- Dec 24, 2018
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Yes, all of this.I'm very afraid that the ignore list is limited to a thousand entries, since I'm almost approaching this limit, and they keep coming and coming...
I just can't figure out how it works. People at Ocean's Discord are screaming, "Ocean, shut up and take our money. Make us a $100 tier because $50 is not enough."
And at the same time, respectable freeloading consumers at the Zone shout: "Milking, this is nothing more but milking."
I don’t even want to delve into what they consider milking: Dev moves to another apartment - it's milking, an overly optimistic estimate published - it's milking, hardware problems - this is still good old milking.
And the most idiotic assumption in this thread: "He just wants supporters to pay for another month." So if he didn't tell people what was going on and just kept quiet until next week, would they all cancel their support? Seriously? Those who continued to support him after he failed to meet his December/January targets as he originally planned? The breadroll-level thinking.
I might see some sense in assumption that since he's made public statements again that he's about to, most likely, if all goes well, he'll probably deliver a release before the end of this month. While, in fact, he screwed up a little with his damn reworks and postworks and still needs time to prepare the Steam release.
The thing is, that in the past, Ocean always announced a release delay, even if it caused a massive butthurt in this thread. And he was never afraid to tell the public the unpopular reasons for it, like wanting to rework the Marla gun scene or the delays and issues related to the music licensing, even though the crowd was screaming, "Fuck the music, just release the fucking update." Nah, I don't see why he needs the lame excuse of "the cat ate my hard drive" just to continue the subscription for the next month. He will get it even if he remains silent.
But what do they mean? Who is being milked? Obviously it's not them, because they're getting the game for free. Patreon subscribers? But why do some randos speak for them? Why don't they stop their support if they think they're being milked?
The mystery is more intriguing than where Summer is gone.
Hey pirates! You're being milked, better stop paying!
Actually, blueballing is actually the opposite of milking right?
In seriousness most people can't think beyond being blueballed emotionally by the update, they don't even think about how messed up a SSD failure is for anyone. Think about losing all your documents, passwords etc (don't tell me about redundant failsafes; there is nothing 100% foolproof - I'm sure Ocean has as many failsafes as he thought practical, and after today he'll have more). Now think of your amazing plan to make bank on steam failing because of one SSD. Milking patrons rather than pushing an update that you're hoping will revolutionise your work? He can't get the update out fast enough for himself.
I bet you he had his own panic attack, and will now write even more intense panic attack episodes in SG season 2. Literally, people need to think as a human being first and an entitled consumer pirate second. No one can make you care about other people's dramas but your own goodwill. So now we wait a day or two for OCean to repopulate his main SSD, then an hour after till he submits it. Silence is way worse as blueballing.
PS the limit is 1000 threads in the latest games and updates, you can ignore anyone eles on top of that. I ignore more games than people. So you're safe yossa, ghost us with impudence! Or be the first to ignore more than 1000 shitposters, surely there's a trophy for that.