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  • MustrumR@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.mlYARRR
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    5 months ago

    The thing is that Steam doesn’t have a history of shutting down a significant fraction of games they have available by themselves. Hence people don’t criticize them.

    Also you can (not saying that you should, I personally don’t trust Gabe) put some tust in a private owned company if you trust the owners.

    In case of public companies they are forced by law and major shareholders into making shortsighted decisions and prioritizing profit only.





  • About the city-builder early game experience - you pretty much nailed my feelings about the game.

    I think the weakness of the game is that one needs to experience other strategy games (I played very little of city builders, but a lot of grand strategies and 4X) and have some level of self reflection or meta thinking to be immediately attracted to this concept (without trying out the game first).

    Most people who didn’t notice that micromanaging already won late game is the bad, tedious part, would be reluctant to accept the inevitable destruction of their cities.

    I think that there’s an untapped potential in increased complexity of the central City. What I mean is that if there was some metagame city building it would attract a bit more players.




  • MustrumR@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.mlPragernant
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    9 months ago

    But they have the testicles of their soon to be born sons.

    I would say whether it’s greater than 1 or lesser than 1 is inconclusive without accurate data .

    You would need to find out whether amount of men with removed testicles is greater than amount of women pregnant with a boy (after the average week when testicles appear). Also men to women ratio in global population needs to be accounted for.



  • They chose EA lizard and pushed him to implement the changes for a reason. You don’t get a CEO position without a professional background check. And if you think that The Board didn’t know anything about what happened, you are kidding yourself.

    The preparations in ToS changes also shows that this was a deeply planned move.

    Even if they fire Ricatello, nothing changes. He’s not the reason, just a public scapegoat (a willing and well paid one). Main shareholders and their Board of Directors won’t change. company is in the bad hands.

    I’d advise any developers to finish already started projects in Unity and then get the fuck away from them ASAP.