Turd Burglar posted:

Lmao

CIG probably took out loans using their expensive rear end furniture as collateral

D1E posted:

Or the amount of ambergris in Ben's intestinal tract.

Darkpriest667 posted:

Pewdipie, or whatever his name is, is loving awful. If Derek attacked him he should get a loving medal.

D1E posted:

Or the amount of ambergris in Ben's intestinal tract.

D_Smart posted:

https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/706897130347175936

Beet Wagon posted:

I think so, but they're about as active as the NPCs in Line of Defense.

Daztek posted:

BMan posted:

What, did PewDiePie play LoD or something?

Turd Burglar posted:

Only if they have a marine biology program

D_Smart posted:

LOL!! Which is saying a lot; as there aren't any NPCs in Line Of Defense

Ravane posted:

What's the context?

intardnation posted:

bear simulator. Pew didnt like it and told all his followers it was poo poo and get a refund.

Ravane posted:

Does this loving idiot of a CEO even realize how little wheat actually sells for? No amount of Space weed or wheat could ever justify the purchasing this ship.



Look at the size of this biome. It's so loving small. You get 32 bushels of wheat per acre, which sells for about $171 per acre. This is not an acre. This is not even the size of a typical one-story house.

The ship salesman that sold this ship has got to be making GBS threads his pants that someone actually bought this piece of poo poo ship, because anybody who thinks they'll actually make money off of it has got to be loving retarded. Also, what the gently caress kind of dystopian society is star citizen set in that bread is not readily available? Christ, Roberts you loving retard, hahaha.

You couldn't even make your money back from space weed.

Duckaerobics posted:

This would actually make me more worried that they were running out of money. If they have a bunch of cash and a consistent revenue stream then there isn't a reason to take out a loan. They are instead giving up money later for money now. This is not the sign of a company flush with cash.

If they needed that money to cover operating expenses they are in serious trouble. The interest on those loans will only increase their operational cost. This coupled with the decreased funding rate could cause CIG to fail even faster. They are probably betting that SQ42 will keep them solvent, but I don't think it will bring in significant numbers even if they manage to release it.

I enjoy your insider knowledge, but I think now is the time to find another job, not when they start missing paychecks. Although, the UK probably has a lot better unemployment than the US so you might be ok.

Hav posted:

That's a very high bar for proof. It's one of the reasons why it's usually talked down to incompetance or mistake; malice of forethought requires direct evidence.


And this is where I need to read the news. Sorry about that.

edit:

Okay, that 38 studios lawsuit has nothing to do with 38 studios;

"The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Wells Fargo Securities and the Rhode Island Commerce Corporation (formerly the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation) with defrauding investors in the issuing of $75 million in bonds to loan the studio money."

They're charging the financiers, which is hilarious.

Even loving better; "Three individuals--Wells Fargo's lead banker Peter M. Cannava and former RIEDC executives Keith W. Stokes and James Michael Saul--were charged with aiding and abetting the fraud. Stokes and Saul have already settled the charges, paying $25,000 each but not admitting to the allegations."

Neat discount.

38 studios themselves settled for $8 million years ago. Derek, what did you think this suit was about, sweetie?

SniperWoreConverse posted:

i'm concerned that the space trees' root structure is too stunted in such shallow soil. the roots are too poorly immersed

See, these are ideas that might be cool in an actual game. Fuckin crazy rear end alien environment pods could be cool and you could get interesting products being produced at a stable rate. Instead star citizen has wank pods. That kind of stuff would be better off in a space station, but if you had a good procedural bird system I could see why aviary pods could be useful and cool.

Another thing that's loving stupid is how narrowly the ships are focused. You should be able to refit a hull to do whatever you want as long as you have appropriately powerful parp cores or whatever. So a ship could be a p fast, robust cargo transport, or the same thing can be a slower, more fragile weed factory. Or put on a mining array or big fuckin guns or something. Advanced scanulators or whatever.

Ships should have basic ranges for like, it has this much actual configurable volume, this much power core, this is the biggest engine you can fit on it, you can have this many hardpoints, and then the player should be able to mix and match whatever modules to make the ship do what they want how they want it. Maybe certain super-niche components like wank pods and bird houses would be restricted to a smaller number of specialized hulls. Instead there's a fuckin overload of hull variants that are locked in.

doesn't matter cause they're all jpegs but it's fuckin dumb

D_Smart posted:

^this

Also, taking out a loan - if you don't need it - also means paying interest that you wouldn't otherwise be paying.

That aside from the fact that now, a third-party (a bank no less!) now has access to their books. Guess what now? ANY lawsuit (or regulatory inquiries) that arises from this, means that bank gets a subpoena for ALL their records pertaining to ANY/ALL transactions with ANY/ALL entities associated with RSI/CIG/F42. That's called a paper trail. And it has a cascading effect due to how ALL the companies are related to each other.

As I've said before, they're out of cash. All they have to rely on is the crowd-funding, subsidized by the bank loan/line and tax credits.

And THAT'S probably why they're letting Star Citizen go to poo poo while trying to get SQ42 out because that's there doable, short-term cash revenue. And is primarily the reason I'm hearing they are trying to come up with a console version. Problem in that regard is that the PC custom code they built from CryEngine, is far from the base line console CryEngine version. They have to port/merge it. Or - wait for it - there is a good chance that, now they've detached any relationship with both games (ergo you can't continue your SQ42 career in Star Citizen), that they could very develop the console version using a completely different baseline engine. Which is hilarious; considering the fact that both the PC and console (XB1/PS4) versions would be different code bases that need to be maintained. It would be like me building the console version of LOD with Unity5, while keeping the PC version based on my Havok custom engine. The stuff that gamedev nightmares are made of.

If they are in fact trying to get SQ42 out on consoles, they won't want to release the PC version first because they've already tapped out the earning potential there; given the number of backers who are entitled to it. And judging from the lackluster sales since the split, they know this too; and so they aren't likely to release the PC version ahead of the console version. Hence the reason that it probably won't see the light of day until late 2017.

They're hosed. Completely.

D_Smart posted:

^this

Also, taking out a loan - if you don't need it - also means paying interest that you wouldn't otherwise be paying.

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

If you were able to refit your jpeg to be a png or a bmp or a loving obj or whatever you wouldn't buy many of them would you

Hav posted:

*snip meaningless words*

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

He should play and hate Star Citizen, to pit the two worst gamer cholera latrines against each other

Ravane posted:

What's the context?

quote:

So why all the drama? For one thing, I wasn’t the only person who makes YouTube videos to notice Bear Simulator on Steam. Felix “Pewdiepie” Kjellberg also played the game, and he did not like it at all.

His video review of the game ended with YouTube’s biggest celebrity giving the game developer the finger after attempting to get a Steam refund for it. The vid currently has more than 2.5 million views.

Update-9pm, March 6: As pointed out by intrepid TAY community reporters, PewDiePie’s video has gone private since the posting of this article.

Beet Wagon posted:

Fine, robot statues or whatever.

Either way, the NPCs in the PU exist only in the barest "There's a model of a guy standing here" sense.

e: which is why it's doubly funny that CIG won't shut the hell up about AI crewed ships and junk. Thumbs up, CIG!