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Yes I remember playing this game since an early alpha. But it's all so empty and sometimes feels pointless to wonder around a new planet. Btw Chucklefish made the game with unpaid child labor... I eventually returned to Terraria.
Where'd you find that info?
https://youtu.be/2i2_BUffRmM
I really had no idea. Don't want to get downvoted to oblivion for this, but this kind of stuff doesn't erode my joy of the game, or make building my cute lil pixel homes any less fun and rewarding.
These days, in general, there's lots of looking down / belligerent beratement of people who like things that were incidentally made by shitstorms. Sorry in advance I suppose.
Yeah there's nothing wrong with enjoying the game in its current state, I did too from time to time before it was totally abandoned. But don't be surprised if you have trouble finding other people who want to join a community to talk about this abandoned game. I really wish a spiritual successor to Starbound could be created by another studio but as of right now it only exists in this bland and broken state with the awful forced story layered on top.
Since Lemmy is filling the slot Reddit has left behind, I'm just trying to find the people who have jumped ship from there, where the SB subreddit is quite active. ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ
Yikes! I didn't know it was that bad.
'unpaid child labor' painted a nasty picture in my head. If you watch the video about it in these comments, it was more like 'asked 16yr olds to make content and told them it wouldn't be paid but they might get job offers later (but they never will)'.
I didn't think a indie game development studio would have a sweatshop full of child slaves, so I think my first impression is pretty close to how it was, and that is unpaid labor. The only debatable term is "child" though they were minors. Pretty sleazy to take advantage of passionate teens like that.
Maybe that's not so shocking to people when unpaid internships are a thing, but that's not something I think should exist either.
It's disheartening how dirty entertainment industries are on every level. You'd think works of passion would inspire people to treat each other right but if anything seems like the opposite happens.
It is a huge disheartening bummer, and really seems to permeate ... every single thing in existence :(
Yeah... โน๏ธ