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64057 posted:
Squadron 42 cannot sell to commandos with a helmet on.
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64057 posted:
This is really strange, why would they straight up stop selling the it just to change the price? Also I love how the page for SQ42 has a big section for latest updates that links to a video from April 2018. https://youtu.be/h2mbQoQ4lLQ  Early days… colonelwest fucked around with this message at 02:41 on May 30, 2023 |
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May 30, 2023 02:39
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did CIG just ghost cancel Squadron 42 lol?
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May 30, 2023 02:47
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https://i.imgur.com/asCZMtl.gifv
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May 30, 2023 03:08
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It wouldn't surprise me if on top of normal mismanagement they hosed up in some contractual sense, and even though they scraped together a shooting week of their day rates on the backers' dime, talked a couple agents into getting "big names" to perform, they didn't dot some of the the umlauts on the contracts. And the talent realized what an absolute gently caress-show this is, don't want their likenesses on it, and lawyered up.
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May 30, 2023 03:16
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Owlbear Camus posted:It wouldn't surprise me if on top of normal mismanagement they hosed up in some contractual sense, and even though they scraped together a shooting week of their day rates on the backers' dime, talked a couple agents into getting "big names" to perform, they didn't dot some of the the umlauts on the contracts. And the talent realized what an absolute gently caress-show this is, don't want their likenesses on it, and lawyered up.  THE BEST drat SPACE SIMULATOR EVER 
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May 30, 2023 03:26
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Owlbear Camus posted:It wouldn't surprise me if on top of normal mismanagement they hosed up in some contractual sense, and even though they scraped together a shooting week of their day rates on the backers' dime, talked a couple agents into getting "big names" to perform, they didn't dot some of the the umlauts on the contracts. And the talent realized what an absolute gently caress-show this is, don't want their likenesses on it, and lawyered up. Honestly, yeah this has to be one of the more likely outcomes.
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May 30, 2023 03:28
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Yeah we’ve speculated a bunch that the contracts for all of those famous actors had some sort of clause for how long they could use their likenesses for marketing. A legal issue would be a nice out for them, and most Citizens would actually cheer SQ42 getting cancelled at this point. But who knows? With CIG it could just be gross incompetence, and it will take them weeks just to update the page with a new price. It would be hilarious if it’s suddenly $70. colonelwest fucked around with this message at 04:37 on May 30, 2023 |
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May 30, 2023 03:47
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Of course it's going to be a price increase, CIG doesn't ever reduce the price of anything. I think they'll release a trailer soon and then put the pre-orders back up for $70. This will probably net them a bunch of sales to make up for the slower year financially they've been having. I've said it before but I think backers won't let SQ42 be a financial failure, they will buy multiple copies for themselves/friends/whomever just to keep the whole thing going because all they really care for is SC.
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May 30, 2023 03:51
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my money is on a price increase, but with a 1 week lead up sale BUY NOW for $50.99 before the price goes up FOREVER get it while it's on sale this price won't last forever! next week it will be $89.99 ! and if you buy now we will throw in a free mousepad that has someone else's logo scratched off and we had someone sharpie 'CIG' on it instead
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May 30, 2023 05:10
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Taking it off the storefront really doesn't make sense to me any way I slice it, tbh, regardless of marketing strategy and FOMO. I have to wonder if there's some dumb accounting or tax lawyering bullshit going on.
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May 30, 2023 05:17
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:Taking it off the storefront really doesn't make sense to me any way I slice it, tbh, regardless of marketing strategy and FOMO. I have to wonder if there's some dumb accounting or tax lawyering bullshit going on. i can only assume they think the entire gaming world is also stupid with a very short term memory so if they take it off the page, people will forget it was for sale and when it comes back suddenly WOW WE JUST MADE 5 MILLION IN SALES either real or artificial, as there was once a suspicion that they were boosting the sales tracker numbers with influx of cash from their investors the Calders If someone sees' lots of something being sold they can only assume the product is good and they also should buy it!
