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Tippis
Mar 21, 2008

It's yet another day in the wasteland.

TheAgent posted:

> w
You cannot go that way.
> l
You're at the Port Ollisar landing pads. Docked here: an Aurora, a Dragonfly and an Idris. You also see Captain(s): BanditLoaf, Leathality, BunnyMan, DarkKnight.
> buy ship
Buying ships are disabled until commercial release. Please see our pledge store for more information.
> i
You are wearing a set of nipple jets and not much else. Saucy! You have 30,178,050 REC and 46,098,540 aUEC. You are carrying: nothing. You own: nothing.
> x me
You are a white, bald man, anywhere between the age of 20 and 35. You are currently wearing: nipple jets, gray boxers. It's cold out in space! You should consider a space suit.
> gently caress Captain BanditLoad
I do not see a Captain of that name.
> gently caress Captain BanditLoaf
"I see you want my folds, $charnane," Captain BanditLoaf responds. "However, such a pleasure of palace comes not cheap to those unworthy. What do you have to offer?"
> give Captain BanditLoaf the Wing Commander manual
You do not have a Wing Commader manual to give to Captain BanditLoaf.

This has got to be a fake. No way does CIG manage to put together a text parser that is that advanced.

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TheAgent
Feb 16, 2002

The call is coming from inside Dr. House
Grimey Drawer
lol at that cameraman shooting directly at crobers

I guess instead of giving 3.0 to the evocati this week, they'll just throw up a video about 3.0 on friday with a special note from christ roberts about how hard video game development is and boy are they trying hard but 3.0 will be super soon and actually we do need money so pledge a lot loving more, he's another concept sale for a 100+ person ship that will be out sometime in 2024

One in the Bum
Apr 25, 2014

Hair Elf

Barcley posted:

Got my refund today from kick starting this thing in 2012! Gonna spend it on games that are actually in existence.

:hfive:

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

I'm the code on the monitor instead of any actual gameplay

'Mr. Roberts sir this ... this is the blocker i talked about'

EVERYONE OUT ! except you camera man , I want the world to see how a real leader addresses his failed subordinates

TheAgent
Feb 16, 2002

The call is coming from inside Dr. House
Grimey Drawer
also that camera he's using is like $15,000 and up

lol

ZenMaster
Jan 24, 2006

I Saved PC Gaming

ManofManyAliases posted:

I got dibs on Toast's office chair.

You spilled food on your own chair? Wow, good for you I guess

Strangler 42
Jan 8, 2007

SHAVE IT ALL OFF
ALL OF IT

TheAgent posted:

lol at that cameraman shooting directly at crobers

I guess instead of giving 3.0 to the evocati this week, they'll just throw up a video about 3.0 on friday with a special note from christ roberts about how hard video game development is and boy are they trying hard but 3.0 will be super soon and actually we do need money so pledge a lot loving more, he's another concept sale for a 100+ person ship that will be out sometime in 2024

They're just getting footage for the eventual apology video after this whole thing goes tits up.

"Now shoot me from a high angle to hide my chins. The look I'm going for is quiet consternation and concern. Like I'm trying to figure out a puzzle nobody else can solve and the weight of the world is on my back. Think Dr. House. Am I pulling it off? What, you can still see my chins? Go stand on that chair then!"

Quavers
Feb 26, 2016

You clearly don't understand game development

Barcley posted:

Got my refund today from kick starting this thing in 2012! Gonna spend it on games that are actually in existence.

Filthy leaver

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

Snazzy Frocks posted:

does subscriber income (or whatever $$ that goes into video production) show up on funding charts?

I don't think so, but maybe? They've always claimed that the sub money goes to videos only. I never believed that though.

I once tried to do a rough count of subscribers on the forums to try an figure out how much money they're getting from that. I didn't get far. There's a lot of them.

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

Bullshit. This is probably another "we tried guys, look at what we did to try" making of video, judging by the ridiculous video camera in there.

It'll air around Citizen con after the PowerPoint presentation.

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

Sappo569 posted:

I'm the code on the monitor instead of any actual gameplay

'Mr. Roberts sir this ... this is the blocker i talked about'

EVERYONE OUT ! except you camera man , I want the world to see how a real leader addresses his failed subordinates

*begins mopping a floor*

Do you see this? This is Motion cap- don't you loving move, cameraman! This is art! loving art! I'm saving pc gaming! Fix your loving child's play programming bugs! The get out of the way for real game production to continue!

