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Ash1138 posted:i have the feeling that one of the two parties in this "partnership" is going to get boned Or Amazon ends up to Star Citizen what Microsoft wound up to Freelancer. I think this would be the most poetic and fitting outcome actually. e: troll doll catte 
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Mr.PayDay posted:
Are those prices real? Holy poo poo those prices are real. CIG just destroyed their own business model. Yes, they think people will pay $1 for 1000 UEC. Yes, they think a big loving missile is worth $70.
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I am so intrigued by the timing of this You announce bad news on a Friday afternoon - that's just PR 101. The Friday before Christmas? That's where the stuff you really want no one to see goes But the Friday before Christmas and done simultaneously with a new, "anticipated" update? Not only do they want nobody to see it, they also want to be sure that those that do see it are drowned out by other news And yet...despite all the evidence they want this buried, they went and did a press release What does it all mean?
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This is ultimate beauty. The completely destabilized CryEngine that was hacked at by amateur developers for years until they refused to even call it by that name (it's STAREngine now, fuckers) specifically to support Chris's ignorance-fueled fever dreams has been dropped wholesale in favor of - whatever Lumberyard is going to let them do. Since CryEngine wasn't able, with years of hacking, to do nearly anything right (localized physics grids, proper flight physics, atmospheric effects, procedural generation, 1000+ players) even with the CryEngine developers themselves working it into the ground, then logically that will transate directly into being 100% successful when they try to do the same things in a brand new engine. It's really amazing to me that all that innovative technology that CIG failed to create after 4 years and over 100 million dollars had apparently been created by Amazon this whole time, and they weren't even trying to make a space game. It's a Chris-mas Miracle!
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Discord has its moments
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also intriguing: an engine switch is a huge, radical thing. if this had been going on for an entire year - a year in which their company was in some serious turmoil... ...then how in the world did this news not leak? We have a very real leaker in TheAgent, then there's EightAce, and despite all his huffing and puffing Derek does appear to have some legit inside sources I'm wondering if this came as a surprise to some CIG employees...?
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SirPenguin posted:I am so intrigued by the timing of this It means the boss was really proud of this, and everyone else realized that this was publicly making GBS threads the bed, so they agreed to do the press release and then finagled it so that it happened when the fewest people would be paying attention.
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Sappo569 posted:
This is why I gave them until today to respond to my refund request. Holy poo poo am I glad I got it done when I did.
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can already tell on Reddit that "CryEngne at its core, but with much better netcode" is going to be the rallying cry of the faithful
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:This is why I gave them until today to respond to my refund request. Holy poo poo am I glad I got it done when I did. 
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Dec 24, 2016 04:23
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This cluster gently caress of a tire fire keeps burner brighter each and every day.
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SirPenguin posted:also intriguing: an engine switch is a huge, radical thing. if this had been going on for an entire year - a year in which their company was in some serious turmoil... Has CIG just put "Star Marine" together using Lumberjack, leaving the "PTU" and "Arena Commander" unchanged? That will have solved their short term engineering debt in terms of an FPS module. And then 2017 can... take care of itself. - Star Marine then becomes a VITAL PROOF OF CONCEPT deliverable. - The 2.6 PTU will be the OLD system - "see how much slower it is than Star Marine?". Needs a REWORK. But never fear, because... - THE NEW 3.0 IS COMING SOON. On Lumberjack, with fast frames, procedural planets, lots of players. Backer dreams, repackaged and refactored. I wonder.
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I hope Amazon keeps pipeline refactoring engineers on staff.
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if you love something put a ring on it.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Are those prices real? Holy poo poo those prices are real. stunning
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Technically it's two missiles.
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SirPenguin posted:I am so intrigued by the timing of this That, come Tuesday, someone from Amazon will get in touch and wonder what the gently caress. They haven't mentioned their first large customer on their blog, and I'm pretty sure they didn't want that to leak out on no-news-day.
