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Remember boys, never buy a game based on promises of future features for you never know if they will come true.

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It’s an early access game. If you buy it now you are buying promises and the chance to be a beta tester. And that’s okay, if you don’t get emotional if things don’t turn out as expected.

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I’d say if you’re buying it now, you should be doing so based on what it is as though it never gets another patch, because sometimes they don’t.

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A lesson I learned from Double Fine.

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And sometimes, a game gets a patch that actually makes it worse

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“Game studio apologizes for misunderstanding a widely understood aspect of what their customers want.”

I keep seeing this headline. It’s…weird.

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This is what happens when the people who make decisions are not the people impacted by those decisions.

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Game studios are largely tone deaf.

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53 points

People like to pause their games… Who knew?

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Not just pausing; it’s poor value for the customer to not have an offline mode for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which is longevity, because their servers won’t be there forever.

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never know when your internet just decides to go down for an hour. happened to me 2 nights ago and i didnt even notice until i tried looking at the dlc store (i was playing rock band 4)

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Or when EA will just break their service for a week, so you can’t log in or play any of their online games.

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LE has an offline only mode.

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TIL about gaslamp fantasy.

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Oh I thought you were referring to the developers pretending they didn’t know this would annoy customers.

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That’s pretty cool, thanks for sharing. I love learning about sub genres

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