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from the way I see it, it does make sense to say its telltale games in the name only. but I understand where the new owners are coming from, Telltale games died for a myriad of reasons and one of the chief reasons was financial. so they are starting off small and don’t want to overextend themselves but they also want to have the former employees input which is why they would have the freelancing jobs. And while yes, the job security in freelancing isn’t great but any job is better than no job in my opinion and freelancing is a stopgap between finding a new job. But I’m trying to see the good in people as weels as being an optimist in regards to these kinda things so.

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I’m not surprised… they made games for really high-spec phones when not many people had them. It’s getting normal now… but all their games were like 2GB or more, at a time when people mostly had 1GB phones (except early adopters.) And while the graphics were insanely great, the crazy amount of bandwidth needed to generate it (and poll for taps) meant you had to have a beefy processor in your phone, otherwise you’d just always fail because of input lag.

The best market for survivability in the mobile game market is at this end, with text-based RPGs. They run on every phone (so you have the widest customer base) and they’re cheap. With a competent writer, you can create “graphics” in someone’s head that won’t be possible for many, many years yet. And these games are fun to make, don’t require costly licenses and are also cheap to produce. What more can you want? :slight_smile:

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I find Jim Sterling tends to know what he’s talking about more often than not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Pbj-BvGYw

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I quit watching after I read his tagline. He’s against capitalism, but that’s exactly what he uses to sell his brand lol.

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In case you’re confused by the point of this. We live in a capitalist system. So of COURSE almost everyone uses capitalism to survive. Because there’s no alternative except like, living out in the wilderness and hiding from society.

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He might be aggressive and wacky, but boy, does he spit truth. Kinda like me, in a way. God bless.

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Companies buying up/reusing old names is certainly nothing new, especially in the games industry. I know I roll my eyes every time I see something that bears the name Atari. Hell, there is a reason Nordic changed itself to THQ-Nordic.

However, I do agree with @Jake8517, I’m cautiously hopeful for the new owners. The only thing that I don’t expect is to see many of their old games come back from the dead. They relied so heavily on other companies IPs, I don’t see the games staying once their licenses are up.

I understand why they would use it (name recognition) but I don’t think anyone disagrees that Tell-Tale paid a hefty price for the Guardians of the Galaxy, Batman, or Game of Thrones licenses…

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Interesting thing is, he doesn’t only participate in capitalism, he’s the very definition of capitalist - he privately owns a means of production, which he uses to create content which he sells to others. It’s not even as if he’s a downtrodden wage slave being abused by his employers or anything.

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Someone choosing to be self employed doesn’t mean anything, and the whole “how can you critique capitalism while also engaging in it yourself?” thing is just a lazy way to dismiss their criticism without actually engaging with it in any meaningful way. If you have a problem with what he says, argue against the points being made instead of looking for an easy way to somehow invalidate them based off who’s making the argument.

Modern capitalism involves so much more than a single man exercising a bit of free enterprise that claiming the two are synonymous is honestly ridiculous.

Edit: @rinari is right though that this has gotten more than a bit off topic, and further discussion should probably go on the politics thread.

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Someone choosing to be self employed

That is capitalism in a nutshell. I don’t have a problem with what he says, I don’t even know what he says, didn’t watch the video. And yes, it’s “just a lazy way to dismiss their criticism without actually engaging with it in any meaningful way” same as I would with flat-earthers and anti-vaxxers. I’m just saying exactly that, I didn’t watch it because after I saw that line, I figured that the probability that I’ve heard it all before is pretty high, so that’s what I’m saying, I didn’t watch it because of that.

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Let’s keep the discussion on the topic of Telltale, shall we? :slight_smile:

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Yea sorry, it’s gone off-topic in an off-topic forum :stuck_out_tongue:

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The tragedy was that after the success of Walking Dead Season 1 and the managers caused the writers of Season 1 to abandon ship and go on to create Campo Santo, they weren’t making money on any of the games, with the exception of Minecraft Story Mode (hence why it got an extended three episodes and a second season despite not being generally accepted by the core TT fan base). Really they should have been formulating some original IPs and expanding the interactive fiction medium but instead they stuck to what worked and paid for numerous licenses.

I hope that the new TT will learn from that, even though I did enjoy many of their license games.

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