Klyith posted:

So is there a terrible mockup of the UI for doing SCIENCE! with your $900 science ship?


'Cause, ya know, I don't want to put that kind of money down without seeing that I'm gonna get some engaging gameplay out of it. Can I suggest a pipe dream minigame?

Chocobo posted:

You forgot the [Finish Now] button that instantly completes research but can only be done with credits from the cash shop.

Chocobo posted:

"I don't want to create a game[...]"
-Chris Roberts

No Mods No Masters posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uii8lxRC58

jaegerx posted:

Oh no. The one where he smashes the computer to stop him buying the mouse pad. Easily the best.

NecroMonster posted:

that's a goat strapped between a pair of rockets

LCL-Dead posted:

I was reading a comparison of the Rift/Vive over on True Reviews that left me torn. Vive is going to be the more expensive of the three options dropping in the next 5-6 months by HTC's own admission. Rift feels/looks more complete, more like a finished product but I think the Vive had higher resolution and the partnership with Valve and some of those other companies is pretty appealing.

Sarsapariller posted:

Thank you for bringing this much-needed fresh perspective to the thread, friend.

Sarsapariller posted:

Who's staying in though? Like, other than Octopode, is there a single person in this thread who is not rapidly extracting as much cash as possible from this thing?

LCL-Dead posted:

Thank you to everyone who responded on this.

The Vive's twin tower area control looked pretty neat and I get what was said about the teleportation mechanic for movement being a bit gimmicky. At the same time, I'm not horribly interested in the whole "move around with the headset on" bit because, even though the room where I keep my computer is large enough to support the process, I also keep my kids lego's in that room and it's not unheard of for there to be 60-70 errant pieces scattered around the carpet. The last thing I need to is step on one of those booby-traps with a headset on my face.

On the controllers: OR's looked a bit more intuitive than Vive's from the glance I gave them and I wouldn't be using a controller anyway as much as I'd likely be using keyboard and mouse. Of course, this depends on the software available so I'm pretty much just talking out of my rear end there. Who knows. I'll keep eyeballing them and maybe throw my refund money at a pre-order for one or the other come November, when pricing estimates are solid and available.

I plan to use it for Elite or ARMA either way as I don't see the more mainstream shooters like Battlefield or CoD effectively supporting the technology, not that I'd buy those on PC to begin with (And I'm sure as hell not buying into the Playstation VR set).

I look forward to the days when pictures will be posted of 14 year olds trying to get upskirt angles on female NPCs.

BurnBlackJay posted:

Is there a summary for what happened whit this game ? I wanna laugh to .

RSI Email posted:

The Endeavor is being offered for the first time as a limited concept sale. This means that the ship design meets our specifications, but it is not yet ready to display in your Hangar or to fight in Arena Commander. The sale includes Lifetime Insurance on the ship hull and a pair of decorative items for your Hangar. A future patch will add an Endeavor poster and then once the in-game model is finished you will also be given an in-game Endeavor mini ship model! In the future, the ship price will increase and the offer will not include Life Time Insurance or these extras.

Promatoast posted:

Anyone willing to share specifics with regards to why they've become disillusioned with the game? I thought the general consensus among backers was positive. In fact I was planning to jump in myself after seeing - at least what I thought to be - the game taking form.

Truecon420 posted:

I'm in for a little over $200 because I am a big idiot, can I get a refund on everything except my original <60$ pledge? Can you pick and choose your refund like that? My original pledge was June 27, 2013. Thanks for any help/advice I can get.

peter gabriel posted:

Look instead of wasting his time writing something using 100,000 words that could have used 50 he could be working on the game that doesn't exist and never has existed

Tusen Takk posted:

Has this game crashed and burned yet? Unless burger chat is getting super intense, something had to have happened for there to be 1300 new posts since I last read this thread

GaussianCopula posted:

Star Citizen - $90 million Ro-Sham-Bo simulator


He might be comparable to Steve Jobs if he was responsible for the Zune and died after that. Please don't compare him to the actual Steve Jobs, who was ultimately responsible for the iPod, iPhone and iPad, revolutionary devices that changed the daily life of millions and made Apple the largest company measured by market capitalization while CR made $90 million selling space ship jpegs.

