The Titanic posted:

This one makes no sense because apparently Sandi is already a model, so you'd imagine it'd be easier just to get her to pose instead of photoshop her head on some clip art.

But I mean standing there does taking some acting... so maybe that's why.

Hav posted:

The Titanic *commits*.

stingtwo posted:

Someone must have images Sandi posing with the cardboard cutout.

G0RF posted:

Chris and Erin decided weeks before CitCon 2016 that they weren’t going to show Squadron at the event. They started filming “The Road to CitizenCon” weeks ahead of time because they knew they’d be pulling it last minute, and that doing so would infuriate backers, many of whom expected the game was releasing by Christmas. (”Answer The Call: 2016”, the trailer said.)

The whole thing was designed to guilt trip backers into regret about their own disappointment and anger. It was like no other video they’d ever released before, probably filmed and edited by the same sort of boutique shop that Red Bull Media House farmed our their Levels advertorial to.

It was just another snowjob, and it worked like a charm.

MedicineHut posted:

The level of effort for mind loving and psycotrash spin and PR these fuckers get to just to fake it and keep up appearances is just astounding. I mean, most companies use a level of spin in all their marketing, but these guys go well over and beyond. Backers money well spent. If they just applied the same amount of work and energy in producing an actual game we would probably have something playable and released by now.

trucutru posted:

What I'm saying is that, once Chris said that he would be in charge, they project was already doomed to fail.

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because it “contains proprietary and previously undisclosed information about the development, processes, and intellectual property, including source code, of one of CIG’s most valuable assets, its video game Squadron 42.”

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Compelling reasons to seal a court record exist when that record “might be used . . . as sources of business information that might harm a litigant’s competitive standing.”

Scruffpuff posted:

These people can't spot trajectory to save their lives. If they really cared about a space game they'd have hung Chris out to dry after 3 years.

It's like Chris started 30 miles from the north pole, promised to take people there, then promptly started traveling south. Backers didn't bitch, and Chris got farther and farther away from his goal. The spin was "well the earth is a sphere, eventually this path will take us to the north pole, be patient, you obviously don't know anything about sphere development." Then once his dumb rear end hit the south pole, he started digging. Instead of bailing, backers defended this too. "Obviously going through the earth is a more direct path than the extra miles across a curved surface, you obviously don't understand tunneling development." Now Chris is scratching his rear end, digging tunnels all over the world, going in circles, retracing his steps, and he's long forgotten what his original promise was.

When he runs out of money, he'll declare the place he's standing to be the destination, and backers will claim it's where they wanted to go all along.

They don't care about a game. They care about trusting someone they incorrectly view as a "renegade success against the system," a system their gaming-conspiracy-theory-addled minds have largely created out of whole cloth, never realizing that the power over these "unstoppable" corporations was in their wallets all along. And in the ultimate irony, those exact wallets, and that exact power, built a criminal company whose exploits far surpassed the worst excesses of the companies they so fervently claimed they despised.

Rotten Red Rod posted:

Did they? The current roadmap shows none of the missions having completed the greybox step as of last update. So I'm guessing they reverted all that work at some point?

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tuo posted:

I'd love to read those redacted sections in the latest court documents.

Pixelate posted:

Stop trying to harm CIG’s competitive standing!

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The terms “Alpha” and “Beta” are probably the most commonly misused/misunderstood terms by players, mostly because of video game marketing departments. These terms have essentially become marketing terms that aren’t anywhere close to internal Alpha and Beta milestone requirements, setting weirdly unrealistic expectations in the public.

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When a project goes “Alpha”, it means that the production phase is finished. The project is dubbed “content-complete” and “feature-complete”, meaning that no more content or features are allowed to be added to the game. When a game goes to Alpha, we set our sights on fixing bugs and polishing the game experience. The more bugs we have to fix, the less we get to polish. The term “content-complete” also means that artists and designers are barred from adding or adjusting content/assets anymore - they are only allowed to make changes if the producers approve the change, which usually requires a specific bug that must be deemed important enough to make the change.

Pixelate posted:

That APPLICATION TO FILE UNDER SEAL doc is available on courtlistener now.

I imagine it’s pretty generic, but the reason given for the redaction is:

Pixelate posted:

Stop trying to harm CIG’s competitive standing!

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WORKAROUND

Crash ship into rock, wing breaks off, shaking stops.

Virtual Captain posted:

"CIG’s source code" and "valuable asset" occupying the same sentence is a good laugh.

Sanya Juutilainen posted:

Star Citizen: everyone has at least two ships now

Hav posted:

I think the best thing was assuming that we’d see nothing substantive from discovery *this early* and Ci!G manages to surprise and delight.

I mean, the only way this could get better is a white Bronco on the freeway; no, a balloon escapes with Chris and the only copy of the source code aboard. The balloon is shaped like Ben Lesnick.

Fidelitious posted:

I'm leaving EA in 6 months, but your words still hurt me.

please purchase more lootboxes so I get a good bonus this year

Asmodai_00 posted:

If your ship did a flip up in the air and it's full of cargo, kill yourself

Inacio posted:

oof

Colostomy Bag posted:

Who doesn't?

no_recall posted:

Polaris was originally designed by a pedo who’s currently serving jailtime.

tuo posted:

Regarding the discussion from the last couple of pages in regard to the "Road to CitizenCon"-bullshit.

Remember that CIG showed an unfinished battlefield clone which no-one asked for, which they spent eight months development time on, during last CitCon, where the "lucky" CIG-paid streamers that got to try it out had nothing better to say than "it's fun, but it needs some more polish", which means "it's unfinished poo poo". They decided to show this!

So I can't entertain the thought that they had a 60, 70 or even 80% finished vertical slice of SQ42, which they would have either shown prerecorded or played on rails anyway, when they came to the conclusion "that's not good enough".

"That's not good enough for our esteemed backers and whales" never was a concideration at CIG. They release completely broken stuff regularly, show demos which even they can't keep from crashing and burning.

CIG shows everything they have, in any functional or disfunctional state that it's in, to reak in more money. I agree with other that - at least to me - the conclusion is that there is no SQ42 at the moment, and there also wasn't any in 2016. They might have outsourced some "vertical slice" which didn't come back in time.

That spinning asset youtube clip from couple of weeks ago is a pretty good indication that they don't hesitate to show even the most basic stuff as "progress" and "proof that everything is okay and coming along".

I'd love to read those redacted sections in the latest court documents.

Agony Aunt posted:

> source code, of one of CIG’s most valuable assets, its video game Squadron 42

One of CIGs most vauable assets is a game that doesn't exist?