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It must be painful to have fallen out of the good graces because you were sometimes slightly realistic in what people were actually getting when they bought the product. If only they knew that unfettered yes men are what CIG want and need.  Totally genuine real cat also looking to get involved in SC streaming 
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Thinking about it, it really is no surprise Rex is successful while the others are not. Make believe game needs make believe streamer.
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Feb 17, 2019 06:05
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All that red bull probably explains why Rex is so hyper. The guy's stomach lining is going to hosed if he keeps drinking that poo poo though.
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Ponzi posted:I think Tencent owns 10% of Frontier too. 9%... and yeah, its slightly concerning. But they did miss a golden opportunity to get 10% though.
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G0RF posted:ANOTHER REXILLA RECAP It's really amazing that after 7 years and 200 million dollars down the drain, anyone can still generate energy and enthusiasm for a broken pre-alpha in perpetual development hell. Even if its with the aid of every sleazy corporate trick in the book and its mostly just cannibalizing other streamers and gathering whats left of the community in one place, its still impressive that they've pulled it off. It came just in time too, as much of the community was asking themselves where the gameplay was, and realizing that they were in for at least 2 years of almost no progress for the PU. Now they can gather around and imagine the game is already amazing. Plus, his success is shaming the other streamers to tow CI's line and up their shilling to new heights. Good for Rex, if I was more clever and devious I'd find a way to fleece CI's space whales too. 
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They spent an hour prepping for an epic sunrise battle around a junkyard at sunrise and the server borked out only minutes after the kickoff.
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What's all this meanquote:On Monday, August 13, 2018, a U.S. federal trademark registration was filed for REXZILLA LEAGUE. The USPTO has given the REXZILLA LEAGUE trademark serial number of 88075878. The current federal status of this trademark filing is FINAL REFUSAL, PRIOR ISSUES NOT COMPLTELY RESOLVED. The correspondent listed for REXZILLA LEAGUE is (I removed personal info), . The REXZILLA LEAGUE trademark is filed in the category of Advertising, Business & Retail Services . The description provided to the USPTO for REXZILLA LEAGUE is Conducting live entertainment in the nature of games featuring arranging and conducting live interactive, gaming adventures, entertainment services, namely, arranging and conducting on-line competitions in the field of live games featuring teamwork, problem solving, and entertainment competitions and events; talent management of electronic game playing teams, electronic game players, electronic game coaches, advertising and promotional sponsorship of computer game competitions and events and all aforementioned services. Rexzilla also owns a film/media company, I'll not link it for now. Star Citizen streamer or CIG sponsored corporate advertising enterprise? You decide!
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Feb 17, 2019 08:16
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Polygon calls him "Star Citizen's Virtual Warlord" who is "changing the narrative" I mean come on. Come on now. You can see what it is.
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Feb 17, 2019 08:19
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They'll run him full time and full tit playing that dreadful mess all year because they ran out of bullshit for the youtube shows ages ago. Just watch. All year, a whole year of Rexzilla playing Star Citizen. Unless it destroys him.
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Feb 17, 2019 08:21
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The thing about "changing the narrative" of Star Citizen is that, at the end of the day, the game has a narrative of its own which in no way resembles the one that CIG's marketers are pushing. I'd love to see the look on a new backer's face when he realizes that all the poo poo he saw on Rexshilla's stream only happens on Rexshilla's stream
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Feb 17, 2019 08:40
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Twitch requires streamers to disclose when they're being paid to stream (shill) a game. I'm pretty sure REX doesn't do this.
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quote:Conducting live entertainment in the nature of games featuring arranging and conducting live interactive, gaming adventures The gaming adventure is just beginning friends! Except oops no game. 
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Feb 17, 2019 08:44
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Purveyor of finest gaming escapades, diversions, and phantasmagoria from the base to the sublime. The discerning commando settles for nothing less sir. <Presents gilt edged business card with a flourish.>
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BluesShaman posted:Twitch requires streamers to disclose when they're being paid to stream (shill) a game. Star Citizen is not a game, therefore nothing to disclose.
