EvilMerlin posted:

Says who, finally got the three of them to sit still JUST long enough to take a picture.

TheAgent posted:

they honestly have no loving time to do anything else now. its do or die and since they took real investor money for a hefty amount, its all SQ42. balls to the fuckin wall, peddle to the metal, all the loving way, no stopping this goddamn squadron train, its time to loving go fast gogogogogogogogo

TheAgent posted:

the fyre festival remains one of my favorite goddamn things lol

TheAgent posted:

the fyre festival remains one of my favorite goddamn things lol

hot balls man no homo posted:

Edit: I fixed it

Tsar Mikey posted:

Every facet of this dumpster fire was absolutely hilarious. From the easily impressed and wealthy attendees lured with exclusivity promises and Instagram models/influencers, to Billy McFarland who was a known fraud and Ja Rule some how being involved. Hilarity from top to bottom.

AlbieQuirky posted:

Good doggos, thank you

SPERMCUBE.ORG posted:

Just do what I do: Click on every link to reddit and thoughtlessly brigade it as per Beet Wagon's secret coded instructions.

EvilMerlin posted:

Says who, finally got the three of them to sit still JUST long enough to take a picture.

Tarquinn posted:

Giant Bomb spreading FUD about Star Citizen for five minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVY6JJObXps&t=4369s

Tarquinn posted:

Giant Bomb spreading FUD about Star Citizen for five minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVY6JJObXps&t=4369s

LostMy2010Accnt posted:

I have yet to be read into the Beet program yet; something about my clearance not sufficient for indoc. Friggin red tape as usual.


I see three adorable dogs, but I don't see any hands petting/scratching them. I'm very bothered by this...

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The idea of crowdfunding isn’t a recent thing. It began in the 1730s when war bonds issued by the Bank of England to help fund military conflicts, eventually became a way for people to protect their own money by converting the bonds to gold. Throughout history, crowdfunding remained within the financial sector as currency protection. In 2003, ArtiShare appeared as a platform for the general public to directly fund and get involved in the process of making music. Eventually, the success of ArtiShare led to other crowdsourcing sites, and by 2009, Kickstarter appeared. What made this platform different is that instead of focusing on project ownership it directly facilitated a way for creators and funders to work together. That, in turn, provided an outlet for a wide range of categories including video games.

The gaming community started using Kickstarter for small projects, but it wasn’t until Tim Schafer, and his Double Fine Adventure game (later to be known as Broken Age) funded successfully for $400,000. That’s when Kickstarter started to gain recognition for game developers. Over a short period, other well-known game developers appeared, and it became an outlet for former industry video game heavyweights to pitch their gaming prototypes and ideas to backers instead of venture capitalists and publishers. It was in that confluence that Chris Roberts, the former creator of the famous Wing Commander series of games from the 1990s, pitched a brand new Wing Commander-like game called Star Citizen and Squadron 42.

Thanks in part to a million-dollar tech demo the immediate response created a wellspring of popularity for the project and backing took off. In a matter of weeks, Star Citizen blew past the campaign’s funding goals, which prompted stretch goals. After ending on Kickstarter, funding continued on its website where financially backing the project could continue to do so. The existing backers had opportunities to continue supporting for more in the form of additional ship purchases, packages, merchandise, and subscriptions. Eventually, Star Citizen had reached so much money that it surpassed the record holder, Pebble Watch for the most crowdfunded dollars. However, funding continued, and with each stretch goal reach new records set. Eventually, the media started reporting Star Citizen, not necessarily for the game, but for the staggering amount of money it raised and continued to do so.

Once the game reached 20 million it had, according to Chris Roberts, reached his original vision for an entirely self-funded game. However, that wasn’t the end. Additional stretch goals appeared offering more until the final stretch goal of 65 million. But, it didn’t end there. The game continued to bring in more crowdfunded dollars from both existing and new backers. At the time of this writing, Star Citizen has amassed a total of $213 million dollars from 2.2 million backers; a staggering amount of money for what is necessarily an indie title that began on Kickstarter.

