I have reached the bottom of that rabbit hole today with the announcement that PW is shutting down. But oh, hey, look!!! Here’s another game!!! From Kim’s most recent venture Social First!!! OH BOYYYYYYY!!!
One of many interesting things I came across a couple of weeks ago on the aforementioned journey down the rabbit hole was Social First. There was zero mention of “Nexus Station” on their website at the time. Now there is and…
I’m not playing it.
It looks terrible.
Soulless slop.
Realized it’s government subsidized so of course it’s terrible.
I’ve reached the bottom of the rabbit hole. It’s all been a massive and successful grift.
Social First aka Nexus ,
Imo they have and are manipulating the PW community.
What is forgotten is that 2nd generation players (I’m calling us that) are no longer 8-12 yrs old and we are not stupid!
The whole thing is contrived, pre planned and other than an overly large offer to buy it they would not sell.
I am certain a healthy PW, with a strong, up to speed Dev team would walk all over the new game
Even if we were lucky and it sold it must be the above . The same old same old would be stupid .
I’d wait months for a relaunch. Re code the hacked areas/access points. Oh and market the game properly
I myself can’t even imagine playing nexus because the name first off is already so generic and in general doesn’t sound good, regardless of that, what I loved most about pixel worlds was the visuals: appealing artstyle, core mechanics, animations, cool avatars, blocks and so on. Mechanics may be more promising in nexus but the looks are completely soulless, pale and straight out ugly. I honestly can’t tell how much I like pixelworlds’ looks and how easy it is for community to create items that look like they’re made officially. I think they really missed a big opportunity by leaving and doing business instead of making games for players.
This same pattern of doing it for the business and money not for the customer has been a trend for many services and game companies like ubisoft, youtube, spotify and so on.
Anyways I wish that people who will eventually play nexus enjoy it.
(maybe there’s more to things that I mentioned that I am not aware of because until the announcement of pw closing I wasn’t invested in this game for like a solid year or two so you can tell me if I missed out on something). Also big props to Jake for stepping out of this project because im pretty sure he knew what was going to happen the second CK left.
I at least hoped they wouldn’t legit use the same names as in pw…many props look TOO DAMN SIMILAR to the PW ones!
And there it goes…rest in peace Pixelstation as so did Oldpixelstaition before
I am not playing nexus station, to me the name personally feels like a punch in the face
