Spore's real costs, implications therof. A rant.

[manored]

But even tough they straw away, they still have the nest as the fixed place they will return to, and that has a anoying unrealistic fell...

[FrOzEnTaCo]

fuck man i could i build spore for like ten bucks

5 here

Fifty million dollars.

For fifty million dollars... jeez. I know what I can do with just me and GMN and the help we get (and an engine that would, according to Tobi, have cost about three million dollars+ by now, mind ye, but a lot of that would not have been necessary for a typical commercial project done to spec, imo).

Hell, give me ONE million dollars, and I'd make a great game. A small game, sure, but it'd be all right. SOSE was built around that level of a budget.

Fifty. Will it do our homework? Shine our shoes? Change our lives?

Fifty. For something that was supposedly launched because of the high cost of content.

Fifty. I could find, finance, and launch 48 game designers on 48 real projects, for that cost, use the other two million on viral marketing campaigns and websites on a common template base... and I'd probably see a better ROI in the end. Fifty.

I dunno whether I want it to succeed or fail, frankly. I like Will Wright, but I've been very skeptical about the game's premise and design, and now I'm very, very skeptical about profitability.

Fifty million dollars. For a game where people make ambulatory penises, and share the results online. I can't wait for the lawsuits to start- "your software showed my kids filthy things", etc.

Fifty

wow ur great at writing poems that almost made me cry

[Dragon45]

i have my own poem, entitled 'the life'

get a wife or get a life
you self-important
piece of tripe

[Hoi]

Jerry, Jerry, Jerry!

[Otherside]

for fifty cents you get shot 9 times

[Hoi]

Lol I like the way how dragon left spring and only reads the forums to troll.

[Otherside]

Lol I like the way how dragon left spring and only reads the forums to troll.

the majority of spring forum posters dont actually play spring

[smoth]

i have my own poem, entitled 'the life'

get a wife or get a life
you self-important
piece of tripe

oh I am in love.

[Hoi]

Lol I like the way how dragon left spring and only reads the forums to troll.

the majority of spring forum posters dont actually play spring

I mean left the forum, a bit, with that drama thread, remember?

[smoth]

hoi, dragon always trolls. it is what he does.

[Hoi]

He used to do it all the time, now only sometimes, he only goes to offtopic and doesnt make threads anymore, that's what I mean.

[Comp1337]

for fifty cents you get shot 9 times

hah, i see what u did there

[Dragon45]

Otherside wrote:
for fifty cents you get shot 9 times

i wish i could give you a gold star for this