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Snuffman
May 21, 2004

Valatar posted:

The idea behind the kickstarter was just a revamped Privateer for 2013, I bought in because hey, fifty bucks is what I'd pay for a game, so sure I'll pony up so something that cool gets made. It wasn't until after the kickstarter that things went completely off the rails with wholly unfeasible features and scale. A sandbox space sim isn't unfeasible, and I think if they'd kept things toned down to the original kickstart scale they'd have had a finished product by now.

If you go back to the original Kickstarter and read it, it was basically Freelancer 2015 2014 (sorry, the original finish date was 2014, LOL) with a Wing Commander single player campaign. It all seemed very reasonable. So I backed at 35 and got my space winibago.

I cant really recall when the whole thing went off the rails, maybe it was right around when they started divvying up the game into modules...then the modules got delayed...then more modules got added...then more ships went on sale. There are "original" ships that still aren't available in the hanger module, isn't there?

If they'd just stuck to the original plan...that was feasible.

Welp, I'm in it for the fire-y wreckage that's now ensuing. Citizen-con or whatever it is, is going to be AMAZING.

Snuffman fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Oct 2, 2015

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Snuffman
May 21, 2004

peter gabriel posted:

How much is the scrub tier version of the game? That's what I bought

35 bucks was the early-backer amount, I think? I backed at that level too.

Snuffman
May 21, 2004

So catch me up here, did the Escapist lie about everything?

Derek Smart is insane, that's a given.

Who's suing whom? Is the Escapist still going to tour CIG and find the man behind the curtain?

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