Posted on 04/16/2013 at 04:49 PM
| Filed Under Blogs
It's possible for an asshole to make a beautiful and engrossing piece of work. However, when it comes to being a consumer I rather not support someone who is a dick. Such people have a superiority complex already so do I really want to inflate their fat heads even more?
Still, maybe I'm being too harsh. Fish is welcomed to think Japanese games "suck" though it's been my personal experience games on the psp seem more experimental whereas many games on my 360 are generic shooters wrapped up in Hollywood triple A hype. Not all of them, but a very large percentage of them. (And hey, a game doesn't have to be original to be fun but I do get bored with having the same stuff pushed in my face year after year. Even a delicous hamburger starts to taste akin to bland cardboard if you are forced to eat one every day.)
All this being said, expecting Fish to fork over 40,000 just to fix a bug that effects a small minority of people is also ludicrous.
This is a man who built something grandiose by himself and though I don't like him I have to respect him. Beyond that, people have to accept indie game developers have smaller crews and limited resources. Bugs and minor glitches sort of come with that territory.
Should Fish REALLY have to fork over 40,000 to fix something he already worked on 4 years?! I don't think so. I don't want to drive a talented game designer into debt and into his early grave even if he is a jerk sometimes.
I agree microsoft should let Fish fix his own game for free. For all we know he didn't even make 40,000 on it to begin with. Gawd, I hate big business!