SoftNum posted:

Just to dwell on doorgate some more... I think there's at least 2 (sets of) doors?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBJ4RfkEPok

CrazyTolradi posted:

CIG LA just reminds me of the shitshow that was the Ion Storm office in Dallas, it just oozed that same level of over the top crap.

SoftNum posted:

Just to dwell on doorgate some more... I think there's at least 2 (sets of) doors?

Dementropy posted:

CrazyTolradi posted:

CIG LA just reminds me of the shitshow that was the Ion Storm office in Dallas, it just oozed that same level of over the top crap.

Daztek posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPbXOHZW8co

Tiny spaceships!

Legal posted:

I mean he is correct. The door itself is not the expensive part of an automatic, security controlled, sliding door installation.

intardnation posted:

I see it as lemmings following them off

Hav posted:

He was a national treasure.


Bad news, you're on Kazoo.

Edit: \m/

Thoatse posted:

Small point, but Lemmings don't actually do that, the Disney film crew that made that 'documentary' threw and chased them cliffs and staged all the shots


https://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.asp

his nibs posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKo8rHOvkcs&t=61s

Daztek posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPbXOHZW8co

Tiny spaceships!

Hav posted:

While I admire the choice of track; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC65ufGUvKM

SPERMCUBE.ORG posted:

That it was a fraud just makes the comparison even more apt.

SomethingJones posted:

Godspeed Mark E Smith you beautiful crazy bastard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuKXYeRCUzI

G0RF posted:

I may be more fascinated by this than anyone here so apologies in advance to anyone who finds this boring overkill. But FWIW, there's an interesting wrinkle in the Star Citizen stream-o-verse.

YOUTUBE: Dan Gheesling explains why he's cutting back on Star Citizen gameplay

He's put out 400+ videos of Star Citizen gameplay over the years, and anyone who has ever watched one knows he's the real deal non-shill space game nerd. I genuinely enjoy watching his goofy runarounds in the PU because the guy brings his own fun. I've laughed really hard at several of them just for his little recurring routines "e-grejus", "sliding into the DMs", "the official gold wheezy of the WHP", "let's goooooooooh", "butter server", etc and I was wrong to let the fleet whale disdain for the guy bias me harshly against him.

Anyway, in his update he states that with 3.0's launch, he feels like he's exhausted the available entertainment. He notes that the added scale of the 'verse reduces his likelihood for contact and without people to interact with, the place is pretty fun free. Interestingly, despite how much SC content he's added to his channel since 3.0's launch, he states that he's burned a lot of play sessions without bothering to upload them. There just wasn't enough there to be enjoyable viewing.

He gives additional meta about his channel engagement numbers between 2016 and 2017, and states his surprise at discovering the growth just wasn't there, and that Star Citizen videos -- which used to outperform -- have seen declining viewerships on the whole. He got some big pops with 3.0 content here and there, but on balance, it's underperforming, particularly when he spends a lot of time on gameplay he deems to boring to use. That time could be spend on other games with better gameplay and more viewer engagement potential.

So, he's reducing his Star Citizen content to twice a week. He's got nothing bad to say about the game, earnestly still has hopes for it down the road, but there's just not a lot of Fun to be found yet.

One commenter captures his own take on the decline:


I get the feeling in hindsight that Dan had already started mulling the cutback a little while ago. He was extremely curious what DevilDog's take was on haters, on the game itself, and in hindsight, it kinda seems like he's seen the numbers declining, the skepticism growing, the glacial pace of progress and is trying to figure out what, if anything, it all means. Good question, man. Keep asking.

This is just an additional random data point, a loyal streamer seeing declining interest in the game. But as we look back to the miraculous year-end revenue spikes that helped keep the narrative of stable growth and demand alive, we have yet to see any validation of external organic demand for the game. Saturation of the "hard core space sim buggy pre-alpha market" feels pretty real, and the one CIG-controlled demand barometer -- the funds tracker -- is just not convincing in light of receding interest, player disengagement and skepticism obvious elsewhere.

-- If the tracker is capturing real transactions, then the question is how much is organic market demand and how much manipulation by parties with a vested interest in protecting an implausible narrative of sustained demand. That the tracker is allegedly going away quite soon is curious and begs its own questions. Why remove this when its proven useful in sustaining confidence? What is lost by the change is obvious, but what is gained exactly is unclear.

Wiz posted:

Our Jenkins server makes hundreds of builds just for Stellaris every day (a handful of full nightly playable builds, and lots of smaller builds to test that stuff works). 15 builds a day really isn't much to brag about.

Scruffpuff posted:

There are so many vectors converging on that single point in time known as the Collapse of Star Citizen that it's nearly impossible to track them all, but here you touch on two of them:

1) The game is already boring, and it's already old. People are tired of Star Citizen. No matter what they try to add, it will be the same non-game generic garbage (non-game generic high-fidelity garbage to be sure) and the game is already doomed to the scrapheap, regardless of completion status. Just not enough people give a gently caress. I'd compare it to Second Life, a game so niche and so insular that I have to check Wikipedia every few years to find out if it's still a thing. Star Citizen is consigned to the same fate at best. There's just no remaining interest in this title outside of the people who are already enslaved by it.

2) Related to above, too many excellent, functional, infinitely superior space games for those players who might have been interested in what Star Citizen promised, if only Star Citizen hadn't simultaneously promised everything and nothing at the same time. "You can be a space farmer!" "Cool, how?" "Buy this module!" "How does it work?" "No idea. Buy it." Star Citizen would be poo poo if it existed in a vacuum - but in a crowded market, it's an industry-wide joke, poised to become an even better-known joke far outside the industry.

I can't possibly stress this enough, and the evidence backing this assertion is literally everywhere - in every CIG broadcast, in every fan stream, in every screenshot: Star Citizen is not a game in development. There is literally not even the basic starting building blocks of a game or a plan for a game. Star Citizen has nothing but graphical assets and motion capture. We're 6 years in and nobody on the planet, least of all at CIG, knows what this game is.

Ghostlight posted:

You say that, but do the Stellaris builds include an ungodly nightmare dimension where flesh is broken and reborn in a scornful mockery of god's intent?

You're bragging about stamping little coloured squares on a Rubik's cube while those brave souls are twisting the very fabric of code into Lemarchand boxes.

AbsoluteLlama posted:

The best space game to come out in the last few years has been Enemy StarfighterHouse of the Dying Sun. By loving far. And it's a single player hyper-focused ww2-in-space shoot mans game. One guy afaik did that and the flight model is actually fun, and it even has loving VR support. How can 5 studios working 24/7 not get anything to work at all (of course we all know it's because you gotta make that pixel green). Apart from HotDS I think the last great space game was probably... TIE Fighter? Yeah the CD version with the dynamic MIDI tracks...

AbsoluteLlama posted:

That's the best part about Star Citizen. Even if it's not a scam it's just not a fun game. It looks fidelitous sure, but it just looks boring. The flight model is atrocious. You'd think that'd be the first loving thing you'd iron out in a loving space game. Even if all that worked the whole concept of an open-world space game is just boring (look at E:D. I play it maybe a few hours a quarter and only because I have an HMD and the sound/flight model/juice is loving amazing). Freelancer is only decent because it's modifiable and you can play with your friends but that even gets boring after a few hours. Evochron is probably the closest to Freelancer of recent games and suffers from the same problems. EVE is for masochists (I played for 6 years so I can comment...). Star Citizen finally made me rethink my nostalgia for large space sims and honestly I just think the genre itself doesn't have much to offer in terms of fun.

The best space game to come out in the last few years has been Enemy StarfighterHouse of the Dying Sun. By loving far. And it's a single player hyper-focused ww2-in-space shoot mans game. One guy afaik did that and the flight model is actually fun, and it even has loving VR support. How can 5 studios working 24/7 not get anything to work at all (of course we all know it's because you gotta make that pixel green). Apart from HotDS I think the last great space game was probably... TIE Fighter? Yeah the CD version with the dynamic MIDI tracks...

Mirificus posted:

Raskolnikov posted:

Event Horizon faction please.

AP posted:

quote:

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AP posted:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/221947723?t=16m22s