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Kellanved posted:Dear internet space ghost wandering cuntiflas, There has been maybe one refund since January. Currently what they do is tell you you are in queue and you are just waiting on the refund specialist to take a look at your case, which he never does because he doesn't exist. Of course because they haven't said that they aren't doing refunds and because what cig says is more important than what they actually do the cultists think everything is fine.
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AngryJoe with the "Secret Dev Build" that has a full universe in it, gently caress I forgot how funny that podcast was. The one dude in the back sort of pointlessly trying to say "Hey stop buying Chris Roberts Porsches..." lmao alphabettitouretti posted:Derek actually posted something interesting on twitter. I might have posted this before, but it never ceases to be funny to me that the Penny Arcade guys could change like two words in their Freelancer comic and have a perfectly reasonable Star Citizen comic  https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/12/06/peelancer Beet Wagon fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Jun 4, 2018 |
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MilesK posted:I would definitely watch Derek Smart's Development Hell The transcript is currently on Twitter and shows no signs of ending. No, wrong word, _abating_.
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alphabettitouretti posted:Perhaps his universe server was left over from this. Even his lies are Archered.
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His aura of bullshit is so powerful that he can repeat the same crap 15 years later and hoover up hundreds of millions of dollars in nerd cash, and idiots will defend him by pointing to the previous failed attempt as evidence of his abilities.
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PederP posted:Wow, he actually claimed that they *had* this running? To me that's actually significantly more damning than any broken promises, missed deadlines or unrealistic design ranting. It is of course wrong to mislead consumers about the future prospects of a product, but knowingly making a false claim about the current state of the product is entering fraud territory. I have changed slowly over time, but, in no particular order, they claimed to have completely working; 1) Flight model 2) Squadron 42 missions 3) Networking, no we haven't, yes we have, no, we haven't. 1600 people in an instance, remember 4) Doors. 5) Gas mixtures. That was a funny claim in the face of 4) occasionally wandering off. 6) Agent AI; this is the NPCs that give 'depth' The first claim that Crobblers made, that the game was effectively finished and the flight model was working was neatly bookended by the time he sat down to play in front of everyone and the thing crashed. A lot of dreams died that day. Colostomy Bag posted:To be honest, the development of this game leaves me flabbergasted. You're going to have to think up new things for your flabber to be.
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alphabettitouretti posted:Interview conducted May 2000, game released March 2003, sans Crobber. *squints* original concept (shared credit)
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Huh. I was unaware of that. I'll let it play in the background while I'm working for some mild amusement, I guess.
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Beet Wagon posted:I might have posted this before, but it never ceases to be funny to me that the Penny Arcade guys could change like two words in their Freelancer comic and have a perfectly reasonable Star Citizen comic  Works for me.
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Kosumo posted:Someone mentioned the Social Module earlier … what has happened with that? Should it not now be expanded and full with NPC A.I. going about there business? They are waiting on the female avatar modeling before releasing the social module. I kid, SC incels would rage and burn down CIG.
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AbstractNapper posted:I'm not sure how popular Angry Joe is these days Funny Story about Angry Joe; he previewed Sword of the Stars II just before it's contentious release to say how awesome it was, and that they'd really managed to pull something off that extended the original game. Suffice to say that if you weren't aware of the drama surrounding the release, Kerberos: 1) Released on a Friday, but the game was entirely broken. "We uploaded an old Beta", they claimed. 2) Updated on Monday, but it was equally as broken. Paradox promised to get to the bottom of things. 3) Kerberos released a mea culpa stating that they'd been forced to release the game early by Paradox, and they would 'pinkie swear' to complete the game 4) Paradox pointed out that they'd missed two deadlines and offered to honor any refund requests. 5) Kerberos then poo poo out the DLC they had planned after some half-hearted attempts to patch the game up, although it was missing entire mechanics. They abandoned it after a time and shat out 'The Pit' after Paradox wiped their hands of Kerberos. They've been attempting to leverage the 'lore' of 'Sword of the Stars' into a bunch of different little games, but they've never recovered. The AI in the game itself will usually bankrupt itself fairly early, so it's still entirely broken. Mecron (The notorious CEO of Kerberos) managed a bit of humility for a short while, but that soon dissipated. What I'm saying is that Angry Joe is just as much as a shill as everyone else, and in this case he was a Ben Lesnick. Interestingly, when you take a look at Kerberos, there's a really solid core, and everyone else. Lore and personality seem to go hand in hand.