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this Twitch streamer should take a leaf out of KingRex's shillbook https://clips.twitch.tv/OutstandingSpinelessMageAMPEnergyCherry
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BluesShaman posted:Twitch requires streamers to disclose when they're being paid to stream (shill) a game. Well, if he's not being paid the alternative explanation is he's really enjoying playing Star Citizen. Which is great news for CIG, they finally found someone who enjoys playing their pre-alpha demo Cryengine mod that doesn't remotely work in any capacity whatsoever. The other streamers sure as gently caress never enjoyed playing it.
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I mean. He's most likely not getting directly paid by CIG. Now maybe his media company is, or maybe a portion of his sudden increase in subscriptions are coming from "private citizens", or maybe he's completely legit What I am getting at is the "must disclose being paid" thing is easily circumvented, and we have no real way of knowing for sure. Drunk Theory fucked around with this message at 10:49 on Feb 17, 2019 |
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$40 million for marketing.
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The best thing about Rex is that all the older SC streamer were hedging their bets on being first on the next big thing and getting traction and a following that way and nope, Rex shows up and kicks their teeth in, showing that even a modicum of talent is still enough to beat their asses and that they never had a chance to begin with.
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I mean they kept saying the first year, first three years, first five years didn't count. Those were early days, bitches, looks like you got rex'd while still in pre-alpha anyway.
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colonelwest posted:Oh and the whole Epic Store freakout that PC gamers are having is loving stupid. It’s completely understandable that other companies don’t want to hand over a big chunk of their revenue to Valve. Steam itself is an anachronistic piece of crap storefront that looks and operates like something from the late 2000’s, it blows my mind that anyone would want Valve to have a monopoly. Hell they only added a refund feature after loving EA had one on Origin for over a year. I sort of disagree with this. I think the real issue with it is how the publisher took pre-orders, then changed the platform last minute, supposedly even after some of the physical box covers had been printed. There are pictures floating around where people peel back stickers with the Epic store only to reveal the Steam logo underneath. Had they done the switch to Epic earlier and just never taken pre-orders for a stated Steam release, or honored the people who pre-ordered the physical collector expecting it to be a Steam release (since that's what the marketing materials said), it probably would not have made people upset, as they wouldn't get the bait-and-switch impression of the whole thing. I'm not saying the Steam store is great, either, but the Epic store is currently worse. I plan to buy Rebel Galaxy Outlaw on their store, but had they had basic things like reviews and other features that exist on both Steam and GOG, it would have been a less dumb situation.
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Bofast posted:I sort of disagree with this. my dude it isnt even a supposedly 
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Beet Wagon posted:It really bothers me for some reason when game idiots decide that their individual missions should be called 'chapters' which seems like what's going on here. I was going to guess 42 but I guess the real answer is 70 missions as 20 hours of gameplay time. More info: 
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Best of all. "Episode one is what people will play this year" ~Chris Roberts 2015 
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Ponzi posted:I think Tencent owns 10% of Frontier too. The own between 10 and 40% of most gaming companies, and if you halve that number, that’s the Chinese state’s take. Chinese companies are all half-owned by the state. Western countries that sign up in China are also half-owned by the state, which makes tax avoidance somewhat more difficult than usual. Relax, and don’t re-use passwords. Edit: just the inevitable consequence of those ‘made in China’ labels would be some of that capital coming back and owning the means of production. Hav fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Feb 17, 2019 |
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Foo Diddley posted:The thing about "changing the narrative" of Star Citizen is that, at the end of the day, the game has a narrative of its own which in no way resembles the one that CIG's marketers are pushing. I'd love to see the look on a new backer's face when he realizes that all the poo poo he saw on Rexshilla's stream only happens on Rexshilla's stream It’s more that they’re very directly attempting to position Rexilla for those ‘sc warlord’ google searches. One of the more interesting question is whether this is organic and he just found SC and started streaming because it was a massive opportunity, but for all those thing to be true, a lot of serendipity needs to take place, not the least of which is the competence and interest Venn sets intersecting to produce this effort. There was a reason i was speculating about gently caress jerry/jerry media, because making something look organic and natural is quite a lot of work, especially if you’re herding cats. So i’m going to tell people to stop speculating. They found themselves a gig-economy producer who’s filling that space between professional production and streaming just after getting themselves some walking around cash; of course they’re paying him. They’re also arcing too quickly again, and this guy will burn out before release.