Octopode posted:

Please refer to this image when you realize you're lovely at law research and have no hope of providing for yourself in the future rather than killing yourself.

Rudager posted:

drat dude, just get your $2k refunded already so you can live a normal life.

Octopode posted:

Octopode posted:

Here's a fun exercise: instead of trying to insult me, show me some expert opinion on why accusing someone of breaking the law would not meet the standards of California's libel per se definition. That way, instead of sitting here arguing like babies, we might both learn something! I've already submitted my basis for the legal argument in the form of the ABA article, which even has several relevant cases for perusal.

A Neurotic Jew posted:

Hey, your article on Roberts rhetoric was cool and good.

Admiral Crackbar posted:

Yeah but it's practically still in alpha itself. Sure, Frontier have slapped the released label on it, but there's still a fuckload of content missing from what was pitched during the kickstarter.

No Mods No Masters posted:

Next weekend

madcow posted:

I don't agree with some of the things CIG does, but I certainly don't hope they will fail. The pain from the fallout wouldn't just be limited to people with a fondness for collecting flying jpegs.

madcow posted:

I would be interested to see how that would argument would work because the way I see it, it would be a net negative since it would just lead to more formulaic, generic CoD and WoW-lite crap. More 'safe money' game design and less risk and innovation.

Humphrey Vasel posted:

Why don't cig just hire a mobile developer to make a star citizen match 3 game or something. Wouldn't that just make them infinite money

MeLKoR posted:

I didn't watch through all that but how is the toilet situation on that ship?

OhDearGodNo posted:

E:D doesn't suck, but it's not great.

It's notoriously okay.

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.

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.

madcow posted:

Or I am not a gullible cynic and have more experience with real investigative journalism than you?

If there had been or ends up being some legitimate evidence presented as to bad happenings in CIG, like say 40% of the company getting axed within a two week (which I have experienced irl) or a verifiable audio/video clip/document that contained some racist rantings or mentions of misappropriations of funds/fraudulent activity, I might be more inclined to hop on the hate wagon and get a refund. But so far, I have seen none of that. I have just seen one shoddily written "article" with poo poo sources, likely fabrications, and bunch of rantings and empty promise from Derek Smart, a known charlatan, one of which was to release a name at 4am EST, two days ago, to help lend some credence to his claims. Yeah, he never did that, just like he never had two PhDs, never had a good game, and will never have a successful lawsuit against CIG.

I knew pretty much right after the kickstarter ended and CR kept adding more and more strech goals that there was no way in hell that SC was going to meet its original deadline, just call it a hunch. So, release dates being pushed back? Yeah, I don't care, I have seen it countless times with other games with much smaller scopes and scales. I can watch a AtV episode or what not every now and see what they are doing or aren't doing. People leaving or being fired? Welcome to running a business, it doesn't always work out for a variety of reasons, personality conflicts are one of them, and if two people really were fired for releasing information to DS, then they deserved it. For being idiots and violating an NDA, which you can be pretty much certain CIG has.

When CIG starts to layoff significant portions of the staff and starts closing down studios that is when I will start to worry. If the game development starts to bleed into late 2016 and they still haven't released anything significant, say like the first episode of SQ42, which I suspect will come out sooner than that, then I will start thinking about getting my money back/filing a chargeback.

And lets say, for the sake of argument, CIG goes under and I don't get my money back. Oh well, I have spent more on alcohol and women in my lifetime, so losing out on the pittance I gave CIG really doesn't matter to me.

Schnorkles posted:

This sounds irresponsible and kind of unlikely tbh.