Comment on Acclaimed roguelike studio behind Slay the Spire releases new deckbuilder after publicly abandoning Unity over fee debacle

lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What a weird take

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  • somegadgetguy@lemdro.id ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I know Louis CK is kinda on the out for references, but this was kinda spot on his bit about entitlement.

    “Something (given out for free) that I didn’t even know about until today, and is just a fun experiment to share and learn from? Not good enough!”

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    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I didn’t say it wasn’t good enough. I said they way they pitched it is a strange way to entice people to play it.

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• Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It was a game made in 3 weeks to see how the team likes Godot.

  Sheesh

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• modifier@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It was probably meant more for the community than the consumers, two overlapping but distinct groups.

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re probably right.

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• Aabbcc@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why?

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Downplaying the time and effort put into creating a product isn’t usually how you hype it up.

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    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s because it’s not a product. It’s an experiment for figuring out what they as a studio might be able to do with something new and untested. This is a trial run of a new engine, and they simply decided to publish the result for others to see.

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    • Aabbcc@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I feel like you’re missing the point that sometimes people make stuff for reasons besides maximizing the amount of money they make

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      • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If you put something out there, you want to maximize something. Probably attention in this case.

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• dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A comment the devs made on the steam announcement (under slay the spire) regarding someone being angry that this was prioritized over slay the spire 2:

  Hi there, this is just a small, free game we made in a few weeks for a game jam in order to get acquainted with the engine that our next big game is currently being ported to. We figured our fans would be interested in knowing what we’re up to as we work on our upcoming title since switching from Unity has extended its development time.

  We’re currently back to work on our next big game, this time refreshed and with lots of new tools under our belt! Hope people have a fun time trying this out if they’d like to!

  So it’s not like this is a big new genre for them, but it’s also not meant to be a commercial for Godot.

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• AnonTwo@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To your edit, you doubled down hard in later posts, so I wouldn't say the hostility isn't completely undeserved.

  I think you just really expected something different from what this was supposed to be, even when people explained to you exactly what it was supposed to be.

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wasn’t disparaging them in the follow up comments either.

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• Gamoc@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not seeing any hostility really, just disagreeing with you and explanations.

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