I pulled a Marty styled cyber stalk. I wrote out an entertaining response but apparently you need to be a verified member of the games industry to post. My job title was an artist at Figurehead Studios with a description of "Last time I showed up to work, Marty Howe punched me in the dick, took my wallet, and proceeded to wipe my non-existent salary across his ass before returning to masturbating until he passed out at my computer."
I'm kind of confused as to what you're getting at there. Figurehead and Trickstar are two different studios that both happen to be situated in Melbourne.
Luckily Big Ant's Bradman 2014 looks suitably impressive, so I think it'll be forgotten pretty quickly and won't have too much of a real impact on the development scene here beyond 505 and Trickstar.
Wonder if Trickstar will change their name again. They must be on to their 5th at this point, right?
Ha! At least third. IR Gurus, Transmission, Trickstar. I doubt they'll change their name, they're working on another game as we speak. Fingers crossed they have better luck with that.
I suppose on one hand, this isn't much different than a company pulling a defective product from the shelves.
On the other hand, normally they can't make the products that have already been purchased disappear. Or even come to your house and confiscate them, not counting a few gross abuses by some US federal agencies.
This kind of worries me in how it shows that products which used to be tangible things you purchased physically and could keep have slowly been turned by corporate legal and market terraforming into things we merely pay to have "access" to, but can be locked out of at any time.
I still have multiple copies of MechWarrior 2, a seminal game in our industry for the advances it kicked off in 3D gaming graphics. Activision hasn't had the MechWarrior or BattleTech license for more than a decade. Not even counting software rot, nobody would even be permitted access to that historic game anymore if it was sold under the same method as this cricket game, and "disappeared" in the night like a political enemy in a communist hell-hole the moment the licensing deals expired.
I suppose on one hand, this isn't much different than a company pulling a defective product from the shelves.
On the other hand, normally they can't make the products that have already been purchased disappear. Or even come to your house and confiscate them, not counting a few gross abuses by some US federal agencies.
This kind of worries me in how it shows that products which used to be tangible things you purchased physically and could keep have slowly been turned by corporate legal and market terraforming into things we merely pay to have "access" to, but can be locked out of at any time.
I still have multiple copies of MechWarrior 2, a seminal game in our industry for the advances it kicked off in 3D gaming graphics. Activision hasn't had the MechWarrior or BattleTech license for more than a decade. Not even counting software rot, nobody would even be permitted access to that historic game anymore if it was sold under the same method as this cricket game, and "disappeared" in the night like a political enemy in a communist hell-hole the moment the licensing deals expired.
When it comes to steam you'll keep what you buy, there's many cases where products have been removed from steam and as far as I know everyone who bought them gets to keep them and redownload them just as any other game on their list, I have a few of those!
Not even counting software rot, nobody would even be permitted access to that historic game anymore if it was sold under the same method as this cricket game, and "disappeared" in the night like a political enemy in a communist hell-hole the moment the licensing deals expired.
Indeed, remember the controversy when EA tried to remove their games from Steam when they originally released Origin?
Worked on this, terrible development and game, we used Gamebryo (piece of s...) bunch of money toss down on trash. 3 years developing a game that wasn't great at all. The company went under and investors didn't pay people's salary. Was a big no no... had a terrible experience. Althought the game survived a little bit (2months?) wasn't enough, I'm sure kids got pissed that they paid for it or something... who knows. This thread reminded me of that.
And that's why I'm glad I have a gametextures subscription. Seriously though, texture better, you shit idiot! You can't deny what Marty says, he is my #1 guy right under Justin Beiber!
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I pulled a Marty styled cyber stalk. I wrote out an entertaining response but apparently you need to be a verified member of the games industry to post. My job title was an artist at Figurehead Studios with a description of "Last time I showed up to work, Marty Howe punched me in the dick, took my wallet, and proceeded to wipe my non-existent salary across his ass before returning to masturbating until he passed out at my computer."
Or something like that, lol.
It's such a shame for the Melbourne industry, and I know some good people at Trickstar.
Wonder if Trickstar will change their name again. They must be on to their 5th at this point, right?
On the other hand, normally they can't make the products that have already been purchased disappear. Or even come to your house and confiscate them, not counting a few gross abuses by some US federal agencies.
This kind of worries me in how it shows that products which used to be tangible things you purchased physically and could keep have slowly been turned by corporate legal and market terraforming into things we merely pay to have "access" to, but can be locked out of at any time.
I still have multiple copies of MechWarrior 2, a seminal game in our industry for the advances it kicked off in 3D gaming graphics. Activision hasn't had the MechWarrior or BattleTech license for more than a decade. Not even counting software rot, nobody would even be permitted access to that historic game anymore if it was sold under the same method as this cricket game, and "disappeared" in the night like a political enemy in a communist hell-hole the moment the licensing deals expired.
When it comes to steam you'll keep what you buy, there's many cases where products have been removed from steam and as far as I know everyone who bought them gets to keep them and redownload them just as any other game on their list, I have a few of those!
Indeed, remember the controversy when EA tried to remove their games from Steam when they originally released Origin?
Worked on this, terrible development and game, we used Gamebryo (piece of s...) bunch of money toss down on trash. 3 years developing a game that wasn't great at all. The company went under and investors didn't pay people's salary. Was a big no no... had a terrible experience. Althought the game survived a little bit (2months?) wasn't enough, I'm sure kids got pissed that they paid for it or something... who knows. This thread reminded me of that.
They still did, crysis 2 came back, but dragon age 2 never returned to steam.
Again though: they can only stop a game from behind sold, they can't remove the game from people who already bought it.