| richardhutnik said: I knew it was coming out and read reviews of it. I also liked the original. Didn't mean I would buy it though. I would say the core people on forums likely aren't looking for anything on Wiiware. End result is, a title like MDK2, if you want to bother to do it, needs even more effort than on other platforms. What will happen is developers don't understand the need to market, can do quality, and would flop. Developers likely should of done the petition route, and got people to sign up for it before starting and then fill them in on what is next. But knowing this now, they likely decided that Nintendo isn't worth dealing with in the future, and that is what this is about. But, people don't like to hear it, so it is dump on the developer. Well, I am personally taking this to heart and will be trying to promote my own designs, more than I am now. People can see them here: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamedesigner/8933/richard-hutnik One of the designs should be in an upcoming issue of Games Magazine. |
No one is bashing the develop just because they are bashing Nintendo. They are bashing the developer for acting like an immature little brat with sour grapes.
Every developer I know that has worked on WiiWare titles feels the same way I do about this.Beamdog knew the terms, they knew the process, they knew the threshhold. It took them 9 months and several resubmissions to get their game under the required 40 MB file size resitrction (which they knew about before signing anything). They then failed to market the game. And now after they failed to get their game to sell well they want to make like middle school kids and make immature comments on Twitter?
I agree that a petition system to detremine initial demand would have helped greatly. Not only in finding if the WiiWare market would support the game but you'd have early marketing presence. And third, petitions are a form of community engagement which is one of my rules for small developer success.
The rEVOLution is not being televised
