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TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Kerbal Space Program 2 still hurts me.

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  • nuko147@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Although Kerbal space program 2 had major issues from the dev team, only for the publisher to pull the plug because of how bad the progress was, and leave the game in permanent early access.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Uh, its more like a new publisher bought the IP, functionally fired almost all of the original dev team, and then hired a bunch of other people who had no idea how their insanely modified version of Unity worked…

      And then the idiot in charge just started spamming out extremely grand and difficult to implement new core functionalities… with a team of mostly newbies who had no idea how anything worked.

      So, basically, they started out where KSP started out… and would very obviously thus need years and years and years to get it out of Early Access / Alpha state… but it needed to make money NOW, and it didn’t, so everyone got laid off (other than the idiot in charge), and the game was functionally abandoned, but not totally abandoned, because MY IP MINE NO YOU CANT HAVE IT!!!

      Or… maybe not? With regard to the IP rights?

      Nobody seems to know who actually owns the KSP IP at this point.

      techdriveplay.com/…/kerbal-space-program-2-a-tale…

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      • ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I never understood the fixation on IPs. For a kick ass universe with amazing lore etc, ok sure.

        I mean I love Jev and the gang as much as the next guy, but they’re not core to my enjoyment of KSP1. The mechanics were.

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      • cynar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It was even worse than that.

        They were basically given the KSP1 codebase and told to rewrite it to be better. However, KSP1 was still being developed, and they didn’t want to demotivate the KSP1 team. Therefore they were banned from even telling them it existed, let alone ask for help or advice with the existing codebase.

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      • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        One of the original goals for KSP2 was the use of a new engine to get rid of the technical debt from the first game that caused issues like the Kraken…but then the publisher forced them to use the KSP engine because “it would speed up development.”

        It was doomed from the beginning.

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  • Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Hopefully Kitten Space Agency ends up being a true spiritual sequel.

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• kautau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s a canon event for any game company that achieves moderate success gets acquired by investors

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  • TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    True :3

    I just said game to stay on topic tbh

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    • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Makes sense, wasn’t untrue and I wasn’t criticizing, just wanted to make sure everyone remembers that the problem goes up the chain due to capitalism.

      Various companies/games were mentioned in the comments, but I think a good example is Hello Games. Clearly fumbled their game launch and were over ambitious with No Man’s Sky.

      But it’s gotten an incredible amount of things that were promised, and many things that weren’t, all as free updates. Sure, they’re still making money, that’s the point, but instead of Micro-transactions, fucking over the devs, shutting things down, they just keep rolling. I’m sure they’ve gotten offers of acquisition that were probably very lucrative, but they didn’t take them, and have continued their slow roll of making gamers happy.

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• pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Except ConcernedApe, apparently.

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  • TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Individual devs seem to generally manage better I think :3. It’s once the companies expand is that stuff starts going awry

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    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Coffee Stain’s another good example on the bigger end.

      It does seems like there’s a danger zone behind a certain size threshold. It makes me worry for Warhorse (the KCD2 dev), which plans to expand beyond 250.

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    • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I dunno, dwarf fortress seems to be doing alright for itself so far. Tarn and Zach really needed some more help and some graphic design backup. I don’t agree with the total abandonment of the keybindings system in favor of mouse clicks, but I understand that it was necessary to make the game’s learning curve less precipitous.

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  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Or the Terraria team.

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  • pory@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Didn’t sell out to a company or publisher with shareholder profit motives. Truly independent (not “indie” as slang for low budget) development teams don’t follow this pattern unless they sell their IP and studio outright.

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• shialac@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Rip ZA/UM

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• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I think Croteam has been able to have moderate success over the years, but being based in Eastern Europe might make them insulated from issues. Devolver only recently bought them, but they seem to be one of the few good publishers. I at least didn’t see their name on the Video Games Europe member list that’s opposed to SKGs.

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• burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It would make sense for it to be canon in the subnautica universe. I think they were pretty much the epitome of authors with an anvil with the references to economics and governing.

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