All of the bolded is complete, total, 100% pure tales from your ass. Who cares if they're independent? That means absolutely nothing to the end customer. It's completely irrelevant in every way except "give sympathy to these plucky, indie, dudes with beards, just out there living their dreams." Are manic, pixie dream devs allowed to misrepresent their product?
What is dull blown corrupt? What is full blown lying? Why are Molyneux and Wright doing those when Sean isn't? What makes his actions some innocuous mistake whereas the others are some intentionally exploitative monsters? This isn't even moving goalposts, it's just bulldozing them off the field altogether and stating "I like thing so thing is exempt from standards I apply to other, similar things."
Just don't care at this point mate. Molyneux and Wright wrote their games up as a pair of massive, expansive experiences that would give players loads of cool features. They weren't massive, or expansive, and the majority of the features didn't come to fruition or were painfully toned down. Murray wrote his game up as a massive expansive experience that would give the player loads of cool features. It is massive, expansive, and 90% of the features he talked about are in the game.
Yes, he has misrepresented a couple of features of his product (multiplayer and universe simulation), absolutely, and that's bad, and he should own up to it, but it's nothing on the level of Molyneux/Wright.
For the amount of our money that they are raking in I think we deserve some prompt answers.
Sorry to break it to you - you don't deserve anything. The world doesn't owe you anything. Far worse people than Murray get away with far worse things every second of every day.
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I came back in this topic to see if anything changed, and I ended up reading about how that heavy interactivity between animals isn't there. The "shooting the bird into the water and something coming out to eat it" would have been so cool.
I've seen a lot of pretty cool interaction in the game (food chains, stand offs, flights, her movement) but admittedly I haven't seen creatures eat anything else. Which is really diasappointing. Hopefully it's not hard for them to patch in.
I mean, it sucks to not get some of the major questions people keep having.
But let them take a week off or at least a few days. They just released a game that has been highly anticipated for a long time and who knows how long their crunch has been up to release.
Let the team enjoy their life outside of game development and take a nap, sleep in for once, just be happy that the game came out. For such a small team it's one hell of an accomplishment
This is so true, too. You have to realise that they're people who wake up in the morning at home, go to an office, work hard, then go home in the evening. They're just humans. If there was some massive international gaffe at your workplace would you be expected to, personally, be contacting all your contacts/customers/whathaveyou within two days to respond?
It would definitely be good to have some words from Sean about it and every half-day that goes by makes the whole thing more and more tenuous, but we are all getting riled up within 72 hours here.
