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The final frontier of online privacy.

Redshirt, a deep-space station sim game that's a spot-on satire on social media "relationships", as well as a smart Star Trek parody that should resonate nicely with the series' fans, is available 75% off today on GOG.com. That's only $4.99 for the next 24 hours.

[url=http://www.gog.com/game/redshirt][/url]Social Networks: The Final Frontier of human privacy and dignity. This is Redshirt, a comedic deep space life sim focusing on online social life of the crew of a space station. Their mission in life: to post the pictures of their odd looking, tentacle waving lunch on their Spacebook profiles, to stalk their crewmates private holograms, to boldly collect more "friends" than anyone collected before. Fair warning: in this game, your character is low-ranked deck hand wearing a red uniform. On a deep space mission. In space. Avoid being put on away teams at all cost! This game is an absolutely bonkers look at life in the future, mixes together strategy, interpersonal conflict, Sims-like professional development--and a fair measure of Machiavellian inter-station politics--into a solid bundle of fun that's sure to amuse anyone who's a critic of modern society's habit of sharing, liking, posting, pinning, plussing, and friending so much that they miss the alien about to eat their face.

If you scorn social media and everything they stand for, you can still see what is that you actually hate without being forced to tweet, like, share, or tumble, by keeping it all in a great trek-themed sandbox environment provided by Redshirt, now for only $4.99 on GOG.com. The 75% off discount offer will last until Thursday, March 20, at 10:59 GMT.
Looks different and sounds a tad interesting
Nice promo.
Very tempting at this price.
I have wanted to purchase this title, but the cost was too high at the start.

After reading on the official forums about a number of bugs and lack of fixes for those bugs, as well as the developer not responding to bug questions, it feels even at $5 like it is too dear of a cost for a partly broken game.

I wish I knew if they were going to keep fixing this title as I would like to buy it.


EDIT: had the price a buck too much, fixed.
Post edited March 19, 2014 by Faithful
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Faithful: I have wanted to purchase this title, but the cost was too high at the start.

After reading on the official forums about a number of bugs and lack of fixes for those bugs, as well as the developer not responding to bug questions, it feels even at $6 like it is too dear of a cost for a partly broken game.
Woah. thats a big no no. wonder why the dev is being like that?
Darn, had this one on my wishlist for quite a while waiting for it to go on a good sale but either missed it or it didn't come up, and I ended up doing a Steam game trade a few days ago and picked it up there. ;/ I guess it's the nature of things though. Got a huge wishlist though so just means more games to buy in the next big GOG sale. ;oP
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Faithful: I have wanted to purchase this title, but the cost was too high at the start.

After reading on the official forums about a number of bugs and lack of fixes for those bugs, as well as the developer not responding to bug questions, it feels even at $6 like it is too dear of a cost for a partly broken game.
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Niggles: Woah. thats a big no no. wonder why the dev is being like that?
maybe they're homeless now? :)
I actually played it for awhile and it did not seem bugged at all. A fun distraction, though a little confusing to my slow head.
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Faithful: I have wanted to purchase this title, but the cost was too high at the start.

After reading on the official forums about a number of bugs and lack of fixes for those bugs, as well as the developer not responding to bug questions, it feels even at $6 like it is too dear of a cost for a partly broken game.

I wish I knew if they were going to keep fixing this title as I would like to buy it.
I've encountered a bug where a dialogue box pops up on the right side over another one centered on the screen with the right side one on top, and the centered one underneath with focus and I'm unable to click on the hidden button in the obscured dialogue box to make the game proceed. By randomly clicking in blank areas I can sometimes randomly end up clicking on something that closes the dialogue and moves things along but without knowing what it was I clicked on. Definitely a bug. If I could get a direct communication going with the developer I'd reproduce it and give extremely detailed reproduction instructions, but my usual experience of reporting bugs to anyone anywhere is that it is a one way bitbucket where bug reports go to never be read, or get read and never get responded to. ;)

If anyone has a direct feed to someone working on this game who will actually respond to a competent gamer who is also a developer, I'd be happy to contribute my time to helping track down the problem as much as can be done without the source code though.
Post edited March 19, 2014 by skeletonbow
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Faithful: After reading on the official forums about a number of bugs and lack of fixes for those bugs, as well as the developer not responding to bug questions, it feels even at $5 like it is too dear of a cost for a partly broken game.
I followed your link, but can't really see anything critical there. The last update for Redshirt was only seven weeks ago and the developer is answering questions in several of the bug reports. Am I missing something?
This game looks incredibly difficult.
*The 75% off discount offer will last until Thursday, March 19, at 10:59 GMT*

pweeh, what year?

Still not buying this, but the DK special promo is nice
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tinyE: This game looks incredibly difficult.
Could always practice first with a few goes of Facebook (",) hahah ;)
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Faithful: I have wanted to purchase this title, but the cost was too high at the start.

After reading on the official forums about a number of bugs and lack of fixes for those bugs, as well as the developer not responding to bug questions, it feels even at $6 like it is too dear of a cost for a partly broken game.
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Niggles: Woah. thats a big no no. wonder why the dev is being like that?
There are comments from the dev in response to the comments about 'lack of development', concerning bug fixes and new update with endless mode, so while the dev may not be as responsive as some they certainly are responding. See this post dev response