{"id":34777,"date":"2012-03-26T14:11:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T12:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=34777"},"modified":"2012-03-26T14:15:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T12:15:32","slug":"wasteland-2s-social-features-are-not-casual-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/34777-wasteland-2s-social-features-are-not-casual-features","title":{"rendered":"Wasteland 2’s “social” features are not “casual” features"},"content":{"rendered":"

Responding to a planet-wide wobbly from Hardcore HQ, Wasteland 2 dev inXile Entertainment<\/a> has clarified that when they said they’d be adding “social elements” to the game, they didn’t mean “casual elements”, and that nobody knows<\/del> thinks you’re some kind of closet Angry Birds player.<\/p>\n

The controversial words were included in an update over on Wasteland 2’s Kickstarter<\/a> project page, which described otherwise undefined “social elements” being incorporated into the game.<\/p>\n

“What I have discovered is that there are some four-letter words with extra letters like ‘Social’ which get very emotional responses. Social means casual to some people and Wasteland 2 is NOT a casual game. I will certainly be careful in my word selection as I want new ideas to be discussed without being railroaded for bad word choice,” wrote inXile boss Brian Fargo<\/a> on the company’s blog.<\/p>\n

“I clearly made a mistake in throwing out an idea before I communicated a cohesive vision document on the overall game.”<\/p>\n

Or, you know, maybe a bunch of man-babies hung up on stupid labels totally overreacted.<\/p>\n

The project recently passed the $1.5 million mark on Kickstarter, putting enough money in the bag for Linux<\/a> and Mac<\/a> versions of the game.<\/p>\n

Source: Kickstarter<\/a>, inXile<\/a> (via VG247<\/a>)<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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