PGI/IGP of mechwarrior online should have visited that panel on backlash reducement tactics...
They really need it what with their constant marketing fuckups...
500 dollar "golden" mechs for a game that has not delivered anything but a "minimal viable product" (Devs own words btw)
SnowWookie said:
Sorry, but this video fucked me off. Big time.
Let me spell it out for you... remember that bit in the video where you said developers are there to make great games?
NO, THEY'RE FUCKING NOT. Developers want to get PAID. So they can eat, pay the mortgage, etc. They don't exist in some pure aesthete form just to make a perfect game. They work fucking hard and are in general vastly underpaid compared to what they could be getting doing a comparable job in a non game industry.
While I agree, there are some terrible, awful monetization models in the industry.... you can't just tar the whole industry with such a broad brush.
Yeah... all those forced labor camps and Shanghai recruitments of poor innocent developers really leaves them no choice then to fall back to scummy sales tactics.
Look if they dont like the condition of their working enviroment they should look for a new job.
Sounds familiar?
Same argument as the often lauded "Dont like it? Dont play it.. no one forces you to"
No other industry in the world gets away with the amount of bullshit the games industry gets away with, including seeing every single one of their customers as criminals, trying their hardest to prevent or circumvent basic customer rights in the name of THEIR profit... yeah...
So cry me a river about how bad the developers have it. If they are only interested in their own wellbeing.. guess what? I as a customer wont give a shit about them either.
Isnt it nice how this goes both ways?
Treat me like a human and not a wallet on legs and ill respect and continue doing business with your company.. otherwise you can say goodbye to any of MY money going your way.
That all being said it is most often not in the Developers hands who are most often just wage slaves to the big publishers who make the real decisions. Its not like the guys who made Dead space 3 really thought having microtransactions in a single player game was a great idea. No one but businesspeople can be that stupid.