random tedious step that we would automate away uh and essentially would just be kind of redundant in the end so we don't really think that survival is necessary for satisfactory again it strays from our original direction as well but we also just think it wouldn't end up really working too well in our game so yeah not something we're going to be adding

So we've made it to the halfway point.

I kind of want to take a little breather for a second and I want to talk about just something that I've said for the previous three things.

So in all three things, I've kind of mentioned that it's not the game we're making.

And like, the thing is, I think this maybe feels like a cop-out reason.

I've given other reasons for them as well.

But that particular reason is something that might feel like a cop-out reason or maybe even feel a little dismissive.

But I want to add a little weight to it because it's a very, very important reason.

It's a very deliberate thing that we need to take care of when we decide what we're going to

be doing in the game.

So before a game developer sets out to make a game, they have near endless possibilities of what they can make.

They can make pretty much any game.

But when they sit down to make a specific game, they can no longer make any game or every game.

They can only make the game that they're making.

Do you know what I mean?

The game that you're making is just what it is.

Or another way to think about it is that the game that you're making is also specifically not what it isn't.

There are more things that your game isn't than there are things that your game is.

Does that make any sense?

And so from the perspective of where you are with your game, it's very, very easy to look out and find other things, you know, things that your game isn't and see value with them and think, well, maybe I should put that in my game.

And this is something that developers struggle with all the time.

It's always very hard to think about, well, what should I be bringing in from the outside?

So one example that I can kind of give here is just if we just take, for example, the argument of like, well, should Satisfactory have more chaotic or urgent

or stressful elements to its gameplay, or should it remain peaceful and kind of chill, right?

And the thing is, like, you can go either way and there's value in either direction, right?

So Satisfactory could be more stressful, more chaotic, have more urgency in it.

and that could still absolutely be a good game.

I can imagine that kind of game, and I can imagine there being fun there, right?

But I can also imagine the game as it is now, where it is more chill, and there's a lot of fun and value in this as well.

And so you can have these two competing ideas where the game could be more chaotic and stressful, or it could remain chill and calm, right?

These two ideas are...

fundamentally incompatible with each other for the most part but they're both still valid and both still viable so what do you do in that case like you can't really have everything because if you try and blend them together you get something else you don't get chaotic and peaceful you get a blend which is different to the other two and so some folks might say well then what if you just have options so that people can set the game to chaotic or set the game to peaceful

then you're just making two games right like you can have game modes that kind of modify the way that the game is if you wish but you need to have a base game to modify to begin with so what do you do in that case the only thing you can do is just pick something choose something and then do that like i said before you can't make every game you can only make the game that you're making

so it's just important for us to make a decision on what is our game what direction does our game go in and it's really important for us to stick to that and make that as good as possible because it is really really easy to grab other ideas and introduce more things just because they're good and it's really important that like

Ideas that are outside of what your game are being good is not alone a justification for that one, that feature being part of your game, or two, that your game is actually lacking something.

That doesn't actually mean that at all.

It's just inevitable because there's more things that your game isn't than what it is, that there's going to be other things on the outside that seem valuable, right?

So I hope that makes some sense.

I don't know if I did a really good job of explaining it, but if I did, leave a thanks Jace helps a lot in the comments below.