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Psst backers: Request for Chris to play the game of his dreams now. Surely he can do that, right guys??? I mean it is his game that he is coding himself. Let's have him play it. Pleeeeeeaaaase. 
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Clever. Now the backers will fall all over themselves to praise Chris for being a big hero and not doing the dumbass thing he had no reason to do in the first place, and they have a free excuse when the con turns out to be dogshit as always, and they get to pretend like their backers' wishes matter to them. And all it costs them is that they have to buy a lovely thirty-buck webcam (Chris wanted higher quality, but you, the backers, demanded that we do this!).
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peter gabriel posted:It's amazing. Eeyore. The only Pooh character with realistic impressions.
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Aug 31, 2018 23:27
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The Titanic posted:Uh... what the gently caress is this thing? God’s punishment for being female.
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Aug 31, 2018 23:31
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"I've slept on it and it's everybody's fault but mine" Chris Roberts
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Hav posted:God’s punishment for being female.  You're killing me here lately!
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Inkel posted:I honestly think the real answer is stupidity, but not for the reason you're thinking. I bet they just have never booked an event at a venue big enough to require using the (almost certainly) more expensive in-house production company. Combine that with whoever was in charge with putting together the event either not bothering to read the contract or pay attention when they booked the space or expecting the price for the in-house company to be reasonable (which would be another example of said stupidity). I think this is the most likely scenario. The in-house guys are almost certainly union (IBEW) and protect their turf pretty well. They also charge room-services prices for everything - so I have no doubt CR got a nasty surprise when the final numbers came in. (source: we had to use in-house crew to film a half-day training session. One guy, one camera. Sound. 4hrs labor and equipment rental $10k - about 20 years ago) If CIG doesn't have $100k in liquid reserve (taking him at his word that the overage was low 6-figures), that does not bode well. Golli fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Sep 1, 2018 |
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'So this part of Citizencon was going to be really cool, but you motherfuckers didnt want to pay for it so unfortunately there will be no Vanduul LARPing display gently caress you all'
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https://twitter.com/RobertsSpaceInd/status/1035639991752257536 That's right - Blizzard's ticket sales are in such high demand they're forced to break them into waves of sales. What's this? Star Citizen has the same demand for a nonexistent scam? What a surprise! Quick - fresh cash only for your Wave 3 tickets!
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Sep 1, 2018 00:06
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Scruffpuff posted:https://twitter.com/RobertsSpaceInd/status/1035639991752257536 Looking forward to wave 2000
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If the backers weren't kool-aid drinking members of the flock they'd realize that their outrage actually caused a shift in something regardless of how small And that if they actually rallied together and raged like that about how this shitshow is really progressing they might actually pressure roberts into sticking with something for more than five minutes Instead lets pat him on the back and give him an 'atta boy sticker because he backed off of one fleece too far
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Mr. Carlisle posted:If the backers weren't kool-aid drinking members of the flock they'd realize that their outrage actually caused a shift in something regardless of how small When Chris Roberts steals from the disabled he tells himself "this money is really mine." When he steals from the public after lying to them about what he can deliver he says to himself "this money is really mine." After he's done telling himself that, he tells himself "in fact, that money was always mine - I'm just taking it later than when it was owed to me. The people who were holding it are lucky I'm not charging interest!" He will never do anything. He believes the money already belongs to him because of who he is, not what he's done.
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Scruffpuff posted:https://twitter.com/RobertsSpaceInd/status/1035639991752257536 That's the thing, it's nothing but "Image". "Look at all our fancy offices full of high dollar furniture" (Image) "Look at our coffee machine" (Image) "Look at my limited edition Porsche/s" (Image) "Look at where we vacation" (Image) "Look at the funding tracker" (Image) "Look at all the nonfunctional or nonexistent shiny ships with shiny graphics" (Image) "Look, we sell event tickets in 'waves', just like Blizzard" (even though demand is pitiful compared to Blizzcon so no need for 'waves') (Nothing but Image) "Whatever you do, just don't look at what we've actually accomplished" (It'll ruin the Image)
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 i touched the poop and won kind of interesting seeing how easy it is to poo poo on citizen, theres def been a major change like Gorf has said since 3.0 i think we're just now seeing what used to be nothing, it's all just too much, for too long, stacked up, like a giant steaming poo poo sandwhich. I think what were seeing is the fabled 2nd wave of backers, like the guys who've joined in the past 2-3 years, they're starting to see the same poo poo. I think CIG is hoping for a 3rd wave of backers to save the day.
