That’s funny, I don’t remember when Steam was called a scam. Oh, people resisted it because it was different and who wants to install an extra client to run the game you just bought? But everybody understood the value proposition. And MP3s? Users all instantly understood the value proposition, and so it was just…

“Pyramid schemes are the future. Its first real world adaptation have created more confusion for sure (because, how many people understand modern finance? Pyramid schemes only added element of confusion to what was already misunderstood), but the future generation will accept it just as we have accepted what we have…

Are you implying NFTs are only useful as something to sell to greater fools than oneself? Because, duh. 

That’s like saying “no one mentions the winners!” when you talk about how gambling has ruined lives.

What are you even going on about. Nobody said that MP3s were a scam. I don’t remember anyone calling Steam a scam, or online shopping. You’re just making shit up.

Not only doesn’t fit the mold, NFTs are the exact opposite of MP3s in the context they’re using. MP3s destroyed the notion of digital scarcity and drove prices down, NFT tries to ram scarcity back into a market that doesn’t have it and force prices up.

I remember when Steam was called a scam because Valve could go out of business along with your entire library of games.

Someone has spent a lot of money on NFTs.

The thing is, itch takes almost nothing from game sales on their platform. By default they take 10%, but developers can set it to 0% if they want. So they’re not really talking out of both sides of their mouth here. Also, only ONE of the games with the NFT tag is actually a game that is being sold. Everything else in…

The problem with that is the same problem with all other proposed “good uses” of blockchains; you could do the same thing more efficiently with a distributed transactional database.

SoMuchProgress, they had to drop telling us about all the progress.

Also he learned that by throwing out more and more ships for real money he can cash in endlessly without ever ending the development. So he has all the time in the world.

“it’s still unlike any game that’s existed so far (even in it’s current, bug-riddled form).”

What’s the scheduled release date?

Feature creep is a death spiral for a lot of projects, including this one. It’s fine to offer new features as stretch goals (which is how this all happened) but you don’t then take those features and mux them across your master plan, because then your plan becomes a spaghetti mess.

Man, entitled gamers strike again. Just because they *paid* for a *video game* they expect actual progress and updates towards that game being completed.  What entitled babies.

One of the first projects I worked on at my agency involved working with a tech client that had put out a Star Citizen hype video a few months previous. At this point in my career, I was super junior. The game had been in dev for a few years but that’s not odd.

Pretty much, I was one of the people who defended them early on. Money or not, AAA game development takes time. When they had nothing to show but fundraising after half a decade though, after work supposedly began before announcement? There are reasonable limits.

i think this was the first game i backed on kickstarter. i built a new rig with a 660ti thinking i would be ready to play this game in the next year or so. LOL at me.