spacetoaster posted:

So did Chris's costume.

Speaking of cringe. Here's the highlights from last years citcon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWt25iHmIY8

MedicineHut posted:

So much for the mythical secret dev build? https://www.twitch.tv/videos/156232121?t=1h11m00s

thatguy posted:

I bet Sandi will write the tell-all after she blames everything on Chris and Ben and her acting career fails.

cool new Polack jokes posted:

These people should be ashamed of what they are producing. And even more ashamed to take people's money for it. That's really all there is to say about Star Citizen.

Sindai posted:

I just want the game to get to where you can buy ships in game so that we can witness the collision between backers who expect value for the thousands they spent and normal players who expect to be able to buy ships without grinding for months.

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

pls share yr Star Citizen adventure with the thread.

ManofManyAliases posted:

And I disagree.

JugbandDude posted:

If someone asks you to post your balls, please don't fret: it's just another weird goon ritual.

Daztek posted:

http://i.imgur.com/nqrVb7x.gifv

fuctifino posted:

Public Californian records show that Sandi was born in 1975 (making her Sq42), not 1980.

A Star Citizen from reddit posted:

Firstly, regardless of your statements I wont stereotype you.
I am uncertain how old you are or how much commercial experience you have, but the time that CIG has spent building a company and building the game is exceptionally fast - under all circumstances.

Normally to grow any business from 5 staff to over 300-400 odd in 4 and a half years is exceptional. You ask any company that is sub 50 staff what would be required to expand to 300-400, let alone if they could find suitable candidates. It's incredibly hard.
When I worked in the industry on games like fallout and freedom force and tribes 9 out of 10 times the default window was 3 years (back in the late 90's early 2000's). The budgets were 5-15 mil, the teams were 25-70 odd. Not once were we not screwed over by the financers/publishers etc, More often than not timelines were moved forward 6 months (even 1 year).

15+ years has passed, the manhours required to build complex graphical games has increased considerably. The budget (mostly inflation & insane advertising costs) has also grown considerably. 5 Years is now the default "time frame" for a game, that is assuming that you have a full resourced studio able to work on it. Titles like COD cycle developers and have multiple working on them in conjunction so that they can attempt to release a title once a year. Last I looked 3 dev's cycling a 3 year window, releasing a title a year.... and COD is known globally for "re-skinning" the same poo poo and releasing it as new... With a few new "gimmicks" tossed in.
Now I have 0 inside information about CIG, I do however see the following:

1) The KS, the demo (like 99.99% of all tech demos) was a paper walled building that was done in NOV 2012. - I've watched so many demo's bomb infront of financers "Why dont you make a COD/BF shooter... or something more popular" Nah not interested.
2) Once financing decisions were made (IIRC they decided they did not need investors/loans & they would continue crowdfunding on their site), they started to build out the company and get the ball rolling.
3) Within a year or so they know they are going to easily hit and surpass their original projections for game funding, at which point they turn to the backers and with a huge sample get a vote basically saying "YES! reach for the stars, make the game as best as possible". - CIG continues the funding and their open development, adding additional sites and hiring available staff/resources from those sites local vanities.
4) Years pass with CIG working on 4 core pillars: Single player game, Multiplayer Game, Design and core tech. - What CIG wants to do currently is not possible on any single engine (Features from different engines however do exist proving that it is possible).
5) CIG continues to develop tech and iterate pipelines for productivity and efficiency whilst pushing the quality bar as high as possible.
6) Yes CIG, like any company have various growing issues that require restructuring. Yes with there size there are lots of dissenters and x workers. Yes they are under the spot lite and both the good and bad have to be taken with a shovel worth of salt.
7) CIG continues to show advancement's in tech, advancements in quality (I hate the word fidelity), advancements in game design (*Game design has been DEAD for 15 years curtesy of game consoles killing/strangling the industry).
8) CIG , no restrained by financers/publishers can choose to delay things to get the solved. - Lucky for them they have staff/resources that are smart enough to do so - so many games I've worked on they didn't/couldn't solve poo poo.

