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Jaybird is Birdmojo on Xbox Live and Jaybirdmojo on Playstation's network. He's been playing consoles since the Atari 2600 and it was Zork that taught him how to touch-type. If you've got a song for Wednesday, a commercial for Saturday, a recommendation for Tuesday, an essay for Monday, or, heck, just a handful a questions, fire off an email to AskJaybird-at-gmail.com

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7 Responses

  1. DavidTC says:

    What possible business sense does this make?Report

    • Jaybird in reply to DavidTC says:

      I don’t think it’s about business.

      I think it’s about making games.

      As such, I think I might just forgive Hello Games… which involves buying their *NEXT* game.Report

      • DavidTC in reply to Jaybird says:

        As such, I think I might just forgive Hello Games… which involves buying their *NEXT* game.

        _You_ might.

        The people who demanded refunds, and everyone else who read how it fell short of expectations, however, are not, especially as it’s unlikely they’ll never even know the game had all that stuff put in later.

        That is a hell of a way to run a business.Report

        • Jaybird in reply to DavidTC says:

          When I wrote this post this morning, I looked at No Man’s Sky on Steam and saw that it had Recent Reviews as “Mixed”.

          Now? Recent Reviews are “Mostly Positive”.

          The subreddit devoted to the game is actually falling over itself in praise (and this is after it was pretty hip deep in the whole “#neverpreorder” thing).

          While I would agree that the version of the game that they have today is the version of the game that probably should have shipped in the first place (to the chorus of “WHERE ARE THE SANDWORMS WE WERE PROMISED!?!?!?”), the fact that they finally shipped the version of the game that they probably should have shipped in the first place is a good thing for the people who wanted the version of the game that they probably should have shipped in the first place.

          That ain’t nothin’.Report

        • Kimmi in reply to DavidTC says:

          David,
          Where ya been, mate?
          This is always how publishers make bank.
          “Get it out by Christmas”
          (But, seriously, August??? That’s late even by video game standards.)Report

  2. John Howard Griffin says:

    Stop bothering me, I’m playing No Man’s Sky Atlas Rises update!

    (Crashed freighters!?!)

    Hi Jaybird! (et Maribou, et alia)Report