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Mr Fronts posted:Has CIG just put "Star Marine" together using Lumberjack, leaving the "PTU" and "Arena Commander" unchanged? What does your heart tell you? Considering how badly Star Marine looks, runs, and plays, Lumberjack may be a closer fit with CIG's own work than most people realize. My biggest ??? in all this is what Amazon thinks they can get out of it. Clearly they see this from a profit-driven angle. Obviously CIG is never going to make a game - maybe Amazon smells blood in the water with that 30 GB "patcher" that they can charge sweet bandwidth fees for.
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Some of the more fanatical citizens are deluding themselves into thinking that this is merely a marketing/branding agreement for the servers, and that StarEngine is either unchanged, or CIG is pulling the best bits from Lumberyard into StarEngine. lol
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Dec 24, 2016 04:36
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ComfyPants posted:These people are loving delusional YES, FRIEND, THAT IS DEFINITELY WHAT HAPPENED FOR SURE
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I m loving  so much right now, Happy Christmas commandos
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and yet... You have Ben on the Frontier forums defending the decision since it's not that much work moving to the new engine. It's great that you get more insightful info about SC from unofficial sources like Batgirl and the FDev Forum than from CIG itself.
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Scruffpuff posted:What does your heart tell you? Uhh, nothing. Anyone is free to start using Lumberyard to develop whatever the hell they want. Although CIG are using terms like 'partnership' it's really pretty one sided. 'Hello Amazon, we'd like to use your game engine.', that's it.
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The PDF on how to play the non-existent game is  Also, it doesn't exist yet. This is the next best thing I could find after they took down the PDF* for how to run a private Star Citizen server. *also doesn't exist.
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Raskolnikov posted:The PDF on how to play the non-existent game is $10 for a manual? Wooow
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Wrecked Angle posted:Uhh, nothing. Anyone is free to start using Lumberyard to develop whatever the hell they want. Although CIG are using terms like 'partnership' it's really pretty one sided. Good info - thanks. I did not know this - and in fact it was the fast and loose use of "partnership" etc. that led me down that road.
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A. Beaverhausen posted:$10 for a manual? Wooow Not just any manual, but a digital one. Quality 
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Remember when a single guy made Xenonauts, an X-COM clone, using the Rootbeer Tapper engine?
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wtfosaurus had alot of confused feelings about the announcement. https://www.twitch.tv/wtfosaurus/v/109403591?t=04h32m50s
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Tokamak posted:Some of the more fanatical citizens are deluding themselves into thinking that this is merely a marketing/branding agreement for the servers, and that StarEngine is either unchanged, or CIG is pulling the best bits from Lumberyard into StarEngine. Wait, whaaaaa? CIG Archer code TOO? Naaaaaaaaaah.
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https://answers.cryengine.com/questions/2654/cev-maximum-supported-players-for-a-large-scale-fp.html 1000 players was that Crobblers? With that engine?
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https://twitter.com/commando_tom/status/812510640493432832
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No... see... the ~cloud~ *waves hands* ONE THOUSAND
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A. Beaverhausen posted:$10 for a manual? Wooow Another low for CIG. And I realise now that I've missed the news about an engine switch (?) too? Hahahah. oh this is just excellent. I guess development really starts in 2017, then.
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Monetization for Lumberyard will come strictly through the use of Amazon Web Services' cloud computing. If you use the engine for your game, you're permitted to roll your own server tech, but if you're using a third-party provider, it has to be Amazon. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/..._medium=twitter https://www.cryengine.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=126&t=133275 read this https://www.cryengine.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=328&t=133300 lol....ollolollololoololollooolololol ded. edit : "I'd rather have subscription than royalties anyday. Royalties can seriously kick a developer hard in the rear end." good judgement shown.
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The mental gymnastics about to happen will blow our minds, it's going to be so funny
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A Neurotic Corncob posted:wtfosaurus had alot of confused feelings about the announcement. I turned on the top SC stream and this happened immediately https://clips.twitch.tv/captain_richard/WrongWalrusBrainSlug
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A Neurotic Corncob posted:wtfosaurus had alot of confused feelings about the announcement. His mental framing is 100% a facsimile of CIG's PR, and the announcement is causing him severe cognitive dissonance.  This is the best Christmas present a snarky internet nerd could wish for, thanks CIG.
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