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Scruffpuff posted:Chapter 1: A Modest Proposal 21: Banu Merchantman flyable in the PU
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Drunk Theory posted:I mean. He's most likely not getting directly paid by CIG. I assume the same. It’s easier for me to believe that CIG has engaged Red Bull Gaming in some cross-promotional marketing deal. The Rexzilla/Red Bull connection is established and disclosed, with Rex on the Red Bull eSports side. https://twitter.com/redbullesports/status/1057272232542699521 Red Bull Gaming chose to spotlight Star Citizen with this lovely telling of the Star Citizen story. It was shot in October and dropped in late January. Rex started talking about Star Citizen in November. https://twitter.com/Rexzilla/status/1065660606697607168 He had his formula down fast: https://twitter.com/Rexzilla/status/1068376613392457728 https://twitter.com/Rexzilla/status/1069468537444552705 Declared his intent to go heavy in early December: https://twitter.com/Rexzilla/status/1070197090133803009 He was going full steam in no time with 4 hour streams nearly every day since. Later that month he was included in a Business Insider writeup about Star Citizen. Note that the Calder investment story broke at this time, too. https://twitter.com/OrionRedacted/status/1076318123551145984 The Red Bull eSports guy was anointed the hero Star Citizens didn’t know they needed by Polygon on January 28th, the same day Red Bull Gaming dropped their Star Citizen documentary. It all looks like a deftly planned and executed marketing/pr push, of the sort we haven’t ever seen from CIG. Nick Shepard is probably driving a lot of it, and Red Bull’s amorphous game marketing enterprise is probably getting paid directly. If that’s what it is, I’d say that’s Calder money being put to good use. As for Rex, he’s a genuine talent delivering a far more engaging Star Citizen experience than the game does. Some of the “sub trains” may be kicked off by CIG parties, but Rex is a master at whipping up his viewers and he’s earning whatever money Star Citizens are throwing his way. Red Bull, too.
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colonelwest posted:It's really amazing that after 7 years and 200 million dollars down the drain, anyone can still generate energy and enthusiasm for a broken pre-alpha in perpetual development hell. Even if its with the aid of every sleazy corporate trick in the book and its mostly just cannibalizing other streamers and gathering whats left of the community in one place, its still impressive that they've pulled it off. It came just in time too, as much of the community was asking themselves where the gameplay was, and realizing that they were in for at least 2 years of almost no progress for the PU. Now they can gather around and imagine the game is already amazing. Plus, his success is shaming the other streamers to tow CI's line and up their shilling to new heights. I was gonna say these numbers seem to random and are probably fake, but I bet most of the fans are not donating in Dollars.
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BluesShaman posted:Twitch requires streamers to disclose when they're being paid to stream (shill) a game. The red bull logo is pretty much disclosure though. As Gorf said, its probably some sort of cross-marketing deal.
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SomethingJones posted:They'll run him full time and full tit playing that dreadful mess all year because they ran out of bullshit for the youtube shows ages ago. I do wonder how long he can keep it up and how long all but the most ardent of followers will keep watching or getting involved. I mean, as long as he keeps drinking the red bull, i'm sure he will have the energy (at least until he goes into hospital for his stomach repairing), but SC is pretty limited in what you can do... streamers have to keep things fresh and interesting for viewers. How many months will they watch someone marching up and down giving orders and then yet another FPS battle? Also... someone has given him 3000 dollary doos? For streaming? FFS... i'm in the wrong business.
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Nearly every bullet point on this pic is completely loving meaningless, and something nobody cares about. The line about dogfighting is the only one that matters to a game, and it says the least.
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G0RF posted:I assume the same. Don't forget the Forbes article written by this guy.  I wouldn't be surprised is there was a pre-existing Calder-Redbull eSports relationship that we don't know about yet. Golli fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Feb 17, 2019 |
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Agony Aunt posted:So, here's a thought... what happens if backers start throwing their money at Rex instead of CI!G, resulting in funds drying up for SC/SQ42, and therefore Rex being responsible for the collapse of CI!G. Backers are generally loving misers who spend all their money in ships and ships only. A haircut for the wife? Decadence! Every dollar spent in subscriptions and whatnot is one less dollar not spent in tugging boats.
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Virtual Captain posted:I was going to guess 42 but I guess the real answer is 70 missions as 20 hours of gameplay time. All of this sounds good, but veteran game studios that have made similar open world games took decades before they amassed the talent and resources necessary to create their games. CIG can't pull this off as their first ever title.
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