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The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.
everyone should have a dream

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Saint Drogo
Dec 26, 2011

steinrokkan posted:

I sometimes remember the goon who unironically said he would spend the rest of his life playing Star Citizen until he dropped dead, and that no amount of money was too much to fulfill his glorified suicide fantasy
whale funds would dry up so fast if more of them considered real life to be a viable alternative to the MMO dream :smith:

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

steinrokkan posted:

I sometimes remember the goon who unironically said he would spend the rest of his life playing Star Citizen until he dropped dead, and that no amount of money was too much to fulfill his glorified suicide fantasy

If you're gonna do something stupid until you die, there's always other ways. I mean, you can get a used jet ski off CL for about 900 bucks. Pair that with an artisanal opioid addiction and you've got some good times until you get high and ride that fucker right into the side of some rich rear end in a top hat's boat.

AOKay
Oct 22, 2010

You'll pet me sooner or later. They all do.
Meeting one of the true believers in real life is the weirdest poo poo. When asked, the guy I know will just yadda yadda yadda away all concerns of RSI being a bunch of scummy fucks and keep proselytizing about how it'll be the space game to end all space games

He didn't even react when I showed him the best Star Citizen video of all time so I think he might be an automaton

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

I must admit I make that same joke every time it comes up.

Numberwang
Sep 2, 2016

VictorianQueerLit posted:

They just deleted all of the terrain but we noticed holdover water animations for a long time. Randomly spacemen traveling would have their nonexistent Crysis visor get splashed with water just like it was Crysis. We speculated that they just made the water invisible but couldn't actually do anything with the animations. Backers said we were lying and obviously CIG would never have that problem because they were the world's greatest company and could modify any code in the engine flawlessly.

A couple years later one of the devs admitted on a livestream that Cryengine itself as a feature of it's game engine comes with water included on every game environment and they hadn't figured out how to remove it yet after 4 years/more than a hundred million dollars.

Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground

staberind
Feb 20, 2008

but i dont wanna be a spaceship
Fun Shoe
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was.

Numberwang
Sep 2, 2016

Saint Isaias Boner
Jan 17, 2007

hi how are you

Statutory Ape posted:

how many years have they been saying that for

Ever since Star citizen started development

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel

AOKay posted:

He didn't even react when I showed him the best Star Citizen video of all time so I think he might be an automaton

:colbert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc7ywfd1qe8

Entropic
Feb 21, 2007

patriarchy sucks
https://twitter.com/xychelsea/status/1029778589854715905?s=21

Gridlocked
Aug 2, 2014

MR. STUPID MORON
WITH AN UGLY FACE
AND A BIG BUTT
AND HIS BUTT SMELLS
AND HE LIKES TO KISS
HIS OWN BUTT
by Roger Hargreaves

Fashionable Jorts posted:



Look at these cowards. They just need to sell $2000 ant jpgs on their website to pay for more strippers and alcoholcontinue game development and expand the scope.

Nice as gently caress

chaosbreather
Dec 9, 2001

Wry and wise,
but also very sexual.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Actually happens more often the other way around, counting orcas. All but the smallest and youngest whales are well outside a shark's feasible range of prey except as carrion.

Orcas are actually a kind of bill-less platypus

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

chaosbreather posted:

Orcas are actually a kind of bill-less platypus

They're a fully aquatic, pack-hunting mammal of action.

TontoCorazon
Aug 18, 2007


Gridlocked posted:

Nice as gently caress

Seriously, I want to rip off nerds for women and liquor.

JamMasterJim
Mar 27, 2010
You guys know how there is a CitizenCon (a convention for a game that does not exist).
For those who cannot attend live, stage presentations will be streamed.
If you buy a digital ticket. No, it's not for a premium , 4k 60 fps option. Just to watch at all.

These guys are geniuses.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/citizencon/tickets

Inkel
Feb 19, 2004

College Slice
Some context for those who don't follow this trainwreck closely, you could historically always watch the streams of this event for free. It's also always been terrible, with the previous years CitizenCon being so bad that they changed their follow up "Holiday Stream" to be pre-recorded instead of being live.

Away all Goats
Jul 5, 2005

Goose's rebellion

So are they just greedy or are they actually running out of money? How have they raised *googles star citizen funds raised* Jesus christ, 181 million dollars, and still have no game to show for it?

Also isn't this the kind of thing you would want to make free, so people who haven't invested any money will see it and think 'oh this looks good, I might get in on this'?

Call Your Grandma
Jan 17, 2010

JamMasterJim posted:

You guys know how there is a CitizenCon (a convention for a game that does not exist).
For those who cannot attend live, stage presentations will be streamed.
If you buy a digital ticket. No, it's not for a premium , 4k 60 fps option. Just to watch at all.

