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This image encapsulates everything about this "game."
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Mr. Pickles posted:all the posts about Lum the Mad and how he's been sucking Garriott's dick have been removed afaik, so no real point in reading this imo Lum's posts are still here tho
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Oct 10, 2018 04:21
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I dont recall Lum promoting the game particularly aggressively or anything like that, he just repeatedly claimed things were fine when they very clearly were not. I honestly dont know what people expected him to do though, for him to just poo poo all over his employer by admitting the game he was working on was a mess probably wouldnt end well for him. I do have to wonder if Lum looks back on the arc of his life over the past 20 or so years and wonders where it all went wrong though. Talk about becoming the very thing you hate.
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Oct 10, 2018 05:10
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Yes, exactly. I'm also kinda thankful all those mean posts I made about Lum sucking dick have been removed from the archives, because wth But I can't help but be mad at how those scammers took all that money and then sent Lum here to gloat about it Like, "haha we're old and dumb and we took your money, here's a story about some rich fucker shooting an uzi, whose dick I also sucked"
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Oct 10, 2018 08:32
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CoffeeBooze posted:I dont recall Lum promoting the game particularly aggressively or anything like that, he just repeatedly claimed things were fine when they very clearly were not. I honestly dont know what people expected him to do though, for him to just poo poo all over his employer by admitting the game he was working on was a mess probably wouldnt end well for him. Lum literally made his name calling out garbage like this “game”. He was a trustworthy friend to consumers precisely because he would hold game makers’ feet to the fire. He loved the industry, and because of that love, he challenged it. He wasn’t particularly clever, nor inside, nor technical - just honest. The only thing he brought to the discussion was his zeal for calling out bullshit where bullshit landed. Lum brokered his reputation for shroud of the god dang avatar and that is, in turns, both hilarious and sad. All he had was his reputation for scathing honesty. Now? Whoops my bad, play this totes awesome game
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Oct 10, 2018 08:55
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IKR???
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Oct 10, 2018 09:24
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I backed this in 2014 because I That's my Shroud of the Avatar story. 
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Oct 11, 2018 12:46
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so did garriot put all the money in his bank account because you could’ve made a proper game for a fraction of what they raised.
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Oct 13, 2018 12:19
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Groovelord Neato posted:so did garriot put all the money in his bank account because you could’ve made a proper game for a fraction of what they raised. Yes, the goon money is now safely deposited in the personal account of Richard Garriott, soon to be deceased disclaimer: I am not going to kill him, but there's a thing called karma (totally real), and according to karma if you steal goon money you die horribly
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Oct 13, 2018 14:03
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Mr. Pickles posted:Yes, the goon money is now safely deposited in the personal account of Richard Garriott, soon to be deceased He needed exactly that amount of money to test something.
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Oct 13, 2018 15:13
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Licarn posted:I backed this in 2014 because I Why the gently caress do you people back for so goddamn much? Like ok I've backed one game ever and that was battletech for like $25 bucks, and here you guys are throwing "I blew my families christmas money on hotdog guy" levels of cash at a guy who hasn't made ANY game since the early aughts" for a game that lol lets face it, even if it was good was going to be a one time $60 purchase. I mean I make bad money decisions to the tune of buying wildstar when it came out, but that was like a $60 oopsie. EDIT: I felt the same way before we knew SC was a scam and goons were like buying $500 bucks worth of internet spaceships. I can't justify spending more than a few dollarinos for "Maybe a product someday".
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Oct 18, 2018 00:41
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Rhymenoserous posted:Why the gently caress do you people back for so goddamn much? One word... reputation. We like to point at Star Citizen as the prime example of throwing money down the shitter. But, let's look back at the nineties. Back then, Chris Roberts came out with the Wing Commander series of games, which were consistently great (albeit with hefty hardware requirements), while our buddy Derek Smart was making GBS threads out terrible games and broken promises. So, when Crobber announced he was giving birth to The Greatest Game Ever, and Smart called him a fraud, people threw money at Roberts and laughed at Smart. Why? Because Roberts had a good reputation and Smart had a lovely one. Lord British hasn't made a good game in a long time, but the ones he made long ago were awesome. Ultima V in particular was so good it ought to be hung on the Smithsonian wall. So when LB unveiled a new Avatar game, thousands of forty year old nerds fondly remembered their childhoods spent slouched in front of the Commodore 64, and sent British their kids' college funds. Reputation.
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Oct 18, 2018 00:59
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the wing commander games were not consistently great what the gently caress are you smoking even gaming magazines back then gave them like 6/10 at best
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Oct 18, 2018 02:06
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Gynovore posted:One word... reputation. Yeah but I'm one of those 40 year old nerds, and I remember Ultima 8, 9 and Tabula Rasa. He lost the thread well before he stopped making games. Milkfred E. Moore posted:the wing commander games were not consistently great what the gently caress are you smoking WC 1 and 2 and Privateer were great. And yeah that's about it.
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Oct 18, 2018 02:15
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Rhymenoserous posted:Why the gently caress do you people back for so goddamn much? Like ok I've backed one game ever and that was battletech for like $25 bucks, and here you guys are throwing "I blew my families christmas money on hotdog guy" levels of cash at a guy who hasn't made ANY game since the early aughts" for a game that lol lets face it, even if it was good was going to be a one time $60 purchase. Spending money floods your brain with happy chemicals and people are bad at understanding abstract concepts like money
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Oct 18, 2018 02:31
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I spent 100 dollars on the Barkley 2 Kickstarter campaign but at least I got a body pillow out of it.
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Oct 18, 2018 02:49
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Gynovore posted:One word... reputation. Did you fall into a hole around the release of WC2? Crobbler's last effort was a project so badly mismanaged he was thrown off it in the hopes they could cobble together an ok game.
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Oct 18, 2018 03:13
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Byolante posted:Did you fall into a hole around the release of WC2? Crobbler's last effort was a project so badly mismanaged he was thrown off it in the hopes they could cobble together an ok game. I thought it was freelancer he got chucked off of by Microsoft in hopes a game would actually happen... this happened more than once? 
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Oct 18, 2018 03:40
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Rhymenoserous posted:I thought it was freelancer he got chucked off of by Microsoft in hopes a game would actually happen... this happened more than once? Yeah, he hosed up Strike Commander so much they had to throw out all of his poo poo I've never understood why people think studios are inherently their friends, since in order to not collapse and lose their jobs they have to turn a profit somehow. it's like thinking the guys at a dealership are your friend or have "a reputation" because the cars look cool? but that's how it goes
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Oct 18, 2018 04:17
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Gynovore posted:One word... reputation. lol
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Oct 18, 2018 08:01
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:the wing commander games were not consistently great what the gently caress are you smoking I have My money was well spent e: gary. oldman. Mr. Pickles fucked around with this message at 11:42 on Oct 18, 2018 |
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Oct 18, 2018 11:39
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I almost backed Shroud on the power of rose coloured glasses, but then I remembered Tabula Rasa, and Freelancer, and my sad realisation that the superstar devs of yesteryear didn't have any idea how to work with modern management and coding demands. I would have only been out forty bucks though, because I'm poor and not THAT stupid. I hope the Coles are going to be all right. 
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Oct 18, 2018 12:37
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you could invest the money you saved on Sea of Thieves. I'm on the fence about that one too, as goons seem to be having loads of fun with it
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Oct 18, 2018 12:39
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Did Sea of Thieves ever get more content? I remember at launch people saying that it was fun for a dozen hours or so, then got repetitive as hell and unfun.
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Oct 18, 2018 13:08
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Nope, no notable content additions afaik, just sweet pubbie tears in a colourful setting with boats and stuff
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Oct 18, 2018 14:32
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I was drunk when I backed SotA so I didn't remember about Tabula Rasa until later
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Oct 18, 2018 22:52
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Don't buy sea of thieves
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Oct 20, 2018 22:59
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Arms_Akimbo posted:Don't buy sea of thieves Why not
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Oct 20, 2018 23:43
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Arms_Akimbo posted:Don't buy sea of thieves for console FTFY If you like griefing, then the game is custom built for that and a hilarious good time. But don't play it on console or the PC players will roll right over you.
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Oct 20, 2018 23:46
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btw it's f2p now
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Oct 27, 2018 14:53
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mike12345 posted:btw it's f2p now Sea of Thieves or SotA?
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Oct 27, 2018 19:22
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It's been ftp since early this year, but the restrictions on it prevent you from having what little fun could be had.
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Oct 28, 2018 03:19
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Freakazoid_ posted:It's been ftp since early this year, but the restrictions on it prevent you from having what little fun could be had. oh poo poo thought that was new
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Oct 28, 2018 06:50
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guess I was right after all, it's now fully f2p https://www.pcgamer.com/ultima-inspired-mmo-shroud-of-the-avatar-goes-free-to-play/ quote:Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, the Ultima-inspired MMO developed by Richard Garriott's Portalarium, has gone fully free-to-play. The change comes just seven months after the game entered full release, and four years since it first became available as an Early Access game on Steam.
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Oct 31, 2018 15:36
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Basically the game is on its last legs and will shut down soon. Going free to play this quickly is always a bad sign.
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Oct 31, 2018 16:19
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It's one of the weirdest, worst MMO's I've ever played. I'll never forget zoning out of the newbie zone and being placed in a Playstation 1 style JRPG overworld.
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Oct 31, 2018 16:26
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I said come in! posted:Basically the game is on its last legs and will shut down soon. Going free to play this quickly is always a bad sign. Wasn't that always the plan? f2p and make bucks off of micro-transactions?
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Oct 31, 2018 20:00
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Nope, their plan was to create a supe rsuccessful virtual economy like UO and get stinking rich selling unity houses
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Oct 31, 2018 20:03
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Frog Act posted:Nope, their plan was to create a supe rsuccessful virtual economy like UO and get stinking rich selling unity houses so the plan was stupid straight from the get go.
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I said come in! posted:Basically the game is on its last legs and will shut down soon. Going free to play this quickly is always a bad sign. Generally, shifting quickly through a bunch of payment options means "We're circling the drain".
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