.
You're probably not going to like what I have to say about that, but Joel's response sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Software and video game development is not just like changing a tire. For all the reasons noted above (the triple A fiascos, etc.) I'd much rather hear, "when it's done," than some clueless executive far removed from the hands-on development of the game having the power to say, "We have to show a profit this quarter. Release it, ready or not." That's how developers get blamed for stuff that is no way their fault. They're robbed of the power to make the decisions that, in all good conscience, should be made by them. Those CD Projekt developers were ignored by the suits when they warned Cyberpunk 2077 required two more years development time. Yet, they were blamed for the state of the game on release, called "lazy developers" and all kinds of equally stupid ■■■■. I can imagine how they felt. I can imagine how TFP feels when players project their own ■■■■ on them. It's called empathy.
I get that it is "no skin off your back", it is a common refrain from the PC gamer crowd...I was asking if you could, given the timescales he was using, understand why I call bs on the initial timeline they RESOLD the game to us on.
Well...they SOLD THE CONSOLE RIGHTS to TellTale the first time...this time they retained them, so any problems, and hopefully do not have any, with the console port, the game will still be in their control. That is an improvement.
they used FOMO in the dev streams Pre Launch. They said it would not be going on sale for a long time...that the 25% loyalty discount was only for one month.
Maybe my understanding of what microtransactions are is wrong then.
They replaced the quit button with the DLC button, and moved the quit button to the bottom right. This annoys me, as I often click on it just out of habit.
I never said they never used FOMO ever. They just haven’t used them for microtransactions by limiting them to a season as many games do.
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True. As much as they love science fiction, I don't get the impression much of anyone in Silicon Valley has ever read M. S.. Forster's 'The Machine Stops'. Strange how many of us apparently looked forward to a somewhat Star Trek- like future and we're getting Fallout and Blade Runner instead.
That's very dramatic, but I just see and name things what they are and believe I've said at some point that I neither praise nor condemn TFP for adopting the practice. "Cosmetic DLC," however propagandized that term is, are considered acceptable by most. As I also said, there no laws against them; no near-universal public stigma attached to them as there is to, say; smoking etc. I'm certainly not going to try to change anyone's minds about them, much less pursue legal means to get rid of them. Self-governance is just that in my mind and we could all be better at it, afic. I'm personally disappointed TFP has employed them. That's all. They seem to be trying their best to avoid the kind of predatory practices that have taken over the triple A space; have gone the nonpredatory, distributed, user-administered server route surprisingly advocated by the likes of John Carmack; etc. It was their business practices much more than the game itself that caused me, at least, to view them as a scrappy independent. They did hop aboard the live service train with Bloodmoons, as I see it, but unfortunately for them, that particular train had already left the building, i.e. the live service financial bubble already had burst. I wish them luck because the odds are stacked against the scrappy independents.