These guys are geniuses.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/citizencon/tickets

:10bux:

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

Gone Phishing


Away all Goats posted:

Also isn't this the kind of thing you would want to make free, so people who haven't invested any money will see it and think 'oh this looks good, I might get in on this'?

Their streams and events are usually disastrous. No sensible person would be interested in what they're showing. The price tag makes sure true believers would buy in, but people who would mine it for goofs probably won't.

Regrettable
Jan 5, 2010



Away all Goats posted:

So are they just greedy or are they actually running out of money?

Yes

Regrettable
Jan 5, 2010



Tiberius Thyben posted:

Their streams and events are usually disastrous. No sensible person would be interested in what they're showing. The price tag makes sure true believers would buy in, but people who would mine it for goofs probably won't.

It also means they can edit out all of the bugs before the general public gets to see it.

Spuckuk
Aug 11, 2009

Being a bastard works



Tiberius Thyben posted:

Their streams and events are usually disastrous. No sensible person would be interested in what they're showing. The price tag makes sure true believers would buy in, but people who would mine it for goofs probably won't.

Watching it with goons in discord was hilarious tbh.

One in the Bum
Apr 25, 2014

Hair Elf
The paywall is to keep out the goons

JB50
Feb 13, 2008

Our own Major Tom recently posted some highlights of gameplay, with expected hilarious results:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuvyHZgOMdE

Worf
Sep 12, 2017

If only Seth would love me like I love him!

Oh yeah star citizen is definitely a con

Tinfoil Papercut
Jul 27, 2016

by Athanatos
Someone please convert the cost of watching a Star Citizen stream into "what if I spent this money on internet porn instead"

big nipples big life
May 12, 2014

Tinfoil Papercut posted:

Someone please convert the cost of watching a Star Citizen stream into "what if I spent this money on internet porn instead"

Spending money on porn is as bad as spending money on fake spaceships.

Tinfoil Papercut
Jul 27, 2016

by Athanatos
Concierge level Sasha Grey backers

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
if you preorder the Dongulus Maximus 3000 male unit, you will receive free lifetime penis insurance!

Regrettable
Jan 5, 2010



Lol, they backpedalled on charging money for any of the stream and are already blaming it being poo poo quality on people not wanting to pay for it.

tyrelhill
Jul 30, 2006

JB50 posted:

Our own Major Tom recently posted some highlights of gameplay, with expected hilarious results:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuvyHZgOMdE

hahaha that is some good poo poo what a piece of crap game

Worf
Sep 12, 2017

If only Seth would love me like I love him!

Regrettable posted:

Lol, they backpedalled on charging money for any of the stream and are already blaming it being poo poo quality on people not wanting to pay for it.

Lol as a person that has paid $0 for star citizen and also never played it, its one of my favorite games

Saint Isaias Boner
Jan 17, 2007

hi how are you

Statutory Ape posted:

Lol as a person that has paid $0 for star citizen and also never played it, its one of my favorite games

someone gave me a copy and my enjoyment of star citizen was lessened significantly by installing it and playing it for half an hour. i uninstalled it but it's not the same

13Pandora13
Nov 5, 2008

I've got tiiits that swingle dangle dingle




Saint Isaias Boner posted:

someone gave me a copy and my enjoyment of star citizen was lessened significantly by installing it and playing it for half an hour. i uninstalled it but it's not the same

You are thinking of No Man's Sky.

Star Citizen will never be released.

Over There
Jun 28, 2013

by Azathoth

Regrettable posted:

Lol, they backpedalled on charging money for any of the stream and are already blaming it being poo poo quality on people not wanting to pay for it.

Ahahhaha

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel

Statutory Ape posted:

Lol as a person that has paid $0 for star citizen and also never played it, its one of my favorite games

PHIZ KALIFA
Dec 21, 2011

#mood

Somfin posted:

Like all terrible game fans with too much money they don't actually know what they fuckin' want. They want all the good things from all of the good games to be in one game that will therefore be good, rather than a game that is about something specific and meaningful / fun / exciting / engaging and therefore good.

CIG thinks they're making the game from Ready Player One when really they're just writing the novel.

PHIZ KALIFA
Dec 21, 2011

#mood

big nipples big life posted:

Spending money on porn is as bad as spending money on fake spaceships.

porn stars need to eat and nudes are not primarily compelled through the gift economy. you're thinking of poetry. spending money on fake spaceships is as bad as spending money on poetry.

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katka
Apr 18, 2008

:roboluv::h: :awesomelon: :h::roboluv:
I don't know much about the industry side of games, but does the big triple A stuff even get a budget as big as Star Citizen has? Maybe I'm wildly underestimating how much games cost to make, but I can't imagine even something like COD or Battlefield cost 200 million.

Basically, is this poo poo show the biggest waste of money the games industry has ever seen?

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