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Nyast posted:Poor TotalBiscuit tried to play the devil's advocate and defend the game but made himself look like a fool when he said, and I quote directly: Its real sad that TB passed so young. Nobody deserves that. He was a decent guy. That said, he had a real problem with authority. He loved that his job got him fame and access to talk to developers directly, and so ate up whatever BS they sold him without any critical thinking whatsoever. He had lots of "the devs told me X and they wouldn't lie!" Moments. Remember simcity? How EA made it always online and said it was like a sim city mmo? TB was like "the devs told me the game uses other players data, there is NO way it could work offline!" Except we'd already analyzed the network traffic and proved that was total horseshit, but he denied and blocked anybody who said otherwise. The devs wouldn't lie!!! Then like 5 days later EA put out a huge "oops, we lied" blog post after somebody had patched the game to work offline just fine. And of course TB said nothing then, he'd moved on to other games you see. So he'd definitely be the sort to get hyped on CIG's fever dream of lies.
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Foo Diddley posted:You know what makes a great fashion accessory for when you're in freefall is something that will drift around everywhere getting tangled on you and everything around you The cape is made of Gravity Gooretex. Checkmate, cuntifla!
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Virtual Captain posted:Didn't he say something like "I'm naming him Gunnar because he's going to be my turret gunner I realize we've moved on to greener pastures but holy poo poo I just realized how deep this rabbit hole goes:  This is the same insane weirdo who was shilling his lovely "gaming bar" on /r/starcitizen and /r/mwo in like 2015.
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I said come in! posted:Is Elite Dangerous actually a good game? I've never played it but heard that it has a super steep learning curve so I avoided it. It's a space game so it's a bad game.
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Beet Wagon posted:I realize we've moved on to greener pastures but holy poo poo I just realized how deep this rabbit hole goes: What a coincidence to name your kid Gunnar, and be connected to Gunnar glasses and also talk about a gunner. It's like lightning struck three times in one place. Zzr posted:We can think that about Dr. Smart and still willing to be led by him. Being led, and following someone around to see if they smash their teeth out on a curb may *look* similar, but only one results in Goon hilarity.
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I went to a gaming bar/pub once, and was dreading it, as I thought it was going to be full of grade 10 turbonerds hollering obnoxiously, but it was just boring and over-priced.
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A quote from the future: "My dad named me after the biggest crowdfunding failure in history"
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Beet Wagon posted:I realize we've moved on to greener pastures but holy poo poo I just realized how deep this rabbit hole goes: Obnoxious Self Promotion.txt
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big nipples big life posted:A quote from the future: "My dad named me after the biggest crowdfunding failure in history" Gunnar is not an unusual name in Sweden, so he can excuse his parents' lack of feck via an alternate fact.
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BeigeJacket posted:I went to a gaming bar/pub once, and was dreading it, as I thought it was going to be full of grade 10 turbonerds hollering obnoxiously, but it was just boring and over-priced. I don't want to stare too deep into the doxxing abyss, lest the doxxing abyss stare back into me, but I remember posting screencaps of this dude shilling his bar in like 2016. He's had probably a dozen screen names since then and used to go by some variation of "Slumlord" and would get run out of /r/mwo and /r/starcitizen every couple months for advertising his shithole bar and bragging about how much money he had/how hot his wife was and how he was building a streamer house or something crazy like that  That he would end up being the same guy to name his kid after they eyeglass equivalent of Mountain Dew Game Fuel is both shocking and not shocking at all, actually.
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YOUTUBE: Top 4 most expensive virtual goods ever sold! Montoya is here to give you the long needed sense of proportion when expressing outrage about Macrotransactions. G0RF fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Jun 4, 2018 |
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Mu77ley posted:Actually, it's pretty much slap-bang in the middle of their 3 sales projections made before it was released. And client/server would be a terrible model to use for a game with such a large environment, as most people are never in the same location as each other anyway. Come on... you and I know no one believes their own P50 sales projections 
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Beet Wagon posted:I don't want to stare too deep into the doxxing abyss, lest the doxxing abyss stare back into me, but I remember posting screencaps of this dude shilling his bar in like 2016. He's had probably a dozen screen names since then and used to go by some variation of "Slumlord" and would get run out of /r/mwo and /r/starcitizen every couple months for advertising his shithole bar and bragging about how much money he had/how hot his wife was and how he was building a streamer house or something crazy like that he would mega brag about his "gaming center" that looked like a loving hovel and how his wife couldn't stop sucking his cock 24/7 dude is straight up human garbage
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Beet Wagon posted:Chris is just waiting for his simulated universe to get to the appropriate technology level to have really good CryEngine developers, so he can outsource some of his work. 