Danknificent
Nov 20, 2015

Jinkies! Looks like we've got a mystery on our hands.

hot balls man no homo posted:

The great thing about shills though is that they'll keep their mouths shut. Nobody will hire a shill company that will sell you out to the government or to your own customers. They get paid in advance and as long as the check clears you will get pro tier shill services.

Though it doesn't contribute meaningfully to the discourse here, I'm going to throw out the potentially controversial opinion that CIG's shills are not in fact pro tier.

Trilobite
Aug 15, 2001

Sappo569 posted:

I'm the code on the monitor instead of any actual gameplay

'Mr. Roberts sir this ... this is the blocker i talked about'

EVERYONE OUT ! except you camera man , I want the world to see how a real leader addresses his failed subordinates
We already know Chris Roberts doesn't send everyone else out of the room before berating a subordinate; or at least we can assume that he wouldn't send anyone out of the room, based on the reports that he regularly tears into employees on conference calls in front of the rest of the team.

When you're an expert manager and visionary developer, you know that the best way to lead is through fear. Fear will keep the little coders in line. Fear will make them ask fewer impertinent questions. Fear will make them spend less time telling you why the game isn't working and more time listening to you when you yell at them to MAKE it work.

Trammel
Dec 31, 2007
.

If that's their daily stand-up, they're doing it wrong.

kw0134
Apr 19, 2003

I buy feet pics🍆

The ridiculousness of sending out all these tweets of showing people showing something in a meeting ought make the scam obvious but it doesn't. I've never seen any game ("game") in development where so much is spent explicating so little. Like, shut the gently caress up about having a meeting or whatever and show us the loving game. Show what brand new gameplay you've implemented. Show us a game mechanic that is working. Show us something cool that someone in a current game build can do. Any other game the backers would be saying why are the devs bothering them with such trivial bullshit. No one gives a poo poo that you had a meeting! I had a meeting! Most of corporate America had a meeting this morning too! No one cares, not the participants, not the principals, sure as hell not the customer.

Yet people lap this up. It's amazing.

TheAgent
Feb 16, 2002

The call is coming from inside Dr. House
Grimey Drawer

Trilobite posted:

Fear will keep the little coders in line.
the tighter crobberts fist, the more they'll noclip through his fingers

TheAgent
Feb 16, 2002

The call is coming from inside Dr. House
Grimey Drawer

kw0134 posted:

The ridiculousness of sending out all these tweets of showing people showing something in a meeting ought make the scam obvious but it doesn't. I've never seen any game ("game") in development where so much is spent explicating so little. Like, shut the gently caress up about having a meeting or whatever and show us the loving game. Show what brand new gameplay you've implemented. Show us a game mechanic that is working. Show us something cool that someone in a current game build can do. Any other game the backers would be saying why are the devs bothering them with such trivial bullshit. No one gives a poo poo that you had a meeting! I had a meeting! Most of corporate America had a meeting this morning too! No one cares, not the participants, not the principals, sure as hell not the customer.

Yet people lap this up. It's amazing.

this morning I had three 8k digital film cameras recording as I had a conference call about a tab in excel no one could understand, and that's because the 73 year old exec that created it deleted the fields instead of hiding them

this was then put on Twitter as "Spreadsheet development refactoring in progress" and we all took off early for lunch

benzine
Oct 21, 2010

Barcley posted:

Got my refund today from kick starting this thing in 2012! Gonna spend it on games that are actually in existence.

Try pubg, an early access game that works

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

Hmm I had an email in my inbox from the elite dangerous guys , they want me to play it on ps4 as well

How is that possible , they managed to make a complete game for pc , include what is probably one of the most immersive vr experiences ... and now it's on console too ?

Is crobberts taking notes ?

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

kw0134 posted:

The ridiculousness of sending out all these tweets of showing people showing something in a meeting ought make the scam obvious but it doesn't. I've never seen any game ("game") in development where so much is spent explicating so little. Like, shut the gently caress up about having a meeting or whatever and show us the loving game. Show what brand new gameplay you've implemented. Show us a game mechanic that is working. Show us something cool that someone in a current game build can do. Any other game the backers would be saying why are the devs bothering them with such trivial bullshit. No one gives a poo poo that you had a meeting! I had a meeting! Most of corporate America had a meeting this morning too! No one cares, not the participants, not the principals, sure as hell not the customer.

