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Oh believe me I know it hurts. I was there.

Here's the thing.. what they had originally planned was peanuts compared to what is coming - they realised what was happening quite some time after the community did, and they did ask the community if we wanted to keep pushing the boundaries. 80%+ said to keep pushing. What 'changed' was when CryTek couldn't pay their staff and virtually their whole R&D team went to work for Brian Chambers in what became F42DE. (I met him and he told us what happened). Chris could never have anticipated that happening in 2014 or earlier. Watch the old 'Next Great Starship' episodes you will see that Sean Tracy was originally CryTeks' 'Roving ambassador'.

Chris had a dilemma - what to do with the massive community response and their sheer force of will to make the BDSSE (we were the one's breaking Guinness Book of World Record's), or stick to his original plan. He went with his community and his 'team'. I don't know about you, but that makes me proud! Every time you insult CIG or Chris Roberts you're actually insulting the achievements of this community.

The first Star Wars movie was in 1975 - I know I was there! A wide-eyed 14 year old! Nothing great comes easy.

No limits! That's why in 2012 you couldn't get a drat thing made unless it had swords, magic and dragons! This community had other ideas. Chris? He's just the guy who steers the boat - this community is the engine that future gamers will appreciate, it was strong enough to push against the tide. You may be interested in 'yet another game release', the majority wanted something ground breaking... and we made it possible. We have a franchise that will last decades. Something to rival Star Wars or Star Trek.

We did that!

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Oh.. I expect the marketing - as Sandie said when they acknowledged the Calder's investment (marketing and licensing is what they do) - 'I always wondered where the marketing budget was coming from' because Chris always affirmed that every penny of community funding would go toward the games development. Just as I expect the quiet pause and deep breath before the plunge. This is the quiet time.. won't be long now.

Ducks in a row... that's how the grown-ups do it.

Say you had $40+ million (over 2 buy in options) from a successful family business grown over decades wouldn't you look very carefully at where you were going to put it? No? We should listen to your 10c analysis? Yeah.. OK. Sure.

75% of all Lucas Film revenue came not from movie ticket sales but from franchises, licensing and marketing - that's where the Calders and other investors will make their money back. Ask Mark Hamill about being depicted on a bag of cauliflower florets. Chris and the team, they are game developers doing what they said they would do... Use every penny of our pledges to build a universe we could live in that would carry on into the future.

marumaru posted:

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80%+ said to keep pushing

Daztek posted:

Remember the janky Star Citizen killer Spacebourne?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIHQbOk6P-M

The Titanic posted:

Dear backers,

Thanks for all your money you loving simps.

Oh and buy this new ship. It's shaped like my giant cock when I am hyped on vitamins after going for a straight 3 hour run and then coming home ready to gently caress!

Love,
Chris

Torquemada posted:

Still with this misleading horseshit. 80% of the people who took part in the poll said keep pushing: at the time the poll occurred, this mathed out to approximately 17% of the backer population. It’s this kind of math that allowed the British government to claim a clear mandate for Brexit.

marumaru posted:

CIG's 2021 top moments email








lol

JugbandDude posted:

Imagine writing so many words to convince yourself that your money was not wasted, and the pipelines will kick in anytime now.

Ducks in a row! That’s how grown-ups do it

JugbandDude posted:

Imagine writing so many words to convince yourself that your money was not wasted, and the pipelines will kick in anytime now.

Ducks in a row! That’s how grown-ups do it

Mirificus posted:

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The first Star Wars movie was in 1975 - I know I was there! A wide-eyed 14 year old! Nothing great comes easy.

Plan R posted:

I want that black hoodie with the black logo you can barely see. I'll pay like three hundred dollars in bitcoin.

Thoatse posted:

https://i.imgur.com/bJsI6sr.mp4

Pooned posted:

Last time i played Star Citizen the installer was like 50gb, it was choppy as gently caress and there wasn't anything to do in the game yet except fly around doing god awful dog-fights with 1 ship type.

That was like 2015 I think. How much has changed since then??

Sanya Juutilainen posted:

Remember seeing the pics of the damage this caused, needed lots of stitches.

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I've been thinking about making this thread for a little while, but my experiences in Star Citizen over the last couple of weeks have pushed me over the edge, so here I am.

