D_Smart posted:

As I posted on Twitter, I finished that since Dec. Sent it off to a third-party for final review, cleanup and such. I may still self-publish it on Amazon, though I have some interesting offers.

I really don't want to release it until the final incoming collapse of CIG/RSI. We'll see how it goes.

I.N.R.I posted:

Hi, just a quiet reminder for you all to take a small amount of time out of your day of screaming at the computer game to call or visit your parents. They raised you with care and love and would like to hear from you and yours about how your life is going, hobbies etc.

ArfJason posted:

Everyone, please stop doing incredibly hosed up poo poo like doxxing, sending death threats, obsessing over the bad space videogame, constantly stalking some twitter guy and now, posting pedo fiction because lol bitcoins. What the gently caress is wrong with you?

ArfJason posted:

Cool guy: hey remember all those years ago why dont we play ninte do anymore like we use to
Me: you jerked off in public and drank youre piss
Cool guy: haha why you bringing up the past?? U care salt? That was years ago. Stay mad...

Look! A Horse! posted:

hey remember when you got owned by the Star Citizen thread and then fake doxxed yourself for more manufactured outrage. good times...

Nicholas posted:

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

holy poo poo

D_Smart posted:

As I posted on Twitter, I finished that since Dec. Sent it off to a third-party for final review, cleanup and such. I may still self-publish it on Amazon, though I have some interesting offers.

I really don't want to release it until the final incoming collapse of CIG/RSI. We'll see how it goes.

ManofManyAliases posted:

XK posted:

Seriously, a book about this by Derek, with co-credits to someone like Lando, or other deep insiders, would be a must buy. Ben would be a great get as well, but I suspect he's drank too much Flavor-Aid.

Dementropy posted:

My inspiration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnBZMngx97o

DapperDon posted:

I prefer this one better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPkMUU9tUqk

XK posted:

lol

ArfJason loves the lovely threads, no pun intended.

cool new Polack jokes posted:

Derek Smart is like Stephen King- I like what he writes, but there's usually a few hundred extra pages that could be safely excised without hurting the core of the story being told.

Hav posted:

Or in the case of the dark tower, three entire books.

cool new Polack jokes posted:

Derek Smart is like Stephen King- I like what he writes, but there's usually a few hundred extra pages that could be safely excised without hurting the core of the story being told.

DapperDon posted:

That hurts man.

Chin posted:

I can't believe no one else ever had the idea to simulate a universe where you can do and be anything.

XK posted:

A lot of King's stuff is garbage, but portions are great. There's a lot of completely forgettable stuff, some enjoyable yet superfluous content, weird poo poo like the all the kids having sex in "IT", and some great gems. When some of that great stuff is passed through someone else, you end up with a classic work, like with "The Shining" "The Dark Tower".

tooterfish posted:

It's not loving wrong though.

Nicholas posted:

iron buns posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_refunds/comments/5neekj/iqfish_gets_a_refund/dcdnt42/

quote:

IqfishLP posted:
I'd prefer not replying here anymore so that this would not get used out of context like my earlier statements, but for the sake of integrity im gonna answer.

My arguments largely aim towards the PU, simply because we have no idea about SQ42 at all. I always thought of the singeplayer campaign as less important. I would have played it, but I am a lot more interested in a good multiplayer experience.

When I backed in January 2013, I had the dates in mind CIG presented back then. You know, the ones that proved to be absolutely impossible. I realized, as many people did too, that Star Citizen would take a LOT more time and effort and I was fine with it. I thought let them have their time, do things right and create something with the longevity of EVE online that people play for ten years.

For the longest time I was completely fine with the way things were going. CIG was growing nicely from something people would use their garage for to a fully fleged 350+ employee-company. The technology coming out of their hired talent amazed me, especially since I have close ties with CryTek and their employees personally. Thinks like the local physics grid, the procedural technology they are working on or the sheer amount of detail they put into the few assets we have seen so far are fantastic and I stand by that still.

