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That sounds pretty good to me.
Does it, though?
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Also, what ever happened to that whole "no one will ever know if you are telling the truth or not" aspect?
I kind of want the winner to be like, "no one else can play my game."
Wait, that sounds exactly like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Yes. What's the downside here?
At the absolute worst, the game sells no copies and you are left ... exactly where you started.
Anything but that and you are making some money for nothing.
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I don't think they added any 'spend money' options until a month or two ago. They're doing the kickstarter thing to actually fund the game.
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From the beginning, Curiosity was an "experiment" to fund 22 cans, and they were pretty open about that. The idea was to see how much people would be willing to spend to get a small shot at being the one to open the cube.
Eh, I'm betting the smell of $$$ will prevent a lot of dickery.
Should he could be a raging Asshole and make everyone's play experiences bad; but the game would sell less copies and IAP's, and he'll get less money in the end. Or he could try and making a pleasant and creative experience to try and drum up interest and get more people to buy the game.
It's basically a question of how valuable he finds being a douchenozzle.
Say what you will about the new game, Godus, and whatever rewards the winner might get. In the end, Curiosity was just an advertisement. For a game they are making through Kickstarter. The whole thing reeks of that quintessential Molyneux-brand ego shite.
In the end, Curiosity wasn't about curiosity, it was about money. We were told the winner could choose whether or not to reveal what was inside the cube and that decision would be life changing. Am I the only one who feels that money, even a shitload of money, is the shallowest form of reward there is? Especially for us, who didn't win.
Curiosity's success as an 'experiment' is now predicated on the eventual success of Godus. He's deferred judgment once again. Typical Peter Molyneux. Always somewhere else to retreat to.
I'm pretty sure they were aiming to have the reveal match their Kickstarter announcement, now that we know what was inside. That goes to show how the damn cube was not dug nearly fast enough.
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It's pretty clearly not an advertisement because it does not involve telling anyone to buy the game. I suppose it informs of its existence, but the prize is very real for one person.
You might as well say if the prize was a million dollars straight up, that's also an advertisement for their new game, because it draws attention to Molyneux and his studio.
I mean he could've said "buy our new upcoming game," but he did not as far as I can tell; instead he's letting someone make a big difference within a game and share in its profits. That's a pretty dang cool thing. What in the world else could it be? What wouldn't be "awesomely lame?"
22Cans is buying you a lion and providing you with the means to care for it for life?
You become the sole inheritor of Molyneux's estate?
To be honest I consider this an anti-advertisement anyway because now everybody is going to think "well eff him, I didn't win the prize, I'm not paying anything that ends up as prize money for someone else."
Ok, so logically whatever was in the box would be an advertisement, because every game blog would still be covering it.
An event being covered by news isn't necessarily advertisement.
I misheard the news at first about the Cube and its prize. The winner has been given something people don't usually get when it comes to games. It's a genuine rad thing. It's weird because there's questions about the extent of it all, but it's not like "OH MOLYNEUX."
Everyone already knew that going into it, or they should have.
However, if you felt ripped off because the guy who opened the cube just downloaded it today, that would be kind of understandable.
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Does/did Australia have much of an organized crime problem? Because I suspect he's getting into the interesting laws now.
If you don't know the file contents, how do you know they're juicy? They could just say "M$ Sux" 5 billion times.
"..We already knew that. This stuff got revealed last week."
"Oh, really? Um, well, shoot. I really wish they hadn't waited so long to charge me. Uhh, it has no backwards compatibility?"
"Knew that too."
"Um, well.. Crap. This is totally not going to be worth the blackmail charge now."
Edit - His Twitter account could also get taken down.
Someone could unplug the thing.
Edit: This totally leaves aside the natural response of everyone when they see a tweet saying "click here for juicy details about this thing THEY don't want you to know! 100% legit!". That being "Aw, HELL naw, man."
Publicly trying to blackmail the authorities into backing off seems exactly the kind of thing people like this would be stupid enough to try.
I don't see his going well for him.
Well, blackmail doesn't really work if you aren't telling the victim they're being blackmailed. Or would this technically be extortion?
Well no, only if what was in the cube was an upcoming product, which this is.
It's a really cool prize, don't get me wrong, but yesterday no-one was thinking of Godus.
As for SuperDae, a lot of the info he released over twitter was flat-out wrong, so it would seem his kit is quite out of date. Still, I suppose there could still be something interesting in there! He did get forced Kinect right, after all.
I guess we'll know within 7 hours.
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http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/192899/Heres_how_much_whales_spent_so_far_this_year.php
Keep in mind that this is ONLY THREE MONTHS of data. SOMEONE SPENT OVER $7000 ON A GAME IN JUST 3 MONTHS. (edit: I earlier misunderstood the data to be only two weeks. While this is less crazy then that, it is still utterly bonkers)
Can't help but feel FTP pushes some of the same buttons as gambling, and that without restrictions some people are going to spend way beyond their means.