Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

Have you had a stroke?

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

Have you had a stroke?

revmoo posted:

From Matilda2013's Reddit:



I'm still convinced it's Sandi. If not her, then I'm at least 100% positive it's someone within CIG. It's interesting looking at where her posting career started and how she jumped _immediately_ into posting about the drama. I just have a hard time believing anyone at CIG would give this much of a poo poo aside from her.

G0RF posted:

Also, on the cognitive dissonance front. A post by Macharial420, who at Space Marshal tier has spent $5000+ on space pixels...

quote:

REDDIT: "A thought for every one yesterday who attacked the Occulus doubters..."

So... When people like me said this is why Star Citizen doesn't have a publisher, and just how evil and greedy Zuckerberg is, and how he will effect the launch... this is what we were talking about.

Thanks for the hostile closed minded personal attacks over a product that from the looks of it has very already lost the market's interest until the price goes down less than 6 hours after it's launch... I'm sure you must all be defending him and the price point just as stalwartly today.

I mean, "it's good hardware".

I'm sure many of you even took the time to come back, and correct the slander you dumped on any one with a questioning opinion. Thank you for taking the time to do that. It means a lot when people stand by their conviction enough to attack opposing viewpoints and then admit they were wrong. Looking at yourself in the mirror after an act of humility like that must be inspiring.

This is why you need to learn to not blindly follow a project and just what effect a 'publisher' actually has on a product.

And please, let the rest of us know how that $700 headset is while we patiently wait out the Vive.

Tokit posted:

Wafflz posted:

I just can't wait to see gazillion polygon air ducts in 4k VR.

SelenicMartian posted:

Can't wait for citizens to start a thread on "the inevitable consequence of duct crawling"

SirPhoebos posted:

On a different topic, anyone have a link to when the SC goons first heard about Derek's initial blog?

SelenicMartian posted:

Can't wait for citizens to start a thread on "the inevitable consequence of duct crawling"

Ash1138 posted:

can't wait for the unskippable vent grille removal and duct entry animation

Wafflz posted:

Do you think they will use an electric tool or a manual screwdriver? Control taken away as my spaceman undoes each screw then sets the vent cover on the floor and climbs in, all in glorious 60 field of view with nauseating head bob. Truly the BDVCSE

G0RF posted:

Right now, there's a Thesis (Karl/Raess = Matilda) and Antithesis (Matilda = Sandi). But I think we are due for a Synthesis theory soon. I have one that I think makes a lot of sense but I really need to do more digging before I post it...

doctor iono posted:

Public Swarms while Time remains prioritized in scoring/rewards system.

posted:

First of all, I need to say anyone telling you we aren’t communicating is wrong. We produce two (sometimes three) weekly shows, do a weekly Q&A livestream, a monthly magazine, daily Comm-Links and a monthly report that, while dry, literally lets our devs tell you everything they’re doing. We consciously try to have a variety of tones, from the highly polished Jump Point, the detailed wall of text of the monthly report to the informal Reverse the Verse sessions. Less formally, I spend time in the live chat every week answering questions, and I know that a number of other developers do as well. I try to answer questions here, on the great subreddit and on my personal Twitter when I can. I make it my goal to do at least one fan podcast each week, answering any questions they come up with.

Second: anyone telling you that we’re spending all of our efforts on social media is full of it. We spend no money and very little time on social, which should probably be clear with one glance at our Twitter. It’s 90% links back to the day’s Comm-Link and then occasionally fun things like office candids. There’s no new Star Citizen information presented there. I see the claim all the time, and I think it’s purely a case of ‘grass is greener’ syndrome… but no, social media isn’t getting any additional Star Citizen content that you aren’t privy to.

(If you’ll spare me an extra paragraph, I’d like to stress that my philosophy for social is that it’s necessary but needs to be genuine in order to matter. I know that a lot of our backers believe that it’s the devil incarnate, and I don’t entirely disagree… but it’s also a necessary communication tool in the 21st century. My goal with social is to keep it as genuine as humanly possible, because I feel like that’s a better sales pitch than anything artificial. So we use Facebook and Twitter to promote the Comm-Link primarily, and we don’t do any of the pretty easy “GET A MILLION FOLLOWERS!” social tricks we probably could (after all, when you see a stupid hashtag in the corner of a TV show do you feel anything but sad pity? And I’ll end with repeating my bias, which is that I met my wife on Twitter… and that happened because she liked my dumb jokes, not because I had a good Klout score )

[And since I’m seeing it elsewhere in this discussion: Reddit is not social media. It’s simply another Star Citizen forum, one with an active userbase that’s pretty much the same as here. I like answering questions as a person in both places when I can, and I would never ask anyone on the team not to do that.]

I say all that to let you know our communication is a serious thing; it’s something we put a lot of thought and planning and careful limited-resource management into making possible. Is it always perfect? Absolutely not! But ignoring the effort (and the considerable success of that effort as it has changed over the last two years!) boils this down to a totally incorrect us-versus-them mentality. That is to say, if you’ve decided we’re out to get you, you probably aren’t going to change your mind. The reality is that every single person here (with the possible exception of some trolls) wants exactly the same thing: the best possible communication. So, remember that as we descent further into this debate! Compare AtV1 to AtV20 to AtV50 and you’ll see how much we believe in improving things (or, how the forums worked six months ago versus a year ago versus two years ago.)

Now, all of that said, constant improvement is absolutely the name of the game. Discussions like this with the community about expectations and desires have led to lots of great things that I think everyone takes for granted: the weekly Comm-Link schedule, reporting concept prices a week out and (coming soon!) the ship status grid. In fact, Turbulent is building the entire ‘Community Hub’ based on a lot of this feedback. Any time we can come up with an idea and implement it together, we do great things. So let’s use this discussion to make that happen again!

My biggest takeaway—and you can certainly correct me—is that we need to spend more time being visible on the forums. And to that I completely agree. I’m going to sit down with my team and figure out how to make that happen. I know James and Jared popped in earlier and shared the details of their week (which I had to force myself not to do, because it sounded like a fun thing to write out) and I certainly appreciate how insanely busy they both are… but we do need to be on the forums more.

I also know already that we need to be more visual. We want to share more of the game, we want to put out fancier assets… but no matter what you’re hearing, it’s NOT a case of making this incredible content appear out of thin air (when I see the expectation, I always think of a gag from the Simpsons with the softball team, and Mr. Burns crowing that ‘I told him to do that!’ after one of the ringers hits a home run.) We’re currently looking to hire a position that will allow us to do exactly this... but it’s a struggle even there, because one of my core beliefs is that the community team needs to stay small and not take resources away from the game. One thing about our workflow today is that we try very hard NOT to JIRA developers with community or marketing content… because every hour we pull someone from QA off their game task to capture a video is time that can be spent improving the game. It’s a balance we’re still working on, and one that will hopefully change a little in the near future.

SpunkyRedKnight posted:

This could be what makes Star Citizen a success. Games just don't have enough duct crawling. It's innovative concepts like this from a true visionary that will show those duct-hating publishers what real gamers want. HVAC module in two weeks.

revmoo posted:

From Matilda2013's Reddit:

AP posted:

I was looking for this a while back and stumbled on it again.


"My goal with social (media) is to keep it as genuine as humanly possible, because I feel like that’s a better sales pitch than anything artificial".

sees his primary role as a salesman.

Here's one of his social media posts from earlier that month.

Mirificus posted:

"CIG watches .. citizen concerns on the forums"

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/3zqqzj/should_the_sc_comunity_gather_together_and_ask/cyo8cx6

Tokit posted: