I thought older folks were cynical and evil. When I was young, I used to think that the world would be a better place if young folks ran it, as we were passionate and idealistic. I've grown up in software development, and as the industry has matured and expanded, it's become kind of an 'ethical wasteland.' Folks don't care about what they do they just want to drive a Tesla and own a penthouse crib in the Mission.Ĭompanies deliberately write garbage code, on the theory that they will be brought out and their garbage code will be trashed.

Dickie seems like a decent chap, and I really feel like our industry needs a lot more decent people. If you don't, your post just comes across as 'It's shit, he's a c*nt.' Well, that's not what this is about, people like fun things and if you want to have a discussion on the merits of a game, play the thing first and have some actual specific complaints. Then you go on to complain about how 'we' don't seem to celebrate the people who create the code that does fit your taste. You are judging a game you never played, and condemning it because it doesn't fit your tastes. You left your opinion in a steaming pile at the top of the comment chain, while freely admitting you don't even know what the games are. I'm not sure why I read your post, to be honest. You say 'he makes bad games.' Are they? Or does he get something that some of the real 'mediocre' houses just don't get? It's spelled out in the article: I think one of the subpoints of the article is 'can 50 million players be wrong?' Games are so complex now, it's hard to imagine there are stories just like this behind them.īut instead the guy that makes shitty games gets the story. In fact, a lot of gamers probably don't even watch the credits. I mean, how many super special guys code and do art for games that are top of the line masterpieces? We don't seem to celebrate those people a lot. I think it would be decent enough to question just how deranged and useless our societies have become.

So we are celebrating the mediocrity of creation skills because he's popular on Android. These games are things I would never touch. I guess it resolves the question that things are not fair in this strange life, or maybe they are but everything seems confusing these days. I'm not sure why I read that to be honest.

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