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CrazyLoon posted:I miss BettysBigTits. A girl that was so minded could easily drain all the whales of their money before they give it to CIG. Heck, I'm p sure it'd be better spent that way too. Best marketer ever since she was a little girl.  
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boviscopophobic posted:This is the number of "citizens", which CIG likes to imply is the same as the number of paying customers (it is not). There is no recent public information on the number of customers; Turbulent gave a statement a while ago that implied the ratio of UEE Citizens to backers was in the neighborhood of 2:1. I would surmise that the ratio is somewhat more skewed than that now. There is also reason to believe that most of the project's publicly stated funding, if the picture of reality implied by the tracker is anywhere close to accurate, comes from a very small core of mega-whales. Mega-whales and manipulations make far more sense than organic demand. To play the game is to but endure the game at this point, and this in spite of assurances throughout 2017 that 3.0 would be more polished and less buggy than their usual updates as Chris expected a big influx of new and returning players on the heels of launch. It didn’t happen. I mean it’s easy at this point to take the trainwreckiness of things for granted but sometimes it still hits me anew. They kicked off the 2016 fundraising season with 3.0 hype at Gamescom 2016 with a December target launch. After a half year delay they announced a massive downsizing of 3.0 to release in June. Then delays hit the downsized 3.0 and we got Burndown and assurances that Micro 3.0 was taking longer due to polish and bugfixing. Then as the fundraising season approached its 2017 zenith, they had no choice but to push buggy, unpolished, year late Micro 3.0 to the PTU. To postpone it would’ve been too big a dampener on backer confidence and they’d already absorbed too many blows throughout 2017. The release of 3.0 was at one time longed for as triumph, validation, and vindication yet the end of 2017 sees it unambiguously pushed out in desperation. And as all this transpired, both media and general gaming public sentiment just grew increasingly skeptical, refunds grew and the faithful legalized dissent on /SC. In the midst of all of that, they took on a payday loan that put their single player IP as collateral and got hit with a surprisingly comprehensive lawsuit backed by a legit scary lawfirm. And this all just what we know about. CIG ended the year with so many self-inflicted wounds, with Chris Roberts holding the blade the vast majority of the time. As usual. The time to start building bridges to span from the enthusiast early backers and whales to the more mainstream pc gaming public passed some time ago, and rather than building bridges, CIG in their infinite wisdom erected the walls of echo chambers. The development missteps were matched foot for foot by the Marketing and Community Management ones. They haven’t done everything wrong (there are some nice moments and little victories here and there), but they haven’t done the big things right and those looking at CIG from inside and from out can feel it. And having not done so, where can the enduring new demand really come from but from the unhealthiest of sources?
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alphabettitouretti posted:Pages 1-20 are a guide to opening the main menu. 
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Raskolnikov posted:Best marketer ever since she was a little girl. gray cats best cats
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:spoiler alert, the game won't get better unless star citizen releases and attracts all the forumdads who want space trucking so they stop voting for immersion timers and other similar bullshit whenever the topic comes up Yes Caught up with some of the thread dot loving gif This and Kayak in the ocean best posts
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Pacer update... https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/23222744/Crytek_GmbH_v_Cloud_Imperium_Games_Corp_et_al
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Please tell me they've added Ortwin's post to the complaint. CIG has a day to file their 'No, you!'
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Hah, I misread Paracorp as Parpcorp. Interesting that Skadeen didn't submit proof of service until a day before an answer was due. They had executed service same day court issued the summons so they were putting rubber to the road.
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That's Skadden priming the pump for an application in default if CIG miss the deadline.
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PrimeNerd posted:Hah, I misread Paracorp as Parpcorp. Yeah, I suspect that's Skadden not laying out the playing field in one submission, probably to both mess with CIG and hiring their defense, and probably some preemptive corpse prep should CIG miss the deadline.
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As someone who has no idea how the judiciary system works tia. no_recall fucked around with this message at 10:32 on Jan 3, 2018 |
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no_recall posted:As someone who has no idea how the judiciary system works where's the "sandi-we're-hosed.gif" when you need it 
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tuo posted:where's the "sandi-we're-hosed.gif" when you need it I need a G0rf level type out and enjoy it word by word with my breakfast and coffee.
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boviscopophobic posted:This is the number of "citizens", which CIG likes to imply is the same as the number of paying customers (it is not). There is no recent public information on the number of customers; Turbulent gave a statement a while ago that implied the ratio of UEE Citizens to backers was in the neighborhood of 2:1. I would surmise that the ratio is somewhat more skewed than that now. There is also reason to believe that most of the project's publicly stated funding, if the picture of reality implied by the tracker is anywhere close to accurate, comes from a very small core of mega-whales. Hey man, could you please link again a few of the posts that show why most of the publicly stated funding comes from a few whales? I remember seen those posted around but cant remember where. Asking for a friend tia.
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Remember when chris said he wanted his FPS game to be "more lethal than COD"? oh how we laaauuughed.
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:Remember when chris said he wanted his FPS game to be "more lethal than COD"?
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Chris is trying to make Space ArmA the MMO. He’s hosed from the outset.
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CrazyTolradi posted:Let's imagine that SC FPS isn't a complete pile of poo poo and was playable to the same extent CoD is. Does "more lethal" basically mean one hit and you're hosed? Because that sounds boring as gently caress to me, but you can tell all these backers are like, "Yes, with our obsessive military knowledge we will be the winners this time!" which is great because they'd just get wiped up by the same CoD style players regardless. Yeah, it´s pure product differentiating marketing spiel aimed at driving unit sales. Except it is made on a dream and therefore anything goes, as opposed to an actual product you and I can test against the claim.
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The Titanic posted:I’d just buy 200 copies of Stellaris. How much time have you sunk into it?  Jonny Nox posted:So Steam put up their bestsellers list again. Divinity: Original Sin 2 is platinum tier 
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CrazyTolradi posted:Let's imagine that SC FPS isn't a complete pile of poo poo and was playable to the same extent CoD is. Does "more lethal" basically mean one hit and you're hosed? Because that sounds boring as gently caress to me, but you can tell all these backers are like, "Yes, with our obsessive military knowledge we will be the winners this time!" which is great because they'd just get wiped up by the same CoD style players regardless. Back in COD4 days I used to exclusively play on servers with 1 hit kill mechanics. It was a blast but very unforgiving. e. IIRC cod4 came with 3 game modes for persistent servers; normal, classic with quake style hitpoints and hardcore with near instadeath. NoNotTheMindProbe fucked around with this message at 11:58 on Jan 3, 2018 |
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Bofast posted:Divinity: Original Sin 2 is platinum tier Yeah, PC Gaming is obviously doomed. The best sellers containing a wide variety of genres and settings, and some of them from very small indie studios. Obviously doomed and in need of a hero to save PC Gaming from consoles and big bad publishers. Sigh. Imo, this is a golden age of gaming for anyone except people looking for the matrix or those desperately wanting to relive their first hit of gaming smack (which won't happen).
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SpaceCurtisLeMay posted:I think that assessment is accurate. Elite got a new EP last summer and within 6 months and one of the first new features for Beyond announced was an actual clan/guild system and wing missions with the big addition later this year being fleet carriers. Something that the forum dads and I think Brookes was adamant about never having in Elite. Nah, it's David Braben who doesn't like the way guilds behave he described them as acting like Mafioso in an interview before launch. Before getting super excited and theorycrafting about it you should remember that players will always have the choice of not logging into open, so ED guilds are unlikely to satisfy the galactic domination itch if it requires inflicting dominion over other players.
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Mr Fronts posted:Pacer update... Told ya CIG would do their best comedy option. I believe the colloquial term is I TOTALLY CALLED IT!
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Thirsty Dog posted:I read about the Intel CPU disaster and upcoming patches and the only bright spot was thinking about how fun it'll be to play Star Citizen with a CPU taking a 5-30% performance hit... What's this?
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Virtual Captain posted:"Original Summons NOT returned. NOTICE OF FILING PROOFS OF SERVICE RE COMPLAINT AND SUPPORTING INITIATING DOCUMENTS" so they didnt respond like at all then?
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Aeka 2.0 posted:What's this? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ quote:
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I mean, that would be small fry considering how much of modern corporate profit is based on leeching off of taxpayers who thought they were paying for functioning government. Elon Musk’s whole scam with SpaceX is based off chasing after taxpayer dollars instead of actual “free market” success.
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D_Smart posted:It is illegal to give money to mental patients. So. I have a doctors note so pay up please. It states I am goon and therefore not crazy. Pay up please.
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Ramadu posted:https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ From the comments section on that article: Deluded Shitizen posted:I'd be on Linux for gaming already if Star Citizen had a linux client.. Yes the game is miles from done but drat its' fun. 
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Thoatse posted:I especially dislike it in my vajeen Chris has a Sandi vigina. 
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Ramadu posted:https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ I think theyve done tests on linux and found that the fixes didnt affect gaming at all but who knows how microsoft will fix this poo poo. Cloud service servers are hosed though
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Virtual Captain posted:"Original Summons NOT returned. NOTICE OF FILING PROOFS OF SERVICE RE COMPLAINT AND SUPPORTING INITIATING DOCUMENTS" Your honor weve defaulted on this lawsuit but we have a good reason, we were on vacation you see. You got to understand game development
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Cao Ni Ma posted:I think theyve done tests on linux and found that the fixes didnt affect gaming at all but who knows how microsoft will fix this poo poo. Cloud service servers are hosed though But Crobberts said that cloud computing will make star citizen the bestest mmo space extravaganza ever 
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Fangrim posted:Haven't played ED for months, tried it on my nephew's Vive. Now I'm $600 poorer, got a Vive in my suitcase, and can't wait to get back home from chilly Houston to even colder Denmark in a couple days You should be fine, I played on a GTX980 for ages in VR with no issues.
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