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"Hey guys, we're just totally legitimate and absolutely normal game development studio Cloud Imperium just kinda 'checking out' the Corsair booth, just like all you other regular guys! How do you do, fellow game developers? Just 'checking out' your booth! Oh, I didn't see you standing there! I have some Star Citizen 'swag' here in this bag, I'm sure the fine Corsair people won't mind if I just... Hey... OK, OK, wait a minute, we have just as much right to 'check out' your booth as anyone els... OUCH OK, OK fine, we're moving, we're moving..." "Hey guys, we're just totally legitimate and absolutely normal game development studio Cloud Imperium just playing Space Invaders at the next hall over! We have some swag to give away... poo poo, they see us. Move, move, send a new tweet as soon as the new FOB is established!"
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Rotten Red Rod posted:It's probably because of citizencon, they didn't see the point of putting in all the effort the make a booth (and ANOTHER demo) at a show where they'd get a lukewarm reception at best when they have their own event filled only with adoring fans. So it's easier to just have some devs attend the show and post on social media - that takes a minuscule amount of work in comparison. So what you're saying is because of their glacial pace of game development, and that anything they show has to be hand crafted, doing two conventions is impossible because they can't possibly be tasked with making two fake demos to show how far along they are from last years fake demo?
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Mirificus posted:https://twitter.com/Wiborg1978/status/1164494478507462657 The 'Gamescom' logo in the lower left of each picture is what makes it so sad, they want so much to be linked to the event, or to be seen as actual 'devs of a product', but deep down they know that Carl from security is watching them, and positioning other guards in such a fashion as to expedite CI(not G)'s departure from the event as quickly and fuss free as possible. I just wish I was at that event, purely to approach the reps and enquire about their completed product and ask if they have any merch at their stall. I'm a big meanie like that.  Seriously and without any ill will, I wonder if there are any other 'games devs' doing what the CI(not G) peeps are doing there? Sabreseven fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Aug 22, 2019 |
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Sabreseven posted:The 'Gamescom' logo in the lower left of each picture is what makes it so sad, they want so much to be linked to the event, or to be seen as actual 'devs of a product', but deep down they know that Carl from security is watching them, and positioning other guards in such a fashion as to expedite CI(not G)'s departure from the event as quickly and fuss free as possible. That has always irked me about them. I imagine you need to actually be able to participate with the event and pay them to have permission to use their logo as a marketing tool. I may be wrong, but it's just one more scummy tactic they do to look legitimate without actually being legitimate. It's like passing off "look at our fake alien language" as progress on a video games codebase instead of making actual progress. Or "remember when" twitter posts like their game not only came out, but can be referenced as a classic that had big events people can remember fondly. Your dumb jank filled game hasn't even come out yet. There is no "remember when" unless it's about the slow pace of making a game over the course of a decade and having virtually nothing still at the end of that time.
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Did Chris ask Mr Calders if they can have a booth and he said no they can't have one get on with the loving game.
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The Titanic posted:That has always irked me about them. I imagine you need to actually be able to participate with the event and pay them to have permission to use their logo as a marketing tool. I may be wrong, but it's just one more scummy tactic they do to look legitimate without actually being legitimate. The big reveal at Citcon will be the announcement of Star Citizen Classic, to revitalize interest in the brand.
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Where do you make these, anyway? I might have asked in a previous thread, but I forgot
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Golli posted:The big reveal at Citcon will be the announcement of Star Citizen Classic, to revitalize interest in the brand. Star Citizen: Royale Marine
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Personally, I think its very weird that a company receives $46 million dollars for marketing and doesn't get a booth at Gamescom.
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The Titanic posted:There's more games about me on steam than you can imagine. Feel free to buy one and walk down my bare naked insides. I don't really feel like we have that kind of relationship, so I will take the gentlemanly route and decline.
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Mirificus posted:https://twitter.com/Wiborg1978/status/1164494478507462657 It doesn't get any more ironic than tailgaiting a convention to plug your dumpster fire game while wearing shirts promoting your totally dead module in said game. Why not send them in Squadron 42 shirts Chris? That one's coming up quick right? Riiiiiiiight?
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It's bonkers that SQ42 has a hard deadline release next year and they still don't have enough to actually show anything at a major games convention. I mean of course they don't have anything to show, but the fact that Citizens don't see how that's a pretty huge red flag is something else.
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Bofast posted:Where do you make these, anyway? I might have asked in a previous thread, but I forgot I lashed together something that acts as a repo for interesting blobs of text and use https://pypi.org/project/wordcloud/ for the actual production. The sentiment analysis works off the same repo of fun, but it stopped working recently, and I have deadlines. I'll fix it sometime in the next week, because it's an interesting use of google compute. Jobbo_Fett posted:Personally, I think its very weird that a company receives $46 million dollars for marketing and doesn't get a booth at Gamescom. They're doing a more organic and synergistic marketing path than the old corporate route that most of the older and monolithic games industry has gone down. It'll probably involve stickers, because who the gently caress doesn't like stickers.
