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Sunswipe posted:Is that a genuine Sandi quote, or have I lost the ability to tell fact from fiction? From the Beer emails, recounted in Kotaku UK’s translation of the Level Magazine story about the fued between Smart and Roberts. quote:The series of emails exchanged between Kevin and various Cloud Imperium staff members make for astonishing reading, to the extent that he has been accused of fabricating them by other Star Citizen forum members. Having seen the emails in question, though — Kevin was happy to forward them to me — I see no reason to believe that they aren’t real. It should also be noted that Cloud Imperium Games has not denied their existence, even on direct questioning. “Who doesn’t ’silence doubters’?” writes Sandi Gardiner, marketing chief. “I’m a qualified teacher, I can’t have rowdy teenagers in the class constantly disrupting the class, nothing gets done nor moves forward.” The emails lay into Kevin, into the press (including allegations of corruption), into RSI’s forum members and the game’s backers (calling them “butthurt” and “special snowflakes”), alongside an impassioned defence of the Star Citizen project and of Chris Roberts himself. And at the end of it all, finally, Kevin had a reason for his ban:
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Sample_text posted:Technically, the poop-stool is the best thing connected to Star Citizen to come out this year.   
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Neltharak posted:I swear this thread has made me really interested in learning Unity to make a parody game. Can't believe this is over two years old now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE4bOmp33nI
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Sample_text posted:Also, in the interest of fair representation, I'm sure not all these people are crazies. Montoya is a youtube shill trying desperately to drum up controversy for his channel. So is that GamerMax dude . Bored is a straight up CIG shill who will never read off-script even to save his life. Montoya is a standout offender because he’s got this White Knight Alpha Dude Schtick he’s stuck so blindly to that he’s put himself repeatedly on the wrong side of a debate. Heaven help him if Crytek doesn’t get Cry-Rekt by Judge Gee and that notion to dismiss gets denied. I don’t see how that could happen when stuff like this is out in the open. (Oopsie!) But he does at least have his Test Squadron Best Squadron gang, and surely some are still primed and ready for Chris to save PC Gaming. Bored is an unapologetic optimist but even he had vented on occasion, often about what he calls CIG’s “stupid marketing poo poo”. The Foundry UK Dev team he’s friendly with knows CIG’s marketing leadership is a farce and source of so much grief. I suspect Bored has heard his share of frustrations and since he’s a valuable resource for CIG, he feels free to take some shots. Also to Bored’s credit, he is critical of CIG censorship and overmoderation and feels like all ideas and opinions deserve a hearing, not just the theorycrafters and ship porn addicts. As for GamerMax, well yeah. I think he went Heretic out of frustration and has been trying to plead and vent his way back to good standing with a shrinking audience that is spoiled for choice when it comes to Star Citizen Personalities to watch. Low signal, a lot of noise and not much to say makes for a hard sell.
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G0RF posted:Montoya is a standout offender because he’s got this White Knight Alpha Dude Schtick he’s stuck so blindly to that he’s put himself repeatedly on the wrong side of a debate. Heaven help him if Crytek doesn’t get Cry-Rekt by Judge Gee and that notion to dismiss gets denied. I don’t see how that could happen when stuff like this is out in the open. (Oopsie!) But he does at least have his Test Squadron Best Squadron gang, and surely some are still primed and ready for Chris to save PC Gaming. What I find interesting isn't the hardcore shills, it's how guys like Bad News Baron and Dolvak are reacting to this kind of thing: https://twitter.com/PapaDolvak/status/993247213408137216
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Beet Wagon posted:What I find interesting isn't the hardcore shills, it's how guys like Bad News Baron and Dolvak are reacting to this kind of thing: 
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Colostomy Bag posted:Christ, that makes the Stimpire text an easy read. at least the stimperor believes in paragraph breaks
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Imagine a game where you grow old and as you do so the text in the game ever so gradually gets blurrier and blurrier. This is every game I own!!!
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https://twitter.com/PeterMolydeux/status/976423265890635776quote:Imagine a ....... wait , could we actually do that?
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Was the fourth stimpire a way to somehow indulge in his fetish or did he actually think that was good sci fi? I can't tell which is worse.
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imagine a pixel that's blue wouldn't it be better if it was... green
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G0RF posted:From the Beer emails, recounted in Kotaku UK’s translation of the Level Magazine story about the fued between Smart and Roberts. Of course it loving is. If anyone can be bothered, you could probably make a fun little "who said this" game, where the player guesses if a quote is from Sandi Gardiner or Gul Dukat.
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Neltharak posted:Was the fourth stimpire a way to somehow indulge in his fetish or did he actually think that was good sci fi? I can't tell which is worse. 
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It's been a long time, but wasn't his plan to write further tales set in the various Stimpires?
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In the sixth stimpire everybody is forced to play star citizen 24/7, while listening to anime songs
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Dooguk posted:Imagine a game where you grow old and as you do so the text in the game ever so gradually gets blurrier and blurrier. I play this game every day. Thanks go to being 40 with an astigmatism in one eye.
