/r/PhoenixPoint Currently on Fire
6 2019-03-13 by bjt23
For those of you who aren't total nerds, Phoenix Point is an XCOM like game that XCOM's original creator made after the reboot of XCOM sold well. They did a crowdfunding game on Fig (Tim Schafer's shady Kickstarter knockoff) where they said backers could have their choice of Steam or GoG keys. Today they 180'd and said "We're Epic store exclusive for a year now you get Epic keys." "Who cares" you say? Nerds, that's who.
Highlights include this, where the devs admit the exclusivity deal means they literally don't need customer money: https://www.reddit.com/r/PhoenixPoint/comments/b0kk4k/everything_wrong_with_the_current_situation
I think what makes this particularly galling is how they basically used us backers for an interest-free loan. They took our money, developed to the point where it was mature enough to attract external investors, then totally changed the game plan and fully expect us to withdraw our cash, since they're now out of the high-risk phase of the project that nobody but us actual fans would back and have a mature product that's been guarenteed external funding.
They conned us into lending them the money, and maneouvered it so we'd be sitting on the bill if the development project failed. For a game that sold itself based on community involvement, with backer builds and all, this is just awful.
This, where a Community Manager loses their cool and calls a customer a "toxic cock waffle" https://www.reddit.com/r/PhoenixPoint/comments/b0mqnx/pr_is_hard
And of course the dev backing down on only offering Epic keys to backers. (This might've been a legal thing since they sold them as Steam/GoG keys, though IANAL.)
5 comments
1 SnapshillBot 2019-03-13
I need people to stop banning my lolis. That's all I need! Just let me be with my drawings. Let me enjoy cute happy anime lolis that are so full of love and affection. That let me forget about this horrible world and the shitty people in it. Is that so hard to ask for? Why are people so fucking hell bent on banning lolis? What do they or society gain? I don't like scary slasher movies about people murdering people(illegal BTW). But I don't call for them to be banned nor insult those that enjoy them. One of the few things in life that makes me happy. Little glimmers of joy in my shit life and they fucking ban it because they want to make an extra buck fron ad investors.
Maybe there's a reason why people want these pure, perfect maidens? Could it be that the real world is filled with darwinistic people? Filled with murder, drugs, deasise, genocide, virtue signalling, inequality, false politicians, false ronance, bullies, ect. Where everyone is out to push eachother down to get on top? Yea, no wonder people are so eager to want something better.
Is it really difficult for people to mind their own business? If you don't harm anyone, why ban it?
You know. What about GTA that glorifies crime and actually hurts people in the real world with predatory microtransactions? What about rape fantasies? What about guro? What about furry porn? What if she's canonlly legal age? What about girls that look mature but are underage(Ikkitousen, HSoTD)? What about all that incest porn on pornhub? That's illegal IRL but no one is harping to ban that. What about r/trees? A sub dedicated to glorifying marijuana but one problem...weed has been and still is illegal and classified as a class1 drug in the US. Or the sub that literally shows real kids being killed. Or all those propaganda and ad shilling? But no one bans that!
BUT BAN THE LOLIS!!!!!
IF. PEOPLE. JUST. STOPPED. BANNING. LOLIS. I'LL. BE. HAPPY
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1 Alicesnakebae 2019-03-13
Imagine fucking your game over because epic gave you vbucks
1 FullPoet 2019-03-13
It is not the first, satisfactory did it too.
1 HovarTM 2019-03-13
Lmao the dude who got banned is a disgraced the Donald mod that got beat by an obese boomer and wrote trump fan fic
1 bjt23 2019-03-13
Sounds dope, you got the link?