bigspender wrote on Jan 17, 2022, 00:16:
Are you volunteering then? Lol

That's the problem with infectious diseases, it's a little bit too random and it could.be me or you that gets "culled"

And there's no off switch. You'd want to have a back up copy of the human species on a space station like in Moonraker or on Mars like Musk suggests.

I've already volunteered. I don't have kids - that I'm aware of. And I've got news for you, buddy, you're gonna die, no matter what you do. I've done my part for Zero Population Growth, how about you? It's all random and meaningless anyway. In the end out species is doomed regardless. It all has to end sometime.

Frode wrote on Jan 17, 2022, 03:56:

Freddie wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 23:08:
This is not surprising...making a game about a subject matter which has killed over 5mil people worldwide is in bad taste.....regardless if it's theme is to eradicate it. Something like this is just 'too soon', at least not while we are still neck deep in the damn thing

I agree, making a board game in 2008 with the name of an event that took on new meaning in 2019, was way too soon.

Few read blues comments much less the comments posted here. The steam game was released in 2018 well before the "too soon" covid pandemic.

I think we as customers are due more explanation than the boilerplate bullshit we got "At the request of the publisher, Pandemic: The Board Game is no longer available for sale on Steam.""

It looks like the only mention of pandemic in the news on this site was when it hit Xbox game pass in July of 2019.

Whatever their reasoning, it seems to be an internal decision. Nobody was asking "them" to stop making it. Maybe it's just "too soon" for "them". Lives are being changed and who knows hows those changes have affected the people who make this game. If I had made a game called pandemic and then my *insert special person here* dies from the pandemic....I may want to pull the plug on it as well. I have no idea, hard to put myself in those shoes.

The digital version of Pandemic suffers a lot from the "foot in both camps" issue, where the mobile version is too unwieldy, the PC version is too simple, and neither is nice. I still had fun with it, and the achievements were good at pushing me to find synergies rather than just stick with my favourite characters.

If I had to speculate, I'd imagine that doing justice to the franchise - adding multiplayer, adding a first class UI, or providing better support for all of the emerging offshoots - just wasn't feasible using this code base.

It's weird that they pulled it for sale only six months after releasing new DLC though. Maybe it is a licensing issue.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 20:52:

RedEye9 wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 19:16:

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 18:58:

Jim wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 18:34:
I suspect the pandemic is going to change how viruses and zombies are portrayed in future Games and videos.

I can't wait for a movie/show to come out with zombies or Monster_X, and people are literally getting ripped apart or eaten by the creatures, and they just keep shouting: "These aren't real, it's a liberal hoax!" or refusing to stay in the shelter, and keep running outside to 'exercise their freedom!' and get eaten, etc.

They'll be sending out invitations to "Get Bitten" parties while claiming it's no worse than the flu and that only old people get zombified.

And all the zombies end up wearing red baseball hats. For... reasons.

Or big dystopian corporations with hotels and massive theme parks in Florida who only care about profits and influence the media and politicians to play down the issue while keeping business open. If hundreds of thousands of people die as a result, as long as the bottom line is protected that is all that matters to them.

Jim wrote on Jan 17, 2022, 00:18:

bigspender wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 23:17:

El Pit wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 16:17:
Now, let's eradicate it (the pandemic, not Steam) from Earth and we should be fine. Or maybe not fine but at least a bit better.

Not possible. If anything we got lucky with COVID.

We did not get lucky with covid. the covid problem is far from being solved. There are some generic vaccines in the works, but in a world where vaccines have become political, I doubt any vaccine will ever solve the problem since you will have communities where the virus freely spreads and mutates

I'm paraphrasing experts and officials, check the book out because its not this 24/7 news infotainment nonsense, but real studies explained to us laymen, it's rivetting to me amyway

Freddie wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 23:08:
This is not surprising...making a game about a subject matter which has killed over 5mil people worldwide is in bad taste.....regardless if it's theme is to eradicate it. Something like this is just 'too soon', at least not while we are still neck deep in the damn thing

I agree, making a board game in 2008 with the name of an event that took on new meaning in 2019, was way too soon.

bigspender wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 23:17:

El Pit wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 16:17:
Now, let's eradicate it (the pandemic, not Steam) from Earth and we should be fine. Or maybe not fine but at least a bit better.

Not possible. If anything we got lucky with COVID.

We did not get lucky with covid. the covid problem is far from being solved. There are some generic vaccines in the works, but in a world where vaccines have become political, I doubt any vaccine will ever solve the problem since you will have communities where the virus freely spreads and mutates

Cutter wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 23:31:

bigspender wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 23:17:

El Pit wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 16:17:
Now, let's eradicate it (the pandemic, not Steam) from Earth and we should be fine. Or maybe not fine but at least a bit better.

Not possible. If anything we got lucky with COVID.

Highly suggest everyone listens to How To Survive a Pandemic by Micheal Greger. It is an eye opening compilation of public statements made by WHO and CDC officials.

They're predicting billions of deaths, before a vaccine is created.

