The Titanic posted:

Can I... can I tell you a secret?

Hold on to your panties though because this is going to blow you away.

Are you ready?


Ok. Here we go:

The backers don’t actually play games.

They don’t even play Star Citizen when it iterates out.

The game they’re in is a meta social game, and they’re already playing it.

Star Citizen coming out would actually hurt the game they’re currently winning at and enjoying.

They won’t gravitate to another game because they don’t actually want to play the game.

What will eventually happen though is people will get bored. The ELE as it happens may just be the simple fact that they no longer want to spend money on lies. Once their buddies leave their discord’s, and the role play dries up, and there are too many holes in the lore, and the reality of the game solidifies, it comes apart.

I don’t have links to my blog, but I’ll say it again:

Star Citizen coming out and being developed will kill Star Citizen.

It’s fuel is the dreams and fantasies of 40-something’s who are fighting to rekindle a lost art they fondly recall from their youth. CR came in at almost the perfect time to capitalize on this midlife crisis group. Instead of buying their own Porsche’s they’re blowing their money on space ships.

The guys on reddit aren’t funding anything. They’ve already spent their meager amount of money and CIG can collect no more from them. Their defense also isn’t helping anything because the guys funding it ignore them too.

The mmo is happening right now. Once they win it, the money goes away. They won’t invest in another game either. This is the childhood memory game, and soon the midlife crisis will end.

As they get closer to leaving crisis, they’re going to want their money back, too. They’ll probably pay for lawyers as well because they have money to burn from successful and lucrative careers.

The other side of them are the people waiting for it to come out. 3.0 is “that turning point”. The group who isn’t role playing is waiting in the shadows for when their new Eve Online appears. They’ve been lead, oh so wrongly, to believe 3.0 is “that product”.

People are wondering “why stop refunds now? Why before unveiling 3.0 and their biggest achievement??? They’re spoiling their best, possibly last, big opportunity!!”

And I feel you’re only getting half the picture. The other half is what the evocati fuckers have, and are likely filling up their mail with problems. 3.0 is hosed, and it’s bad, and it looks like and plays like a joke of a game; not something a multinational company has been working on 24/7 for over 5 years.

This “stop the refunds now!” is a preemptive play to kill the silent majority of big money whales, waiting in the shadows, who have been paying all along, buying all the stuff, no doubt being fed lies about 3.0 in different methods of communication. Either special forums, private one on one email with their preferred employees, etc.

So really, there’s two fantasy groups who are huge benefactors who need to be stopped before they pull their money out.

1: The fantasy role players playing the game right now (and are almost done with it)

2: The silent majority led to believe 3.0 is where things get real and they can join in to the huge Eve-like mmo universe with a custom character and awesome fleet

Both groups represent huge $$$. Both are about to tucker on out or get real pissed.

Anyhow that’s my hot take. I’m sending this scoop to pixelemonade right now!

intardnation posted:

Zane still there! Wow thought he would have been out.

SomethingJones posted:

Ricky Jutley (Senior Producer)
Yep, I think it's TUESDAYS basically, I think moving forward TUESDAYS will incorporate the live sync within the director's sync, and the PU will have to go first, and people obviously listen to that kind of stuff, and um, that will be the way that TUESDAYS has to kind of run

AP posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbjv_thchBo&t=106s

2010 QA tester on lego games > 2013 Lego games production > 2015 CIG Project Manager > 2017 CIG Senior Producer

tuo posted:

I made archered a Crobbler

AutismVaccine posted:

wth, he doesnt even move his hands

AutismVaccine posted:

wth, he doesnt even move his hands

Solarin posted:

tuo posted:

what what?

e: Ask Dennis, you're computer is borked

AP posted:

He's a senior producer because everyone else appears to be 14.

AutismVaccine posted:

WHAT IF STAR CITIZENS ARE 14yr OLDS?

Bofast posted:

Doesn't this qualify as anime? MODS?!?

intardnation posted:

but why pay all that money then to not get full completion? That would kinda bum me out.
But if the game is that good I guess you could kinda over look it but for me it is a no go.
I dont mind grind in mmos but not in single player $80 (Can) games.

Sunswipe posted:

Not quite. 14 is the age at which a girl ceases to be sexually attractive to a Star Citizen.

BloodyScab posted:

Chris is wearing two watches

AbstractNapper posted:

Is shopping and cargo "experience" the next important features that the avocados get to test in the upcoming pre-alpha patch 3.0 build (apparently at least a month from now)? How lucky are they, huh Chris?

I'm glad of it.

And gently caress Crobblz for wanting everyone else to see the big picture he is seeing. Evocati are not professional QA testers; they are people who want to play a game at some point and five years in are probably getting tired of that frame of bullshit promises with actual fun gameplay nowhere in sight.

ewe2 posted:

Well it ain't no kind of McDonalds Farm AH dun herd of!




* lyrics
* Four-part harmoneeeeeee
* Regulation parps and kazoos
* Dance with yer cat if ya got 'em (mine did not approve, be warned).
* brickwall compreshun an stuff

Wuxi posted:

Also Erin and Ben seem to have an inhouse competition about who can gain more weight

Hav posted:

Also, youse guys really need to look at entropy. Abstraction of time as a construct is fine, but chemical processes tend to run in a single direction, and thus far there's been no obvious reversal of entropy. Or some poo poo.

SomethingJones posted:

If anyone spots anything else needing transcribed just post, I'm not listening to any more of that poo poo right now

Observations:
CR looks ill
The devs are quite clearly past giving a gently caress, the way a couple of the UK guys look at each other when CR starts speaking absolute codshit over the skype is amazing
And the craziest thing is that the devs are all kids, when did that happen

Also the audio quality for the Chris and Sandi bits has gone to complete poo poo in these last couple of videos, the new sound guy sucks

D_Smart posted:

... like a whiny little bitch.

Wuxi posted:

Also Erin and Ben seem to have an inhouse competition about who can gain more weight

SomethingJones posted:

And the craziest thing is that the devs are all kids, when did that happen

alphabettitouretti posted:

New kickstarter: high concept sci-fi graphic novel about a time traveler who shows up at major historical events just to sit there and give disapproving looks.

ewe2 posted:

Well it ain't no kind of McDonalds Farm AH dun herd of!




* lyrics
* Four-part harmoneeeeeee
* Regulation parps and kazoos
* Dance with yer cat if ya got 'em (mine did not approve, be warned).
* brickwall compreshun an stuff