• William@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    And “100 developers working on it” doesn’t mean much when they’re unpaid and there’s no lower limit on how much they have to actually contribute.

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      4 months ago

      In fact, it often seems like the more unpaid contributors in an unstructured organization the worse the product. Like Starbound or Fallout: The Frontier.

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        4 months ago

        Ugh Starbound was supposed to be so sick. That might be the only time I actually bought into early access hoping for more and got let down.

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            3 months ago

            I had a lot of high hopes for what it was striving to be, but it kind of fizzled out and never really excelled at any particular thing. Not saying it’s necessarily bad, I just remember being so hyped about it.