Other software that could be used for this process is Z-max (optics design software), some kinda Wall-Street software that's not just excel, maybe some urban planning but better/more random than SimCity/CitiesSkylines, other stuff.ĮDIT: Here is a wiki page of possible avenues. Then you throw in the wonkiness of the physics simulator and the fan-named 'Kraken' and you have the randomness of monsters (I think they could have done better in this regard)Ī lot of these 'indie' sleeper hits seems to be like that: Take some industrial design software, make it so basic a 7 year old can use it, throw in monsters to mess up the designs and to shoot/stab. You can do simple ballistic and orbital mechanics. You can mess with staging, centers of mass, and centers of thrust. Throw in some randomness with the creepers and other mobs to make things spicy. You can extrude and loft with the voxels, put in some basic digital electronics (redstone), some basic fluids (water/lava), and make simple machines (look at mob-grinders). Mincraft is much the same, it's a very basic Solidworks. Then you throw some monsters in there to give some random fuzz on the designs and make things a bit more 'spicy'. You have underground belts (vias), smelters (ICs), inserters (Caps, resistors, 2 lead parts). To me, Factorio is very basically just simplified Eagle with monsters (Eagle is PCB designer software). Here's my prediction: five years from now every big release will contain microtransactions one way or an other and nobody will find it surprising or inappropriate. Lootboxes and microtransactions are headed down the same path IMO. And now it's the new normal, hardly anybody expects these things from new releases or even mentions them. "We don't want always online DRM! We won't buy your game!", "We want to be able to host our own dedicated servers for multiplayer! We won't buy your game!". Might as well sign an e-petition at this point. A mob downvoting a comment on reddit won't change anything, it's nothing but slacktivism. The marketing and network effect is simply too strong.
There are not enough gamers who care enough about the issue to stop buying the game. The amount of principled gamers ending up not buying the game is probably more than compensated by the dividends of microtransactions.
That's the problem with these lootboxes, given how fast they spread to every AAA games these days (including single player games where they hardly make sense in the first place) it's obvious that the maths work out for them.
If despite the heavy backlash over the years they keep doing what they're doing then it must be working for them. You can say anything you want about EA but I'm sure they act very rationally.
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