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 Posted: Fri, 8th Jun 2012 09:56 Post subject: Curiosity [Peter Molyneux's new game spawns $80,000 DLC] |
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Video gaming's favourite uncle Peter Molyneux unveiled the first fruit of his new company, 22Cans, at E3, and it's about strange as you'd expect. Curiosity is the first of 22 experiments into the psychology of players, based around chiselling away at a massive cube--and part of the experiment is selling a unique in-game chisel for £50,000 (around $78,000). Oh, Uncle Petey!
Curiosity is a simple game for "PC, iPhone, all that stuff" where players tap away at a giant black cube in a white room, chiselling smaller cubes off with each touch, Molyneux explained to GameTrailers (which is also where we got that snazzy image of the cube).
"Curiosity: what is inside the black cube?" it will ask. Every player in the world is working on the same cube, until one--and only one--will remove the final block and discover what's inside. This, Molyneux told New Scientist, is the crux of the experiment: how will this news spread across social network, will people work together, and how will they prove they opened it?
22Cans is also running an experiment in monetisation, selling chisels of increasing strength. An iron chisel for 59p (a buck) is 10 times more powerful than tapping, and it runs all the way up to a unique, one-off diamond chisel costing £50,000 (about $78,000). Will one player buy the diamond chisel outright, or a group, or no one?
Whatever happens, Molyneux insists, "This is not a money-making exercise; it is a test about the psychology of monetisation."
Curiosity should launch in a few weeks.
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http://www.shacknews.com/article/74240/peter-molyneuxs-curiosity-spawns-80000-dlc
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Jun 2012 10:09 Post subject: |
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That's it, Molyneux has gone mad.
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Jun 2012 10:21 Post subject: |
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Let's form an Nfohump group so we can buy that diamond chisel and see what's inside the cube!
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Fa4Ta4L
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Jun 2012 11:03 Post subject: |
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lol, I wouldn't even be surprised if anyone actually bought the thing i must say...
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jippyuk
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Jun 2012 11:10 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Jun 2012 11:50 Post subject: |
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"This is not a money-making exercise; it is a test about the psychology of monetisation."
Well,he has the point.Some psychological shit happens there that's for sure.Because whoever buys this game has a real problem in his brain.
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Jun 2012 11:52 Post subject: |
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Werelds
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Jun 2012 11:58 Post subject: |
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vaifan1986
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Jun 2012 12:11 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Jun 2012 12:15 Post subject: |
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what the fuck is this shit.... we have wii U birth game, now this abortion..
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garus
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Jun 2012 12:16 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Jun 2012 12:21 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Jun 2012 12:24 Post subject: Re: Curiosity [Peter Molyneux's new game spawns $80,000 DLC] |
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| Yondaime wrote: | | Quote: | | Video gaming's favourite uncle Peter Molyneux |
Say what? He's a lying son of a bitch, nothing else. |
I don't like to call him a liar. I call him the "brroken promise in human form".
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Jun 2012 13:13 Post subject: |
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Sounds more like a (very) cheap gimmick to make money (selling drills for 1 buck) than a psychological experiment. He's interested to see if 78 000 people will buy the one 1$ drill or if they'll work together and buy the diamond drill 
It doesn't even have to be about making money for this 'app', or whatever this peace of shit is, it's proly an experiment for future super-expensive-group dlc's he wants to see if people are willing to go that route.
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Jun 2012 13:15 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Jun 2012 15:03 Post subject: |
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Werelds
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Jun 2012 15:39 Post subject: |
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Is this guy retarded? Where does he come up with such idiotic game ideas?
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