It’s not a mistake when one of the upper management guys was ranting about it before it happened…

That’s interesting, as the initial reviews seemed to not like it.

Maybe the publisher wanted to push it onto some other team?

Funny coming from HP, who has poured billions into making their printing experience suck. Deliberately

You could have the exact opposite combination of if genes from your sibling…

People said the same thing when XP came to its end of life support dropping. You overestimate how technical the average person is. Or how patient those that are technical are who just want their programs to work without hours of tinkering each time they install something

You, specifically, enjoying a …remake of a spiritual successor to a game that came out decades ago… doesn’t mean the genre is alive and kicking.

Remaking a game from a few decades back reads more as desperate than anything else. They’re relying on nostalgia for sales, not actually attracting a new audience

I clearly touched a nerve. And, just like I’d expect from someone who would overreact like this to a very neutral comment, you completely misread what I said.

…Who was asking about Myst?

Point and click has been a dead genre for like 2 decades now

Maybe we should be barring these companies that dump their teams after releasing a game from winning awards?

What do you think will happen to them, because they pulled this?

so why the focus here?

I can pay attention to more than one thing. These greedy corporations abusing legal systems is why the world is so fucked. Trying to handwaved this as not mattering sounds like you admit you’re wrong

Not only are they getting away with it, it looks like they’ll continue to benefit from it.

I’m not sure what reality you’re living to think they’re not.

That’s where I do look, but even there it’s been a slim couple of years.

This is literally what Nintendo is doing right now.

They filled this suit, and only THEN filed for a bunch of extra patents they didn’t already have in order to increase the damages they could claim from Pocket Pair for being in violation.

I already think patents for game design mechanics are idiotic an unethical, but this is absolutely insane.

I was just thinking this. Japan’s patent system is so fucked up. You can do everything right, look up all relevant existing patents to make sure you’re in the clear, then a competitor ex post facto files and kills your business.

How about instead of wasting all this time sprucing up a game we’ve all already played… They make a new one.

I hate this remake remaster treadmill that the AAA scene has turned into. I haven’t been excited about anything coming out in years because it’s mostly shit we’ve already seen.

It’s not defamation if you’re actually a piece of shit.

Not a damn thing. Doesn’t help that the endless mergers have lead us to just a couple AAA devs left. And MS grinds every dev they attitude into dust. Very few ever make anything actually good after being bought.

“Still” is burying the lede. It’s gotten worse.