Kickstarter is a good thing they said

It will make things better they said.

Weep for humanity.

 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/575109064/penny-arcade-sells-out?ref=search

bigger bullshit

 

Honestly, I don't see what's so wrong about this. What are your qualms?

 

This .

 

There's an old saying about a fool and his money.

 

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It's a scam.

 

Best scam I've ever seen.​

 

You didn't read the whole thing, did you? It's not about getting cell phone games on your TV, it's about getting console games to appeal to the same audience as cell phone games. And hey, Mojang backs it and they're a company both in development and customer service.

 

It's about getting cell phone quality games on your television. Oh, whoops. Seriously though, this idea could have been good, but the way it is, it's not gonna really do anything.

Also, nice logical fallacy.

 

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You won't see anything big on this, just look at the specs.

Also, Notch is a fat hipster, he usually just supports the worst of the worst.

 

Charming

But it's definitely a stupid way to handle this. There's going to be nothing innovative about it, and that's a shame.

 

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Notch is Swedish, I'm Norwegian. By default there will be insults from me to him.

 

Only if you understand why though, which I don't.​

 

And the Mojang devs that aren't Notch? They've actually hired a good number of non-Swedes in the past year.

 

Take that out of it and he's still just some dude who cloned Infiniminer. He thinks Indie games are saving gaming and it's ridiculous.

 

They may not be saving gaming, but they're certainly adding more to it. Infiniminer was a game that got abandoned. Notch found it and resurrected it in Minecraft, which popularized block based sandbox survival games, basically spawning a new genre. That's what indie games do. The more popular games that aren't attached to big name companies become, the more big name companies will see what audiences over 11 years old want to play. Idie games are not saving gaming, but they are trying to, which is more than can be said of most other games.

 

He didn't popularize block building games. He made a game in a genre that dead because of how limited it is. Name another successful block building game after Minecraft. That's the thing about Indie games. Their impact is overrated. These "innovations" are so insignificant it's not even funny. Limbo, it's a side scroller in black and white. Bastion, it's an isometric RPG with a narrator. Lone Survivor, it's a survival RPG with retro pixelie graphics. Sure, they're good games, but innovation? Major improvements are done by Crytek, with the most beautiful graphics engine in the world. Max Payne III and the most realistic animation system powered by Euphoria. Ubisoft developing Anvil 2.0, an engine that can render thousands of NPCs at once. Indie developers may be using creativity, but it's big studios that are constantly pushing the limits of current technology so the technology grows. You're a fan of Skyrim, an indie developer could have never made Skyrim.

So to say that Indie developers are the only ones who are trying to push the industry forward, is insulting to the larger companies who are doing their part too. Look up Dishonored and tell me that AAA studios aren't trying. You seem to be focusing on the negative of big developers more than the positive.