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Disclaimer: I paid 30USD in the first 24 hours of the campaign all those years ago, so I am a long time supporter of the game HOWEVER, I have played very little of what they have put out until 3.15.1 came out a couple of months ago, as what was there was very barebones and barely held together. I was quite happy to just sit and wait 20 years for this game to eventually become a thing.
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Also disclaimer: Some of their practices could definitely be improved. I dont like that there are some ships you can buy with real money that you can't buy ingame (yet). I feel like if its flyable ingame then it should be purchasable ingame. In terms of their bananas ship prices, it really doesn't matter to me. If people are willing to pay it, why not? And also you can purchase them all (eventually) ingame. Almost all are available right now ingame, so buying with cash is really just a way of supporting the devs.
That having been said, yes its totally valid to feel like they shouldn't be doing any of that at this point in development.
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Also Also disclaimer: YES. It is in Alpha. YES. It does have some annoying bugs. However, I find the fun I've had more than outweighs the annoyances from bugs
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Lmao oh Resetera

Star Citizen: Believe it or not, its a real (amazing) game

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Bought a ship yesterday, and even before starting playing, the community gifted me a pink cat armor. I have no complaints.

Will report more once I actually played it tomorrow

A good video to get a better view of what this game actually is:

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lol. Only someone that is absolutely clueless as to what is going on underneath the hood of this game would say something like this. 10 years ago there was nothing coming even remotely close to the levels of simulation SC was aiming for (and currently reaching), and there is still nothing close today. History dictates that will continue to be the case for the foreseeable future.

https://youtu.be/2muGWtX8e7g

Pooned posted:

Last time i played Star Citizen the installer was like 50gb, it was choppy as gently caress and there wasn't anything to do in the game yet except fly around doing god awful dog-fights with 1 ship type.

That was like 2015 I think. How much has changed since then??

Mirificus posted:

If you succeed CiG.... I mean... my god. You'll raise the bar to a whole other level posted:

fire spreading through the ship and you have to leave your seat mid battle to extinguish it before it reaches the power drive or you're dead.
meeting alien civilizations
engineers having to learn the ships technical build in order to reroute power to certain relais depending on the situation, making sure the crew can survive
your own persistent quarters, hangar, habs, outpost, where all the stuff you gather will remain untill needed.
fuel, component, weapon, and ship prices all dependant on the ingame economy
triggering the most peaceful player into a cold blooded killer or he or she will lose his/her ship
org warfare
your own ship names and interiors, together with modular components, engineering gameplay, skins, outer hull wear, and battle scars making it truly your ship
100 star systems which you can visit with that ship
finding an abandoned temple or derilict spacecraft on a wild planet which you can explore
visiting a small outpost on a distant moon from an outer system
pirates trying to board your ship after they've disabled it, and you gearing up to counter them
alien animals and primitive intelligence
walking on board a docked 890 jump for a luxury mission
hacking a terminal to get valuable data back to the boss, 6 star systems away.
sending probes out to the far edge of a new found system mapping it on your holotable
loading your magazine before battle with a valkyrie on the background
boarding a derilict reclaimer
landing on a jungle planet
NPC's with full on scedules and outfits hinting where they're from.
Flying through canyons!
...

The list goes on and on.

CiG... IF you can pull this off... God I hope you can pull it off. Please pull it off.

trucutru posted:

Huh? I guess this explains everything. He somehow slid here from some parallel universe.

Rugz posted:

With time rapidly running out for a 2021 Letter From The Chairman what will the attempt at narrative control be:

• Give him a break it's Christmas
  
• Give him a break he is moving his whole family to the UK
  
• Give him a break he is busy sorting out SQ42
  
• We saw him months ago we don't need another announcement
  
• Nobody actually cares about those things so I'm glad he isn't wasting time on them
  

trucutru posted:

It's quite fitting that the barometer is the guy who has managed to deliver even less games than Roberts in that past quarter of a century. Dude has plenty of experience in the field.

GhostDog posted:

This is an absolutely depressing read, the ideas expressed about humans, work, leisure time and so on are really loving dire.

Dehumanize yourself and face to blockchain.

GhostDog posted:

This is an absolutely depressing read, the ideas expressed about humans, work, leisure time and so on are really loving dire.

Dehumanize yourself and face to blockchain.