Pulsen

[i love you]

Re: Pulsen

@wc: If Pulsen was free then I would agree with your statement to some degree. The way I see it, the developers just wants money and are trying to convince the people in this community that Pulsen is a totally different game compared to Stepmania and that it is considered "better".

Convenience? Sure. Worth the money? I doubt it.

[who_cares973]

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what developers wouldnt want money for something they created lol.

[i love you]

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The thing is they did not created most of the game. They basically took the SM5 code and added a few things here and there and named it Pulsen and guess what? It cost money!

But hey, if there are people who are willing to pay for a game like Pulsen then let them go right ahead.

[who_cares973]

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you make it sound like they didnt really do much to it when they did though.

[Choofers]

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Sure they put a lot of effort into this but it's still stepmania.

[i love you]

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They did a lot but what they did is not worth paying for when you have games like stepmania which is free.

PS: I am done arguing. My statement will always be the same.

[gnr61]

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yea this is the wrong community to probe about this kind of thing lol. we all enjoy and are so familiar with Stepmania -- it's free, has unlimited simfiles by skilled authors who understand the intricacies of keyboard play, has 6key compatibility (huge), and supports custom simfile creation (super huge -- for two years the only time i spent playing the game was in the editor, and many others are the same).

we play the game and produce content/music/themes for it because we have a passion for it. the fact that pulsen's chart-authors and graphic artists are paid doesn't put them on any higher ground.

this would be a good game for novices who want a fully packaged rhythm game experience at a flat rate with little thought to customization. you're approaching a community of veterans with what's invariably going to be perceived as a bastardized and monetarily exploitative adaptation of a game they love -- how can you expect anything but flack?

[Jousway]

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The thing is they did not created most of the game. They basically took the SM5 code and added a few things here and there and named it Pulsen and guess what? It cost money!

But hey, if there are people who are willing to pay for a game like Pulsen then let them go right ahead.

best part is, saturn almost did nothing for pulsen, he just took some jobs, made some money, and payed people that worked on sm5 to do the stuff for him, the only thing he basicly did was do some edits in the theme that midiman made which he still hasnt fully payed for, yeah saturn you still own midiman like 200 dollars, pay up ****er.

[ddr_f4n]

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Yeah I heard there was a lot of shit between the programmers and stuff of the game. (see the thread at stepmania.com)

Especially the very vocal vyhd about it. Made me lose more respect on this whole thing in general in all honesty.

[NekoGon]

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oh boy

[gnr61]

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jousway is like lurker -- full of righteous stepmania anger

[Choofers]

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but lurker makes good stepfiles

[Saturn2888]

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best part is, saturn almost did nothing for pulsen, he just took some jobs, made some money, and payed people that worked on sm5 to do the stuff for him, the only thing he basicly did was do some edits in the theme that midiman made which he still hasnt fully payed for, yeah saturn you still own midiman like 200 dollars, pay up ****er.

I keep noticing that Midiman himself never says a word about this. If Midiman wants something, he's perfectly welcome to contact me.

Pulsen is financed using my own money, and I'm working on it full time. Sure, I'd like to reclaim the investment; saying anything else would be dishonest, but I'm still in the red by a lot.

I don't really mind people speculating as to how much I've worked on the game. Anyone who wants to know can just ask me.

For now, I just want to focus on making the game all it can be, and arguing on forums would take away time from doing just that.

Thanks,
-- Kevin

[rushyrulz]

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words

Holy shit...

[bmah]

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As much as there's quite an obvious opinion from the majority of this community, please keep it civil.