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Warhawk109 posted:Ortwin probably just checked all the theory crafting on Reddit on why CIG took out the loan, and repeated verbatim what the spergs were saying. "Oh look we were right! CIG is just hedge funding the forex market! Nothing to see here!" well tbh, I was hoping he would say it was for a building - or they were buying Imaginarium - like what some of those clowns were saying, and getting up votes (it was hilarious. you had to be there) for it.
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KawaiiAtomicBombs posted:Don't mind if I come contribute to your misery loving Hilarious.
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Warhawk109 posted:http://www.bfi.org.uk/film-industry/british-certification-tax-relief/cultural-test-video-games/summary-points-cultural-test-video-games Oy me names limey mcbritain and me teef are bad! press x to queue
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crisp roberts posted:Wanna bet if chris offered them 2000 javelins as colleteral? "mr roberts I am a staunch libertarian. I have spent 5 figures on your game but today you have devalued my rare ships like the Fed has devalued the US dollar through inflationary printing. I am not happy with this but I trust your judgement and cant wait to play your game"
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The Titanic posted:This is the shittiest piece of poo poo CIG has made in a while. It's a loving box. Glad Lethality loves it so much and thinks a box is iconic. It's like saying "that exploding barrel sure was iconic!" Or "did you see that wall texture? Those brick textures sure were iconic!" It is a cool box though. If CIG would have made all their jpegs look like sleek boxes with neatly scooped out faces and the top plane really flat and linear then they would have had an art style. Something with their stamp. Then we could have looked at it and said, "Oh that's a CIG style ship." Instead we have this.  And this one, which I hope is fake.  These jpegs are poop stains on the internet. Richie Stardust fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Jun 27, 2017 |
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So I remember it was weird when one day it occurred to me that boy, we hadn't heard from Gary Oldman and Gillian and the A-List cast and all that for a long time. And now the same thing just happened again; what happened to all the shows and streams and those shenanigans? Is that all still going on and the thread doesn't talk about it or can't be bothered to mock it anymore, or has all that quietly faded away like the A-List cast and everything else?
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Star Citizen : being killed softly with this loan
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D_Smart posted:well tbh, I was hoping he would say it was for a building - or they were buying Imaginarium - like what some of those clowns were saying, and getting up votes (it was hilarious. you had to be there) for it. I liked the idea of .25% interest the best. CHRIS ROBERTS DISCOVERED THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK THAT BANKS HATE! Take a loan at .25% interest and put all the money in a free checking account at .5% interest for infinite money!
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Danknificent posted:So I remember it was weird when one day it occurred to me that boy, we hadn't heard from Gary Oldman and Gillian and the A-List cast and all that for a long time. Quietly faded away, unless I missed something Funny thing is, they can't even use that mocap data in the current version of the game. Maybe doing all that before they had the engine nailed down was a bad idea? Who knew?
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This whole thing is going end up being a straight to DVD budget CGI movie that makes Spirits Within look Oscar-worthy.
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Richie Stardust posted:It is a cool box though. If CIG would have made all their jpegs look like sleek boxes with neatly scooped out faces and the top plane really flat and linear then they would have had an art style. Something with their stamp. Then we could have looked at it and said, "Oh that's a CIG style ship." Instead we have this. Why do these ships have jet engine type intakes.... in space...  Doesn't Chris understand...oh gently caress it, nvm.
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Hey everyone, let's go back in time to 2013. Post your favorite. https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/13309-Citizen-Gallery-Photo-Contest-Entries
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What makes the Star Citizen IP valuable? It's like that one movie Star Wars, but also like Firefly, with a good dose of that one video game Call of Duty thrown in as well as some more movie called Dune. With a pinch of Blade Runner and also Das Boot mixed with Top Gun. So as you can see it's a very creative effort full of totally unique ideas that definitely deserve to be worth millions.
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his nibs posted:Sell the assets to goons to make the all-conquering Solar Plebian? Yes. I am patiently waiting for CIG to gently caress it so I can scoop up all those hot wet assets on the cheapo, in order to bring the kind of Fidelity goons deserve from Solar Plebeian.
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spacetoaster posted:Hey everyone, let's go back in time to 2013. At least 1 person from those photos is now dead At least 2 people from those photos are now divorced
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And these two have now hit puberty All this and more has become possible by simply waiting for Chris to get off his rear end and finish the game
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Sappo569 posted:At least 1 person from those photos is now dead 
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Richie Stardust posted:It is a cool box though. If CIG would have made all their jpegs look like sleek boxes with neatly scooped out faces and the top plane really flat and linear then they would have had an art style. Something with their stamp. Then we could have looked at it and said, "Oh that's a CIG style ship." Instead we have this. I'd love the second one, especially if they actually went forward with the idea that "intakes" are dumb but thrust reversers are cool and good. Honestly that would have been an interesting aesthetic; make ships basically all about having a hilarious amount of engines that really convey a sense of power. But nope, can't be thematically interesting, gotta have jets in space.
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In my day, twelve-year-olds played cops and robbers, not citizens and call of duties.
