I know reading 27 pages of a thread before making a post is too much to ask of anyone, but at least skim through some of it to see what we're talking about lol, we're not 'hating' just because.
Stellaris: Galaxy Command has Arrived!
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This has probably been mentioned already, but the google playstore has nova empires and some of the ingame screenshots (sans the UI) look really familiar.
Not to say that a company reusing its assets is bad or anything, but...
Not to say that a company reusing its assets is bad or anything, but...
Deny storage permission to Stellaris Galaxy and the error message will say that "Nova Command" needs those permission to unpack its assets
If you deny access to it through the playstore, it says "Nove Empire" instead of "Stellaris Galactic Command". It's literally a coat of paint.
Deny storage permission to Stellaris Galaxy and the error message will say that "Nova Command" needs those permission to unpack its assets
One of these days Paradox will hire a Chinese person and they will actually know that the average Chinese folk has a relentless drive for money.
Incidentally: which do you think is more likely?
1) The folks responsible for greenlighting the project and the subsequent trailer did no background search of the company, its game, and the artistic similarities between its existing project and the new one and is thus totally in the dark about everything or
2) They saw, had the conversation, and was convinced by...whatever element was in play that made this happen? (Money. Probably Money.)
1.
A family friend of ours once went home to China to visit family, hometown, etc.
They have two kids, one of whom has a rather severe lactose allergy.
It was summer and the kids wanted ice cream.
Mom went to a vendor and asked "does your ice cream have milk in it?"
The vendor's reply was "lady, if it did I wouldn't sell it to you."
The kid with the allergy spent some time in an ambulance shortly afterwards. They were alive, but...yeah.
(By the way the first time I had ever seen something like an ingredients list was when I moved to the U.S...then again I was ten and the time and such things didn't bother me too much.)
2.
I once went home to visit family, one of whom was a college student at the time.
Their public bathrooms had no toilet paper because people kept stealing it.
Moral of the story: Don't trust us unless you have a good, non-monetary reason to do so.
By the way I'm totally trustworthy.
A family friend of ours once went home to China to visit family, hometown, etc.
They have two kids, one of whom has a rather severe lactose allergy.
It was summer and the kids wanted ice cream.
Mom went to a vendor and asked "does your ice cream have milk in it?"
The vendor's reply was "lady, if it did I wouldn't sell it to you."
The kid with the allergy spent some time in an ambulance shortly afterwards. They were alive, but...yeah.
(By the way the first time I had ever seen something like an ingredients list was when I moved to the U.S...then again I was ten and the time and such things didn't bother me too much.)
2.
I once went home to visit family, one of whom was a college student at the time.
Their public bathrooms had no toilet paper because people kept stealing it.
Moral of the story: Don't trust us unless you have a good, non-monetary reason to do so.
By the way I'm totally trustworthy.
I suppose I was only a matter of time before another gaming company would follow suit in disgusting practice of selling out a beloved brand onto mobile gaming, i would like to request a refund for all titles I have purchased from paradox and I will be closing my account shortly, time to move on.
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Also, it's another game entirely with in-app purchases of up to $100 that are all "pay to skip artificial delays until your money runs out".
I don't own a cellphone. I get by with a landline and e-mail. It's time like this I like to remind myself I'm not the hapless Joe they're targeting. I save myself a lot of harassment because people focus so much on their handheld devices that they can't conceive of someone not connected to the hive mind.
Simply not playing it all seems like the easiest option.
It's the option I'm taking.
Hope we got some teasers for the real game now before the big reveal of what the actual dev team have been working on.
The Launcher has broken many mods and then they announce this. My expectations are starting to drop. I hope for some real news here soon.
Edit: And then to find out Gamebear infringed on Bungie's (Microsoft?) Copyright! Oiy, This project needs to be fixed, or scrapped all together.
Edit: And then to find out Gamebear infringed on Bungie's (Microsoft?) Copyright! Oiy, This project needs to be fixed, or scrapped all together.
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This has probably already been asked but is this an out of season April fools joke?
Yeah I was going to voice my opinion too but wanted to make sure I read everything first. It was.... Actually pretty amusing, especially when the Halo 4 scene came up. I have to admit, I was having a pretty crummy mood today and then I found this thread and began reading through it.
Don't wish you guys unsuccess, but I have absolutely NO interest in mobile games. As long as regular Stellaris isn't damaged by this other game, fine.
The problem is exactly those artificial delays.
Loot box systems are vilified these days, but at least there is a legitimate thrill in gambling.
Artificial delays, timers that impede further in-game activity for 21 days unless you pay real money, are utterly devoid of ludic legitimacy.
They have one purpose, and one purpose only, which is to induce frustration in the player so that he chooses to cough up the $$$$.
An actual game is about fun. Be it Stellaris, Rimworld, or even legit free-to-play titles such as Fortnite or Hearthstone, or even those lootbox games (gambling is fun - for some).
But if a piece of software is not about fun, at all, in any sense of that word (compare our grand strategy fun with Starcraft 2 fun or first-person-shooter fun), but is instead about causing the user of the software to experience frustration, then it is *not* a game. Then it is something else.
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Haha I kinda pity the dev team of Stellaris. They had no part of this and now they have to suffer the consequences of the board XD. It's kinda weird Paradox had no oversight at all. Being their own IP and them being publishers. They prob care enough about the mobile market to want a piece of the income but dont care enough to actually think it will become the new fortnite. I would have thought that most companies would tread a little more careful after the Blizzard shitstorm. Guess not. Guess you have to learn the hard way. I mean paradox games are niche as is. Fuck over your core users enough and it wont bode well for you in the end. Guess the second booth on pdxcon wont be up ^^
Didnt think Paradox would stoop so low to reskin a game and call it their own tho. Even officially...
Didnt think Paradox would stoop so low to reskin a game and call it their own tho. Even officially...
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