Echo Dot

your method of expressing your opinion and the content of your argument are entirely unconstructive, utterly pointless, and, above all, disrespectful

That could be applied to so many random Twitter complaints. Just generally whiny, and completely lacking in any kind of understanding of how the process, in this case game development, works. Nevertheless they are confident in announcing their opinion to the universe. As if anyone cared

Yeah I thought that. It would have been quite funny if it insulted you.

It sounds like your company could have sued them into oblivion. It’s a violated a non-disclosure agreement that should be the end of their company.

The guy is clearly an idiot. He made this stupid comment and he can’t justify it but rather than admit that it’s a stupid comment and he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, he’s trying to back it up in some bizarre way with this mumbo jumbo non-logic.

So you’re referring to things like “number go up” and Juice, because literally every game does that.

Oh he invented agile did he. I already hate him.

Agile just means that you don’t have a project plan, but you see that’s okay because you planned not to have a project plan, and therefore it’s totally fine.

I’m happy to say I’ve never heard of the others.

If other games can have poker or other cards games where the characters are gambling and not have that influence their shit

I doubt it though because the game doesn’t have any gambling in it at all. It just uses the imagery of poker, that’s it. I have no more of an idea how to play poker now than they did before spending 900 Brazilian hours on the game.

They tried to claim it taught you how to gamble. Seriously that was their argument.

So clearly they didn’t play the game because if you actually turned up to a casino and tried to play like that they kick you out.

No HR don’t allow enjoyment of corporate boobs. They kick you out at the office for that kind of thing.

Unless you are the manager your obviously, oh ironically you work in the games industry.

It’s that idiotic classification system that’s the problem. A game is considered to be gambling game if it involves cards.

I don’t think you understand how businesses work.

It’s customers are not allowed to demand better?

You’re really weird

I’m assuming from context it’s Micro Transactions(x). The X silent though, and also invisible, rather like the P in strawberry

Well apart from anything else rare cards actually are worth real money. But there’s no legitimate way to sell loop boxes if you decide you want to get out of it.

If you see Google launch a “free game only” store for PC, get worried.

I would be astonished if there was anything good on it though. If you are going to make a microtransaction game you probably don’t want to put a lot of effort into it because people won’t play it for more than about a week. This stuff’s only profitable if you can shovel new games out of the door on a regular basis.

You can always tell when a game has been ported over from PC due to the fact the game takes up the whole screen.

God, what an awful thought

One of the big problems about the original petition was that it had a focus on gaming. But this is a problem in the entire software industry, and as much as gaming is probably the more serious concern for the majority of people, it is considered by the government to be somewhat unimportant. Corporate software though has a more mature image, and so is more likely to be considered.

Any software that is sold by a company should be open sourced if the company chooses to end support. Either because the company goes out of business or because they just decide it’s no longer profitable to continue updating the software, and yes, this does include older versions of iOS.

A rising tide and all that.