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Beet Wagon posted:I don't want to stare too deep into the doxxing abyss, lest the doxxing abyss stare back into me, but I remember posting screencaps of this dude shilling his bar in like 2016. He's had probably a dozen screen names since then and used to go by some variation of "Slumlord" and would get run out of /r/mwo and /r/starcitizen every couple months for advertising his shithole bar and bragging about how much money he had/how hot his wife was and how he was building a streamer house or something crazy like that Ah right, I thought you meant a retro game things with Golden Axe and Streetfighter cabs and so-on. Is that guys place a bunch of tricked out PCs for streaming? I've seen quite a few crowd-funding campaigns for places like this - some guy who wants to create his nerd fiefdom where he reigns as Supreme Potentate. 'Running a bar/restaurant is easy! Just hire a few staff, design the menu, bing-bing-bong' is quite a common delusion unfortunately. They never want to consider the insane, unsociable hours, ridiculously thin margins, fierce competition, better than average possibility of crushing debt.
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Zzr posted:It's a space game so it's a bad game. FTL is cool and good
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I said come in! posted:Is Elite Dangerous actually a good game? I've never played it but heard that it has a super steep learning curve so I avoided it. Its more like a sim. It looks fantastic and creates a believable space world where you can fly around and has more direct control than eve. But also like eve there's basically zero pve content so its up to the players to figure out what to do, but not enough mechanics to encourage that or make it very interesting. So as others have said, its impressive but... not really fun. Imagine EVE but you can actually pilot your ship and do barrel rolls. But also also there are no corps or player owned space like eve so nothing matters, even less so than in eve's nihilistic universe.
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Quavers posted:FTL is cool and good Yea Stellaris too. This guy is stupid just ignore him.
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Zzr posted:It's a space game so it's a bad game. XWING and TIE were space games and rule. But since then.... 
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I said come in! posted:Is Elite Dangerous actually a good game? I've never played it but heard that it has a super steep learning curve so I avoided it. It is a middling space trader sim with a lot of disguised loading screens. If you like flying space ships in VR and you like playing boring truck sims, it is basically the best sim ever made. But it's a terrible game.
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Beet Wagon posted:I don't want to stare too deep into the doxxing abyss, lest the doxxing abyss stare back into me, but I remember posting screencaps of this dude shilling his bar in like 2016. He's had probably a dozen screen names since then and used to go by some variation of "Slumlord" and would get run out of /r/mwo and /r/starcitizen every couple months for advertising his shithole bar and bragging about how much money he had/how hot his wife was and how he was building a streamer house or something crazy like that Wait. I remember in the Bitcoin threads like 6-8 years ago we were mocking some guy who had received an inheritance and kept setting up bare concrete/cinderblock wall "Gaming bars" with folding tables and cheap gaming rigs he built. His gimmick was that he accepted bitcoin back when places just started doing that. Is this the same guy or is there a second person blowing hundreds of thousands of his family's money on being a nerd entrepreneur? It wouldn't surprise me if the extremely smug bitcoiner showing off his gaming hovels morphed into a six figure Star Citizen backer but "pay $500 a month for an abandoned storefront and shove gaming rigs on folding tables" is entry level nerd business so it could be a different person. VictorianQueerLit fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Jun 4, 2018 |
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BeigeJacket posted:Ah right, I thought you meant a retro game things with Golden Axe and Streetfighter cabs and so-on. Is that guys place a bunch of tricked out PCs for streaming? Pretty much yeah. He posted an album on his "I gave my kid a stupid name" account but basically the whole place looks like this:  It was pretty clearly like an old sandwich shop or something that the dude tricked out "nerd basement" style and decided "gently caress yeah open for business that's good enough!" He has a long history of posting weird pictures of his lovely bar but I'm not gonna go digging into old accounts cause  TheAgent posted:holy gently caress I remember this dude Yep, that's the one! Constantly talked about how he was on a first name basis with Chris Roberts and he was hiring MLG pro gamers for his comp team/upcoming twitch house, etc etc. Really proud to call himself "slumlord" for whatever reason. I kinda can't believe that's the same guy, and now I feel really really bad for his kid. e: VictorianQueerLit posted:Wait. I remember in the Bitcoin threads like 6-8 years ago we were mocking some guy who had received an inheritance and kept setting up bare concrete/cinderblock wall "Gaming bars" with folding tables and cheap gaming rigs he built. His gimmick was that he accepted bitcoin back when places just started doing that. I'm not sure, but I wouldn't be shocked either way.
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