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Morphix posted:kind of interesting seeing how easy it is to poo poo on citizen, theres def been a major change like Gorf has said since 3.0 i think we're just now seeing what used to be nothing, it's all just too much, for too long, stacked up, like a giant steaming poo poo sandwhich. I think what were seeing is the fabled 2nd wave of backers, like the guys who've joined in the past 2-3 years, they're starting to see the same poo poo. I think CIG is hoping for a 3rd wave of backers to save the day. Here's the pattern of CIG communication as I see it: 2013 - Something cool, something cool, something cool, something horrific (usually from Ben), something cool 2014 - Something sorta cool, something questionable, something else questionable, something horrific (Ben), something kinda cool 2015 - Something questionable, something insane, something else insane, something else questionable, WTF is going on with this project, CIG opens their mouth and it's bad 2016 - A full year of burying the needle deep into the insane - lying, plagiarism (to the point where stolen art watermarks made it into the tech demo textures), theft, contract breaches, middle finger to backers remained extended the full year 2017 - Complete radio silence punctuated with the occasional peep from CIG - those peeps were always insane unforced errors 2018 - Repeat of 2017 CIG game progress follows a similar pattern: 2013 - Cool early tech demo trailer 2014 - Cool early FPS demo trailer 2015 - Nearly jaw-dropping asteroid base flight tutorial (to me the game never got any better than this point - this was the pinnacle for the very few people who got to experience it. If i hadn't played it myself I would doubt its existence. My guess is that all unshakeable backers can't let go of what this tutorial indicated the beginnings of.) Late 2015 - Early 2016 - Release of the absurd PTU and the destruction of all hope for this project 2016 - Patch by patch destruction of everything this project ever promised to be 2017 -  2018 - 
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Scruffpuff posted:Here's the pattern of CIG communication as I see it: 2019 - we're gonna need a bigger smilie
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I wish we knew if that first letter from roberts was another 8 hour deal like the escapist one.
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I like that he slept on it and came to the magnanimous decision on his own, nothing to do with the continued outcry.
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Golli posted:I think this is the most likely scenario. Yeah, the costs for some of that stuff is incredible. I've planned a few events for the non-profit I work for and this year we decided to move our big fundraising event to a much bigger venue(moved from a hotel ballroom to a large expo center room) and I nearly had a heart attack when we got the estimate for their "preferred" production company. It was near 5x our entire event budget. If we didn't know the owner of the expo center and had his daughter on an unrelated committee, we would have been hosed.
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phosdex posted:I wish we knew if that first letter from roberts was another 8 hour deal like the escapist one. It probably had more profanity in it before it went through legal. Also a few instances of "Shitclown-crybabies."
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Chris fucks up again. When he made those walkbacks the new posts were 3/4s positive CIG, the citizens were assimilating nicely and he interrupted that. He should have waited til Monday to see if the walkback is needed thats how these Friday announcements work. Saturday is bargaining/acceptance day. Sunday is "this is good for star citizen you loving goon" day. Also thinking emote, convention unions are basically your modern day stereotypical mafia unions, super strict and expensive, they're gonna let CIG just cancel on such short notice? Citcon fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Sep 1, 2018 |
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This fell through the cracks. CIG is asking for orgs to make 4 booths at Citizencon. The orgs will need to provide their own materials, full time staff, travel/shipping arrangements. They don't even get a free ticket to citcon.If anyone has ever done conventions before booths require months of preparation. CIG has given 5 weeks at best (they still havent picked who yet so theres actually less time). quote:https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/3/thread/citizencon-2948-org-booths%5C Citcon fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Sep 1, 2018 |
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Scruffpuff posted:https://twitter.com/RobertsSpaceInd/status/1035639991752257536 Each wave is 5 tickets. Sorry this is so stupid. Some days it's downright hilarious, but it's really just stupid. They didn't earn any of this stuff. They have no products. They don't have anything that looks like it will be a playable game even some day. And yet they do this stuff for the sole purpose of faking it. I mean I love to fake it till you make it, but this is just dumb. The Rebel Galaxy people just nailed it. I hope other developers do too. I hope these expos do and just ban CIG from showing up and using their logos and pretending to be this hugely successful game company that makes games.