So to summarize I would say CIG has really only been running optimally for 2+ years, their studio is decent sized now and should be able to maintain that level of productivity. I think people are kidding themselves if they think SQ42 will drop this year. I'll be very very surprised if it drops even before 2019. Having made that statement, there is a large volume of cross benefit resource allocation that can be leveraged from both SQ42 and SC. I Do also think that because of the two games CIG cannot release suitable and finished content from SQ42 into SC since they want to keep SQ42 a surprise/new experience. They sure have dug their own hole on many fronts, but the majority of the primary backers are throwing money at them to have them lift the bar of what can be done with a game/game engine more in the how to progress the horrifically stagnated games industry which now shovels the same poo poo time and time again to their poo poo loving customers.

Profit is not the problem, the person and their greed is. Water is not a problem, People using it to drown others is. A gun isnt a problem, People pulling the trigger is. Without profit there is no incentive, Without incentive humans wont do it - plain and simple. If none will do it then nothing gets done. Welcome back to the stone age. *(Adelaide in Australia is currently fast approaching giving up electricity due to excessive socialism Their power is the most expensive in the world about looking to double/tripple in the next few years - $1.50 per KWH... compared to other countries that normally cost 5-15c's per KWH.

Foo Diddley posted:

The box has been sitting there forever, the smell could peel paint, and there are some truly noxious fluids leaking out of it, but we don't know the cat's dead. Can't be sure until Chris opens the box

MilesK posted:

Nicholas posted:

genuinely curious, which famous hollywood actors / actresses are lying about their age?

thatguy posted:

I agree, that was some really amateur research. He didn't even get into how you can cross-reference her publicly available health records with her 2014 tax refunds in order to calculate the brand of milk she buys.

notoriousman posted:

MoMA is a testament to CIG's open development, that even with his supposed insider information (lol) he doesn't know poo poo about the game.

biglads posted:

I'm sure all these citizens and their Derek related tirades will end when 3.0 comes out as they'll be too busy playing it and it will blow everyone away with how much fidelity/subsumption/immersion/hand-waving/mocap has been layered in.

Hahahahahahahahahaha

Liu posted:

did the reason roberts and sandi lied about being married ever come to life? why did they do that

Percelus posted:

i think it's because sandi is deeply ashamed of having slept with a giant human toe

The Titanic posted:

You have no idea what this video does to me because of the high pitched cheeps the furry guys are using.

XK posted:

Is it actually this bad with Tony Z?

nawledgelambo posted:

e:

sry for hype, beat me later

Beet Wagon posted:

Everyone on reddit is hailing this last AtV as "jaw-dropping" and/or the last line in CR owning Derek, but looking through it all I see is some glamour shots of a spaceship and some empty planetside level things. Is there something I'm missing or are they really that loving dumb?

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

The output of a flare would be really easy to detect against the background of space.

MilesK posted:

I still think CIG can make working clone of a No Man's Sky demo within the year.

Awesome! posted:

this is the face of a man who just took a fat poo poo and then sees his buddy get up to go to the bathroom right after

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Just overwhelm the player base with a bunch of useless poo poo so they can be distracted with the fact that they are suffering from a massive engineering bottleneck on core engine issues and they continue to skid their tires on UI and doors

Nicholas posted:

my gf just came by and asked what i was doing and i said 'posting about star citizen' and she sighed and went to the bedroom and fell asleep so i ask you who is the real loser here

Libluini posted:

Because recoil in space means you will start traveling into the opposite direction you are shooting, so weapons with minimal/zero recoil are better.

The Titanic posted:

it became clear that making an actual game also meant closing the fountain of money they discovered by accident.

The game will never be released because it's not profitable to release it. The next patch will always have all the features you want until it's released and then it will be the next patch after. They're already millionaires so they've got no reason to do anything more than keep up the scam for as long as it's bringing in money.

SelenicMartian posted:

Coutts & Co seems to be doing fine, for a bank?

Mirificus posted:

https://twitter.com/iq_derek/status/884037696162758656