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I'm certainly not too keen on buying games that require servers. From one day to the next the game can just stop working, and I can't afford that many games...

Might have saved Bluepoint.

Build the server software for the community from the start, even if you don't give it up until the end. There's downsides with every move, but turning off a whole game is absolutely the worst way.

I believe I am post-ironic

This.

that has to be some kind of SpeedRun for "Big Showpiece at the Keighleys" to shut down

It's back to Kali for us all.

But Rami, how will we milk players for microtransactions?

It’s kind of absolutely bat shit insane that a game needs to be a instant hit out the gate and maintain a 100,000+ population or you just lose your job and the studio shuts down.

Don’t worry, AI can play games now, so there will finally be players for these live service games.

I want everyone to have options to make anything but a multiplayer game at that scale, yes

It would probably suck to create new stuff for the game if no-one ever got to see it.

this

You pitch what you can get funded, and they made what they could get funded before. But yeah, probably!

They were quietly funded by Tencent. www.ign.com/articles/ten...

I know reading comprehension is hard but please look at the word "forced"

Imagine, if you will, a video game that you play, alone, in the privacy of your own home and on your own computer. Then the social aspect is that you go and talk to your friends about it afterwards. impossible, right?

I wonder what the statistics on F2P games like this making money. Available for 7 weeks seems so short compared to the development time it probably took.

You’d also need a way to point the game client at new server URIs, but that could be done in config without too much work by the dev team as they likely already have it wired to support test/dev servers before release.

Sorry, that was what I ment, like the serverside stuff is open-source.

One of my main focuses in making Incarnal is ensuring that everyone who pays for it, regardless of outlet, permanently has a copy of it. Don't know how yet, but am determined.

hoop n stick gaming hell yeah

When I grew up, SP campaigns came first and the split screen multiplayer was tacked on

That's it, I'm making my own tiger handheld-like console, that only has my game on it, so the only limitation is needing power to charge it.