The reason why Star Citizen appears on this list has to do with how many people continue to point to its place in crowdfunding history as a barometer for crowdfunding success. The game has been in continuous development for around eight years (2011 – 2019), and while the single-player Squadron 42 is scheduled to come out later this year, the proper Star Citizen MMO has years to go.

Effectively what you have in Star Citizen is a large piece of fragile glass. If the funding dries up, the game dies. If the game isn’t everything it’s been hyped to be by Chris Roberts, the game dies. If the Squadron 42 doesn’t win over people, the game dies. If the incredibly smart engineers leave en masse, the game dies. This game lives and breathes by its substantial foundation of existing backers. However, to survive it needs an infusion of fresh backers. If the development collapses, this will not only destroy CIG, but it will shatter both the crowdfunding funding model for video games. So far there appears to be no slowing of backer dollars coming into CIG’s coffers, but Star Citizen’s existence hurts the industry as it remains the go-to point of reference, without having released its first game beyond the early access tech demos.

EvilMerlin posted:

Says who, finally got the three of them to sit still JUST long enough to take a picture.

Dementropy posted:

Stare Citizer – Negative Taint for Crowdfunded Video Games

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Callender’s most lurid allegation against Pitchford is an accusation surrounding an event that he says occurred in 2014. Callender says that Pitchford left a USB drive in a Dallas, Texas restaurant containing sensitive corporate documents for Gearbox and its partners including 2K Games, Sega, Sony, Microsoft, and others. Says the lawsuit: “Upon information and belief, Randy Pitchford’s USB drive also contained Randy Pitchford’s personal collection of ‘underage’ pornography.”

Callender also accuses Pitchford of holding parties in which “adult men have reportedly exposed themselves to minors, to the amusement of Randy Pitchford.”

Bofast posted:

Speaking of RDR2 (since BNBL was kind enough to bring it up), that game seems to really make some people project their own thoughts into it. I might not be able to articulate this very well, so apologies if I don't make much sense here.

I have (over the course of a week) been listening to the roughly 24 hours of recorded deliberations that Giant Bomb had while they made lists of their games of the year for 2018 and some of the things brought up as positive experiences in RDR2 in particular don't actually seem to be part of the game itself. One example was some mission that goes quite badly for the main character and even though the game does the whole "several weeks later" explanation for why you can now resume playing, it left one player feeling like the main character should still be feeling really bad. He therefore went out into the mountains to just hunt and fish for 3 in-game days, just because he felt like it would not yet make sense for the main character to just pick up heists and such again. As far as I can tell, none of that is dictated by the game in any way or even really supported by its mechanics. It's entirely in his mind that the character must feel a certain way, and yet he did not seem to really be separating what he thought should be from what actually was.

Some of the staff members brought up criticisms about aspects of the gameplay, such as how slow and tedious it could be, how certain quests could break or fail if you played it in ways that made perfect sense and clearly worked fine outside of the story missions, but some of the more vocal supporters of the game mostly just went "I didn't run into that, because I thought the game wanted me to play in this particular way" (I'm paraphrasing, of course). It's so interesting to hear someone talk about how amazing a certain part is where you ride from A to B while narrative is happening around you, then hear someone else go "I just moved 1 meter to the left and the mission broke", only to have the first person go "Why would you do that? That's a moment to just put down the controller and enjoy the moment" (still paraphrasing).

I don't have a console to play it on, so I probably never will, but it's fascinating for me to listen to how people think certain things are happening in a game when really they were just making it up themselves as they went along. Seems to me it's a bit like what the Citizens are doing, only in a released game that has actual mechanics and story instead of an empty sandbox.

Hav posted:

In holy-gently caress-what-happened-Bethesda news;

"Bethesda seems to have something of a war on its hands over Fallout 76's most powerful items. After several weeks of problems with players creating copies of items through duplication glitches, some have now figured out how to access a secret "developer room" in Fallout 76."

