nopantsjack posted:

I was browsing the RSI forums for fun and they had some thread about how much they'd each spent and how they don't tell their family or whatever, anyway one dude came in saying he regretted spending any money because the game doesn't exist, everyone jumped on him and said he should just get a refund.

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Its still CIG policy to not give refunds and those guys are deluded morons, right?

Saint Drogo posted:

Pfft it just wasn't Radiant(tm) enough last time.

Tippis posted:

And yet, somehow, Chris and his band of merry graphical artists — none of which have any experience in doing anything remotely related — are supposed to invent something vastly better in a fraction of the time? How do the faithful ever make that leap of logic work?

tuo posted:

Imagine Crobberts trying (and failing) the whole night to install current graphics drivers, and Sandi actually thinking he is coding...lol

Tippis posted:

That's the funny thing. Bethesda has actually spent a decade and a half on trying to make _________work, and even when it does what it should, this creates is a standing point of ribbing and derision in every game they release.

Tippis posted:

That's the funny thing. Bethesda has actually spent a decade and a half on trying to make that kind of thing work, and even when it does what it should, the behaviour this creates is a standing point of ribbing and derision in every game they release.

And yet, somehow, Chris and his band of merry graphical artists — none of which have any experience in doing anything remotely related — are supposed to invent something vastly better in a fraction of the time? How do the faithful ever make that leap of logic work?

Tippis posted:

Look, he's just trying to find his DB-25 parallel port to plug in his joystick dongle and make the joystick.sys driver load — no need to be mean to the poor guy, even if he's completely stumped on the first step.

Mirificus posted:

DapperDon posted:

Megabound posted:

The video of it is even better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpl1fP_1fOw

Propagandist posted:

Holy poo poo. I understand that reference. God drat that takes me back.

A Neurotic Corncob posted:

did CIG put a Star Citizen trailer before screenings of Rogue One?

I'm basing this primarily on this somewhat cryptic thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/5ibu1d/i_just_saw_rogue_one_and_i_need_this_game_more/

and also an INN podcast from many months ago where they said we would see the beginning of an advertising blitz for SQ42 starting in December. People speculated at the time that it might be a Rogue One trailer.

If so, wow, must have cost a pretty penny.

tuo posted:

He's still googling where to find the config.sys in Windows 10

Crob: "Arrrrrrrmmm errrrrrrr Cortana, wheeeerrrre's the uhhhhhh config aaaarrrrmmmmm sys? My... My... the... aaahhhhhhhhh is.. is Dennis here, Cortana?"
Cortana: "You seem to be speaking mushmouth, switching language profile..."
Crob: "STOP TALKING LIKE MY LEAD DEVELOPERS!!!"

Mirificus posted:

Eldragon posted:

Yes, and I'm going to patiently wait and see if completely fucks it up.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Looks like I'm getting it all back.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Looks like I'm getting it all back.

peter gabriel posted:

Is it literally just me left then?

peter gabriel posted:

Is it literally just me left then?

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Looks like I'm getting it all back.

peter gabriel posted:

Is it literally just me left then?

peter gabriel posted:

Is it literally just me left then?

TheLightPurges posted:

Ive got 5 dollars of skin in the game friend I'm riding this all the way down.

Tippis posted:

Look, he's just trying to find his DB-25 parallel port to plug in his joystick dongle and make the joystick.sys driver load — no need to be mean to the poor guy, even if he's completely stumped on the first step.

shrach posted:

So RSI UK filed their accounts today. There isn't much to see, for reasons that will become immediately apparent, but they confirm the money moves around needlessly. I made a flow chart in MS paint for 2015 of the information so far.



The Star Citizen funding chart apparently showed $36m in 2015 with $3.3m of that coming in January, leaving $33m for February to December. Using an exchange rate of £1 : $1.55 for 2015 would put a total value of ~ £21m for February to December 2015 for the Star Citizen funding chart. That is clearly a material difference to the £15m that was shown in the accounts of Roberts Space Industries International Ltd.

When the UK parent company files their accounts there should be some more information on inter-company relationships.

a cyberpunk goose posted:

while this point might work against me in the context of CiG, i have to say it: big businesses that are shipping profitable products (bethesda games) are rarely going to take the time to fix-up fundamental issues in their engines unless they really really _really_ have to, by the time you barely ship & patch & maintain the game you're working on right this second, plans and concept work are already happening for the next project, the game programmers don't all go into a big room and start putting stickies on the wall for things they wanna clean up tech-debt wise and get "ready" for the next project. the next project is already on the rails and the minute they are done with their current project they are yanked off and are prototyping elements of what's to come.

the time to get certain kinds of axiomatic engine-bound things right is usually the first time, anything else will be written off as a waste of money and time by the money wizards above you. a healthy company tries to balance tech debt against product deadlines, but rarely can core engine things just "be fixed". like, oh you want to change how the sorting works for this kind of scene? well that's impossible because the way the realtime lighting is set up for this scene means you'd have to use an entirely different scheme for how such and such is calculated and now you also have to update all the gizmos and level editing tools that work with said lights. or we could say "hey our engine isn't meant for this kind of scene that requires this kind of sorting, let's just hide the issues with it by doing $HACK and get this thing shipped"

this doesn't help paint CiG in a good light though because it's not their engine and CryTek is falling apart and CryEngine is already a crufty mess of very specific hacks to make Crysis-like games work. NOT big mega space mmos with no specific scope.