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Napoleon Bonaparty posted:Everything about this is disgusting. am i understandin this right - the 10k backer reward is some exclusive cosmetic space room? that is horrifying. whats more surprising to me - as someone who didnt read this thread till today - is the crazy antigoon sentiment by the sc guys. but i tend to stick in the splatoon and miiverse threads so i dunno. but lordy some of the meltdowns over on the reddit and various blogs are unbelievably entertaining
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redwalrus posted:it was 10k during the original kickstarter campaign, to get one now you have to refer 1,042 people at $40 each minimum. Not joking. that is absolutely insane. i am baffled and honestly kind of appalled that people would sink that disposable income and time into a non-product and promises.
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Jan 8, 2016 11:49
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/3zzm2h/drama_the_responsening_inn/cyqh435 can't wait!
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Jan 8, 2016 12:07
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:I go to Dolvak for all my legit news outlet needs i never heard an honest man use the word "legit"
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sorry, was a quote from carnivale. best thing about the sandi emails is how easy it seemed to be for beer to get her to continue talking. like, theyre all complaining about how the system is clogged up with these pointless rambly emails, but it started as a genuine request for info and turned into email meltdown almost entirely without provocation. all beer says is "this is an interesting conversation" and boom, 5 or 6 hundred insane words.
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Jan 8, 2016 13:27
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 beware the maths anagram
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Jan 9, 2016 02:18
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anderson's glee is the first thing about this whole debacle that has cheered me up. S42 sounds like it has a bonkers cast doing the most rote, boring nonsense
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Amarcarts posted:Star Citizen Thread Read Through Day 2 - 1/10/2016 that was my understanding as well, that SQ42 was secondary to the 'main game' of doing whatever you want in a big space world. https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals it looks like being able to access the campaign (for those with 'appropriate packages', lol) was the first stretch goal, at $2m. but the language used - that you need an 'appropriate package' to access it - implies that there's another base-level package that doesn't have SQ42. so yeah. goalposts have shifted. again.
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Jan 11, 2016 03:32
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closing all the opened tickets "just because" is another absolutely bonkers decision. but at this point chris and sandi could just flow a stream of urine directly into some of these backers' mouths and they'd get thanked for all their hard work
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Jan 11, 2016 04:08
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Bait and Swatch posted:They just closed all the tickets? That is wonderful news, how loving funny. apparently everything from last year; if you raised a ticket at some point this year, you're in the clear.
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as much as i'd love to keep jumpin on this ticket closure business more, nobody else has reported gettin' the email in the reddit thread and all the cultits are callin it a hoax for now, so who knows.
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Mirificus posted:
i love that immediately after this they post: SilverBullet posted:I’m not privy to all what’s going on however I was looking up Star Citizen related stuff and stumbled on pics of the emails she sent to someone I cannot mention here. She mentioned "that word" in her email amongst other things which raised a few eyebrows. We're not allowed to dicuss that here i guess? or we'll incur a warning or ban, so best left be. BETTER SHUSH GUYS
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:I suppose I struck a nerve. well well if it isn't turncoat jones thankyou for all the nerves you've struck and the hours of entertainment gleaned
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XK posted:From what I've seen and read, this project appears to be based on one of the most pathological examples of spaghetti code I've ever seen in my life. Just listen to the developers in the "verse" videos. They can't even find where certain settings are going wrong. They fiddle around with values to make them work, but they don't have any clue why they eventually work. This is a development scenario that explodes exponentially with every little additional change. Any respectable project would halt everything at this point until they got a handle on what was actually occurring. If you have one or two things like this near the end of development, when everything is in place and you're just polishing, maybe it's excusable to hack a workable fix that works for unknown reasons (see Donkey Kong 64). When you are still far pre-alpha (which this game is by any real metrics), and you have 95%+ of game mechanics yet to be added, this is a show-stopper. When you take into account all the features that have been promised, and apply that against the problems they are currently having with an engine that just lets you fly around space and shoot guns, it's self-evidently clear they will never release anything that is nominally more functionally than what they have now. They will be able to throw in more content, more pretty graphics, and tie a few more mechanics together, but anything beyond that is a $105 million game of Jenga. it's telling that we can cite Donkey Kong 64 as an example of better game design . Mirificus posted:
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peter gabriel posted:Here's a tip: alternately, give so much money to the development of the game that you feel completely entitled to have the game changed to suit your condition
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D_Smart posted:It's not in the stretch goals, so they have every right to not do it. So yeah, they can break every single uttered promised that wasn't in writing. All of them. Including birds. Especially birds. And animals. And skinning animals. at this point, they can break the promises that were in writing too. star citizens will not care. they will thankfully lap up whatever turd gets dropped to them, like mana from heaven, while defending the companies right to arbitrarily bail on stretch goals. for example, sq42 now being considered the primary game.
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grimcreaper posted:What... wait, that actually happened? I thought it was a joke. Please tell me shitizens aren't really letting them get away with this. there was a quote from some recent video about how SQ42 was considered the main game development now, with freeplay and adventuring and poo poo to be developed after that. but this is the underlying problem - the team won't ever say anything clearly enough to be interpreted unambiguously, because they want to be able to pull the old "black is white" trick later. they'll change language and talk about "shifts in focus" or "evolution", rather than the black and white development targets they committed to in the fundraiser. it's political doublespeak. a great example of this is the "rooms system", which is now a complete joke. the initial promise was ongoing personalised rooms, that would update depending on what you did in the universe; for example, a unique starmap for you based on the procedurally generated whatever in the game, hangars that had customised firing ranges and whatever else. but now they're saying "it's done. what's there is the room system", and the excuse is that "how we understand the rooms system has 'evolved' beyond what was initially conceived." this might sound great to Joe Backer in a live video feed, but in reality is just them sliding off the hook for making promises they - once again - couldn't deliver.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:I really hope someone is keeping track of all the broken promises so it can be posted in one place for people to admire. https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals here it is, i found it
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Jan 12, 2016 03:25
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spacetoaster posted:I don't know how they got michael jackson involved in this. michael jackson is the only one who looks happy in this photo and HE'S DEAD
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Ravane posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlLw9LEmEfw control the hands that control the spaceship
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Jan 12, 2016 04:49
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the kickstarter comments are something else; there's comments from december 2014 asking for a timeline and a bunch of folks wanting refunds. there's this many people dissatisfied with the whole project and somehow there are still absolute die-hard bongos over on the reddit defending the company. its just bonkers and cannot possibly have a happy ending for anyone
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Jan 12, 2016 05:42
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jaegerx posted:Someone be sure to let Reddit know lowtax is gonna stream. I want to watch the comments and taste their salty tears. "he's playing it WRONG everyone KNOWS they are going to fix THAT"
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Jan 12, 2016 06:07
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wikidd posted:About a billion pages ago I mentioned I was taking CIG to small claims court here in the UK to get my refund. I just got notice they are defending the claim(!!); some guy called Ortwin Freyermuth, who is a director of CIG, signed off on the action. An hour of that guy's time must be worth more than the money I gave them. stick it to the man WIKIDD, i look forward to the david simon doco of your story one day
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Jan 12, 2016 23:41
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:That's one hardcore gamer dude his favourite movie is das boot (which he worked on), and favourite game is star citizen (which he worked on)
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Jan 13, 2016 00:06
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if they are seriously going to bother with this great of a length to dispute a $200 refund, they must be financially not looking so crash hot. it's kind of terrifying and exhilarating to see the multiple-thousand-dollar backers lurking on the horizon. eventually they'll realise what they've bought into and the level of fury and indignation will be colossal
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Jan 13, 2016 00:17
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Mirificus posted:
"well its fun"
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Jan 13, 2016 01:06
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where can i preorder the goty edition
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Jan 13, 2016 02:05
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Nation posted:Chris Roberts as the hamburglar Ben Lesnick as Grimace
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Jan 13, 2016 02:29
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Mirificus posted:Back to this briefly. Star Citizens really do buy into the idea. stores + alien vistas and sunsets = xenoblade chronicles x, but that's on a console for kids so whatever
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Jan 13, 2016 02:35
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cael shaw is a perineum away from signing up to SA just out of sheer antagonistic spite
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Jan 13, 2016 02:56
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:As requested my doodle of croberts as the hamburglar hahaha HAHAHAHAHAHAH it gets better the more i look at it
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Jan 13, 2016 03:15
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Sappo569 posted:I'm back after avoiding the thread for a month .... is the game out yet ? the game is finished, all promises kept, no refunds
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Jan 13, 2016 03:36
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Jan 13, 2016 05:51
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developed much video games? 
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Jan 13, 2016 22:42
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Berious posted:When I was a kid I used to make little text adventure games in basic out of massively branching if then else statements. Didn't know about variables so it was literally all if then else and goto. me too! i actually still kind of love text adventure stuff, or 'interactive fiction' or whatever they're calling it now. they really were a cool gateway into loving videogames forever. i still remember being scared out of my mind as a ten year old playing the game "theatre", which holds up as a kind of creeping-dread-lovecraftian-horror drama. text adventures were kind of proof that all you need for "immersion" (to bring it back to star citizen) is a good turn of phrase, the illusion of seamless interaction with the game system (like being able to anticipate the commands users might try out and providing non-generic responses for sensible attempts), and to provoke the imagination of the player. you don't need the fanciest god drat graphics ever, you don't need to be able to do absolutely everything. oh no god drat am i an old person?
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i swear they sink more time and effort into weird staff vanity bullshit than the game itself this is where the squillions have gone Iglocska posted:It's impossible to keep up with the thread, did INN ever verify Beer's e-mails? Or are they still having a busy Friday evening? they didn't because, uh, the contents of those emails don't even matter? the game is going to be great anyways, and sandi has been pushed to breaking point, so cut her some slack. they seriously wrote up a rank of their favourite internet spaceships instead
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A Neurotic Jew posted:So how's it going with fixing the Unmelts that don't take store credit? pretty interesting stuff; look forward to these users eventually realising what they've sunk money into and going defcon 1,000
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that's a "completionist" backer, meaning he's put at least $15,000 in to the game.