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trucutru posted:In the sixth stimpire everybody is forced to play star citizen 24/7, while listening to anime songs Bring back the fourth! BRING BACK THE FOURTH!
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Beet Wagon posted:What I find interesting isn't the hardcore shills, it's how guys like Bad News Baron and Dolvak are reacting to this kind of thing: Mitauchi proposed cutting the baby in half by telling backers “you can Melt until September then it’s gone”. Even though he knows it would cause its own huge uproar and that would suck massively. I think he also called introduction of the Melting option the biggest mistake CIG ever made because now backers consider it their right. Now, in light of all the various meltdowns underway, against the backdrop of all the various proposed angles to cut the Solomonic Baby born of CIG Marketing Wisdom in half, now picture what happens when the “Ship Earning for credits” feature that was once touted as a 3.0 feature and is still believed by guys like Twerk to be right around the corner actually disappears from view for the rest of the year. They can’t do it, and the reasons they can’t arent technical, they’re financial. And obviously so. There is no way, no how that CIG isn’t already neck deep in development on some new transgressive monetization pathway forward. They have to be. We are going to get something at CitizenCon, some glorious debut of THE THING. You can feel it shaking the ground as it lumbers slowly forward. What will it be, this THING Chris has cooked up to ensure something resembling continuity for yet another year? What transgression, what betrayal is he already cooking up? Because everyone senses it coming. What has he already tasked Hannes and the Gang to introduce with glorious cinematics in this years equivalent of this perfumed fart in the backers faces from the very same show that gave us:
I’m not asking this rhetorically. I really am curious what the thread thinks THE THING will be. Squadron itself is kind of a thing but the Crytek case is a big sword hanging over that potential revenue source and core tech like combat AI (especially FPS) seems very, very far away... The pragmatic option involves more and bigger paid subscriptions. If they can get whales on a fixed monthly credit card hit that bigger than just the usual subs, or force everyone to a low cost “justifiable” subscription, then they’ll have a bigger, easier source of monthly recurring not dependent on an Asset pipeline that Chris clogs like the world’s biggest bowel movement, one that lets things pass by soooooo very slowly because “art.” So subscriptions are far more compelling economically. So would they target whales with the higher cost monthlies or a bigger base with a marginal one? Real Estate structures already have a precedent with Land Claims. So they could start selling various tiers of housing once the Protection Racket Mechanic actually functions as advertised. But here too, subscription could theoretically be an option. “Rental property” could let you enjoy an Admiral’s View of the sunset for a modest ($x) a month. “Why spend the full ($Y00.00) when you could rent it for that and not even have maintenance costs!” Until they have someTHING that isn’t ships pulling in meaningful monthly revenues, they can’t deliver the overdue “earn credits and buy your ships” feature that they absolutely must deliver. The form it will assume is unknowable but that it is surely coming is inevitable.
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I think THE THING will be ramps that don't instakill, $100 fresh cash only. But on a serious note, subscription hikes would only cause anger and certainly not something to unveil at a CitCon. I'm thinking they will have more bullshots of a planet with living cities and then they will swing over an ocean, at which time the next concept will reveal itself, a submarine.
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THE THING this year will be a Star Citizen branded 3D printer that will print out a bust of your horribly distorted visage from Face over IP. Now you can have a permanent keepsake of that time Miles Eckhart told you to fly somewhere and pick up a box!
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G0RF, you are a treasure. Scanning the thread, I always pause at your posts, knowing I'm in for a time of reading, digesting, and thinking. Now you've got me convinced that there will be a THING, and I can't wait to see it. But couldn't it just be more of the same stupid crap instead?
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G0RF posted:
Honestly you probably just did crobbler's thinking for him. This year the thing will be The Thing! Some parka clad explorers out in their snow treaded notMako will unintentionally collect/release an alien specimen that shape shifts and wipes them out. Basically they're gonna remake this Zombie Zombie video in Star Citizer machima on notHoth and throw in some commercials to sell new ice/snow vehicles and gear, fresh cash only!!1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT7AH4JyuNs
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skaboomizzy posted:THE THING this year will be a Star Citizen branded 3D printer that will print out a bust of your horribly distorted visage from Face over IP. Now you can have a permanent keepsake of that time Miles Eckhart told you to fly somewhere and pick up a box! Or maybe the time when you try to get into your chariot and then teleport into the middle of the gas giant. Or even the look of rage when you've just spent 3 hours flying to and from an outpost for a mission, only to have the cargo box glitch at the last moment and then the game crashing. In short, I like your idea.
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Is it crazy to think that maybe they've whipped up some fake land combat demo/video/power point slides? How hard would it be to create a sand worm-style fake demo anyway? They had the tank concept not too long ago and now have a dropship/bomber, so I'm guessing that large land combat fantasies will be the next big whale milking initiative. Gotta protect your land claims somehow... 
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