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They only made that much because they got exposure and was actually placed on the front page of Steam. Whether or not Severed World will get that exact same treatment, we don't know. But, if they do, they can expect to make a lot of money.

I just hope you continue to work on the game please don't be one of those thousands of developers who barely works on it and then walks off with the money abandoning the game...it's quite sickening and it hurts steams image.

Pixel Realms wrote:

I think NEStalgia got a lot more exposure on Steam than the average new game, because they were one of a handful to be greenlit when it was first launched.

Took them over a year to get greenlit o.O

While we're on the subject of you doing it wrong. Stop trying to sell the game, especially if you're marketing it with mobile as a major hook. Sell "hats" instead - you have a well funded art department, I'm sure they can throw such things together in no time.

EmpirezTeam wrote:

curb stomping silk wizard gave you a few years ago.

Link, please. I want to see what went down. I'm interested.

EmpirezTeam wrote:

now that i see you're here, i just wanted to touch base with you on the curb stomping silk wizard gave you a few years ago. have you fully recovered from that yet or did he curb stompt you so far into the ground that you'll never see the light of day again

You mean the one he gave BYOND? No, it hasn't fully recovered, has barely 50% of the players it did when I was /carrying this pathetic excuse for an engine, and went so bankrupt thanks to Silk that Tom has officially /ragequit it. As was obvious all along, his game is a failure, with barely 20 players, even after a Steam release. Though, it was arguably the most successful game ever on BYOND, likely earning him nearly 250k. He gladly took that money and ran, learning well from the BYOND staff he trained under, not doing a single thing to give back to the community he stole all that money from.

Xirre wrote:

EmpirezTeam wrote:

curb stomping silk wizard gave you a few years ago.

Link, please. I want to see what went down. I'm interested.

http://www.byond.com/forum/?post=111344


EmpirezTeam wrote:

Silk is planning to make another game as well, or at least hinted at something along those lines.

Hopefully he uses a better engine than BYOND.

What are your thoughts on this, Mr. Falacy? Can you survive a 2nd curb stompting courtesy of Silk? And will he do even better this time around, earning double, maybe even TRIPLE of what he collected from NEStalgia?

There's nothing to curb stomp, I suppose he could get BYOND shut down again, considering 3 of the most/only played games right now are Zeta rips, one of which still being blatantly DBZ branded, but it would have practically zero impact on me this time around, probably wouldn't even effect BYOND all that much, considering its already dead.

Its also unlikely he would be able to make any more money than he already has, what he made for NEStaglia was basically the default amount you get just for releasing a game on Steam (roughly 80-100k at release, even for the worst selling titles, based on an article I read, and according to Lummox, he only made about half that), nothing too impressive.

Considering NEStalgia barely made it past greenlight (took them over a year), back when greenlight was a rampant thing, and Silk has shown he either lacks the ability or intent to make good/interesting games, its unlikely a 2nd product by him would be able to make it at this point. NESwanabes only get you so far, a lot farther than they should, apparently.

And I notice you accused him of stealing. Stealing is the Devil. Do you think his prosperity could be the direct result of making a blood pact with Hades and the abominations of Tartarus?

I actually don't consider him much of a thief, though his product was intentionally low quality trash that he in no way meant to offer support for - this was well established before he sold it. Though his methods of promotion and removing negative comments were quite scumbag, the money was still semi-legit. The stealing is more a reference to BYOND, who take all their money from ads and memberships - earned by game developers - that they in no way return the support to.


EDIT: Also worth noting, you're the perfect example of the malicious trolls around here, who contribute nothing, have a purely negative impact on the community, but never receive a ban because you play nice with the admins.

EDIT 2.0: That isn't to say I think you should be banned, just pointing out how incompetent and unjustified the BYOND admins are. Bans, by any competent community, should only be used to get rid of "people" who make the service literally unusable. For example, spambots (not just chat spam, but things like gold farming bots), these generally aren't even people, and things like hackers/cheaters, whose aim-bots make a game unplayable, potential DDOSers, which is again just a network of bots. These are people who have more or less proven they don't actually want to use the service, so banning them is of no concern, however, offenses like these generally don't even apply to forums, and the 12 year old "volunteer" admins around here probably shouldn't even have a ban button, probably not even a delete-post button for that matter.

Nothing wrong with a little troll. If anything, ET kept me around here long enough to contribute a small bit to the dev help section and aid some people on their projects. I'd probably be gone in 2013 or sooner. He's not malicious. I get some laughs from his posts.