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clonedrobojesus posted:The Humble Store doesn't have autopatching. Using the humble store for purchase and initial download doesn't prevent you from having autopatching. It prevents people from being unable to buy your product for days on end while you rush to find a way to cope with demand (probably by using the humble store).
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It's a shame. I want to give this dude money!
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clonedrobojesus posted:The Humble Store doesn't have autopatching. While that's true, if you build a no-frills launcher (which Minecraft finally just released) you can push that out to people and then the launcher can handle updates. That won't help you with the rush of people hitting your servers through the launcher though, so you're still left figuring out that bandwidth dilemma. It does get you out of handling money, so in that regard I'd guess it's quite worth it for the 5%. Does the Humble Store just take anyone who wants to be in? I'd imagine there's a bit of dealing in there somewhere, still. GaylordButts fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Jul 3, 2013 |
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Jul 3, 2013 21:20
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Humble store doesn't fix his server being able to cope with people creating accounts on his site, generating keys, dealing with support/billing requests. I'd rather he take the time to get stuff working as well as possible upfront. As someone who deals with customer billing issues, I'd hate to see the nightmare that would be their email inbox if 15-20k people bought the day game one, and then couldn't download it.
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Jul 3, 2013 21:24
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Rawrbomb posted:Humble store doesn't fix his server being able to cope with people creating accounts on his site, generating keys, dealing with support/billing requests. Opening it for pre-orders a few days in advance sure would have.
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Jul 3, 2013 21:27
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Its probably all just an elaborate hoax to build hype anyways.
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Jul 3, 2013 21:32
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tooooooo bad posted:Opening it for pre-orders a few days in advance sure would have. Not really, until you've dealt with _insane_ server requirements, you're not really prepared to deal with it. He could do all the prep work he could hope for, but it won't matter until you see real data. Real data is never the same or as predicable as what you'd throw at a server in a test environment. This is speaking from experience in dealing with fairly high traffic websites and dealing with some of the _insane_ traffic that they happen to deal with a few times a year.
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Jul 3, 2013 21:33
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The delay is probably just caused by half of his game's code being stolen with his laptop, and he has no off-site backups.
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Jul 3, 2013 21:36
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Babe Magnet posted:The delay is probably just caused by half of his game's code being stolen with his laptop, and he has no off-site backups. Heh, is that even still in development?
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The demo runs terribly on my laptop but I expected that. I think Wollay is handling this well. I can see why he would have underestimated demand, I didn't notice a whole lot of hype for Cube World until he tried to release it. This thread for example only had 4 pages of posts from Sept 2012 til yesterday. I'd rather he take the time to make sure everything is working and everyone who already gave him money is sorted out before it opens up again. It'd suck to see the store back up only to have it go down again because 10,000 people clicked the link before I did.
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Jul 3, 2013 21:48
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Widdiful posted:So more people with low-quality and cheap computers can play the game with a good framerate. While I get a triple digit frame rate in most all games on high settings, I can't run Minecraft without it slowing to a crawl even using 'optifine'. Simple graphical style does not mean a game runs well even on good computers. Granted Minecraft is on Java but if something looking like that runs like that on a beast rig I don't trust anyone.
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Heran Bago posted:While I get a triple digit frame rate in most all games on high settings, I can't run Minecraft without it slowing to a crawl even using 'optifine'. Simple graphical style does not mean a game runs well even on good computers. Granted Minecraft is on Java but if something looking like that runs like that on a beast rig I don't trust anyone. Minecraft should never be used as a comparison or benchmark for how well anything runs, obliquely or otherwise.
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Jul 3, 2013 22:18
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quote:Wolfram von Funck @wol_lay Might be available again in the next few hours? Here's hoping.
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Jul 3, 2013 22:26
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Mini demo is back up again: https://s3.amazonaws.com/picroma/demo/CubeDemo.zip You'll need to wait after launching it for it to render the world. The longer you wait (up until a point) the more it generates. It just spins quote:It's basically just a starting screen with a rotating landscape in the background. If it runs smoothly and you can see the logo and the text below it, your PC is ready for Cube World.
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Jul 3, 2013 22:46
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What's the pricing structure for this? If we pay the $20 for the alpha will that be all the rest of the updates forever?
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I think my only complaint so far in videos is that view distance seems pretty low. Re price; 15EUR, 20USD, gets you all updates. E: People are just yelling "CUBE WORLD!!!" to all his updates on Twitter now. 
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A PC Game posted:What's the pricing structure for this? If we pay the $20 for the alpha will that be all the rest of the updates forever? So far its pledged to be like Minecraft, pay now, get updates for the long haul. quote:@wol_lay: The new launcher is necesary to fix the updating system which overloaded the site yesterday. quote:@wol_lay: You can also install it to a different location and copy save files if you worry about your working installation. Edit: #cubeworld on twitter has been getting crazier as the day goes on, people are getting upset, going crazy. Its weird to watch this. I'm glad I'm not in their shoes right now. Rawrbomb fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Jul 4, 2013 |
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Jul 3, 2013 22:52
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Rawrbomb posted:Edit: #cubeworld on twitter has been getting crazier as the day goes on, people are getting upset, going crazy. Its weird to watch this. I'm glad I'm not in their shoes right now. I would love to be in their shoes, crazed white spoiled suburban child fans included. Once they get the store stable they will easily make more then any of us on this thread do in a year within just a few hours.
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Solvency posted:I would love to be in their shoes, crazed white spoiled suburban child fans included. Once they get the store stable they will easily make more then any of us on this thread do in a year within just a few hours. I wouldn't want to be in their shoes as far as support/sales services goes. Something like this is what nightmares are made of, and I've already lived though something like this once. The biggest benefit for them, is that they make the profit.
