Kinda surprised about this because he's had a poor reputation in both AQW and AQ3D for very aggressively pushing microtransaction coins. Wonder how that'll play out over there, considering they got bought by Microsoft.
Yes.
PL: I remember playing that event without the context of what Ctrl+Alt+Del, it stuck around for years.
As many issues as I've had with Cysero over the years, he was always the one pushing more and more intense monetization features, this is probably the biggest nail in the coffin, even if it's not the final. While it seems to be more amicable than an outright quitting, the fact is, he's always been the most savvy of the OGs, which means he likely sees the writing is really on the wall this time. There's no way AQW3d is making the same kind of money as AQW, and that cash cow is likely about to dry up entirely with the death of flash, even with their launcher.
The launcher will be useless as the game is made with flash. All flash sites, games, and programs will not work after January 1st because of the time bomb. AE is fucked.
lol they're really going the scp route
I'm more surprised that they begun their attack by attacking something hugely Mother's Day related and somehow won despite the playerbase saying voicing against it. I thought these sort of people have dad problems, but holy shit. That has to be an insult to the women playing.
There's also the fact that they're trying to push ALL their games into a launcher/steam, without ever thinking that the main draw for all their games was accesibility via web browser.
You're correct about the mansion part. (https://archive.md/wip/ZECPe)
Dema had implied dad issues were part of the problem with being a trans woman. Although the context for this situation doesn't help at all.
I've barely if ever played, and I only caught glimpses of high level play in schooling. The art style admittedly is inspiring- Artix and friends appear to be clearly fans of anime, but they knew how to make it all American nerd. It's like their in house style has a veneer of gloriously nerdy and very homegrown genuine inspired anime and video game fan appeal to it. For all of the shit I give to Artix, he was genuinely inspired to want to make video games and loves what he did back in the day, and he and his crew admittedly are some of the very few overseas fans back in the early 2000s American anime boom to actually dare to go all the way wanting to make their own anime stuff, and came out on top and captured the feel of the era. I can't exactly say in this regard that it's that groundbreaking or phenomenally great, but it's quite an accomplishment in of itself.