Then, responding to those who have said he’s “only doing this for the money", Szymanski tweeted: “Yes, no fucking shit. I make games for a living. If I didn’t want to earn money from them I wouldn’t charge money for them.”
The game follows the premise of being trapped in an underwater submarine out of necessity to capture deep pictures.
Did they face significant backlash? Or is IGN just trying to “make fetch happen”? I might have just missed it.
Yes they did, just read the tweets linked
Thank you for responding, but no, I’m not going to xhitter.
IMO, not even visiting is very weird. Just use a blocker and steal their revenue.
As an uninformed, I also wonder why you think IGN would make up stuff.
Not using a service that you dont like and dont agree with is weird? Really?
It’s like insisting on always paying with cash imo. Does some ethics but quite a bit of an inconvenience if you’re in a queue.
Ok yeah, you can be annoyed, but your cash example is ALSO perfectly fine if a person decides digital money isnt for them
They (including Musk) make money off of how ubiquitous it is, even if you’re not viewing ads. They leverage that daily view count.
No judgement, but if you’re visiting X/Twitter, you’re supporting them. As for IGN, there’s the “too much water” controversy, but basically, they’re just way too corporate for me…
Tweets do not represent significant backlash .
Edit Significant backlash would be something like getting delisted from steam
A ton of people attacking the dev on Twitter is significant backlash. An earthquake does not have to cause a Tsunami to have a big effect.
That’s fine, I wasn’t going to buy it anyway :) especially if the creator only did it for the money. I will stick to indie games creators make because they like games <3
Why else would you add a price to something?
The distinction is he agreed he was only doing it for the money. Idc if they charge for their hard work, they should. But if an indie game is only in it for the money, it’s no better than a gacha.
Welcome to the world.
We do shit for money.
Money helps us eat.
He never said he was making the game for the money; he said that he set the price for the money.
He literally did, and you even put it in your post.
“to those who have said he’s “only doing this for the money”, Szymanski tweeted: “Yes, no fucking shit."
When people tell you who they are, listen.
“this” refers to bumping the price
I guess pronouns really are difficult for some people.
Turns out, it’s not possible to fill your stomach and keep a roof over your head by having enough passion.
“haha, I hurt your feelings by having an opinion”. No, you’re setting unreasonable expectations in a society that requires money to cover the basics of living. If you’d like to start a revolution to jump directly into a moneyless anarchist collective society, then that’s different. Actually, no, it’s not, because that revolution isn’t happening anytime soon, may not actually work out that way in the end, and even if it does, people shouldn’t have to wait to solve the basics of living.
Lmao, no this does not have a larger meaning. An indie dev stated he only cared about the money and started charging $2 more. Shocker.
stated he only cared about the money
He did not. He said “I want to earn more money”. That does not preclude being passionate about something, just wanting to have a roof over his head.
“If you’re passionate about something, you should do it for free” is not a workable position in our society.
You can rewrite it as much as you want, but no, he did say that. It’s even in the post.
“to those who have said he’s “only doing this for the money”, Szymanski tweeted: “Yes, no fucking shit."
I have no idea why everyone is taking this so personally. I said it’s not the game for me, and you all melted LMAO
We’re taking it personally because a lot of us are in exactly the same position, or have someone close to us that is. Our passions have to feed us. You’re directly undermining that.
I literally am not, this is not the guys passion. He is in it for the money. He stated that directly.
Being there for money and passion is not mutually exclusive.
Oh yeah Eric Barone and Toby Fox gave their millions away right? Stfu.
Shut up. That indie dev has to eat as well. Indie devs also need to get paid to eat and pay rent. Just like a painter selling their art to make ends meet.
You’re the kind of person that want arts for free from artists because “it’s only 5$ bro”.
As the dev said, go pirate it or something.
I hope you do your job for free too cause you just like to work :) <3
Tale as old as time. I’ll just leave this here: https://genius.com/Tool-hooker-with-a-penis-lyrics
Lmao…
AAA dogshit shovelware game increases price from $60 to $70 and some people are unhappy.
Small time indie dev bumps game price from $6 to $8 to keep up with inflation and people lose their shit to the point it goes on gaming msm
No wonder we’re the most abused market.
People will literally complain about everything, no sense in trying to appease everyone all the time.
Isnt only like an hour and a half or something?
