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Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned

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Re: Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned

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Post by robertlagrant »

95014_refugee wrote: post #215
groby_b wrote: post #186

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Or maybe some people have moral qualms with simply taking without giving back.

Viewing an ad is not “giving back” in any meaningful sense. Modern adtech primarily benefits the infrastructure providers, rather than providing a service to its “clients” or a revenue stream to site owners. Adblocking is the only meaningful objection that the consuming public can raise to the inefficient and wasteful adtech situation. Depending on how you feel about your obligations with regards to civil society, yo…

> Viewing an ad is not “giving back” in any meaningful sense

What you declare to be meaningful isn't really the issue. It's how the thing you're getting chooses to pay for itself.

Re: Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned

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Post by eleveriven »

Torkel wrote: post #28
eleveriven wrote: post #25

I am a big fan of Stray! The atmosphere was both haunting and beautiful, and the emotional connection you feel as you guide the cat through puzzles, etc. Hearing about the uncertainty at Annapurna Interactive feels personal a little

I have feelings about Stray... What an awesome game it could have been! I played it with one of my daughers. Lovely father/daughter playing session. Guiding the cat through the maze/puzzles. Cat can't fall, it's just calm and nice. And then, out of nowhere - blinking screaming wildly stressful and awful rats come chase us. My daughter dropped the controller, I played it through. But after that the game lost its charm…

I think the purpose of the rats was probably to introduce a sense of danger and urgency, adding some challenge. Yet are there any other games you and your daughter enjoyed together?

Re: Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned

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Post by Torkel »

makeitdouble wrote: post #223
nicolaslem wrote: post #30

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It seems you just wanted a different game than what Stray is.

Not OP, but surely yes. To expand a bit, there's not that many _good_ games where you can explore, follow the story, enjoy a beautiful world and don't need good reflexes or emergency reactions skills. In particular, gamers with decent skills will praise and give exposure to truly beautiful and well detailed games, and people with little to no action skills won't get past the tutorial. We can look at it as a fact of l…

Yes. Exactly this.

Monument Valley was awesome!

And I had the exact same experience with Journey - good the first... 10 minutes? Then nope.

The Witness was also wonderful, that one worked. A Monster's Expidition was ok.

Re: Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned

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Post by navane »

sameoldtune wrote: post #108
InDubioProRubio wrote: post #79

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IP, content, blobs - container words - a sure-fire indicator in any conversation that , that the parties involved areunable to accurately value, evaluate, organize and produce, the valuables that should reside inside the container. So here the daily reminder, that logistics is a commodity now, but producing something of value, is not.

“Content” is an advertising term for whatever fills the space between all the ads

I like that definition a lot. Another thing that stuck with me is that content is a commodity.

Re: Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned

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Post by bschmidt1 »

mandmandam wrote: post #81
pvg wrote: post #55

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Most company personnel changes are not particularly interesting (in the sense of there's not much 'intellectually curious' conversation to be had about them) and are also extensively covered and discussed elsewhere.

This story is clearly interesting to the community, or the original wouldn't have gotten 40 points in an hour at night time. There was absolutely nothing toxic going on in the comments either. Calling it a "personnel change" is also reading as brazenly disingenuous.

HN mods are just as biased/arbitrary (and terrible) as the worst Reddit mods. The two companies are basically one-in-the-same as they are both deeply backed by MIT and thus the CIA/military intelligence apparatus.

Both HackerNews and Reddit are interested in shutting down conversation/information.

Re: Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned

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Post by bschmidt1 »

mandmandam wrote: post #116
pvg wrote: post #111

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216 points on this post with 89 comments is pretty conclusive Lots of things with piles of points and comments are poor HN submissions. Happens all the time and is not in any way conclusive. That's basically the explanation, for there to be some kind of conclusion you'd have to make an argument that isn't about points and comments of a thing that's on the fp. Everything on the fp gets points and comments.

I didn't want to "quote the old magic" to you, but this story is squarely within the HN guidelines. It's interesting, stimulating, important, tech related, true, timely etc. The argument that a games company losing their entire staff to resignations isn't 'suitable' because "most company personnel changes are not particularly interesting" is false equivalence. This thread is full of comments describing what people ar…

I agree with you and I know a lot of other people do too but are afraid to speak up in support. Really sick of the arbitrary censorship on this site.
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