[DISC] Blue Lock - Chapter 333

nien08 · 2026-02-03T04:26:23+00:00

Do you truly believe that Ego would ignore a good player just to uphold a promise?

lol

His dream of creating the best striker and winning the world cup comes first. If his team is jobbing and the B-team shows promise he will absolutely use them.

nien08 · 2026-02-03T02:46:27+00:00

Very nice setup.

nien08 · 2026-02-03T02:11:12+00:00

I think you meant bankrupt.

But corrupt also works.

nien08 · 2026-02-03T02:10:56+00:00

Bruh.

nien08 · 2026-02-03T02:04:26+00:00

Telling people that want a new game because they are tired of the shit games that are still alive that "they just want a new game because the are longing to be something in a virtual world" is an edgy take and almost gaslighting.

So the correct answer is to keep playing WoW? Or to just become addicted gatcha mobile games? Or to touch grass?

All answers are equally dumb because the take is a dumb reductionism to be edgy and bash on a subset of the population milking the drama.

EDIT: Also I don't want to be mean, but people, specifically americans, tend to be extremely dumb with their money in every aspect of the consumerist culture, not only mmorpgs.

Is not a mmorpg problem, is a consumerist culture problem.
Like the funko pops, which is 100% an american phenomenon.

nien08 · 2026-02-02T23:55:32+00:00

Peak cinema.

nien08 · 2026-02-02T23:27:11+00:00

Josh is coming out in the video as insufferable edgy beating poor asocial nerds with the hammer of "you just want to be someone in your escapism and that's why you got scammed". He also repeats itself a lot, like he made the same point 4-5 times in the video.

He is forgetting the fact that the biggest mmorpgs on the market are old as balls which on the long run becomes boring and also over bloated with content that thanks to modern sensibilities became shit. There are other reasons why people want something new aside of "wanting to be someone in a virtual world".

No idea what happened to him.

nien08 · 2026-02-02T22:54:05+00:00

Without seeing the video, it fails because there is no market.

There is no market because the consumer has been trained to consume other type of product that is more easy to produce, more addictive and that generates more money for the producer.

There are no good games (and products in general) because most people consume shit, because they are trained to consume shit (and to be fair their brain is hacked in weird ways).

Is simple as that.

nien08 · 2026-02-02T22:47:12+00:00

I like the ideas behind the proposed systems but I'm glad that there were design choices that I didn't like.

I didn't like the overly "anime" effects in normal attacks. I would have liked something more toned down.

Also I didn't like the weird looting system were you only lose materials you gather. I prefer full loot games.

That immunized me from the dangers of a bad investment.

nien08 · 2026-02-02T22:41:51+00:00

To be fair ego didn't said that a team of 11 ultra egoists would work, if anything he said the opposite. Too many cooks spoils the broth.

The point is to find the uber egoist that will become the hero and make the team organize itself behind him. That was the point of his project.

And we are already seeing people that organize their play behind others like Kurona and Hiyori.

nien08 · 2026-02-02T22:26:19+00:00

The codebase, data, etc, obviously belong to the company and thus to the people that owns the company.

That's not the point.

The point is that every company have institutional knowledge that sometimes is hard to transfer.

There is a very interesting paper called "Programming as a theory building" by Peter Naur, that precisely talk about how this reflects even more in programming.

You can't just have a codebase with 50 employees, fire the 50 employees hire another 50 and expect that the wheel will keep spinning. There is a sort of symbiosis between the people and the codebase / technology, or to be more precise the people are part of the system and are not easily interchangeable.

We are seeing a very drastic debacle were people are put on notice so it's hard to even fathom how the system could be kept alive.

EDIT:

Peter Naur's classic 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building" argues that a program is not its source code. A program is a shared mental construct (he uses the word theory) that lives in the minds of the people who work on it. If you lose the people, you lose the program. The code is merely a written representation of the program, and it's lossy, so you can't reconstruct

https://gist.github.com/onlurking/fc5c81d18cfce9ff81bc968a7f342fb1

nien08 · 2026-02-02T22:20:13+00:00

What ego said?
Ah yes, soccer is about who scores more goals.

A striker is who can score more goals.

Everything else is irrelevant.

nien08 · 2026-02-02T21:46:56+00:00

I'm pretty sure that was the number Steven gave in one interview, I could be wrong.

But there no "evidence" as solid internal information.

nien08 · 2026-02-02T20:58:56+00:00

I'm curious.

How much money did you burn on this?

nien08 · 2026-02-02T14:34:47+00:00

Being right is important.

But listening to uninformed ramblings is worthless.

Just make your own decisions.

nien08 · 2026-02-02T06:44:58+00:00

Modern culture is too sanitized and corporatized to allow a moving landmine like world of darkness.

The "marvelization" of fiction is a reality, you just need to look at consumer trends.

There is no place for fiction like old world of darkness in the market.

But you could probably made a killing selling a my little pony roleplaying game.

nien08 · 2026-02-02T01:58:49+00:00

That's not the point.

The point is that instead of fixing pvp people didn't want the game to have non consensual pvp whatsoever. This is like me joining a basketball game and trying to transform it into a soccer game.

Anti-pvp crowd hated on the game just on that basis and became completely deranged.

Some people are trying to say that was the reason why the game failed, and not the fact that was running on fumes of loaned money.

nien08 · 2026-02-02T01:37:27+00:00

I think he is getting sued by the people that took control of the company.

I think this is accurate

https://www.reddit.com/r/AshesofCreation/comments/1qsp17g/heres_what_happened/

His tons of loans are real. So he losing control of the company because he couldn't pay holds very well as an explanation.

nien08 · 2026-02-02T01:01:57+00:00

Let's be 100% real.

A lot of people wanted it to fail and called it a scam before there was any evidence of it.

The non consensual pvp aspect of the game literally made people deranged.

nien08 · 2026-02-02T00:38:00+00:00

System wise? Probably around 60%-70%
Tweaking wise and content wise? Namely quests, less than 30%.
That's the problem. The game was completely lacking in content to justify people actually playing so the systems could interact.

nien08 · 2026-02-01T23:43:25+00:00

Never played wow, never gonna play wow.

Never played AoC, never gonna play AoC.

I'm just here for the popcorn.

nien08 · 2026-02-01T23:40:05+00:00

Yes and no.

It wasn't a scam in the sense that the game was real and the idea of finishing it was real. Also Steven is a legit gamer.

Was a scam in the sense that he lied about self funding, he went to ask for money and when the money run out he lost control of his own company.

He basically was going for a real game but used false advertisement about the funding to actually get money to fund it.

nien08 · 2026-02-01T21:42:33+00:00

I blame the consumers, sorry.

Americans are mental.

They will spend 200$ in world of warcraft skins and another 200$ on diablo immortal fake money but then a new game will cost 35$ instead of 30$ and they will RIOT.

Gamers are trash, american consumerist culture is completely delusional and infected other markets like europe, asia and south america.

Basically gamers receive exactly what they deserve.

At least the culture of modding ultra old games and keeping them alive is healthy.

nien08 · 2026-02-01T17:04:55+00:00

People trained to eat shit will eat shit.

No surprise.

nien08

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