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[1] will add in about an hr. -- MASEM ( t) 15:22, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
It seems that, since it was written adding as the story developed, that the impact section has gotten quite long and bloated with too many specific examples rather than broader metrics that might illustrate the point better. I think this section should be rewritten to discuss the effects without listing every crowdsourced game to come after. Thoughts? Objections? Frogacuda ( talk) 16:38, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
Scattered through the funding section are various sentences describing what the proposed game will be. I think it would be nice if that info were collated into a new section of its own. It just strikes me as odd to have an article this large about the making of a game, but so little of the article is actually about the game. Even a meta-statement about the dearth of public gameplay info would be good. - Frankie1969 ( talk) 15:35, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
The game is no longer most backed crowd funded project of any type. Obsidian's "Project Eternity" raised more than 3.5 mil $ on Oct 16th 2012 Overmannus ( talk) 16:31, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
The Voice actors section was recently removed by Masem, with an edit summary that includes: "Don't need video or other sources, and we generally don't go into voices into any depth." I'm going to revert his edit. First of all, a "we generally don't go into" argument is an argumentum ad populum fallacy. Not only that, we do list voice actors regularly. Here are 30 examples:
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Ignoring what we "generally" do or don't do for a moment, there is no reason to remove reliably sourced information about voice actors from articles about video games. (I had just added an additional source.) Visitors who are reading the Broken Age article do so because they are curious to learn more about the game. Why in the world would you remove information about its voice actors? That's rhetorical. People who don't care about that information can skip it. Others (including me) are happy the information is included in the article. How difficult is it to just leave reliably sourced, factual information in articles when you personally aren't interested in reading it? That too is rhetorical. -- 82.170.113.123 ( talk) 17:36, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
Is it too early to add a Reception section? I know it hasn't been released to the public at large yet, but surely some reviewer got his hands on one by now? — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 16:19, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
This is a bit where we have to be careful. It is "clear" to the player that Mog Chothra has been the "ship" Shay was in and there's a lot of parallels one can make, and it is meant to be reasonably clear to the savvy player what has been happening. But this is interpretation that is not explicitly clear from what the game gives (for example, assuming that the Mog "ship" is not like a TARDIS, this means that Shay's experiences have been manipulated and that he really wasn't on a giant spaceship but something else.)
I fully expect that act 2 will resolve that issue quickly, but unless Schafer + co come out and say what has happened before that game's release, we can't say it ourselves yet. -- MASEM ( t) 16:32, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
I understand there was some sort of controversy regarding the kickstarter funding? I've just seen someone commenting negatively about the kickstarted funding for this project. I know nothing about it, and I was hoping this article could shed some light; can someone add the relevant details? - 124.168.79.42 ( talk) 08:20, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
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There was and maybe is an exhortation template instance in the Reception section. It was from the year before last year (1915). This game has a relatively long article and there is some material on the reception of the game. This article cannot reasonably be said to be alarmingly short. There are enormously many things to write about. If someone wants to add to it, then that is of course OK. But telling other people what they should do does not make the articles better and does not make the work more fun or more efficient. Reserve this template for very important articles. -- Ettrig ( talk) 17:13, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
The most platforms of Broken Age is 9.
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[1] will add in about an hr. -- MASEM ( t) 15:22, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
It seems that, since it was written adding as the story developed, that the impact section has gotten quite long and bloated with too many specific examples rather than broader metrics that might illustrate the point better. I think this section should be rewritten to discuss the effects without listing every crowdsourced game to come after. Thoughts? Objections? Frogacuda ( talk) 16:38, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
Scattered through the funding section are various sentences describing what the proposed game will be. I think it would be nice if that info were collated into a new section of its own. It just strikes me as odd to have an article this large about the making of a game, but so little of the article is actually about the game. Even a meta-statement about the dearth of public gameplay info would be good. - Frankie1969 ( talk) 15:35, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
The game is no longer most backed crowd funded project of any type. Obsidian's "Project Eternity" raised more than 3.5 mil $ on Oct 16th 2012 Overmannus ( talk) 16:31, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
The Voice actors section was recently removed by Masem, with an edit summary that includes: "Don't need video or other sources, and we generally don't go into voices into any depth." I'm going to revert his edit. First of all, a "we generally don't go into" argument is an argumentum ad populum fallacy. Not only that, we do list voice actors regularly. Here are 30 examples:
Extended content
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---|
|
Ignoring what we "generally" do or don't do for a moment, there is no reason to remove reliably sourced information about voice actors from articles about video games. (I had just added an additional source.) Visitors who are reading the Broken Age article do so because they are curious to learn more about the game. Why in the world would you remove information about its voice actors? That's rhetorical. People who don't care about that information can skip it. Others (including me) are happy the information is included in the article. How difficult is it to just leave reliably sourced, factual information in articles when you personally aren't interested in reading it? That too is rhetorical. -- 82.170.113.123 ( talk) 17:36, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
Is it too early to add a Reception section? I know it hasn't been released to the public at large yet, but surely some reviewer got his hands on one by now? — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 16:19, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
This is a bit where we have to be careful. It is "clear" to the player that Mog Chothra has been the "ship" Shay was in and there's a lot of parallels one can make, and it is meant to be reasonably clear to the savvy player what has been happening. But this is interpretation that is not explicitly clear from what the game gives (for example, assuming that the Mog "ship" is not like a TARDIS, this means that Shay's experiences have been manipulated and that he really wasn't on a giant spaceship but something else.)
I fully expect that act 2 will resolve that issue quickly, but unless Schafer + co come out and say what has happened before that game's release, we can't say it ourselves yet. -- MASEM ( t) 16:32, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
I understand there was some sort of controversy regarding the kickstarter funding? I've just seen someone commenting negatively about the kickstarted funding for this project. I know nothing about it, and I was hoping this article could shed some light; can someone add the relevant details? - 124.168.79.42 ( talk) 08:20, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
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There was and maybe is an exhortation template instance in the Reception section. It was from the year before last year (1915). This game has a relatively long article and there is some material on the reception of the game. This article cannot reasonably be said to be alarmingly short. There are enormously many things to write about. If someone wants to add to it, then that is of course OK. But telling other people what they should do does not make the articles better and does not make the work more fun or more efficient. Reserve this template for very important articles. -- Ettrig ( talk) 17:13, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
The most platforms of Broken Age is 9.