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Blue Blood, on 22 July 2015 - 11:48 AM, said:

There's more to a stage than just collision tiles you know. The time periods were an awesome experience. The themes were amazing and beautiful along with the music. That alone made it all worth it.

This isn't a matter of reward as much as it is a matter of practicality. Stealth isn't even holding Megamix for ransom for fucks sake. He's saying he can work on it more if he's financially supported to do so, which is a fact of life. He wants to make it happen, and is doing everything he can to create it, so he's not even fucking artificially padding development time as a ploy for money. This is purely a matter of giving people the means to make it happen faster than normal, which is ultimately a good thing. This is an optional donation, emphasis on donation, and not some greedy cash grab. Don't like it? Don't donate. Like it? Do. It's that simple.
Look at it this way. People are individually responsible for the use of their money and the consequences of what they spend it on. Are you trying to protect them? Trying to tell them what they should or shouldn't be doing with it? And, if Stealth were hypothetically holding Megamix over us for cash, what are you going to do? Convince him not to do that and make the game for free? Get the community to boycott? Call him dirty and try to make him feel like a dick? What would you hope to accomplish by making a fuss about this that wouldn't just make matters worse? It's his project, his plan, and the community's decision on how to respond.
If a bit of financial support helps the scene, and people are willing, then so be it. This is not the first time at all that money has been thrown around for community interests.

This is really fascinating.

Posting here for convenience:

I felt that they never gave enough attention to Sonic's damage state, which remained identical in every game. I don't particularly like that Sonic is fully paralyzed after taking damage and is stuck in a fixed motion until contacting ground. By itself it's already more annoying than it needs to be, but when taking damage near an edge, it can result in some really frustrating falls or even a helpless death. I feel it could be improved by giving the player some directional influence, and one way I felt the Adventure games improved over the classics was by introducing a jump cancel to the damage state. It could only be performed after a moment of being stunned, and with good timing you can save yourself from a nasty fall or cheap death. I imagine they implemented this since the levels were often linear and surrounded by a bottomless pit which the player was at constant risk of falling into, but regardless of that, it's overall just a good mechanic to have in the games. It allows a punished player to earn their pace back, and good players don't have to be treated like beginners for an occasional accidental hit.

Xeal, on 08 July 2015 - 07:40 AM, said:

Sega makes a bad game.
People react accordingly.
Sega makes another bad game.
People react accordingly.

I'm failing to see what you're getting at here.