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Then, responding to those who have said he’s “only doing this for the money", Szymanski tweeted: “Yes, no fucking shit. I make games for a living. If I didn't want to earn money from them I wouldn't charge money for them.”

The game follows the premise of being trapped in an underwater submarine out of necessity to capture deep pictures.

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[–] whereisk@lemmy.world 53 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I hope this is clever marketing from the developer because I had never heard of this game until now and also because I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would abuse an indie developer for $2.

I understand some people might do that, but they'd have to be a tiny percentage.

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 44 points 5 months ago

People bully FOSS developers when their creations are free so I can't say I'm surprised.

I hope this is clever marketing from the developer because I had never heard of this game until now

The same person made DUSK and Squirrel Stapler. Squirrel Stapler and Iron Lung are shorter games that have been popular with streamers.

[–] Kage520@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I once made an app for Samsung watches for disc golf scorekeeping. It could accept any number of players, apply a handicap throughout the game so you could know exactly how you were doing vs your opponent with different handicaps on every hole, and gave a nice scorecard at the end to view. It was $0.99

Someone complained that I made them "throw away their money down the drain" since it didn't also have gps to tell them how far they were from the hole.

[–] whereisk@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Yes, some people will literally waste 100x more resources, in mental energy and time, than the price of admission to complain.

But my point was that this type of criticism can be ignored - if you get 1000 sales and 2 people turn out to be dickheads you shove them in the (mental) bin.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago

Dunno how Samsung store works, but ik on Google play you can literally refund the app in one click within two hours of buying it. I've literally just bought apps to try out before and refunded if I didn't like them.