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Goddamn it, Neil. And I just said some nice thigns about you over on TLOU show thread!
If he doesn't want to change it just because of stuff that gave some people the angries, then so be it. Artistic vision and integrity and all, whether we like that or not. Goes both ways. Though I'm sure plenty will get unseemly irate nonetheless, and I will laugh really hard the next time the artistic vision argument comes up vis à vis some game featuring, I don't know, doing kancho on really 700yo lolis (or shoutas, let's not discriminate), or whatever.
 
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Like when you go to a crazy fancy restaurant and the food sucks but you have to convince yourself it was good because it was 250 bucks a plate.
Right, except in this case you paid in advance and only the appetisers have been served so far. (okay, maybe the soup as well, I'm not 100% up to date on SC build progress)
 

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How Star Citizen has ANY mote of good will left is something I'll never understand.
Oh, there's a ton of "IT'S EARLY ACCESS!" and "But the DREAM!" cope among people who are still in this.

Because to some people "Early Access" is apparently enough for them to forgive pretty much anything.

I've been seeing issues with this in the KSP2 debacle, which launched in EARLY ACCESS and it's very buggy and feature incomplete from what it's advertised to be and all the good stuff will get added....someday. And it dropped for $50. The subreddit, which I follow, has been in Civil War since then and it feels very much split between "Well, it's early access. Give them time to fix it" and "This is garbage and shouldn't be $50 for an alpha build which isn't even up to KSP's functionality and feature completionism".(I might be showing my bias on which side I fall on).

SC is arguably getting a lot more money then KSP2 ever did to boot.
 
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Then they are the 👑 kings and queens of fools for believing in such a lie for that long.
$50 for Early Access is paying to be an Alpha Tester.

It's unfortunate that some companies looked at NMS and said "Oh, we can launch in a broken state because if we fix it 2-10 years down the line all is forgiven". And in general gamers will reward such practices by pre-ordering and buying into EA.

I can forgive some instances. The Original KSP was EA forever but it was also a very small dev team(like 3 people at an Ad agency on their spare time) and even in alpha was playable if buggy. It was also quite cheap to buy pre-release and it got slack because there wasn't really anything else like it at the time.

KSP2, being the follow on, doesn't get the same slack, because KSP as it stands now, should be the baseline of what's expected, especially for $50 and backed by a large publisher. If KSP was the prototype and test model, KSP2 should be ready for full production right out of the gate.
 
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I find it funny and sad that getting rid of the head president at Square changed nothing.

Any changes that will be caused by getting a new president aren't going to happen for a while and any projects that were still in the works are going to continue. It might be a year or two till we see the results of a regime change, assuming the new guy even wants to go a different direction.
 

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Any changes that will be caused by getting a new president aren't going to happen for a while and any projects that were still in the works are going to continue. It might be a year or two till we see the results of a regime change, assuming the new guy even wants to go a different direction.
They might as well just cancel all of the nft projects, save their money, and put it towards actual games or gaming software. Warner Brothers Discovery sure as hell didn't have any problems canceling projects left and right under their new regime immediately. They made a crappy spin-off without the title dog character (which nobody fucking asked for!). Square Enix can do the same.
 
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I was not expecting this. I never saw the cartoon growing up. I believe I didn't miss much, but I'm happy for those fans and the fans of the original Toxic Avenger.

 
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I was not expecting this. I never saw the cartoon growing up. I believe I didn't miss much, but I'm happy for those fans and the fans of the original Toxic Avenger.

Holy shit. I totally forgot Toxic Crusader existed. I remember seeing the original movie a long, long time ago and some of the cartoon but I never imagined that was something we were gonna see a revival of.

What a time to be alive. On one hand, Possible WW3. OTOH, Toxie is back. SO yeah.
 
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Holy shit. I totally forgot Toxic Crusader existed. I remember seeing the original movie a long, long time ago and some of the cartoon but I never imagined that was something we were gonna see a revival of.

What a time to be alive. On one hand, Possible WW3. OTOH, Toxie is back. SO yeah.
Can we get a Gargoyles brawler, bring back Keith David, and anyone else that is still living? Because that would be great. Maybe Street Sharks too. If we're going the whole bring back the TMNT cartoon clones bit. Hell, have Vin Diesel advertise the Street Sharks game, like he did the toys back in the '90s. That'll make everything come full circle. I could use a Xtreme Ghostbusters game too.
 

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They might as well just cancel all of the nft projects, save their money, and put it towards actual games or gaming software. Warner Brothers Discovery sure as hell didn't have any problems canceling projects left and right under their new regime immediately. They made a crappy spin-off without the title dog character (which nobody fucking asked for!). Square Enix can do the same.
They should, or at least repurpose whatever they currently have of those projects into something that isn't NFT related, but that's not what they're gonna do.