VoidWanderer said:
What threw me about his statement was the "word" 'over-complexification'.
Seriously?
Was 'complicated' too simple a word for him?
While he has great ideas, the perceived arrogance of his statements irritate me greatly.
What was his point again?
Captcha: pond life... How Jonathon Blow sees the rest of the Game Developing community as pond life?
That console manufactuerers make a lot of unnecessary processes for certification that only wastes time and money on the developer side when the solution to many of these certification processes could be found on the console manufacturer's side fairly easily. If you read his original e-mail and you would know that.
Hawk of Battle said:
This guy is STILL talking? Tell me again why people listen to him again.
Because he is genuinely intelligent and has some interesting things to say on game design and game development, being in the game industry after all, that he wants to bring to light, such as the unnecessarily bureaucratic processes of the certification process for console games.
josemlopes said:
If it takes that much time and that much money for him to make a warning screen and make it appear when saving then I would like to know how did he ever managed to make a full game to begin with. That shit is probably less then 1% of the making of the game. Im suprised he didnt made a god awfull looking game using stick figures and said that better visuals are useless since gamers could still play the game with those visuals.
Remove the main menu while you are at it, people that put the disk on the console have the intention to play it so just go straight to the gameplay since menus are also probably expensibe. You know what, dont make anything at all if you are going to keep that kind mentality.
One of the only things that could be removed is the "Press START to start" thingy at the start, but he doesnt complaint about that since its also in PC games.
This is entirely a faulty slippery slope argument, completely ignorant as to what he's actually saying, and you would know that if you bothered to read his actual e-mail from the original site that this article is taken from.
