Nuplex

They are definitely not taking the game down. If its even possible, they might retroactively mark it as early access, which would be by far the smartest thing to do right now.

r/subwaybuilder

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Main developer despises criticism and paying consumers with opinions. This is not an accusation, Colin himself tweeted it. We are annoying customers.

Nuplex

replied to indiharts

Which is crazy. Im a web dev making small games with electron.

It literally can run offline just fine (local server). Thats the default.

I wonder if Subway Builder is just a fork of his main business project, Redistricter, which absolutely needs to be connected and can't run offline? And he doesnt know how to source or download his own data? (Or worse, Redistricter itself is just a shell over a third party API)

r/subwaybuilder

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Main developer despises criticism and paying consumers with opinions. This is not an accusation, Colin himself tweeted it. We are annoying customers.

Nuplex

replied to Sweaty-Gap-231

Pretty sure he has multiple(?) community managers. Most indie games with discords and communites have them. They're usually volunteers though. But this would be something they would handle. Im sure one of his community managers is blowing up his phone right now.

r/subwaybuilder

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Main developer despises criticism and paying consumers with opinions. This is not an accusation, Colin himself tweeted it. We are annoying customers.

Nuplex

replied to Salty_Pillow

I see where youre coming from.

From my understanding, a large amount of the game, including some assets and UI components, are indeed AI. The dev hasnt clarified this so its hard to know. But if this is the case, I'm on the "disclose" side.

There's no valid reason for always online. Its a lot of work? So? We gave the devs money to fix these things (I bought this game last year to support them). Its their job to figure it out and its not our problem if they poorly coded something. Fix it! Thats what good game developers do.

r/subwaybuilder

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Main developer despises criticism and paying consumers with opinions. This is not an accusation, Colin himself tweeted it. We are annoying customers.

Nuplex

replied to Maleficent_Shame2021

These tweets will probably be deleted soon if they haven't already. Hence posting it here (assuming this thread itself isnt taken down...)

Edit: There's a lot of things coming out in this thread so I've screenshot it in case its taken down.

r/subwaybuilder

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Main developer despises criticism and paying consumers with opinions. This is not an accusation, Colin himself tweeted it. We are annoying customers.

Nuplex

replied to Salty_Pillow

Hey so let me remind you that at the end of the day this is just a product and we are paying consumers.

Many consumers, especially gamers, are anti-AI. So much so Steam requires AI disclosures now. People dont want to buy AI games. I know there is nuance here, feel free to see my post history. But at the end of the day, if consumers feel that AI is unacceptable for games, thats how it is. Ranting about it on twitter wont help you. Colin could instead explain in detail how AI was used and be transparent so maybe some consumers will give him an easier time. And depending on the level of AI, the steam store page has to be updated.

The above tweet is not going to win anyone.

r/subwaybuilder

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Main developer despises criticism and paying consumers with opinions. This is not an accusation, Colin himself tweeted it. We are annoying customers.

Nuplex

replied to Primary-Economist866

Actually insane thing to post publicly.

Honestly I get having this thought privately. Its hard to take all the criticism and negative reviews..its okay to vent. But this is absolutely wild to post publicly. Rant in private, and figure out how to take criticism publicly and improve your product.