Patrick And Alex's Morning Thing! 07/31/2013

Good listen. Hope to have more things like this from you out of Cali guys.

I like Alex and Patrick, but I don't like youtube-ish videos of people staring into webcams and saying "hey you guys". Jeff somehow makes it work in the jar videos, not sure why.

Love this stuff, keep it up guys! 8)

Tell me one indie developer who would want to cough up $40,000 for a patch? I'm not going to presume he has that much money from the sales and even if he did, it would be dumb to waste it all on a patch with a ridiculous fee that shouldn't be there in the first place. You think $40,000 is a reasonable price to pay for an indie developer? When other services like Steam do it for free?

If it was, Microsoft wouldn't have backed down on it and recently announce that any developer can patch their game for free on the XBLA service.

Did you watch their PAX panel? They were firing off each other. Here's my gif of a bit that made me laugh so hard:

Just call it the Morningcast, although it should be done before noon eastern if this were the case.

BIG fan of this. Would love to have call ins. What time are they doing this live? Just seeing this now.

Well done for a first stab at it. Would like to see more of these.

@assinass: Oh I'm not doubting that. Of course the system that monetarily punishes fuckups isn't going to work on those with the money to burn. But the bottom line is he knew those terms going into his MS contract (unless he's an idiot who didn't read it), but then proceeded to sell something that didn't work. He then fucked it up further trying to fix it, and I don't recall even once him even taking responsibility for that. Everything has been everybody else's fault, and if you did support him and want to keep playing the game well then you better buy it again. Meanwhile he's had a year to according to him do pretty much nothing, except apparently plan a sequel. Not saying he's rich, but of all the people involved with Indie Game The Movie he's the only one who's done fuck all except be an asshat (or indie darling, depending on who you ask) on Twitter.

He could have stuck it to Microsoft so badly about this without telling the people who bought his game to go fuck themselves, but he didn't do that. He could have come to his supporters, hat in hand, so sorry for fucking up, but willing to make it right to the people who supported him by giving them the game for free on PC. If he expects his supporters to cough up more money, shouldn't he maybe have been willing to do the same?

At least the people who bought The War Z could have gotten a refund...

@thebatmobile said:

I made a background/intro image for this new awesome feature. Let me know what you think. Does it need a logo maybe?

Ohhh, logo? How about the Raisin Bran logo - the sun holding two scoops of raisins - but a Giant Bomb holding two scoops of Patrick and Alex instead? :3

Can someone please link me to the Brad/PhilFish-talk Patrick mentioned? I tried the site search and google (youtube AND site: giantbomb.com), but I couldn't find it. Thanks in advance!

@assinass said:

This is just awesome. Is there a clip of it somewhere?

How much do we have to pay to make that Phil Fish and Brad science thing happen?

The thing Patrick mentions about Brad and Phill Fish talking, is that in the archives or something?

I support this. Hard.

Thoroughly enjoyed! Please keep it going Patrick and Alex, this made my crappy commute to work a good one :-).

Yeah, these guys work great together.

Nintendo hardware always seems to roll to a slow start. I'm pretty sure the Wii phenomenon was an aberration.