Tai wrote:TL;DR I'm a cheap bastard who probably still spams Minecraft videos on youtube asking for free access.
If you can't fork over 10 dollars for a game that's so endeared to you, you obviously don't value it enough. I know I sure won't be forking over 10 dollars for the absolute embarrassment AoS has turned into.
If you are deriving utility from something that someone else has created, it is not a waste of money. The fact that you belittle Ben's work so much is really kind of offensive. I hate what the guy has done with his game but I still acknowledge it would be hard work. If it's so easy to do, why don't you just reverse engineer the game and play it for free offline, kid? Oh right, because you don't want to work that hard for something that Ben is pricing as cheaply as 10 dollars.
That is an absolute contradiction, what you just said. First you say you won't be paying ten dollars for the game because it's an embarrassment, then you say that I don't want to pay it for as cheaply as ten dollars. Which is, basically implying you will buy it since it is, in your opinion, cheap.
First off, there are different definitions of cheap. There are people less fortunate as you are. Secondly, I don't think you look tough by calling me a "kid" and a ten year old. If I were as little as you are describing, I couldn't make literate and valid arguments such as this statement. Thirdly, I don't understand why you're so angry. I'm someone you don't know, probably on the other side of the nation, so why should you be this concerned on why I won't buy the game? Let me think what I want, and I'll let you think what you want. But, obviously, you don't want to let this go.
Also, I never meant anything I said out of disrespect. Don't try to twist my words into something they aren't. I respect Ben's work, I'm sure it involved a lot of it. But I was simply saying he enjoyed making the game, which possibly made the work less as hard as it would've been if he didn't enjoy it. I never flat out said it was crappy or anything like that. I pointed out some improvements I thought might be helpful. Do you really think I mean anyone harm here? My statements and opinions are not insults to you unless you take them that way.
Where have I expressed my endearment to the game? As far as I know, no one but myself knows how I value the game. I believe you are imagining a fake enemy here.
I don't know why you seem to want to force me to pay ten dollars for this game. Why do you find so much interest in how I spend my money that I earned myself?