Players were reportedly able to buy extra lives in the PvE mode
    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      78·
      5 months ago

      They meant the feature flag should’ve stayed false until the player base was hooked on the game enough to make the pushback minimal.

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    120·
    5 months ago

    Thats a very elaborate, specific bug that just so coincidentally happens to be monetarily beneficial to the developer/publisher.

    • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      42·
      5 months ago

      I mean, it happens to all of us. Just the other day I was working on letting users change the font in an app and I accidentally made it so they needed to enter a valid credit card number to log in, complete with detailed instructions, and then accidentally charged them $20.

      Not sure how any of that happened. I’ll definitely get around to disabling it soon though, I promise.

    • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      5 months ago

      Once I was programming a fintech solution for a big client. Someone way back when made an error in how numbers (money, cents) are to be rounded up or down. When you had to create a new feature that handled money, you had to reproduce that bug (since users got used to the math being wrong)

  • Maxnmy's@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    5 months ago

    Nah, they don’t get the benefit of doubt between this and the impossible free battlepass grind. The whole game reeks of shitty F2P monetization.

    • Car@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      12·
      5 months ago

      The game is a mess. I watch my kid play it and it’s so less graceful than smash. Framerates randomly drop, lag spikes happen a few times a minute, hit boxes seem nebulous compared to attack animations.

      You can use maybe a quarter of the roster for free. You may be able to unlock everybody from in game currency, but I’m not too sure. They also just… removed a character that wasn’t free. If I paid any money for premium content I’d be pissed

      • Iheartcheese@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        5 months ago

        They removed The iron Giant while some kind of tournament was going on. There was a story about some dude who was rising the ranks of the tournament and then they just removed his fucking main

        • Car@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          8·
          5 months ago

          A+ game development right there. I don’t like how Nintendo runs their online services (and actively opposes game tournaments), but you wouldn’t expect such a change in Smash.

  • pkmkdz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    17·
    5 months ago

    “What you don’t want to pay $1 each time you reload a gun in game??” - John Riccitiello