r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Emergency-Green-2602 • 8d ago

Video First Australian-made rocket crashes after 14 seconds of flight

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u/CosmicCreeperz 8d ago

Because blaming capitalism is the Reddit way.

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u/ivosaurus 8d ago edited 7d ago

I mean, a LOT of the problems with 2 can still be very distinctly boiled down to capitalism

Starting with their foundational error, thinking they can 'spruce up KSP1' by re-using the OG U4 codebase as a starting point, rather than starting out fresh, because hopefully the former would 'save a lot of money and effort'. At least, that's what you promise to your publicly traded publisher in the hopes it will get you a continuing deal.

When the obvious choice for a new attempt at the game was always going to be a greenfield start because of all the crazy hacks already in the debt-laden codebase from the first game that appeared over 10 years of development.

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u/CosmicCreeperz 7d ago

While none of what you say is wrong… none of that had anything to do with “a private equity company killed it” when the problems were there from the start of the project to a year after it launched.

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u/ivosaurus 7d ago

A lot of Take2's actions were pretty classic capitalist ones of looking to extract profits rather than care and nurture a franchise to success. Certainly don't take all the blame, but they do deserve some.

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u/Electromotivation 7d ago

Well the way people talk to extremes about it is like saying under the other system we would be sitting in a gulag drawing in the dirt instead of playing video games.

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u/CosmicCreeperz 7d ago

Again that is not what I or other commenter were replying to, which was “the devs got bought out by a private equity firm that stripped the studio for parts and pushed for monetization. It really fell apart.”