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May 30, 2023 05:28
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All the ships they give away to streamers have to go in the tracker to? Employees also get free ships I'm pretty sure. There is a reason the tracker never touches zero, they are padding it with their own purchases.
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May 30, 2023 08:14
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colonelwest posted:But who knows? With CIG it could just be gross incompetence, and it will take them weeks just to update the page with a new price. It would be hilarious if it’s suddenly $70. I still have the box of Freespace 2 with price sticker and that would now be $82 after 24 years inflation. So that's what the BDSSE should cost.
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May 30, 2023 08:20
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I'd guess someone's taking them to court over not delivering a game they paid for 10 years ago and now they're taking it down as damage control.
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May 30, 2023 09:10
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There might be something to this, or not. gently caress knows. This is only hearsay, I've not looked into it. It could all be nonsense. However, the UK, where SquidGame404 is being "developed" (tax breaks, at the discretion of HMRC), is introducing some new consumer protections that go into effect in a few months - August maybe? The one that caught my eye is something that seems obvious but really does need to be written down and codified in law - paraphrased: if you are offering a product or service, you should deliver that product or service in a timely manner. April-May is when the advisory says that companies should have completed a review of their prod/serv portfolios to ensure they're in compliance. Basically don't offer something for sale if you cannot deliver. Shart Citizen gets around this by already being "released". You can pay money, SquirtGun999 is in no way in this position. It is nowhere. Folk in the UK will have receipts for purchases from 10 years ago. Even PissCat says it is a separate game (i.e. a product). Thus pretty much everyone in the UK who preordered will be eligible for a full no-questions-asked refund and if CIG refuse there's worse to come (fines etc - and, in my fantasyland, a review of their tax incentive situation dun dun dunnnnnn). (NB yes I know you can already get a refund in the UK, if you're persistent.) The timing and situation is suspicious as hell. You need to take down the entire page to change the price, one cell in a back-end database, on your flagship product that just happens, at this point, right at the end of the advisory period, to be out of compliance with some pretty stringent consumer laws coming in? Get to gently caress. Pulleth the other one, it hath got bells on, i'faith. Again, this could all be baloney, and probably is. They might just remake the page and put it up again, and continue ripping people off, as usual. Remember thse posts are for entertainment only, don't @ me. Unlike PissCat, who believes every word he writes.
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May 30, 2023 09:55
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Only Kindness posted:don't @ me
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May 30, 2023 12:23
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Only Kindness posted:don't @ me
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May 30, 2023 13:10
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Only Kindness posted:don't @ me. I cannot help but hear your post as being delivered by John Oliver. Now I think about it, Shart Citizen would be a great Last Week Tonight story.
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May 30, 2023 13:37
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@me
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May 30, 2023 13:42
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Apollodorus posted:I cannot help but hear your post as being delivered by John Oliver. Writers have their work cut out for them trying to explain this in 20 minutes
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May 30, 2023 13:43
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@Jobbo_Fett YOU'RE STILL EARLY JOBB_FETT FOLKS. ‼️ i can't believe i just claimed $670 from the $LOYAL airdrop, thank you @eth_ben 😌 🔗 [url]http://loyal.gl[url] 🎁 $PEPE #BTCUSDT #LOYAL $BEN #BEN $PSYOP #PSYOP $SFUND #CUMINU #DYOR $LOVE $MONG #HODL #Airdrops #crypto $MONG #1000x #ShibaInu $XRP
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May 30, 2023 14:17
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Lmao what the gently caress?
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May 30, 2023 14:18
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dr_rat posted:@Jobbo_Fett YOU'RE STILL EARLY JOBB_FETT FOLKS. ‼️ 
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May 30, 2023 14:40
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:Taking it off the storefront really doesn't make sense to me any way I slice it, tbh, regardless of marketing strategy and FOMO. I have to wonder if there's some dumb accounting or tax lawyering bullshit going on.
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May 30, 2023 16:52
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SC has been boring for months+, this is actually the most intriguing thing to happen in a long time. I'm actually kind of invested in what might happen when SQ42 returns to the storefront, or what it means if it just... Doesn't.
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May 30, 2023 17:23
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Changing the price. Never been done before!
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May 30, 2023 17:32
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Citizens bragging about buying SQ42 before it was pulled from the store. Meanwhile if you had invested $45 into SPY index fund on October 19th 2012 it would be worth $160.59 today.
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May 30, 2023 17:40
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Only Kindness posted:There might be something to this, or not. gently caress knows. This is only hearsay, I've not looked into it. It could all be nonsense. Combined with a little sneaky TOS change they could make it fly - or at the very least spin around hanging in mid-orbit like there is no gravity Someone should do the ol' TOS scan for changes or see when it was last updated, or is updated again in the next couple weeks
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May 30, 2023 18:13
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May 30, 2023 18:26
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That is just cult victim speak.
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May 30, 2023 18:34
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Prompt: write a forums post about Star citizen videos written by a cultistquote:# Why Star Citizen videos are the holy scriptures and you should all worship them Not sure why it trimmed the conclusion, I’m assuming the AI is now corrupted by the Cult of Imperium Games
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May 30, 2023 18:39
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I wonder what percent of the AI data reference ecosystem is Star Citizen related.
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i am a moron posted:Prompt: write a forums post about Star citizen videos written by a cultist I think it shot itself after writing as much as it did op. Also this is way, way too uncanny and spot on. Dang.
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May 30, 2023 19:04
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quote:When CIG first explained that bullets would be actually physicalized in the game - you load it into a magazine, it actually travels down the barrel and flies through whatever medium (and it's effects are applied to that bullet travel), it has weight and kinetic energy, they nod and think they have fully understood what that particular form of physicalisation refers to - but that isn't all it refers to. The bullet will not impact a 'hitbox' it will impact a physical object in the game and it's effect will be transferred to that physical object - permanently, the 'damage' is appropriate and at the exact site that the bullet hit affecting both the surface and underlying structure of that physicalized object, and even any object inside that object. The current in-game hitbox detection is legacy code from CryEngine. So great, take the time to examine that legacy code effect if you want, but maybe it would inform players better if you look at some innovation CIG HAS actually implemented and explain that?  I'm going going to get into the "but why?" question regarding having it simulate a gun's chambering action and how that's completely meaningless and a waste of dev resources, because I know that they never promised this and aren't even thinking about this. Here's a real question, if CIG is really going to do all this poo poo than why did they use CryEngine to begin with? What is the point of starting with an engine that you are going to replace every single piece of and then use the excuse of "well of course firing guns is broken, we are going to replace it in a couple decades anyway. It's on the roadmap!" edit: also the idea that Chris Roberts has written a single line of code anytime within the last 3 decades is pretty laughable. He had already moved to project management and mostly just filming cutscenes by Wing Commander III, let alone now. Cutedge fucked around with this message at 19:12 on May 30, 2023 |
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May 30, 2023 19:08
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The reason they went with Cryengine is because Crytek offered to mock up a demo for their Kickstarter, that's it. Now here we are 11 years later and CIG is stuck using an out of date branch of a fork of an engine that's been hacked and spaghettified into a horrible mess that can't do what they want it to do.
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May 30, 2023 19:18
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giZm posted:That is just cult victim speak. BRB just loading the metallurgical database to determinate the tensile strength of the Idris Alloy, chart it on the Brinell scale and compare it to the sectional density of the Bullet before I can tell you whether you actually hit the guy making GBS threads in his Space Toilet.
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May 30, 2023 19:21
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i am a moron posted:Prompt: write a forums post about Star citizen videos written by a cultist Not gonna lie, this is up there with stimpire.txt as some of the best SC literature ever. 
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May 30, 2023 20:03
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Just think of how much money CIG will make selling this tech to police departments across the world! Bullet trajectories reconstituted to exact materials, distances at which the shot was taken and inner barrel features of the weapon will be trivial in SQ42.
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FishMcCool posted:Not gonna lie, this is up there with stimpire.txt as some of the best SC literature ever. Brought to you by Bing AI (tm) which also made all the weird indentations and poo poo it’s pants during the conclusion
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