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FailureToReport posted:It doesn't get any more ironic than tailgaiting a convention to plug your dumpster fire game while wearing shirts promoting your totally dead module in said game. Squadron 42 shirts or anything with the Star Citizen logo will get them looks and laughs, Arena Commander is so unpopular that nobody will give it a second look. They'll just assume it's some free to play mobile game that nobody has ever heard of. The proper outfit would be trench coats so they can open them up and whisper to passerbys "hey kid, want some free pins? We just need your credit card information..."
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Scruffpuff posted:"Hey guys, we're just totally legitimate and absolutely normal game development studio Cloud Imperium just kinda 'checking out' the Corsair booth, just like all you other regular guys! How do you do, fellow game developers? Just 'checking out' your booth! Oh, I didn't see you standing there! I have some Star Citizen 'swag' here in this bag, I'm sure the fine Corsair people won't mind if I just... Hey... OK, OK, wait a minute, we have just as much right to 'check out' your booth as anyone els... OUCH OK, OK fine, we're moving, we're moving..." After security clears away the CIG "reps" one of the booth workers notice a note on the floor: HELP! Please I'm trapped at CIG and need to get out! P.S. Are you hiring? P.P.S I've attached my Resume P.P.P.S Here is my LinkedIn
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Strangler 42 posted:Squadron 42 shirts or anything with the Star Citizen logo will get them looks and laughs, Arena Commander is so unpopular that nobody will give it a second look. Hypothetical question: What's our highest resolution oldman_parp? If I'm going to be accused of being some form of vidya-game fifth column, I demand a T-shirt.
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Yeah, didn't manage to find any CInotG employees whilst in Gamescom. I was at the business area (where they would definitely not be) most of the time because there was free beer and spirits and the amount of people was manageable. The normal area was just jam packed with huge masses of people, so after taking a good look on the all the entertaiment areas the first day, I just retreated to business area. The Planet Zoo "booth" was p. awesome though.
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Hazamuth posted:most of the time because there was free beer and spirits _priorities_.
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Quavers posted:This is just getting sadder and sadder The Space Invaders one actually made me visit twitter to confirm you FUDsters were not making poo poo up. And drat, that poo poo is sad.
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so my brother comes in he: “did you hear about this ai that me: “is it talktotransformer?“ he: “yes“
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One of our deep cover goons needs to post a question on why the CIG "reps" were wearing Arena shirts from half a decade ago and not Squadron 42 shirts. I mean as the greatest marketing genius, surely building excitement about the first AAAA game in history would be a home run?
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Hav posted:_priorities_. Yeah, I was more excited before we left but somehow I just couldn't get my hype up. Bannerlord was probably the only thing I was eager to try, but even for that I didn't have the time. Otherwise it was just gameplay videos and trailers which I can see at my own convenience once I get back or the possibility of waiting an hour to play something I would play when it comes out, so ehh I can wait. Was a good trip businesswise though so I am elated about that.
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Hav posted:I lashed together something that acts as a repo for interesting blobs of text and use https://pypi.org/project/wordcloud/ for the actual production. Thanks 
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https://twitter.com/RobertsSpaceInd/status/1164627910600224768  Dementropy fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Aug 22, 2019 |
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back in the days ci wanted to sweep the floor with other “so-so“ game studios EXCEPT maybe Rockstar but gamedev is haaard... now they play space invaders at gamescom (and would be happy to be on par with the others) thats just crazy! Sectopod posted:I knew his hair reminded me of someone: drat thats spot on! i had the same feeling but couldnt quite nail it down. BumbleOne fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Aug 22, 2019 |
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Quavers posted:Star Citizen: Royale Marine 100 dollars jump out of the wallet
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Oh, I like the detail of landing pads lowering when they spacejump, that's nice. This will work nicely with the podcast-background game that Elite is, seeing how slow the ship moves. So now that's 3 big space games with carriers, Elite, NMS and EVE. Meanwhile Star Citizen still making land based vehicles, drat.
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Popete posted:It's bonkers that SQ42 has a hard deadline release next year and they still don't have enough to actually show anything at a major games convention. I mean of course they don't have anything to show, but the fact that Citizens don't see how that's a pretty huge red flag is something else. Pssst... they deadline is for the "beta". Everything is fine. Buy more ships.
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So... Frontier's financials are public, right? How much money have those losers made since the release of E:D using their stupid strategy of making and then releasing games?
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trucutru posted:Pssst... they deadline is for the "beta". Everything is fine. Buy more ships. Beta means feature complete testing. So unless CIG twists the meaning of Beta a LOT, that would indeed be a very big milestone for SQ42 - the game would essentially have to be mostly finished. Although to be fair they're already stretching the definition of "Alpha" by letting customers playtest it.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Beta means feature complete testing. So unless CIG twists the meaning of Beta And Chris has already said that SC will never be "complete" so its Beta cannot be (by definition) feature complete. You obviously know nothing of software development. You're dismissed.
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