Well you sure seem to have a giant hard on for bashing anything Pier Solar. I can certainly understand not liking the game or how they handled it, but these are things you've gone on and on about for years now. It's like you take the existence of the game very personally.
Nah. It's not really personal. I mostly keep it here on this forum. I don't go over to their Watermelon hangouts and piss in everyone's Cheerios. I don't bring it up on other forums I frequent when it comes up. Just this one.
I like to at least make sure all our Turbob friends who are newer are alert to the stuff. There's always someone new here who at least deserves to be informed about the bullshit drama/history of PS. Someone has to tell them. It's obviously not going to be you. I don't mind being that guy.
Anyway, I also bought the game from them. I put my opinions on their bullshit aside and gave the game a playthrough. I'm allowed to bitch about the game. I paid for it. Just because I make games doesn't mean I won't weigh in on homebrew games. They're still games, and I'll still have thoughts/feelings about the game.
Someone at CCAG won a free copy. He asked me personally about the game itself.
I told them it was about what you would expect from a homebrew RPG. I left out all the usual ranting that you see here.
If I had a product people wanted as much as people seem to want Pier Solar, you bet I'd try to make some good money off of it. People want a Dreamcast or PC version or whatever? That's fine. It doesn't bother me or twist my panties into a wad. I'm not forced to buy it. It doesn't invalidate my real Genesis copy somehow. Let them make real money. They have a product people want, that's how business works. And they are a business now. That's silly.
No disagreement there. The path taken to the current business position, on the other hand...
And I can certainly understand them not wanting the game to be dumped. What's wrong with that? Instead, it's being used here as a reason to complain about Watermelon (not necessarily by you, admittedly). How dare they! They are so evil!
The complaint is that it's a futile effort to prevent dumping. It always happens. Big time companies can't even prevent it. They arrogantly claimed they had it covered, and it bit them in the ass. I'm not even sure if it's actually a complaint. It's more like pointing and laughing because some dorks figured it all out, lol.
The reason I bring up people who program their own games, specifically, is because it comes across as petty. They have had a great deal of financial success with their game. Now this may or may not bother you, but look at it from the view of someone outside looking in on your comments like myself and probably others. Watermelon doesn't go around bitching about other homebrew games. They had a huge chance to with Oh Mummy ripping off Coryoon's BG. When I look at you guys going off over and over and over and over and over and over and over about Pier Solar, it just seems petty.
I had a bone to pick with the way PS was handled
before it was a grand financial success. It wasn't even out yet! Back then, Insanity wasn't even out yet, either. I was still just f*cking around, maybe making a game that would get done.
Heck, after the second print, it was said that they lost money and had to recoup on print #2, so even then, when I was bitching about the newest updates to their really bad decisions, they weren't kicking all kinds of financial ass.
I'd also bet that I make more money at my real job than they made off Pier Solar/Their kickstarter once costs are factored in, and the money is divvied out to the entire team... so it's not like I'm jealous of the money.
and, to be fair, Watermelon isn't really in a position to bash anyone, given how their launch went down, along with the rest of the comedy that has gone down since then.
Out of curiosity, why don't you come to SFT's defense when we've gone on tirades about those hilarious messes? Do you too hate the dreaded Cobbwebb?!
EDIT: Also, like you said, they're a business now. With a product. Like any business, with any product, you can expect paying customers to weigh in on their thoughts/feelings about how things are going, both good and bad.
Just like how people are bitching that Namco is a bunch of stupid cock holes with Tales of Xilia on forums, and how people wanted to cut someone because those Ni No Kuni wizard editions got sold to some 3rd party who hiked the price up.
Bad business jive is bad business jive. Welcome to the real world, Watermelon Assault Force Delta!
EDIT 2: I fixed the first paragraph to be more clear.
I like turtles.
