My email to them:
"Hi can you please stop releasing games on the Wii, everything you have released uses the same engine which is actually not very good. You are ripping off customers.
Yours annoyed, Hadrian".
My reply:
"Hi Hadrian,
I am very sorry you feel ripped off, we have sold hundreds of thousands of our games, with no problems. Everyone likes different things so it would be impossible to please everyone with the same game content, but we would really like to know what you do and didn’t like to hopefully change our games in the future to what you would like.
Firstly you didn’t say which titles you had bought and thought were ‘mostly all the same’ we have published 24 different titles and they vary greatly in content. Please let me know which titles you have purchased. Some of the graphics we do deliberately re-use in different games, especially when they are in the same range of titles, although we only do this when we think it is appropriate for that game. We could create new graphics for every game, but we decided that we wanted to publish the games at the lowest possible price to the public, so we save you money by not having to redo graphics when they are not needed. For example a characters Health is shown as a heart – there is no need to change this to something else in another game as a heart works fine for many characters, but when needed such as for our racing games we designed metal looking bars instead. We pick the graphics that work best, and this saves time and money, which means we can sell the games for a lower price, and everyone benefits. I would be interested to know if you would like to pay more for the same game but with different graphics? Is this important to you? Many games from other publishers have a similar look – this consistency makes it easy to understand the icons and what they do, Mario games have hearts, mushrooms, coins, that they have used in many previous titles, they have also used them in other titles in the same range such as Yoshi, Wario and princess peach titles.
We aim to make fun games at an affordable price – please let me know what you like and don’t like.
Stewart"
Now I know that there are many games that use the same engine (like Valves games) but at least they use a good engine. Any thoughts? What don't YOU like about their games?
"Hi can you please stop releasing games on the Wii, everything you have released uses the same engine which is actually not very good. You are ripping off customers.
Yours annoyed, Hadrian".
My reply:
"Hi Hadrian,
I am very sorry you feel ripped off, we have sold hundreds of thousands of our games, with no problems. Everyone likes different things so it would be impossible to please everyone with the same game content, but we would really like to know what you do and didn’t like to hopefully change our games in the future to what you would like.
Firstly you didn’t say which titles you had bought and thought were ‘mostly all the same’ we have published 24 different titles and they vary greatly in content. Please let me know which titles you have purchased. Some of the graphics we do deliberately re-use in different games, especially when they are in the same range of titles, although we only do this when we think it is appropriate for that game. We could create new graphics for every game, but we decided that we wanted to publish the games at the lowest possible price to the public, so we save you money by not having to redo graphics when they are not needed. For example a characters Health is shown as a heart – there is no need to change this to something else in another game as a heart works fine for many characters, but when needed such as for our racing games we designed metal looking bars instead. We pick the graphics that work best, and this saves time and money, which means we can sell the games for a lower price, and everyone benefits. I would be interested to know if you would like to pay more for the same game but with different graphics? Is this important to you? Many games from other publishers have a similar look – this consistency makes it easy to understand the icons and what they do, Mario games have hearts, mushrooms, coins, that they have used in many previous titles, they have also used them in other titles in the same range such as Yoshi, Wario and princess peach titles.
We aim to make fun games at an affordable price – please let me know what you like and don’t like.
Stewart"
Now I know that there are many games that use the same engine (like Valves games) but at least they use a good engine. Any thoughts? What don't YOU like about their games?