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Wow, so I guess one of the reasons its taking so long is because they had to make a new launcher for the game? I'm assuming one that points to a different host than what they were using before or something.
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Reason posted:Wow, so I guess one of the reasons its taking so long is because they had to make a new launcher for the game? I'm assuming one that points to a different host than what they were using before or something. Something to that effect, I really don't think he thought the game would require this many resources so he hosted the downloads off the website and now he's had to move it to a CDN of some kind so it doesn't bring the entire house down.
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Rawrbomb posted:I wouldn't want to be in their shoes as far as support/sales services goes. Something like this is what nightmares are made of, and I've already lived though something like this once. The biggest benefit for them, is that they make the profit. I dealt with some of that back when I worked part time jobs in high school/college, but honestly I think the fact that their problems are caused by a frothing mass of angry entitled jerks who are chomping at the bit to turn the von Funcks into millionaires puts them beyond pity. e: And by dealt with it I mean an old lady tried to hit me in the back of the head with a brick in the parking lot because the store I was working out sold out of hard drives on Black Friday. Sumac fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Jul 4, 2013 |
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MacGyvers_Mullet posted:I dealt with some of that back when I worked part time jobs in high school/college, but honestly I think the fact that their problems are caused by a frothing mass of angry entitled jerks who are chomping at the bit to turn the von Funcks into millionaires puts them beyond pity. I'm going to spend all this downtime splicing together Sound of Music and Million Dollar Baby.
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Solvency posted:I would love to be in their shoes, crazed white spoiled suburban child fans included. Once they get the store stable they will easily make more then any of us on this thread do in a year within just a few hours. Except that that few hours came after years of hard work at no pay with no guaranteed pay off...
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SaucyLoggins posted:Except that that few hours came after years of hard work at no pay with no guaranteed pay off... Yeah, that is another thing you got to consider. Besides living in Germany and thus being awake at different times than what I would assume is most of us, I believe he has a full time job he's had to juggle for the years this things been in development. So between different time zones, working with Amazon, writing a new launcher to help server side crashes from people buying and downloading the game and probably his normal job, he's probably having a hell of a time right now. :P
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Jul 4, 2013 03:08
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Link to Picroma in the OP is typo'd, by the way. This game looks cool and I can't wait to pay for it.
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Considering he was making Cube World in the time off from his job, it's amazing that Wollay got a game of this scope done in, what, two years? It's bizarre he was so adamant about not letting us pay for alpha/beta access - on one hand I get that he wanted to provide everyone a quality product, but I think his humility about his own work kind of got the best of him if the shop's instantaneous crash is indicative of anything. He probably could've straight-up quit his job sometime last year if he wanted to, but I guess he didn't realize that there were tens of thousands of people waiting to throw their money at him. 
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He's done a very slow controlled burn, and by applying Cartman's "You can't come technique" to his game, he's made people want it more. It was worsened when a few bigger youtube/twitch people got copies to play. Like a lot of other big beta's for games, everyone wants in, its worse when you can only look on. To be given a glimmer of access yourself and then to have all that dashed stirs people to want it more.
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Interesting note. It's already possible to play on a server with more than 3 other people. I'm on one with 5 others at the moment, and apparently it allows for up to 24.
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Jul 4, 2013 06:30
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Ugghh.... Such a tease.... I have been patiently waiting since cw first popped up but with the taste of victory this is getting unbearable...
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Cool Blue Reason posted:Interesting note. It's already possible to play on a server with more than 3 other people. I'm on one with 5 others at the moment, and apparently it allows for up to 24. Diggin' the knife in deeper... 
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Jul 4, 2013 07:25
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Seems they left a debug command in or something. Everytime you press O to go to the options menu, you also get 10MP. If you hold O you'll essentially have infinite MP.
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Jul 4, 2013 07:59
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Dammit I want to play this game too now. worst part is that I'm stuck at work and desperately want to go home and attempt to buy it... I haven't watched many streams but is there a lot of loot? As someone who has never played zelda (yes I know, I'm awful) because it never really seemed appealing (sorry!), I'm curious as to how much more this game has to offer. If I can keep looting money to buy better stuff and being able to craft my own magical armour, weapons spells etc. I'm sold!
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Jul 4, 2013 08:53
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Don't worry about trying to buy it the shop is still down (almost 2 days now). Although hopefully wollay will be waking up soon to continue working on the issue. From what I have seen there is quite a bit of loot, armor and weapons seem to have a rare chance of dropping off any mob. The crafting looks really neat with all the blueprints you can find, and then on top of that you can customize each of your weapons and armor by adding special pixels to it to give it different attributes.
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That's amazing, the page was blocked at work but I checked it out on my mobile just now, I'm really excited about this game all of a sudden. I guess I'm no different than the other 30 million 'fans' that popped up over the last few days  I'm going to obsess over the housing part of this game when it comes out. Can't wait... and I hope we get to own more than one house.
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If the system for building remains the same as it was shown months ago you could build a trilion lovely shacks on the side of a mountain if you've got the parts.
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The building system depends entirely on them adding shittons of cards for you to find and collect to build and decorate your fancy estate with. I don't think there are that many just yet?
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House building isn't in the alpha at all I believe. At least, it's greyed out on the website.
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Death Himself posted:The building system depends entirely on them adding shittons of cards for you to find and collect to build and decorate your fancy estate with. I don't think there are that many just yet? No idea how many there ended up being but housing has been move to full release/post-release, hence if it remains the same comment.
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The store is open again, just successfully bought it
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