AwesomeLowlander

Ironically, I expect AI would probably give a more accurate summary / explanation of the comic than you just did.

At some point, your tongue is numb anyway.

In my part of the world 2x is weak, the challenges were doing 3x 😂

If Bethesda fans are worried this will harm the quality of our future games

No worries. Your quality can’t possibly drop any further.

I didn’t say SP was a roguelike, I used it as an example of games that ‘finish’ in a short time but have tons of replayability.

We’re getting nowhere with this, it’s fairly clear what my argument is, and that we have very different opinions on this. I’m going to bow out here, good day.

You’re comparing apples and oranges, that’s obviously not the case here. Roguelikes as a genre would cease to exist if every run had to be over 2 hours, but nobody in their right mind would claim it was finished after a single run regardless of how they did.

If you think the game is too short, I think this does not give you right to refund.

Seems like a basic difference of opinion then. I’m not paying that much for something that short. And it seems many players agree.

The game also seems like utter shlock, but that’s another matter.

Yeah mb, I got confused with the part the dev said he aimed for 3-4 hours playtime. And another commentor above said they advertised it as that.

Doesn’t really change my point, what if you reach the end and your opinion is just ‘that’s it? I paid for that?’

underwhelming product that nevertheless has a market at its price

So if we agree that this game is an underwhelming product, why are we surprised it’s getting refunded? Unlike the big mac where you probably know what you’re getting in advance, this one is being misleading with spuriously inflated play time. Very spurious, since it seems likely half or more of players are finishing in less than 2 hours.

Playtime can’t be guaranteed

When a full third of your customers are refunding, that means half or more of them are finishing in below 2 hours. That means the devs estimate of 3-4 hours average playtime is bull, straight from their ass. That’s not a mistake, that’s false advertising.

Refunding a cheap (in price) indie game before the 2 hours play mark, AFTER finishing it is just a dick move.

Yeah? What if your reaction to reaching the ending in 90 minutes is ‘That’s it? What happened to the 4 hours I was promised’? Who’s the dick in that case?

It’s not like big macs are value for money either.

advertised as typically 3-4 hours

Yes, if a game advertised 20 hours of gameplay and finished in 10, wouldn’t you feel they padded the estimate? That’s the same percentage here.

If a game I bought finished within 2 hours, I’d be the one feeling fucked over

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If the surge protection circuit is tripping during normal operation or when incoming power is only a few % out of spec

According to who?

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/26188373

By lemmings too

By coal farm, do you mean a hatch ranch?

Yeah, don’t overthink it at the start. A single electrolyser just above your base, with a CO2 skimmer at the deepest part of your mining tunnels and a pump to remove H2 at the highest point, both manually activated, will last you a couple hundred cycles at least. Automate the skimmer, pump, and coal generator once you can to make your life easier. Then you have lots of time to focus on overengineering your life support systems while your dupes die of heatstroke :)

Those are some puny cities, 2k acres can feed like 10-20k people.

No, but they’re getting ads on their other devices based on stuff they see that they happen to ask meta about, or upload videos of. There’s no HUD for it to serve ads to you on the glasses.

SPOMs are pretty overkill for somebody at the point where OP is on the learning curve, though.