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[-] garretble@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

“I was just stumped,” Newell said, sipping a drink on one of his many yachts. “Maybe I’ll get unstumped with my next yacht purchase.”

Overhearing the conversation, George RR Martin, sitting on a pile of money, quipped, “Yes, and I am thiiiis close to finishing the next book.”

[-] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago

How greedy of the man, to checks notes admit to not wanting to make a cash grab and instead leaving the series unfinished because they didn’t think they could do it justice.

[-] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Leaving it to rot for 15 years was far more unjust than a slightly less "revolutionary" game. And the concepts they show in the new doc are cool as hell! I would have loved to shoot at blobmonster! They just decided singleplayer FPS games weren't as profitable, and that's fine, I guess. They're a company, they want to make money. But pretending they were somehow doing us a favor by leaving the cliffhanger for so long is utter nonsense. Especially since they wound up simply retconning it so the whole wait was pointless anyway!

Edit: y'all they literally said in the doc that if they'd kept working on it for 1-2 more years they would have been able to complete it, but they were more interested in multiplayer games and went to go work on that. But if you really want to drink the self-aggrandizing bs that Newell spouts, go right ahead

[-] garretble@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

You can’t say anything bad or joke about him. He’s god around these parts.

A lot of these people will probably also say “billionaires shouldn’t exist” but for Gabe he’s “our” billionaire so it’s fine.

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

His cash grab was steam, lol.

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

Damn that bastard for making the best platform for buying and playing games. How dare he.

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I’m not complaining, just noting that it was very lucrative. Folks are really overreacting with the downvotes. Chill people.

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

It sure sounded like you were. It's because you said cash grab. That's a negative attribute. You basically said it's garbage but made him a lot of money. Along the lines of like the last 4 terminator movies.

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