Early access for 10 years, mostly negative reviews, vague blaming of AWS for taking down the game.
They probably just can’t be bothered trying to salvage the game and don’t want to say that.
They probably have a crappy DRM solution and don’t want to keep maintaining it. They should just remove the DRM entirely in a patch, remove the early access label, and drastically drop the price instead of delisting.
This is the shadiest of excuses. “AWS changed something and now we cannot serve files and offer the game”. WTF is that. Anyone with a programming 101 can see this is bullshit.
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A small update to AWS and now your installer is broken, with no hope of updating it?
Ok Molyneux, tell us again about your new game based on cryptobullshit, I’m sure it’ll work out.
Yet another example of why DRM is bad for users.
I’m not disagreeing but it says people who already own it will be able to keep playing it.
They also say that new users need to download things from S3, this could mean two things:
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The game checks whether you’re a new user and if so downloads something from S3.
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The game downloads something from S3 on the first run.
If 1, then they have a server to list known users, how long until that server gets dropped? If 2 users who uninstall the game and reinstall it again will not be able to play. And all to download some data that could be embedded with the game to begin with.
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It says they can’t serve files to new users anymore. What if you are an old user and need to download those files again because you uninstalled the game.
I’m willing to bet the guy who “won” Curiosity has never seen a penny of the money they promised him from Godus and never will.
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