The price change was accompanied by an update that included
the addition of the Terminal, which, located in the back of the Iron Lung, opposite to the photograph display monitor, could be used to look up certain terms relevant to the game’s lore. Aside from the addition of the terminal, the update also included the addition of the SM-8[(a new location to explore)], Steam achievements, trading cards, and a point shop. The update also fixed collision issues with the Humming Monolith, as well as moved it to a different location.
That makes more sense thanks for informing me
Fuck you all, im going to go buy it out of spite
Buying the game now
The people complaining about a $2 price increase are the same guys harassing women on Instagram for free OF subs.
"I like the business model of ‘I want money so I make something that I think is worth money, and you pay me that money and you get the thing, and we’re all happy’,” Szymanski continued. “That’s it. There’s nothing complicated or hidden here.
Lmao I love it, gonna get this game now
Also check out Dusk. It’s a full length game as opposed to a one and done streamer game.
I wonder to what degree people react because it’s a cheap game and for some people this is the only stuff they can afford (especially in the current economy), so raising the price feels like a personal attack to them.
People who buy 70$ games don’t care as much because they’re already able and willing to drop such hideous sums on games, and the hardware needed to run them.
if an increase of two whole dollars is enough to freak someone out, they don’t need to be buying video games. Like if you’re really THAT broke, you’ve got other priorities.
Consumers these days have so much entitlement. I understand not wanting to be tricked with advertising or wanting a safe product, without toxic chemicals or whatnot.
But at the end of the day, assuming that’s the case, someone should be able to make whatever they want and charge whatever they want. If no one buys it, they’re a bad business person. The end. But lately I’ve seen so many people doing things like starting witch hunts to go after makers of something they don’t like. Or trying to strongarm a company into changing a product by holding their reputation for ransom. Or deciding as a community on an idealized business model and punishing companies that don’t use it.
And the gaming community is the worst of them. Like if you don’t like multiplayer games, fine. Don’t shit on a game for like 5 paragraphs just to finally say, “See? RDR2 did just fine, we should be making single player games. Anyway I didn’t actually play this and neither should you. 0/5 stars.”
Like bro, this team worked really hard to make a game they believed in. They didn’t have to run it by you. If you don’t like it play something else. But people will claim you have no right to have created what you did, the audacity that you thought you could is appalling, and frankly… You’re an immoral person to work for money. Like damn guys, chill. Nobody has to make you games. I don’t go see Starry Night and write a letter to Van Gogh’s estate like, “I’m not a fan of blue”
No mate, I’m doing you a favour playing your game. You should pay me. It would be great exposure. I’ve got literally some followers.
And yeah, I’ll bang on about minimum wage being too low and I’ll post about AAA Devs ripping off their workers, but a lone developer asking $10 for something that probably took them months, too much. Too much.
What a sell out.
(/S just in case)
Gamers: Where’s my game? Why do you subject your developers to crunch? Why is it so expensive? Why don’t you pay your developers more?
Why haven’t you released the game yet, this is outrageous! Why have you released this unfinished and untested mess, this is outrageous!
Just print more money no
And what’s worse, half of those complaining bought Elon’s blue tick!
$8
TWO dollars!!?!?!?
I hope this is clever marketing from the developer because I had never heard of this game until now and also because I can’t for the life of me figure out why anyone would abuse an indie developer for $2.
I understand some people might do that, but they’d have to be a tiny percentage.
People bully FOSS developers when their creations are free so I can’t say I’m surprised.
I hope this is clever marketing from the developer because I had never heard of this game until now
The same person made DUSK and Squirrel Stapler. Squirrel Stapler and Iron Lung are shorter games that have been popular with streamers.
I once made an app for Samsung watches for disc golf scorekeeping. It could accept any number of players, apply a handicap throughout the game so you could know exactly how you were doing vs your opponent with different handicaps on every hole, and gave a nice scorecard at the end to view. It was $0.99
Someone complained that I made them “throw away their money down the drain” since it didn’t also have gps to tell them how far they were from the hole.
Yes, some people will literally waste 100x more resources, in mental energy and time, than the price of admission to complain.
But my point was that this type of criticism can be ignored - if you get 1000 sales and 2 people turn out to be dickheads you shove them in the (mental) bin.
Dunno how Samsung store works, but ik on Google play you can literally refund the app in one click within two hours of buying it. I’ve literally just bought apps to try out before and refunded if I didn’t like them.
