Silent Hill: Ascension carried the burden of all the Silent Hill franchise, of which there hasn’t been an official installment in a couple of decade, and instantly fumbled it throughout a disastrous October 31 premiere. The collection—basically, an prolonged choose-your-own journey cutscene progressed by a reside viewers—already suffers from wonky UI and a ineffective “battle go,” which requires you pay $20 for, amongst different issues, a “legendary” bread sticker.
An sudden variety of individuals are watching, developer Genvid’s CEO Jacob Navok advised Kotaku over e-mail, making it in order that “a number of methods have been strained” throughout its launch. Numerous these individuals have been additionally posting about sport director Hideo Kojima’s cum, so Genvid disabled Ascension’s chat for its second night time of streaming on November 1. Ascension’s 15-ish minute episodes air nightly.
Metal Gear Solid designer Kojima is especially revered within the Silent Hill fan neighborhood for P.T., a defunct and daunting PS4 SH demo, and I suppose that makes some individuals need his “cummy in my tummy,” as they spammed in Ascension’s chat. Other chat members requested “pyramid head to seem with massive boing boing,” and introduced they “want pyramid head to impregnate me.”
Genvid, apparently, couldn’t take one other 24 hours of this, and pulled the chat function forward of Ascension’s second episode.
“Up till we will determine how we deal with the moderation queue,” Navok mentioned in an aftershow livestream, “we’re gonna restrict the chat to stickers, and hopefully, I can get the emojis in there, too.”
After that, Genvid will attempt to have its Twitch-style chat overlay again on monitor inside the subsequent few months. “We’re not gonna get it proper the primary time, we’re undoubtedly not going to get it proper the second time,” Navok mentioned. “But there’s a purpose that [Ascension’s episode schedule] is gonna go on for, like, eight months, which goes to present us the time that we have to tune and make issues excellent and enhance them.”
As for Ascension’s microtransactions, battle go, and its usually unpleasant rising pains, Navok implores haters—of which there are lots of—to see that he’s attempting his finest.
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“We’re nonetheless a really younger firm,” Navok mentioned. “We’re nonetheless studying. Most of the individuals who labored on this mission have been solely doing DLC tasks earlier than […]. We don’t have deep expertise in monetization, we aren’t nice at it but, we admit this.”
“But […] the concept we’re right here to rip-off or be scummy is simply absurd,” he continued. The harder drawback to deal with is that lots of Ascension’s detractors don’t solely suppose that the collection is a rip-off, but in addition that it shouldn’t exist.
