Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
by lotharbot on Thursday April 16, 2015 @06:55PM
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In the ~17 years I've been involved in the Descent community online, I've had conversations with the developers of Descent 1, Descent 2, Descent 3, a project that was going to become Descent 4 until Interplay pulled support, and Descent:Underground (which just successfully kickstarted last week.) In particular, the Descent:Underground group is currently improving parts of their game based on conversations with me and others who play the older games.
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Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
by eridius on Thursday April 16, 2015 @07:00PM
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I'm not sure what your point is. Are you trying to argue that it's impossible for iOS developers to form communities where they can talk to their users? Because that's obviously false. Are you trying to argue that PC game developers got such communities "for free"? Because that's also obviously false.
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
by lotharbot on Thursday April 16, 2015 @07:08PM
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I'm addressing your comment that "form relationships" can only be meaningfully interpreted as something other than "relationships", by noting that I have formed actual worthwhile relationships with game developers in the past and present.
My comment does not address the rest of what you're saying (in particular, I don't care at all about iOS games or their app store), only that one point.