[...]

"It's likely Bethesda is looking for a way to prevent players from entering the room, and the reported suspensions are a stop-gap measure. The developer has recently made a more concerted effort to tackle item duplication glitches, which had fuelled an entire side-business of people mass-selling legendary items on eBay: sometimes for prices of $45 (£35). The latest patch seems to have killed off all the main duplication glitches - for now, at least.

This has prompted something of a panic amongst item dupers, as the PC patch was released several days before the patch for the console versions (due out on Monday). Some have claimed game servers on console have felt more unstable than usual since the patch notes were released, blaming a panic over the upcoming removal of duplication glitches. This does corroborate my own observations of Discord servers containing those who use duplication glitches, in which many players have indicated they will dupe as many items as possible over the weekend before the console patch is released."

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/...ins-a-human-npc

Scruffpuff posted:

I've watched people run the most bizarre diagnostics possible to "fix" a problem that was 100% code, but weirdos defend it with "WELL IT'S NOT HAPPENING ON MY SYSTEM SO IT HAS TO BE YOU" which is probably, bar none, the loving stupidest possible troubleshooting-related comment you can make - that's some sub-Geek-Squad level reasoning. (Run if you hear it. Or fire the guy if he's your IT.) But then when the devs fix the bug, and the problem goes away, if you bring it up you hear "THE DEVS ALREADY FIXED THIS IF YOU READ PATCH NOTES YOU'D KNOW THAT."

Hav posted:

quote:

The game has been in continuous development for around eight years (2011 – 2019), and while the single-player Squadron 42 is scheduled to come out later this year...

Hav posted:

I'm currently in the middle of this in the Just Cause 4 community groups, but it's mainly because Square Enix and Avalanche are in radio silence about whether there's another patch coming down the pipe for the 30% or so of people that have bought the game but have faced constant crashing since December 4th or so.

There's basically a GPU Loop (Code 34) within ten minutes of starting the game. Reddit's even resorted to building a list of symptoms because the developer/publisher is doing the whole 'don't admit culpability' in a launch that resembles that of Arkham Knight.



Doesn't stop people walking by the threads to point out that it's working perfectly for them.

big nipples big life posted:

yes that was me empty quoting melvin

Hav posted:

Randy Pitchford and Wade Callender are suing each other and it's delivering;

https://kotaku.com/former-gearbox-lawyer-accuses-ceo-randy-pitchford-of-ta-1831679539

Nyast posted:

So I've been away for a couple weeks (christmas & all) and been missing on that thread for 200+ pages.

I saw that CIG announced that SQ42 would come out in 2020.

Doesn't that mean that they're planning on releasing the "full release" of the PU in 2020 too ?

Cause, you know, just a random thought, but if they're arguing with Crytek that they got a license for a single game that includes both SQ42+PU, how can they release SQ42 separately than the PU ?

Aren't they, like, what was the word again... hosed ?

Hav posted:

Alpha SQ42 for 2020, so maybe 2022. PU is shaded and not mentioned. Yes, this does admit one of Crytek's complaints.



if you can't wait for Netflix - Internet Historian does the Fyre - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBPg5ftCMv8

Scruffpuff posted:

My go-to when I see identical code on similar systems exhibiting these kinds of problems is data.

Rugganovich posted:

I'm curious what Elder Scrolls Online is using, as they have a single sign on, no server selection?
I could probably research it myself, but I'm lazy.

OK, I did the search, it's a MEGA SERVER.
https://elderscrollsonline.info/mega-server

zenimax website posted:

That's why selecting a server is a very important step. How to make a right decision? There is a general rule: select a server according to the continent.

If you live in Europe or somewhere near – EU is the best option for you.
If you live in North or South America – US is what you need.

Tarquinn posted:

Giant Bomb spreading FUD about Star Citizen for five minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVY6JJObXps&t=4369s

Bootcha posted: