• Rebellion bringing Evil Genius to Facebook and Zynga as "Evil Genius online"
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[QUOTE=Eldertbone56;41800230]Is there a reason why it says the site is down?[/QUOTE] Site is just down for scheduled maintenance it seems.
[QUOTE=nightlord;41800234]Site is just down for scheduled maintenance it seems.[/QUOTE] just when we are getting people to sign it :l
[QUOTE=Eldertbone56;41800298]just when we are getting people to sign it :l[/QUOTE] It's working again now. Someone should post it on other sites to get people to sign it.
[b]GOD FUCKING DAMNIT[/b] [editline]11th August 2013[/editline] We wait for years and this is what they give us?
zynga is genuinely one of the worst companies ever and they've profited off of stealing from other people for years. [quote]"I don't fucking want innovation," the ex-employee recalls Pincus saying. "You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers." One contractor says he was offered freelance work from Zynga, related to mimicking a competitor's application, with explicit instructions: "Copy that game." "I was around meetings where things like that were being discussed, and the ramifications of things like that were being discussed - the fact that they'd probably be sued by the people who designed the game," he says. "And the thought was, 'Well, that's fine, we'll settle.' Our case wasn't really defensible." Psycho Monkey's suit was ultimately settled for an undisclosed amount. The former senior employee who was present for Pincus' "No innovation" diatribe described Zynga's business model this way: "Steal somebody else's game, throw millions of dollars at it, and then, if it doesn't have it already, add virtual coins."[/quote] anyone who works with them for anything besides pure profit is a fool.
oh no facebook games so terrible
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;41801322]oh no facebook games so terrible[/QUOTE] would you be fine if valve teased half life 3 for months then revealed it was "half life online" for facebook
I honestly think freemium games are burning themselves out right now. I think people are playing them - those who put a few dollars in get marginal/ very little benefit before being asked to pay again, and then don't bother and usually stop playing them or ever putting money in again. In a lot of cases the amount of money you're required to put in, is truly ridiculous. I got 'Real Racing 3' by EA on the iPhone, and it's a complete joke as far as freemium games go. Even if you put money into it, it's used up in about 10 minutes and you're shit again. In honesty, I hope the companies that pushed these outlandish freemium model games somehow get themselves into unrecoverable financial circumstances and just end up failing and exposing their money-grabbing CEOs for the douche-bags that they are, and resetting the corporate model to 'make games that are actually good' rather than 'maximize profit margins on un-innovative, superficial turd games that fucking suck under the surface'. I'm honestly surprised rebellion didn't go the way of other studios recently, and raise money on Kickstarter to make a real game. Putting their faith in Zynga (which is going down the shitter anyway) to make a shitty freemium-model clone of Evil Genius I, when their entire fan-base of this game was avid PC fans, was a dumb move and I think it'll seriously harm their studio.
[QUOTE=SCopE5000;41803874]I honestly think freemium games are burning themselves out right now. I think people are playing them - those who put a few dollars in get marginal/ very little benefit before being asked to pay again, and then don't bother and usually stop playing them or ever putting money in again. In a lot of cases the amount of money you're required to put in, is truly ridiculous. I got 'Real Racing 3' by EA on the iPhone, and it's a complete joke as far as freemium games go. Even if you put money into it, it's used up in about 10 minutes and you're shit again. In honesty, I hope the companies that pushed these outlandish freemium model games somehow get themselves into unrecoverable financial circumstances and just end up failing and exposing their money-grabbing CEOs for the douche-bags that they are, and resetting the corporate model to 'make games that are actually good' rather than 'maximize profit margins on un-innovative, superficial turd games that fucking suck under the surface'. I'm honestly surprised rebellion didn't go the way of other studios recently, and raise money on Kickstarter to make a real game. Putting their faith in Zynga (which is going down the shitter anyway) to make a shitty freemium-model clone of Evil Genius I, when their entire fan-base of this game was avid PC fans, was a dumb move and I think it'll seriously harm their studio.[/QUOTE] idk that candy crush shit is phenomenally successful
Hello there, for those interested, I run the EG2 Facebook fan page. I understand and share most of your frustrations, as does most of the community. I have shared the petition on the Facebook page but we are also in communication with Rebellion. The more people we have behind the cause, the more of an impact we can make. On the main topic. I do worry about the nature of the "free" browser game model. If you consider the likes of Farmville and such, it is an easy way to make money for Zynga. However, when you consider that that business model is hardly "ethical" and it is too easy for people to get addicted to buying pixels with no true benefit. On the other hand, Facebook did have an Evil Genius "free browser game" and I never considered it either great nor engaging (like Farmville). The obvious benefit of such games like FV is the cutesy nature and happy atmosphere, but EG doesn't have that and nor should it. If the game is a stop gap before a true successor, then I'm unsure we will ever see a true successor.