Now to the ugly. On the last big presentations CIG screwed up. They announced SQ42 so many times and cancelled the presentation last minute, without telling anyone. And contrary to their video, I just can not believe that they realized it two days before the presentation. And if they did, that is proof of a horrible management. I have always said that they should take as long time as they need, but as a company funded in its entirety by backers, it is their drat obligation to tell us what is going on. And I don't care if there is a storyline that they don't want to spoil, we have to have access to information to how far things are along. If people don't want to be spoiled, they can choose to look away. The general style of the last two presentations were unbelievably unprofessional. I remember getting so hyped about CitizenCon that I stocked up beer and snacks and submitted a day off so I could stay up to like 5am (Living in Europe). A company with that much money, with people dedicated to working on stuff like that and a seperate pool of funding just for PR, just can not fail so hard at presentations again and again. They also did the atrocious UEE Warbonds video back then, right after telling anyone that every single post leading up to the event was basically false.

To sum this section up: I think CIGs focus is wrong. They got enough money. They are funded. They should focus on the actual gameplay and less on adding more and more fluff. Also rethink your PR. Act like the company you are, funded by the people. All your bills are paid by us, treat us with respect.

My second big concern is the community. If you look through my post history, you see that I submitted a few pretty critical comments and posts to the /r/starcitizen sub that were either downvoted to hell or upvoted to the top or even gilded. I pointed out 5 months ago, that all the design documents are incredibly dated and havent been talked about in detail since. Why does noone seem to care about how the actual game will play? Who cares for the 10th fighter or 5th mining ship if there won't be something interesting to do with it? How does Star Citizen want to keep players from leaving with interesting gameplay that can fill their incredibly large world? The last few months it has become worse. It feels like everyone reasonable that you could discuss with left the sub after the presentations and only the crazy people are left. People that celebrate the 159th "fan made trailer" cut together from footage of 2014. People that will defend CIG on every action, no matter how lovely or unprofessional their actions are. To be clear here, I think of CIGs devs as talented and inspiring, but there is something wrong in their PR/management department. I will not engage in personal witch hunts like Derek does, He and I both got no idea of what is going on behind their doors and anything he puts out is either speculation or made up.

I realize that I could go on for pages here. I have spent so much time around the projects, read so much stuff and wrote probably even more. It is such a huge project, that I cannot even discuss everything that is good or bad about the game. And the problem is that I fear CIG forgets how huge their project is. How huge the game they aim for is. There is a reason it has never been tried. Comparably small projects like GTA V eat up sums 5-6 times of CIGs budget. I really hate to say this, but the Star Citizen we will get in a few years is not the game they told us about.

And to make it clear once again: This post, my decision or anything in this process has anything to do with Derek Smart or his ramblings. In my eyes he is a troubled man that who tries anything to make him feel superior. He has jumped the bandwagon of people talking about Star Citizens problems and now thinks of himself as some form of messiahs. I 100% stand by anything I wrote on /r/dereksmart . Like others point out, life is not black or white. I couldn't be further from apologizing or even following Derek.

cool new Polack jokes posted:

Derek Smart is like Stephen King- I like what he writes, but there's usually a few hundred extra pages that could be safely excised without hurting the core of the story being told.

Quavers posted:

As a Goon previously suggested, why don't you self-publish and sell it on your own webstore: "Derek's Mart".

Branch out into mug and t-shirt sales too:

• "I called Star Citizen a scam before it was cool"
  
• "Derek Smart was right"
  
• "Warlord 1 'Saviour of PC Gaming' 0"
  

cool new Polack jokes posted:

The biggest suspension of disbelief in the SC universe is that British people/accents/names have survived 900 years into the future and have not been hosed out of existence by more viable, fecund genetic variances and cultures.

Not only that, but hell, everything not given a bad alien name is given a bad British name.

It's kind of like the supermarionation 'Thunderbirds' where it's supposed to be the year 2065 (100 years in the future from production) and outside a few swarthy Latin Europeans, every single person is white. An all-white future, boy, nobody's had that idea before! 1488

I guess if you don't work with or see any non-whites ever they don't really come up on your radar

AP posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inh3V2CfdaE

quote:

CIG was growing nicely from something people would use their garage for to a fully fleged 350+ employee-company.

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

One day you'll catch up don't worry