Interesting article. The terminology involved is way too obtuse for nonplayers, though. Or even for players who are not involved with that particular storyline. I spent the morning researching it to make sense of the story; it is quite nice, as a thing that existed.
It still doesn't go far enough to satisfy me.
Mr Eaten content doesn’t (with one notable and deliberately absurd exception) ever cost Fate, because that would be too much like taking people’s money and then laughing at them – but it does consume resources from the wider Fallen London game, and in Fallen London you can spend Fate to get resources. I could have taken the usual Mr Eaten line of ‘sorry, you were warned’ – but when money’s involved, even small amounts, things change. It would have seemed plainly dishonest to turn down the refund request.
So sayeth the lead dev in question, in the article about the suspension of the content. And yet the very structure of the game is timebux, and there is no difference between Fate, resources, and actions in the end. Time is money already. I cannot find agreement with him on this matter. In the end he took back the very premise of "no takebacks."
I await the day when someone will do this for real. The Carnival option was pretty cool, though.
