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I actually responded to him... that was pretty insulting.

The developer sounds delusional, maybe as a result of being rejected by GOG. Yeah, buddy, GOG's going to throw away the one real advantage it has over other stores (being exclusively DRM-free) because your game is just that good. What an ego.

EDIT: After reading some of the later posts by the developers in that thread, I am so mad right now. Their arrogance is incredible. They genuinely believe that they are somehow victims in this situation, and that they should be exempt from GOG's most important rule. Unbelievable.

So am I to infer that there is absolutely NO AI in Gremlins? It's strictly a game where players connect and play other players?

Or is that quote just total BS from the guy?

YAY!
Oh, wait.
NAY! ;)

Dude, that's our flagship in here. My bro who lives in the middle of the jungle ONLY plays gog games. No internet connection available, "kinda". Always online? Nay. Period.

I made sure to read the whole thread, and having two dev's in there defending the game making up almost 50% of the posts running defense doesn't make me feel like the game has the brightest future.

I also enjoyed this part. We can see the start of the problem right there. Going into things with zero interest in even thinking about longevity. They seem to think the game is really only viable as a multiplayer experience. I don't know how true that is here, but those kind of experiences are valid and worth exploring. That said, that sort of thing tends to be more contrived than actually legitimate. When it is legitimate then people have to want to play today. There is no tomorrow in multiplayer, and such things aren't really useful to game collectors that buy games thinking, "I'll probably get around to it." I can't collect this. It's only for a moment. That may be natural and fine for what this game is, but I can't collect it.

I'm someone that actually has had the opportunity to dig my past out of a box and replay my childhood. It's a pretty damn cool thing to be able to do. It's nifty that we can keep updating games and growing them over time, it makes some really bad ass stuff possible that wasn't a thing 20 years ago, but it also means a lot more of what we have is fleeting. I'm pretty concerned that people today won't have near as many options to flashback as I have had. 20 years seems like a lot of time and till you've lived it, and lots of things last 20 years when you don't deliberately set out to build them in ways that are time fragile.

Anyway. It sounds like they said to would take 50 sales per month to keep up their servers. Even with a 100k in sales out of the gate I'm having a hard time picturing them staying above 50 copies a month 2 or 3 years in. Good luck I guess.

Might be a language issue but they definitely sounds very douchy.

Making an always online multiplayer only game is one thing, and there is nothing "wrong" about that (as long as there is a valid reason for calling the game "multiplayer only"), but it's not an excuse for being a total douche about it.

Found this in my steam inventory: No thanks.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/369990/discussions/0/412449508278303101/

:D

+1. I am not into multiplayer anyway but if I were I wouldn'tr buy from this company because I simply don't like their attitude they expressed on steam. They make games to last for 30-40 hours of fun and don't care about later (all above is a big bonus). As a potential buyer and collector I want to be able to play my games as long as I can. Everybody on GOG which is known to preserve good games will surely understand this.

I was wondering if they were even allowed to use the GOG logo at all. They advertize their game using the GOG logo and the GOG wishlist but they still do everything GOG is against.

Interesting. Perhaps GOG does have something cool to hide, but we of course must wait and see.

Not a language issue. There is nothing discernibly wrong with their ability to communicate ideas in the language they are discussing them in. What they are doing is engaging in an all out defensive battle with people on the internet that are questioning design choices.

Honestly, they don't owe anyone an explanation, and they should be able to voice their opinion the same as anyone. I wouldn't even be shocked if I behaved the same way if I was in their position, but this sort of thing doesn't seem to ever end well. At this point it's fallen into full on mud slinging. It sucks to say he shouldn't be slinging mud when it's getting tossed his way, but the dev has to try and take the high road and stop talking. That is't happening.

More over, the deterioration of the conversation at each stage looks linked to one dev being overly defensive while marginalizing the concept the complaints are founded on. The whole "Please do not mistake the content for the medium" thing is a bit much given that he seems totally uninterested in providing the "content" in a different "medium" while insinuating that longevity isn't an issue because it could be in a new medium in the future. In this context each "medium" takes work to translate the content into something viable for that platform which, again, is the whole thing he is taking issue with.

He keeps talking about re-building. Ok, yeah, it's too late. Totally hear that. You can make things that can't be turned into other things. That's real thing. The thing I think a lot of us want is for devs to stop making decisions before they build that more or less guarantee a game has a short lifespan. It's their game and their business, but don't expect everyone to like it, or embrace it. And don't complain about getting hit with bullets that should be getting fired at Blizzard after calling people that don't like your choices superstitious. This is the internet. It doesn't let you say shit about shit without getting some shit in return. Just take.

I'm probably investing too much in this here though. Developers mixing it up with the people isn't a new thing.

^^ The famous flood of games most likely. (talking about Tfishell post here :) )

I wonder if the lack of busness dev director ( https://www.gog.com/work#/business-development-business-development-director ), since the departure of Rambourg, isn't creating some delays in the release schedule's. I mean, even if they find someone in the next month, there should be some kind of gap in the releases.

I'm sure the lack of staff in general is slowing things down, sadly. I mean there are 24 openings currently. I just wish I could find somebody to "complete" the wishlist entries I keep sharing - we need a new community manager! :P