Not just everything you make – even stuff you don’t make.

“American McGee Presents Scrapland” has given little, if no credit, to the game’s actual designer. I even tried looking on the Scrapland website, the REAL developers’ website (mercurysteam.com), but nope, only your name is emblazoned on the search engines. Even wikipedia (erroneously) has YOUR name on the designer’s credits!

I think this article pretty much hits the nail on the head:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_zdcgw/is_200501/ai_n7182347

And personally, I think you are doing a great discredit to game designers, game developers, and gaming in general.

Stop using your name as the unique selling point, because it is getting old real fast, and unfortunately for you, gamers aren’t just a bunch of mindless twats (mind you, that’s TWAT: a man who is a stupid incompetent fool, NOT the one that refers to female genitals – for respect to your mom) that can’t figure this out. And when they do, “American McGee” will carry about as much cachet as John Romero.

Get off your high horse, get down to earth, and get to actually MAKING some REAL games, willya? (No, Mr McGee, Scrapland does not qualify, but BDLA certainly does, and we all know what a game that turned out to be…)

We love you American…but please fix it!

If you say that there is no shame in outsourcing (and yes, no matter how you look at it, taking your creativity and having people create the content based on it IS outsourcing) this work to China is not shameful, then maybe you need to change your name to Asian McGee and move there.

I’m sorry, but the only way one could possibly claim they aren’t outsourcing, is if they live, work and pay taxes in the country that produces the content. The only reason to produce the content overseas is because it saves you money… Plain and simple. You are reaping the benefits produced through the artificial capitalist outside, communist inside market that China offers. In short, you are greedy, and you profit on the concept of ‘reletive standard of living’.

Why don’t you make a contribution to America, instead of being one of the all-to-common money grubbers tearing it apart?

You know why America is so fucked up? It’s because the only good jobs that haven’t been outsourced are Medical and Government-related.

This problem results from the million or so of you outsourcing work ‘over there’. The government is the only safe place left in America, thanks to greedy Capitalists like yourself. I’m certainly not a communist, but capitalism is on its way out in due time… Like all civilizations, this one too will erode to greed, and I’ll be all to happy to take my fair share back when it happens… My guess as everyone else will want the same… Just remember that. If it all goes to shit, and your fellow American smashes out the windows of your house and jacks your shit, remember that it’s YOUR fault. You got no one to blame but yourself. They’re just taking back what you diddn’t allow them to work for, that’s all..

And No… I don’t buy ‘Pounded in China’ , thank you very much, so by outsourcing your shit you’ve pretty much screwed yourself as far as my purchasing your product is concerned… Enjoy the bad day in LA when it comes to you house…

How many employees did you have? And what’s rent like?

I’ve gotten into heated discussions (usually with family) about the logic behind buying a Ford or Chevy truck just because it’s made in the U.S.A. – something you buy once every 5-10 years – but then going out to Wal-Mart every other day and sinking money into a store that keeps its prices so noncompetitively low by buying overseas and paying their workers minimum wage.

I guess when it’s *their* pocketbook that’s getting low prices every day it’s a different story.

It’s a pity my Thinkpad isn’t powerful enough running Scrapland though the BDLA demo works just fine. Is there any chance your (future) games will be ported to the Mac platform as well, like in the case of Alice?

btw: Your blog’s start page sidebar isn’t accessible using Safari – maybe some CSS float/width problem. It’s right beneath the content but far more left, almost invisible.

Keep on rockin’!

The biggest thing, though, is this is a demo. That’d be like taking a ten minute scene from a movie and then dissecting it. You have no idea how the rest of the game will be and yet you’re making conjectures that the whole game sucks or is awesome? That’s one of the problems inherent in demos.

So, really, don’t judge until you have the full work in front of you to analyze. You just come off as sounding stupid, hater-ish or fanboy/girl-ish.

I, for one, am looking forward to playing it and reviewing the entire game as a whole.