Nickiepoo posted:

I wanted to argue with this but I literally couldn't think of a single one. Closest is stuff like FTL but that's really just 'open the door and see which designed encounter you get'.

A Neurotic Jew posted:

It is good and healthy to keep your expectations in check, except when it comes to Star Citizen's demise. It will be fireworks and magic and it will happen all at once, with a gigantic crater left in its wake.

Nemo2342 posted:

If your litigation boner lasts more than two weeks, please see a doctor.

pftc posted:

NEW LAYOFF SPOTTED
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nguyenandrew1

JakeP posted:

Again I don't know anything about her spending money on luxary products for herself or anything like this, but this project raising $94MM in preorders has nothing to do with Sandy. The people buying into this are buying into a dream that Chris Roberts created and sold to them. Sandys title can be whatever she wants it to be, it doesn't mean she is responsible for what that actual job is supposed to do. She is certainly overpaid for what she actually contributes because she is the bosses wife, and that is why they tried to keep this information a secret for so long, because she obviously not qualified for her high level position, and it shows.

JakeP posted:

The marketing is all word of mouth among a community of spergs and their friends. There aren't new people getting involved in this. Its the same goofy morons buying new jpegs every time they come out. Sandi isn't doing anything to motivate these sales, she just happens to hold the title of the person who is usually responsible for marketing.

JakeP posted:

Im not saying they don't have a great word of mouth thing going for them, just that it has nothing to do with anything Sandi did. My only point is she isn't qualified for her job, and any success of the company isn't because of her marketing strategies.

JakeP posted:

Why are you making this about gender?

TTerrible posted:

It always, always comes back to Sandis ego. Every single thing

Plankalkuel posted:

You can actually see, where the high-detailed and hand-crafted terrain starts poking through the less detailed noise map:

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

I first thought they were flying out over an ocean

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

I can see that, but it's so very telling that they come to that conclusion before thinking "what if they just want money"

when this ship sinks to the bottom of the ocean, the list of contact details to their customers will by far be the most valuable thing to go on auction

not their stupid furniture

CrazyLoon posted:

You know, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if the two aren't actually somehow linked. Not sure how but, the timing really is rather surreptitious.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

InfoRedux is working on a story. Or something.

AP posted:

Rotten Red Rod posted:

They've engineered themselves into a corner with all the ship-selling, too. Is finishing the game even in their best interest?

Dapper Dan posted:

If he thinks 10 hours of his writing will show them his genius, he is even more deluded than his whales.

Also Sandi's attachment to Roberts fucks her over because he is forever dead in Hollywood. There is pretty much one sin that is impossible to forgive: breaking a contract. Nobody is going to work with him or help anyone attached to him in any way. And she is a complete unknown in addition to that.

Cactus posted:

Other than the Escapist, has this debacle been discussed on any of the big podcasts in the last couple months or so? I'm not caught up with either of the bombcasts or C&Crowbar but have they or anyone else mentioned this at all recently?

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/3y3nfo/asteroids_are_weird_when_you_land_on_them/cya7xij

nopantsjack posted:

It is kind of ridiculous that the gaming press dogpiled Peter Molyneux into crying and losing his sense of self-worth but none of them have so much as glanced at the most entertaining fuckup of the past 3 years: Msr Chris Roberts.
At some point this is all going to collapse and they'll tear the whole thing apart like piranhas and then a year later they'll have retconned history with them having always been skeptical and critical of the whole thing.

I guess its a fools game to hope Germing Jurnalists will be anything better than insipid but RPS and PCgamer used to love this kind of drama, I'd like to know why they seem so cautious about broaching the issue, whether they just copy/paste press releases without watching Chris play his own game or whether the rabid fans give them pause.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

serious norman posted:

Will you be able to tame a bird and keep it as a pet?

Renegret posted:

I enjoy the thought that some people take this game so seriously that they seriously read every single post in this thread trying to stay on top of what goons are up to.

Not even we read the entire thread, everyone just skips to the most recent post and reads the last few to catch up.

Wafflz posted:

I like the way everything stops for second while the game figures out what the gently caress to do

Dapper Dan posted:

This was only because Blizzard has billions of dollars backing it so they could retain creative control. I mean, if you've got a billion dollars, gently caress it, they'll take your money, sure. Even if this movie is good and makes a billion dollars (it won't be good, lets be real. Orc baby Moses), Hollywood will still regard them as beneath them simply because they are the competition.

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

And I finally have a reply to Cr getting an SA account : "Get a life"

peter gabriel posted:

I'm really looking forward to such revolutionary, never before seen stuff such as 'move down a corridor' and 'get shouted at by an npc'

Toops posted:

On the plus side, this kind of 3d fidelity will surely smooth out Sandi's deep, crevasse-like wrinkles, acquired through a lifetime of musculo-facial kegel-like exercises which can only be described as "scowling bitch-face."

Gumbel2Gumbel posted:

Can you imagine how much money they would have made if they hired Olivia Munn instead of Olivia Munn on meth? 150 mill easy.

Also can you imagine being on of the guys who programmed the Crytek engine having to look at Roberts' code vomit that he puts out nightly?

drat Dirty Ape posted:

To be honest, I think it is going to get ugly no matter what happens. Even if Star Citizen turns out to be an expertly made video game(lol), it will still not be enough to meet the insane expectations the fanbase has for it. I mean, people get unreasonably angry over a normal $50 video game. What do you think they will do when they've sunk thousands of dollars into it? I'd feel bad for CIG for these insane expectations on a video game but it's pretty much all their fault.

Rudager posted:

This paragraph quoting CR sounds suuupppeerr scummy.


"You can't get your money back, it's now up to our discretion what we do with your money"

Tippis posted:

Sure. It's semantics and wordplay. The main issue is that they're trying to hold it up as some kind of mark of distinction, when the exact same wordplay and semantic shift is applied to the supposed competition, SC doesn't really have those “extremely large expanses.” Compared to the equally seamless EVE and E:D, it's positively tiny.

alphabettitouretti posted:

the Wing Commander movie was far superior than what we got. So I tend to think that FOX tried to change the Wing Commander movie because they didn't want it to compete with Star Wars (remember Episode 1 came out that same year).

Mirificus posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/3zzm2h/drama_the_responsening_inn/cyr0ley