Krudler

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The plan was just to keep throwing money until they trampled the ecosystem and came out on top, well this didn’t work for shit.

Bad logic on “profit is profit”.

Opportunity cost is huge here.

I think it’s a huge aspect. Reviews, guides, discussions, bug reports all falls under the “social” category.

E: oh and a friend’s list where you can quickly join up via “game invites”, and game leaderboards which have friend rankings… Those are also big social features

Its also that EGS is terrible.

The most recent “feature” they added that made a difference, was the ability to view my own library.

8(?) Years after launch it still operates like a prototype I’d cobble together in an afternoon

Because it’s the emotional inner world that defines how people behave, not education or knowledge or wisdom.

This doesn’t even sound like a real business. This sounds like one of those extemporaneous pitches that gets pulled out of the ass after martini 3, delivered by the sales doofus that doesn’t know how to send an email.

The red flag that caught my eye was all the cheerleading and then snuck at the bottom was (paraphrased) ‘well, people can play as much as they want but, ya know, if it’s like 10 games a month we might have to look at stuff’.

So, what? It’s subscription service but the games vanish (oh you can buy them individually) and and if you use the service for its advertised purpose, there’s going to be problems - only $7.99 ?

I should have said martini 8

It definitely sucked at the time, but it also taught me some key lessons.

Like don’t assume a game is good because it comes in a nice box. Don’t assume a licensed IP means good gameplay. Read reviews, don’t just make a snap purchase.

It was a huge loss for me at the time but I feel like these lessons actually saved me quite a bit of money/frustration over the years.

Platoon for C64. Saved up for it.

Piece of shit. And disc 2 didn’t work.

I spent almost two decades as a game developer and many of those years were spent developing professional lottery products.

I argued with a buddy for over 5 years about the gamblers fallacy and various other aspects to do with probabilities.

See, in his mind, he could somehow claim to understand the underlying statement that past events are not a predictor of future events… but he’s still insisted that if he monitored the “patterns” in the random, he could somehow break through this truth.

I could never get through to him that there was no “system”… You can bet in the most mathematically advantageous way but you’ll never “beat the odds”. You’re just fucking gambling dude.

Zero progress… and I refused after a while to discuss anything to do with probabilities.

E: I’m sorry for the scrambled up writing, I’m having a rough day, hope you get what I mean

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Dude’s not going to be burning anything out, his furnace fan motor can’t even adequately ventilate his house as it is right

Get Styrofoam blocks and plug vents seasonally. In summer plug the downstairs ones so AC feeds upstairs and drifts down, opposite in winter to make air heat the lower levels and slowly rise.

Disengage.

The amount of doomer shit you intake is directly proportional to time spent online listening to the opinions of imbeciles.

So basically walk away.

Thank you

That’s more informative, thank you.

I’m not pretending to be any kind of expert, as you can tell from my initial inquiry I’m not familiar with this, I was only responding to the way it was portrayed to me in comments.

Because it sounds like they were employees not IP owners

That’s a bit of a different presentation than “stole” just saying.

I know it’s not implausible, but the fabrication about contacting the company that had the contract to make the signs blew it all apart, the fonts are heavily controlled and copyrighted and they would lose the city contract if they got caught, no sign printing company is going to go out of business to make six bucks off some random dude.

This is a lie.

Wow, can you say in brief what happened?