IronicDongz posted:

star shitizen

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Yes, this is the part where you start wondering if you all got p0wned. The answer would be yes. Yes of course.

ritorix posted:

Mr SoupTeeth posted:

Each refund increases the odds of his murder by way of Hanzo steel/bat'leth replica.

EminusSleepus posted:

EminusSleepus posted:

that dog died and did not even see the release of the game..shame

GaussianCopula posted:

I think a pet system is only complete if it allows breeding, including cross species breeding with a realistically modeled gene system, including special breeding ships of course.

CrazyLoon posted:

Or maybe it's just not a problem, until it happens to you or someone you know. I mean, I'm from a filthy socialist EU country and I deffo wouldn't classify dickpics over the internet as a term upon which one could legally prosecute. But having witnessed the whole thing with Dickwulf from start to finish (and knowing of another case before it, where he did it for sure), it is definitely a disgustoid thing to do that you absolutely should get branded and mocked over the internet for.

Xaerael posted:

Some sleazy SC uberwhale redditor gifted a girl a spaceship jpeg, then used that as an excuse to start sending her dickpics.

Xaerael posted:

Amazing article. I love how every time CIG manages to start stabilizing a bit, someone just slams another torpedo into their slowly sinking ship.

Madcosby posted:

Leader responds

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/14979-Chairmans-Response-To-The-Escapist

CLAM DOWN posted:

oh my god is this loving real ahahaahahhahahaAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHHHAHA

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I would ask you to think hard about this in the context of what you guys have been considering running with. What do you hope to achieve by running with an article like this? What good do you hope will come out of it? Are you looking to cast assertions on our chance of success? What’s the point of unfounded conjecture and innuendo from biased parties? People say we will not deliver the game we’ve promised. So? Shouldn’t you just let us get on with it?

HKS posted:

"I will update this piece with a direct response to the article later in the day ... hopefully it will calm some nerves now."

CR responded within 90minutes to the Escapist article, on a Thursday morning around 9am PST. It's not like the 'community' was up in arms about it, the brown sea barely made a stink about it. So basically the only nerves he was calming was his own. I would't behave this way if I didn't do anything wrong.

Truga posted:

fake edit: Jesus christ that CR response is long. Does anyone have a TL;DR, I'm not going to read that.

Chris Roberts posted:

The only person who is famous for being a blowhard, bully, an awful game developer and human being is Derek Smart.

D_Smart posted:

I have tried to stay in one corner of social media while this shitstorm continues. I only wanted to post here so that you goons are aware of my official statement about all of this.

1) Nobody "doxed" Chris Roberts. It’s FALSE:

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1snimul

2) He data mined our social media feeds and grabbed stuff out of context to attack myself, the researcher, and the author of the article.

This is the Harper issue he completely skewed.

http://dereksmart3000ad.tumblr.com/post/130103960759/social-media-discourse

3) This is how it came to this

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sniofq

The project is FUBAR. And anyone who says otherwise is an idiot who cannot be trusted.

That is all. As you were.

- DS

Onmi posted:

It's not like we've never seen it before. We saw it with Schafer with Broken Age and we're seeing it with Inafune and Mighty No.9. Projects that asked for little, talked big, got way more than they asked for, were late, and the product does not look very good. I think if Kickstarter and crowdfunding has been a lesson in anything, it's that sometimes Publishers exist for a loving reason. As easy as it can be to say those mean old businessmen are stomping over their free spirits, but really they're a bunch of people trying to keep a project on time. And it turns out when you put that in the hands of the fans they're far worse than any boardroom.

Dusty Lens posted:

https://www.cloudimperiumgames.com/contact

Interested in becoming a corporate investor with Cloud Imperium?
ir@cloudimperiumgames.com

Is it still crowd funding if you ask a crowd of investors if they want to fund you?

peter gabriel posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V44T0p1ICYw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP7PUUViKjI

Those are the only two parts of the game that exist, what problems? I tell you, there are no problems here man.

Bolow posted:

The most expensive ship in the game you can walk around in is $275. All the super expensive sperg tier ships don't exist in game in any loving capacity

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Now if only he made one.

Onmi posted:

I'm bringing the comedy.



Holy crap Smart!

BluestreakBTHR posted:

Doesn't matter. I got all back, except $30 from the VD store, and the cost of that awful Redacted Hoodie, which found its way into the bin.

BluestreakBTHR posted:

$1400

MellowTigger posted:

I'm lost. What source? How do you know they are late in their filings? Is there a webpage of publicly posted information?

Octopode posted:

These questions look eerily similar to the same ones that were brought up here about the same supposed issues about their server architecture, and appear to have received essentially the same response.

MeLKoR posted:

Oh Lordy!

Deki posted:

Kismensus found out that one of the goons was a big ol' unrepentant pedophile. He kicked said Pedophile, and the rest of the Archeage leadership got really upset because BFM was really good at making wool or something.

A lot of the leadership for that game bailed with the guild assets because they were good friends with the known practicing pedophile and took poo poo with them. Some goons somehow think it's Kismensus' fault that goons didn't get very far in archeage (It's in fact because it's a bad game).

D Smizzle posted:

And when it collapses and companies start sifting through the debris in bankruptcy court or auction, my guess is that you can probably pick up that $20K (!) cappuccino machine purchased for the new LA office (the one where all work has stopped due to a dispute with one of the contractors), for less than $5K. No, I’m not kidding. They have a $20K cappuccino machine that backers paid for. Because Chris always wanted one. Go ahead, ask him.

Chafey posted:

Wow, thanks to this thread, I found out Universal Combat is free on steam!!

tooterfish posted:

They hired Imaginarium the same year George "I have no idea how I made all this money" Lucas and Marvel "literally every loving movie at the cinema this year is one of ours" Studios did, that can't have been even remotely cheap.

Romes128 posted:

um excuse me, it's a cappuccino machine

you dont just have regular coffee during a 40 hour coke and muff shaving binge.

Klyith posted:

Now take this $90 million dollar kickstarter. Here it is, peaceful, serene... boring. But if it is destroyed?

Look at all these little jpegs! So shiny, so expensive. What a lovely ballet ensues, so full of whales and concept art. Now think about all those backers who donated, hundreds of people who won't be able to feed their children tonight, so those children can grow up dreaming about spaceship games too!

Thus, adding to the great cocaine pile of life.

Eonwe posted:

i wonder what citcon will smell like

Sushi in Yiddish posted:

Missed the page, where is this 20k espresso thing coming from?

Deranged M posted: