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madcow posted:They already stated in an interview a couple days ago or so, you know the same one that said they signed a 5 year lease for an office in Frankfurt that the refund requests were around 1300 at that time. I can't believe that you're blindly believing something in the media, what a loving sheep. was the irony strong enough? I heard it's hard to get that across in text form. Also, have they ever said why they need offices in like 5 different cities to
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Oct 9, 2015 08:20
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So hey Beer since you're banned you should totally have that show with Derek Smart. lmao at Ben though, the dude is going to be CRUSHED when the realization that Star Citizen doesn't exist and Chris Roberts is a fraud hits. You think he'll go with the break-down route or get real angry at Roberts?
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Oct 9, 2015 08:21
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peter gabriel posted:If they could somehow combine Half Life 2 with Star Citizen you'd have Half Life 2 LOLZ. Funniest post ITT Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Yup. That was probably it. WTF? It's too late to get a "Free the Beer" T-shirt made for the CON. poo poo. Timing.
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Oct 9, 2015 08:22
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:"You have been put on probation until 2025-10-09 02:28. You can no longer post on the community forums and public chat channels. Look at it this way, at least when you can post on the forums again the game might be out.
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Oct 9, 2015 08:25
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Ohmygodsquad posted:Look at it this way, at least when you can post on the forums again the game might be out. I think we need at least two or three more people to make this same joke.
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Oct 9, 2015 08:27
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Citizen Con is coming guys!
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Oct 9, 2015 08:28
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KakerMix posted:
Ben will eat Croberts and then die of the resulting heart attack that consuming all that coke will give him.
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Oct 9, 2015 08:28
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Zeike posted:LOL I remember some dude declaring war(in SC) on the forums. Declare war in a non-game. This the best game ever.
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Oct 9, 2015 08:30
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LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:I can't believe that you're blindly believing something in the media, what a loving sheep. I read that four of the five offices are really fronts meant to help CR launder the backer money and use it to pay for more mansions, fancy cars, and exotic vacations. Edit: Real answer is that they are hiring people from all over the world and the backer money they get comes from more than one country. These things, when combine with tax incentives provided by local governments, often mean it makes more sense financially to have multiple offices rather than just try to round up everyone in one location. madcow fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Oct 9, 2015 |
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Oct 9, 2015 08:30
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KakerMix posted:So hey Beer since you're banned you should totally have that show with Derek Smart. Breakdown. And while that's a sad and terrible thing, I feel more sorry for his wife than I do him.
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Oct 9, 2015 08:31
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madcow posted:I read that four of the five offices are really fronts meant to help CR launder the backer money and use it to pay for more mansions, fancy cars, and exotic vacations. yeah but this is true
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Oct 9, 2015 08:32
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Incombibulator posted:WTF? It's too late to get a "Free the Beer" T-shirt made for the CON. poo poo. Timing. wear a cheap black shirt, stop at some craft store on the way there and get adhesive letters to spell "FREE BEER". It'll look a bit crap but it'll last for the day of Con-Con.
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Oct 9, 2015 08:33
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Incombibulator posted:WTF? It's too late to get a "Free the Beer" T-shirt made for the CON. poo poo. Timing. TBH any goon that is going to the con, should TOTALLY do this. Just scrawl some poo poo with a magic marker on a white shirt, if nothing else, and spread goonrathi merch while chanting: "Free Beer!"
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Oct 9, 2015 08:33
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madcow posted:I read that four of the five offices are really fronts meant to help CR launder the backer money and use it to pay for more mansions, fancy cars, and exotic vacations. They wouldn't need to launder it since it was obtained legally. They could just directly spend what they have in accounts.
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Oct 9, 2015 08:33
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Amun Khonsu posted:
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Oct 9, 2015 08:34
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Romes128 posted:They wouldn't need to launder it since it was obtained legally. Would be interesting to know what other ventures the circle is involved in. Just look at that slimy lawyer, that dude totally looks like he's laundered some money in his day.
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Oct 9, 2015 08:36
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Kimsemus posted:
Fixed.
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Oct 9, 2015 08:37
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KakerMix posted:So hey Beer since you're banned you should totally have that show with Derek Smart. hopefully murder suicide with chris roberts.
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Oct 9, 2015 08:37
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KakerMix posted:lmao at Ben though, the dude is going to be CRUSHED when the realization that Star Citizen doesn't exist and Chris Roberts is a fraud hits. You got it all backwards, he'll sit on Crobers and smother him to death while sobbing out "why Chris why? I loved you!". The rest of the office will try to pull him off but no one's gonna move that mountain anytime soon.
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Oct 9, 2015 08:39
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Romes128 posted:They wouldn't need to launder it since it was obtained legally. I think the article mentioned something about making it harder for authorities to track the money and prosecute them for fraud. 
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Oct 9, 2015 08:40
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madcow posted:They already stated in an interview a couple days ago or so, you know the same one that said they signed a 5 year lease for an office in Frankfurt that the refund requests were around 1300 at that time. Croberts signed a contract with Kevin Costner, and look at how that turned out.
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Oct 9, 2015 08:46
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madcow posted:I read that four of the five offices are really fronts meant to help CR launder the backer money and use it to pay for more mansions, fancy cars, and exotic vacations. so like, I know this is hard to answer but why do you need people from more than one country to make a single video game? if your answer "talent' then you don't have an answer and lol
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Oct 9, 2015 08:48
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LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:so like, I know this is hard to answer but Because
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Oct 9, 2015 08:50
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LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:so like, I know this is hard to answer but This was my initial reaction as well they first announced the opening of F42. I mean, wouldn't it be cheaper to bring Erin over than to create a whole new studio there?
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Oct 9, 2015 08:51
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no_recall posted:This was my initial reaction as well they first announced the opening of F42. I mean, wouldn't it be cheaper to bring Erin over than to create a whole new studio there? Supposedly the UK has some baller tax breaks or something, which is why F42's team is by far also the largest - allows them to save money. Not like it'll matter, tho, if they plan to piss it all away on CR's vision and why a fair few still hope that Erin, his brother, breaks away with F42 and at least finishes SQ42, cause lol the PU is screwed.
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Oct 9, 2015 08:52
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Someone explain to me how disgruntled employees and a large game having a long development time can result in 240 pages of whatever in a little over a week.
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Oct 9, 2015 08:53
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ijyt posted:Someone explain to me how disgruntled employees and a large game having a long development time can result in 240 pages of whatever in a little over a week. burgers taste good
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Oct 9, 2015 08:53
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LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:so like, I know this is hard to answer but Honest hate, it's because it extends the manhours the company can spend developing per day because of the timezone differences, and is also helpful with situations where gamebreaking things happen during off hours for one studio or the other. Not that it really matters with CIG. I guess it would be easier to just have multiple shifts, but I don't think the games industry really does that. I'm just a layman, though. Justin Tyme fucked around with this message at 08:57 on Oct 9, 2015 |
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Oct 9, 2015 08:54
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CrazyLoon posted:Supposedly the UK has some baller tax breaks or something, which is why F42's team is by far also the largest - allows them to save money. ballin' jpeg breaks
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Oct 9, 2015 08:55
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I guess that we might see nights of the long daggers in the coming days when CIG is starting to silence opponents using the distraction of citizen con to their advantage - beer, i hope you do not stop posting over at reddit. Don't let them silence you.
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Oct 9, 2015 08:58
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no_recall posted:Citizen Con is coming guys! pretty sure it happened three years ago
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Oct 9, 2015 09:03
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CrazyLoon posted:Supposedly the UK has some baller tax breaks or something, which is why F42's team is by far also the largest - allows them to save money. Working multisite is not cool, well CR is always about whats "cool". I guess this pet project of his he wanted to find the hell that is with multisite, multicultural and multi year dev cycles. I've worked on multisite projects before but those were on short term basis (at most no longer than <6 months) before handing over to a dedicated single site team. Unless it was impossible not to work multi-site (in CIG's case it seems it was a choice), then single site, greater productivity > multi site and tax breaks. Cause shipping the product is always priority NO 1. Thats when you have investors. But, we're not investors. 
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Oct 9, 2015 09:03
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thatguy posted:Maybe if I sperg about a game unrelentingly for years the person that I worship as a God will welcome me with open arms into one of his future projects despite me not knowing a thing about game development. You're starting pretty late. A proper superfan would have had a geocities site and a web ring. 
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Oct 9, 2015 09:05
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I generally have a lot of sympathy for people who spent more money that they should have on Star Citizen, there's no shame in being deceived by someone dishonest and that's what the advertising campaign behind Star Citizen has been for a long time. I've mentioned this before but major parts of the marketing campaign behind Star Citizen would likely be found illegal in the UK if it ever ended up in court, you've not allowed to claim "limited stock" for something that's not actually limited (pretend ships in a database, LTI etc) to trick people into thinking they got a good deal. At this point if you've still on board the hype train, like madcow, then either you've a very trusting person (which I'd see as a positive human trait) or you've at least a tiny bit mental in which case you've being taken advantage of. James seemed like a pretty cool dude but he only had an influence with community because CIG gave him a job and stuck him in front of the camera. Beer is similar, he asked good questions on their promotional videos and his name recognition associated him with being a force for reason/logic. The ongoing war with Derek Smart has resulted in Beer being critical on RSI, being critical here, Derek Smart inviting him to appear with him to discuss Star Citizen and Derek Smart linking a very critical post of Beer's on twitter, not to mention negatively affecting the Citizen Con ship sale. CIG didn't really have a choice but to ban him as that's what they always do to those showing dissent, can't have anyone pointing out what's behind the curtain. CIG might also be hoping there's a negative response from here that they can use to prove Beer was just a trouble maker, so I'd resist the urge give them a free pass like that. As for  looking at his old posts on that lovely wing commander site, he's always been a dick, I have no sympathy for him at all, if you want to feel sorry for anyone, pick his wife instead, he dragged her into this and all that involves.
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Oct 9, 2015 09:08
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Do you think Elite Dangerous would have got away with charging you 10 quid to make your ship bright magenta if it hadn't been for Star Citizen's jpeg selling?
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Oct 9, 2015 09:10
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:hopefully murder suicide with chris roberts. Now way he lives long enough to see the game utterly fail. He wasn't healthy to start with, and somehow he's managed to gain tons of weight just in the few years he's had this job. Plus all the stress, long hours, and sedentary work? He's a dead man.
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Oct 9, 2015 09:12
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AP posted:I generally have a lot of sympathy for people who spent more money that they should have on Star Citizen, there's no shame in being deceived by someone dishonest and that's what the advertising campaign behind Star Citizen has been for a long time. I've mentioned this before but major parts of the marketing campaign behind Star Citizen would likely be found illegal in the UK if it ever ended up in court, you've not allowed to claim "limited stock" for something that's not actually limited (pretend ships in a database, LTI etc) to trick people into thinking they got a good deal. They could say that the system generates unique serials for each in a virtual world which has policies that govern the creation of said ships. Thus giving them a defense in space court. So every person that buys it has a unique hand crafted mesh. Which is why they take so long with the ships. Cause every individual one is hand made.
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Justin Tyme posted:Honest hate, it's because it extends the manhours the company can spend developing per day because of the timezone differences, and is also helpful with situations where gamebreaking things happen during off hours for one studio or the other. Not that it really matters with CIG. man hours refer to how many hours each person puts in every day, not how many hours are in the day. If everyone is working an 8 hour shift it doesn't matter where they are in the world, it's 8 man hours for that day per person, and their productivity will skyrocket when they can just lean out of their cubicle and yell down the hall for someone instead of having the guy who knows or has the thing you need at home asleep because it's 2 am where he is multiple offices is just a poo poo terrible idea on the face of it, and no amount of talent or tax breaks is worth the headache everyone on your team will have trying to cope with it, so it's really a loaded question to see if madcow can see any fault at all with what CIG and CR is doing.
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ShredsYouSay posted:Do you think Elite Dangerous would have got away with charging you 10 quid to make your ship bright magenta if it hadn't been for Star Citizen's jpeg selling? People buy hats in TF2. For way more than that. Also CounterStrike Knife Skins. All 3 games exist. SC doesn't exist as a game.
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