Between factory farming, wet markets and exotic meat, it's "a question of when, not if"

I'm honestly surprised that we are all still here after listening to it lol - scary AF

Mass culling from time to time are not only good, they're necessary. The Black Death, for example, is what allowed us to move out of serfdom and create an upwardly mobile society, mass education, etc. As the old saying goes, in every cloud there's a silver lining. There's just way too many people on this rock and it's getting worse by the minute.

Are you volunteering then? Lol

That's the problem with infectious diseases, it's a little bit too random and it could.be me or you that gets "culled"

And there's no off switch. You'd want to have a back up copy of the human species on a space station like in Moonraker or on Mars like Musk suggests.

This thread reminded me of Plague Evolved. So I fired it up and decided to kill every man, woman, and child on earth with bacteria, virus, and fungus.

bigspender wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 23:17:

El Pit wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 16:17:
Now, let's eradicate it (the pandemic, not Steam) from Earth and we should be fine. Or maybe not fine but at least a bit better.

Not possible. If anything we got lucky with COVID.

Highly suggest everyone listens to How To Survive a Pandemic by Micheal Greger. It is an eye opening compilation of public statements made by WHO and CDC officials.

They're predicting billions of deaths, before a vaccine is created.

Between factory farming, wet markets and exotic meat, it's "a question of when, not if"

I'm honestly surprised that we are all still here after listening to it lol - scary AF

Mass culling from time to time are not only good, they're necessary. The Black Death, for example, is what allowed us to move out of serfdom and create an upwardly mobile society, mass education, etc. As the old saying goes, in every cloud there's a silver lining. There's just way too many people on this rock and it's getting worse by the minute.

Last year, Asmodee acquired some sort of digital board game platform. In addition, They just got bought by Embracer Group, so it's probably some plan to release their digital games on their own platform or something.

El Pit wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 16:17:
Now, let's eradicate it (the pandemic, not Steam) from Earth and we should be fine. Or maybe not fine but at least a bit better.

Not possible. If anything we got lucky with COVID.

Highly suggest everyone listens to How To Survive a Pandemic by Micheal Greger. It is an eye opening compilation of public statements made by WHO and CDC officials.

They're predicting billions of deaths, before a vaccine is created.

Between factory farming, wet markets and exotic meat, it's "a question of when, not if"

I'm honestly surprised that we are all still here after listening to it lol - scary AF

This is not surprising...making a game about a subject matter which has killed over 5mil people worldwide is in bad taste.....regardless if it's theme is to eradicate it. Something like this is just 'too soon', at least not while we are still neck deep in the damn thing

its not because of Covid-19 or Plague Inc would also be removed I belive it even has a covid 19 play method build right in

Most likely this hasn't anything to do with the game's theme; odds are it's a licensing issue.

Asmodee Games (the publishers of the computer game) probably had a license with Z-Man games (the publishers of the board game on which the computer incarnation is based) and the license ran out. Possibly Z-Man Games wanted more money than Asmodee Games was willing to pay, or perhaps Z-Man Games has entered into another deal with some other video-game publisher, or worried that the computer game sales were cannibalizing their board game sales, or whatever. But it's much more likely a business decision, and not because of anybody trying to 'cancel' games about a pandemic because of Covid-19.

RedEye9 wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 19:16:

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 18:58:

Jim wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 18:34:
I suspect the pandemic is going to change how viruses and zombies are portrayed in future Games and videos.

I can't wait for a movie/show to come out with zombies or Monster_X, and people are literally getting ripped apart or eaten by the creatures, and they just keep shouting: "These aren't real, it's a liberal hoax!" or refusing to stay in the shelter, and keep running outside to 'exercise their freedom!' and get eaten, etc.

They'll be sending out invitations to "Get Bitten" parties while claiming it's no worse than the flu and that only old people get zombified.

And all the zombies end up wearing red baseball hats. For... reasons.

Cutter wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 15:22:
Why buy it when you live it?

Meh, picked it up 5 or so years ago.

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 18:58:

Jim wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 18:34:
I suspect the pandemic is going to change how viruses and zombies are portrayed in future Games and videos.

I can't wait for a movie/show to come out with zombies or Monster_X, and people are literally getting ripped apart or eaten by the creatures, and they just keep shouting: "These aren't real, it's a liberal hoax!" or refusing to stay in the shelter, and keep running outside to 'exercise their freedom!' and get eaten, etc.

They'll be sending out invitations to "Get Bitten" parties while claiming it's no worse than the flu and that only old people get zombified.

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 18:58:

Jim wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 18:34:

Cutter wrote on Jan 16, 2022, 18:20:
You mean where there are no anti-vax/conspiracy idiots in the world and the first world actually works on inoculating the rest of the planet to help stop all this shit? Yeah, that would be a nice escape wouldn't it?

I suspect the pandemic is going to change how viruses and zombies are portrayed in future Games and videos.

I can't wait for a movie/show to come out with zombies or Monster_X, and people are literally getting ripped apart or eaten by the creatures, and they just keep shouting: "These aren't real, it's a liberal hoax!" or refusing to stay in the shelter, and keep running outside to 'exercise their freedom!' and get eaten, etc.

That would make for a really funny horror comedy. Let's write a script and sell it to Hollywood for 10 mil!