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quote:Chris Roberts: I can be more profitable than AAA games on a fifth of sales quote:"We generated $800,000 in February alone, which is crazy. We don't even have a campaign going, we're not even selling new ships or anything, and we don't have a game" http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-04-22-chris-roberts-how-incredible-community-transforms-development
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spacetoaster posted:Has anyone estimated the amount of money Chris, Sandi, Lawyerboy, and Erin have stuffed into their pockets from this? Speculatively I wouldn't be surprised if they each "earned" between 2 million - 5 million for their personal bank account. Probably also expensed all trips and other stuff to the company account. For the game itself you're looking at probably 300k in game art asset value. Despite multiple refactors there's really not a lot of art. There's not even enough to make a decent enough single player game with multiple unique looking levels. You've got basically really super pretty arenas and small places. They probably spent 20 million or more getting these assets, but the final stuff is not impressive, unique, and most importantly there's not a lot of it. Programming value I'd put at around 50k. It's a mod, that doesn't work, and can't be made into a functional game without serious help. The art far outshines its programming, and this is CIGs failure. YouTube videos I'd guess at around 8-12 million. A lot of work went into them and a lot of editing. YouTube videos also includes the dumb poo poo demos that never were anything more than videos or staged gameplay. A metric ton of work went into making it appear that there was a real game happening here. Marketing I'd bet they are at around 5 million. Lots of dodgy stuff and secret users doing stuff and crazy websites out of thin air. This was as dodgy as the YouTube stuff. Finally you have "useless poo poo" and fake art. Useless poo poo includes motion capture of actors, guys mopping, and other stuff so pointless that probably even with motion capture nobody had the nerve to tell Chris Roberts they could only use the data sometimes as a reference and everything still ended up keyframed mostly by hand. The majority of this is probably 100% useless like all the actors data from the very beginning of the project before literally anything was even remotely nailed down. I think the value of this data sits at around 500k, but probably cost 70-90 million to get. Throw in random numbers for salaries and office costs. I think it's funny, because even if my numbers are way off because I'm not a pro banker, I don't think anybody can argue that out of everything, the stuff that made it into the actual game is worth the least amount of money, and they spent the least amount of money trying to get it. If CR had to choose between a big name actor for his motion capture or a competent programmer, ask yourself who you think got the money, and also how much value that added to the "finished" product.
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"Can't wait to share my creation with RSI forums. Maybe even Chris will see it!" -Sole survivor of horrific car accident who spent months in a coma and never fully recovered
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Tippis posted:You of all… ehm… entities should know what happens when you forge ahead without a care and then suddenly douse something with cold water.  Can't stop, won't stop. Until the inevitable!
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Beet Wagon posted:*"casual follower" with a "reasonable" amount of money in the game stops by, immediately following huge outcry over financials* My thoughts too. I'm guessing that marketer payment was paid for with that money at least.
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Danknificent posted:what happened to all the shows and streams and those shenanigans? Is that all still going on and the thread doesn't talk about it or can't be bothered to mock it anymore, or has all that quietly faded away like the A-List cast and everything else? ATV got merged with the Monthly report, so now each episode is 4 weeks of different studios listing bullet points of buzzwords. 104TC was cancelled so CR could take Ben Lesnick's role in ATV. RTV was replaced with Happy Hour, which was going to be CIG playing their pre alpha, but now it's once every 2 weeks and about whatever.
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Virtual Captain posted:I am absolutely convinced they are scrambling to get the planet walking game-mode working before Gamescom. 90% of that is probably polishing up some landing zone station instead of any useful scalable solution. I think you're right on this, but I think it's also because making an FPS game is also easier than their Frankenstein space ship game. Their modder-tier programming department can handle making FPS stuff. Just copy the tutorials.
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MilesK posted:ATV got merged with the Monthly report, so now each episode is 4 weeks of different studios listing bullet points of buzzwords. 104TC was cancelled so CR could take Ben Lesnick's role in ATV. RTV was replaced with Happy Hour, which was going to be CIG playing their pre alpha, but now it's once every 2 weeks and about whatever. So you're saying they're in full on "gently caress-it" mode?
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Wise Learned Man posted:By the way, been meaning to ask the thread: It's very likely to simply vanish forever and the servers will just stop running. The bank will auction off what it can, probably try to sell the IP and it might get bought by whatever Chinese or Korean dev studio CR is using and they'll build either a mobile game or a cash-in arcade game.
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Richie Stardust posted:It is a cool box though. If CIG would have made all their jpegs look like sleek boxes with neatly scooped out faces and the top plane really flat and linear then they would have had an art style. Something with their stamp. Then we could have looked at it and said, "Oh that's a CIG style ship." Instead we have this. It's not a coincidence that these designs would actually look pretty good rendered in low-res 2D sprites for a game like Wing Commander 1. The large cylindrical intake/exhaust shapes make it very clear which way the ship is facing at a glance.
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CIG is in a great spot when even their faithful flock are instantly speculating about the possibility of default after they pledge all their assets on a payday loan
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Richie Stardust posted:And this one, which I hope is fake. I'm the engines that are hot at the intake
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starkebn posted:I'm the engines that are hot at the intake No those are just guide lights so the space air knows where to go.
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I wonder if the space air gets thinner as a ship goes higher in the marvelous fidelity of Star Citizen.
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MarcusSA posted:What is for dinner? Schadenfruede for me. The Titanic posted:The bank will auction off what it can, probably try to sell the IP and it might get bought by whatever Chinese or Korean dev studio CR is using and they'll build either a mobile game or a cash-in arcade game. Kinda hoping for something along the lines of Yakuza 0, so a deck-clearing bulldozer minigame. And something with karaoke. Hav fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Jun 27, 2017 |
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Is QUAD MANTIS!! ? Si or No?
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Pharohman777 posted:I wonder if the space air gets thinner as a ship goes higher in the marvelous fidelity of Star Citizen.
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