Game Neverending

4 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 30, 2018 by Stewart Butterfield · said 8 times in 2 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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Everything said about Game Neverending, oldest first

Jul 30, 2018 bearish
Opinion
Butterfield: Non-violent social MMO games are commercially horrible ideas
“It's a horrible idea commercially. Like, it's just, there's not enough people who are interested in it.”
Stewart Butterfield Jul 30, 2018 ▶ 10:44 Slack & Flickr: Stewart Butterfield
Jul 30, 2018
Disclosure
Flickr was initially built to be sold for $1M to fund gaming
“And that thing ended up being Flickr, and I think when we started it, the intention was, we'll build this, and someone will buy it for, like, a million dollars, and then we can use that million dollars to finish the game.”
Stewart Butterfield Jul 30, 2018 ▶ 12:06 Slack & Flickr: Stewart Butterfield
Jul 30, 2018
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cal Henderson hacked Game Neverending's internal mailing list before being hired
“It turned out had hacked into our internal Mailing list when we were working on the game and had been reading all of our messages, which is why he was able to develop all this stuff.”
Stewart Butterfield Jul 30, 2018 ▶ 15:02 Slack & Flickr: Stewart Butterfield
Jul 30, 2018
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Butterfield initially lost a team vote to pivot to Flickr
“So we had this vote. I lost you know, or Flickr lost in game one, so that I had to call Eric on the side and, like, you know, do some, what I imagine happens in the Senate, some kind of, like, horse trading to convince him to change his vote. And that worked, …”
Stewart Butterfield Jul 30, 2018 ▶ 17:06 Slack & Flickr: Stewart Butterfield
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