[QUOTE=Gradjol;41808259]Hello there, for those interested, I run the EG2 Facebook fan page. I understand and share most of your frustrations, as does most of the community. I have shared the petition on the Facebook page but we are also in communication with Rebellion. The more people we have behind the cause, the more of an impact we can make. On the main topic. I do worry about the nature of the "free" browser game model. If you consider the likes of Farmville and such, it is an easy way to make money for Zynga. However, when you consider that that business model is hardly "ethical" and it is too easy for people to get addicted to buying pixels with no true benefit. On the other hand, Facebook did have an Evil Genius "free browser game" and I never considered it either great nor engaging (like Farmville). The obvious benefit of such games like FV is the cutesy nature and happy atmosphere, but EG doesn't have that and nor should it. If the game is a stop gap before a true successor, then I'm unsure we will ever see a true successor.[/QUOTE] I'm the one who told you about this :)
Almost 30 people have signed the petition so far, which is pretty good. We need a lot more though. They definitely know people are unhappy, which is good i guess: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/vCKpc06.png[/IMG]
NGHTLORD!!! WE ARE GOING TO CHANGE THE HISTORY OF EG! For the fans!!!!
OP is updated with the link to the petition.
[QUOTE=-n3o-;41808463]OP is updated with the link to the petition.[/QUOTE] We must atleast get 70 signs.
[QUOTE=Eldertbone56;41808468]We must atleast get 70 signs.[/QUOTE] That won't be enough to do anything really. I think 500 at the very least, as that's the amount they had for the EGO beta.
[QUOTE=nightlord;41808474]That won't be enough to do anything really. I think 500 at the very least, as that's the amount they had for the EGO beta.[/QUOTE] that will take a long time. but we can do it :)
[QUOTE=Eldertbone56;41808507]that will take a long time. but we can do it :)[/QUOTE] It probably won't be that long if someone posts it somewhere like Reddit.
Were going to need way more than 500 signatures for them to change the game.
Well i'll look into a place for new signatures .
[QUOTE=-n3o-;41808542]Were going to need way more than 500 signatures for them to change the game.[/QUOTE] We do, but as 500 is the amount of people they wanted for the EGO beta that seems like a reasonable amount just to get them to notice, really.
I don't know anything about reddit....
Fucking. Fuck. Why. Fuck everything.
[QUOTE=madmanmad;41808737]Fucking. Fuck. Why. Fuck everything.[/QUOTE] Sign the petition to ease your pain.
Almost at 50 signs.
I REALLY hope this actually means something... [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/PpXpwB6.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=nightlord;41809667]I REALLY hope this actually means something... [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/PpXpwB6.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] Have patience for us to destroy this game young padawan*
[QUOTE=nightlord;41809667]I REALLY hope this actually means something... [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/PpXpwB6.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] If my expectations were any lower they'd be blasting through the earths core.
[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;41810998]If my expectations were any lower they'd be blasting through the earths core.[/QUOTE] I bet they're gonna announce that they forgot to announce the iphone/android app version seriously this is horrible what the fuck rebellion
if it was the original and not some shite horrible zynga/facebook f2p yeah I agree
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