Yet people lap this up. It's amazing.
It's of a piece with their previous marketing strategy, which was endless hours of youtube shows, week after week after week, with no news and nothing to announce or demonstrate or discuss. Here's an hour of Ben and Sandi awkwardly trading non-sequiturs for 59 minutes, with the only paydirt being Ben hinting that the next concept ship will be a fighter that also carries cargo, or maybe not.

Hours and hours of this poo poo, burning through backer money, with sets and a production staff and credits and everything, to announce nothing, for months on end. Utterly baffling

TheAgent
Feb 16, 2002

The call is coming from inside Dr. House
Grimey Drawer

Sappo569 posted:

Hmm I had an email in my inbox from the elite dangerous guys , they want me to play it on ps4 as well

How is that possible , they managed to make a complete game for pc , include what is probably one of the most immersive vr experiences ... and now it's on console too ?

Is crobberts taking notes ?
my experience with elite on pc and ps4 are basically the same:

loving poo poo gently caress turn no land no loving poo poo landing gear no tilt wait vertical thrust gently caress I mean to forward poo poo *accidentally deploys hardpoints and shoots the space station*

tooterfish
Jul 13, 2013

That's normal.

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

TheAgent posted:

my experience with elite on pc and ps4 are basically the same:

loving poo poo gently caress turn no land no loving poo poo landing gear no tilt wait vertical thrust gently caress I mean to forward poo poo *accidentally deploys hardpoints and shoots the space station*

You clearly aren't playing the PC version correctly.



I don't regret spending the money one bit.

Ashye
Jul 29, 2013

Sappo569 posted:

Hmm I had an email in my inbox from the elite dangerous guys , they want me to play it on ps4 as well

How is that possible , they managed to make a complete game for pc , include what is probably one of the most immersive vr experiences ... and now it's on console too ?

Is crobberts taking notes ?

Its got no space legs. That immediately and totally makes it a failure and utter garbage. silly goony

TheAgent
Feb 16, 2002

The call is coming from inside Dr. House
Grimey Drawer

MarcusSA posted:

You clearly aren't playing the PC version correctly.



I don't regret spending the money one bit.
sorry I'm only 14 so I have no idea what that is...some kind of sex toy???

One in the Bum
Apr 25, 2014

Hair Elf

MarcusSA posted:

You clearly aren't playing the PC version correctly.



I don't regret spending the money one bit.

That's a great jpg for flying your spaceship jpgs in star citizen

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

Mad Catz...going down together.

Beet Wagon
Oct 19, 2015





TheAgent posted:

lol at that cameraman shooting directly at crobers

I guess instead of giving 3.0 to the evocati this week, they'll just throw up a video about 3.0 on friday with a special note from christ roberts about how hard video game development is and boy are they trying hard but 3.0 will be super soon and actually we do need money so pledge a lot loving more, he's another concept sale for a 100+ person ship that will be out sometime in 2024

Lol they're already filming the "sorry we couldn't show you poo poo at gamescom/citcon" video

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

No that has to be for the making of

Which I actually thought Sandi tweeted them having wrapped up ages ago

This is the final push. All cylinders are running. Chris is at the helm steering the final stretch to 3.0 and everyone having restored faith , the praise will be flowing just you wait

They want to capture all thoseong grueling hours and tireless nights spent coding

Of course none of that will feature Chris since he has a strict bed time of 6pm , Sandis orders or he gets cranky

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

kw0134 posted:

The ridiculousness of sending out all these tweets of showing people showing something in a meeting ought make the scam obvious but it doesn't. I've never seen any game ("game") in development where so much is spent explicating so little. Like, shut the gently caress up about having a meeting or whatever and show us the loving game. Show what brand new gameplay you've implemented. Show us a game mechanic that is working. Show us something cool that someone in a current game build can do. Any other game the backers would be saying why are the devs bothering them with such trivial bullshit. No one gives a poo poo that you had a meeting! I had a meeting! Most of corporate America had a meeting this morning too! No one cares, not the participants, not the principals, sure as hell not the customer.

Yet people lap this up. It's amazing.

They spend more money keeping up the facade of making a game instead of actually doing it and showing tangible proof of progress.

