Curiosity soliciting donations to help with servers
"What's inside the cube?" the world cried as one, tapping furiously at its many touchscreens. The cube did not answer, for the cube is all overloaded> and a bit wonky right now. Peter Molyneux and his 22Cans studio are now soliciting donations for the tap-tapping experiment to beef up Curiosity's servers so people can continue the quest to uncover the hidden secret at the core which we're fairly confident will be massively underwhelming but still are pretty well, curious, about.
"What's inside the cube?" the world cried as one, tapping furiously at its many touchscreens. The cube did not answer, for the cube is all overloaded and a bit wonky right now. Peter Molyneux and his 22Cans studio are now soliciting donations for the tap-tapping experiment to beef up Curiosity's servers so people can continue the quest to uncover the hidden secret at the core which we're fairly confident will be massively underwhelming but still are pretty well, curious, about.
"We are a small independent developer and due to popular demand we now offer the option for kind people to donate, so that we can make Curiosity the best possible experience it can be," 22Cans says on its website above a big Paypal donate button. "However big or small the donation; it will really help us make Curiosity better."
Molyneux said last week that while 22Cans as so busy dealing with all the fuss, the planned PC edition may not happen without help from a publisher.
If you'd like to chip in a few bucks to further fascinating experimental game design, I'd personally recommend that you back the Sportsfriends Kickstarter.
Still, here's a recent video from 22Cans, where the gang talk about everything exploding:
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"What's inside the cube?" the world cried as one, tapping furiously at its many touchscreens. The cube did not answer, for the cube is all overloaded> and a bit wonky right now. Peter Molyneux and his 22Cans studio are now soliciting donations for the tap-tapping experiment to beef up Curiosity's servers so people can continue the quest to uncover the hidden secret at the core which we're fairly confident will be massively underwhelming but still are pretty well, curious, about.-
Haha, what?
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also, they need to show how much donation they have gotten to date. i think many people want to see how you are doing before they throw money at your server issues.
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and yet, in the video, they say exactly that.
that they expected a few thousand, which turned into a few hundred thousand and they are overwhelmed. -
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Molyneux is off is rocker.
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More for your lol'ing pleasure. http://www.bluesnews.com/s/136671/one-more-defining-game-for-molyneux
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I really thought this would turn out to be a cool experiment and hoped we'd get some neat insight about microtransactions and the mindset of people making those purchases. But now, LOL. I don't think I need to follow the rest of what they have planned.
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"We are a small independent developer and due to popular demand we now offer the option for kind people to donate, so that we can make Curiosity the best possible experience it can be,"
Translation: We are a small independent developer and can't deliver the product you paid for. So... umm... would you care to pay more for it? Oh, and the popular demand we're talking about was amongst employees.-
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yeah but can't you buy things to help you along? Maybe this is them saying that they aren't making as much as they thought they would..
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Way to fail you big failure
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I have to admit, I probably spent 45 minutes this weekend tapping little squares to chip away at the cube. It is oddly addictive. It's kind of cool chipping away at it and seeing things disappear as you go (from other people doing the same thing around the world). Right now there are some kind of oil paintings of flowers etc showing on the cube. I'm reluctant to say it... but it is kind of a neat thing.
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It's not dumb. It's genius. It reduces their costs. I think all developers are going to jump on this at some point. Everyone is going to have their donation or tip jar out because hey why not? Free money.
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There are already developers that do this, but most of them put out a good, working piece of software (or, a piece of software labelled clearly as a beta) before asking for money. You can't just put out a broken piece of software and be like "fuck. hey, why don't you pay us money to fix this?"
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I still haven't been able to sign into the game :(
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Same.
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Thanks, I'm not that curious.
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahæ
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he also has a neat little char at the end there
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Peter Molynoob
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Pewter MoneyNewb
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If this was any other studio no one would give a shit and it would be seen as a cool, interesting social experiment that needed a bit of funding to help it along.
Instead because Molyneux is tied to it, and nerds will be nerds, you'd think he was asking for human sacrifices or something.
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oh shi guys we forgot to not make it free
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Do i really need to post the definition of "donation" here for you?
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it is like a fucking post kickstarter
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I can understand this but I bet he could have avoided some of the backlash by making the donation an in-app purchase (maybe three donation tiers with some cosmetic/account level unlock and priority access to the servers).
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Molyneux should have budgeted more monies for his grand experiment.
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Half drawn cocks are on that white board,.
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