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Citcon posted:This fell through the cracks. "Hey guys, lets all join together so six of us might be able to get together and jump up and down. Maybe some of us might be able to move a box together." This is not Eve. This is not the beginning of another Eve-like. Your orgs are literally meaningless because the game is an arena shooter. You may as well go make a huge org in Fortnight and start trying to influence the economy there. Same thing, except Fortnight has gameplay and higher player counts with more stable servers and clients.
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imagine being an 'org' in this game "here we are guys, still, uh, flying around in circles waiting for there to be even the tiniest scrap of anything whatsoever in terms of mechanics for orgs to do things. six years and still going strong! join up!"
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I'm going to think about our trade route today! Today's cargo is "loving Lies" and I'm selling it a bunch of whales for big money!!! Yeah baby!
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The Titanic posted:Each wave is 5 tickets. Also consider that Blizzcon sells out thousands of tickets in minutes. At the end of it all, they've sold over 10,000 tickets. Generally they sell them in two batches, and that's it. Due to recent high demand, they decided to offer what they called a third wave of tickets because the demand was higher than it had ever been before. Consider how many seats they're trying to sell for Citizencon and attempt to justify selling them in "waves." And which "wave" are they tweeting about? Ah - the third wave of sales, the exact same wave number that Blizzard used when they were responding to unprecedented demand and interest! What a coincidence!
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I wonder if the Internet Citizen Defense Force will have a booth? Maybe Joe Blobers will be there.
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Golli posted:I wonder if the Internet Citizen Defense Force will have a booth? I think CryTek should set up a booth in there with Skadden business cards.
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Oh my god that Outlaw trailer they really went all in on giving the finger to Star Citizen that’s incredible
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Scruffpuff posted:Also consider that Blizzcon sells out thousands of tickets in minutes. At the end of it all, they've sold over 10,000 tickets. Generally they sell them in two batches, and that's it. Due to recent high demand, they decided to offer what they called a third wave of tickets because the demand was higher than it had ever been before. Do you think maybe they do this because they realize it's transparent but their fans will feel important? Also what's the deal with "buy your friend a ticket for exactly the same price as yours"? Is it just so you don't have to sign up on spectrum?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/9by9nj/an_apology_to_chris/ Jesus loving christ
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SoftNum posted:Do you think maybe they do this because they realize it's transparent but their fans will feel important? No. They do this because they have no idea how to make a game, because they're not a game development company, and they're being led by a "man" who isn't a game developer. All their patch numbers mirror Elite's, their Citizencon bullshit imitates Blizzcon, the offices and murals also mirror Blizzard's, and their game development terminology like "Alpha, Pre-Alpha, refactor" is all imitated from real development companies, albeit used wrong. The entire company is a monkey-see monkey-do operation that has made nothing, is going nowhere, and doesn't understand a single thing about the task they happily took $200 million to perform.
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It's absolutely comical how they're lavishing praise on him for realizing he absolutely hosed up hard. He just gave himself an out for when the stream fucks up. He also just managed to find a way to get these idiots to STILL give him $20 for the expense he just cut. The Crobbear may suck at anything even remotely resembling managing a project, but man does that dude know how to milk himself some whale tits.
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Amazing Zimmo posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/9by9nj/an_apology_to_chris/  unironically though, getting all these dipshits to spend $20 on a loving in-game coat rules, and I hope Chris does this every year.
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Colostomy Bag posted:What an absolute clusterfuck FTFY
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Amazing Zimmo posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/9by9nj/an_apology_to_chris/ Not a cult
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