I guess the question is: why are they pretending to make a game, when they have enough money to build one for real?

I know the answer is 42 though. Not because it's ripped off from another iconic franchise, but because it's just genuinely Sandi's favorite number. :)

Heath
Apr 30, 2008

🍂🎃🏞️💦

hot balls man no homo posted:

It's probably the same as my daily 3.0 which is a number 2.0 and a number 1.0 after I finish my morning coffee. At least the results are the same.

Not quite, yours actually produced something

Toops
Nov 5, 2015

-find mood stabilizers
-also,

MarcusSA posted:

You clearly aren't playing the PC version correctly.



I don't regret spending the money one bit.

TheAgent posted:

sorry I'm only 14 so I have no idea what that is...some kind of sex toy???

You haven't truly flown a fake spaceship until you've flown one with a "Thrustmaster" up your rear end.

Toops fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Jun 28, 2017

Reuben Sandwich
Jan 27, 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1owcncKCHg

Every picture of every meeting I just see this over and over.

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

FMguru posted:

It's of a piece with their previous marketing strategy, which was endless hours of youtube shows, week after week after week, with no news and nothing to announce or demonstrate or discuss. Here's an hour of Ben and Sandi awkwardly trading non-sequiturs for 59 minutes, with the only paydirt being Ben hinting that the next concept ship will be a fighter that also carries cargo, or maybe not.

Hours and hours of this poo poo, burning through backer money, with sets and a production staff and credits and everything, to announce nothing, for months on end. Utterly baffling

And now with proof CIG is in genuine financial distress, the reality that the commercial release of Star Citizen as pretty much what it is currently has to be dawning on people.

All the dreams. All those promises. At least you can be assured of one thing after it shuts down:

You helped a used car salesman, a lying porn actress, a porno movie lawyer, and one Lego game making video game director become filthy rich multi millionaires. :)

I'm so proud of you guys. Look at what you got to be a part of! :3:

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

The Titanic posted:

And now with proof CIG is in genuine financial distress, the reality that the commercial release of Star Citizen as pretty much what it is currently has to be dawning on people.

All the dreams. All those promises. At least you can be assured of one thing after it shuts down:

You helped a used car salesman, a lying porn actress, a porno movie lawyer, and one Lego game making video game director become filthy rich multi millionaires. :)

I'm so proud of you guys. Look at what you got to be a part of! :3:

And a creepy stalker who literally fetishizes his boss

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler

The Titanic posted:

And now with proof CIG is in genuine financial distress, the reality that the commercial release of Star Citizen as pretty much what it is currently has to be dawning on people.

All the dreams. All those promises. At least you can be assured of one thing after it shuts down:

You helped a used car salesman, a lying porn actress, a porno movie lawyer, and one Lego game making video game director become filthy rich multi millionaires. :)

I'm so proud of you guys. Look at what you got to be a part of! :3:

To be fair, no one said whose dreams they would be creating. Under that metric, the backers are successful, even if no game ever is released.

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

The Titanic posted:

They spend more money keeping up the facade of making a game instead of actually doing it and showing tangible proof of progress.

I guess the question is: why are they pretending to make a game, when they have enough money to build one for real?

I know the answer is 42 though. Not because it's ripped off from another iconic franchise, but because it's just genuinely Sandi's favorite number. :)

Just imagine how much they pay the videographers to capture every moment if Chris's genius

vyst
Aug 25, 2009



I will be forever grateful to madcatz for making the best peripheral for my sweaty goon hands which was the xbox controller that had fans in the grips.

Toops
Nov 5, 2015

-find mood stabilizers
-also,

The Titanic posted:

And now with proof CIG is in genuine financial distress, the reality that the commercial release of Star Citizen as pretty much what it is currently has to be dawning on people.

Wrong. You people continue to misunderstand their mastery of repression, denial, and the unblemished rejection of rational thought.

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The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

Sappo569 posted:

And a creepy stalker who literally fetishizes his boss

I have a feeling when the millions were going around Ben was happy just to receive some Wing Commander promotional junk. He's probably well off, but not set nicely.

Good luck finding that next job buddy. :)

Be sure to include links to your comedy webpage to show how much of a master of comedy you are, and links to the community you literally had grown so toxic the company had to remove it from the Internet. :)

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