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Orv posted:Lmao, loving Gearbox jesus christ. That whole Fig thing was sketchy as gently caress too and just a way to bilk more money out of people by Gearbox. The game was already fully funded by Gearbox itself. Why the gently caress did they even need a crowdfunding campaign? God, I hope Blackbird isn't affected by all of Gearbox's scummy fuckery, but we'll see. E: Looks like this is being blamed more on Embracer buying Gearbox than anything Gearbox itself did. nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Jun 9, 2021 |
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I wouldn’t have been an “investor” even if I had contributed to the campaign but setting a $1 goal just meant “We don’t actually need this” to me. Also acknowledge Homeworld Cataclysm you cowards.
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Jun 9, 2021 03:46
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Kibayasu posted:I wouldn’t have been an “investor” even if I had contributed to the campaign but setting a $1 goal just meant “We don’t actually need this” to me. They flat out said at the unveiling event that the game was already fully funded, the Fig campaign was just for [gimme gimme hand gesture] reasons and was effectively just a really convoluted pre-order scheme.
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Jun 9, 2021 03:52
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Orv posted:Lmao, loving Gearbox jesus christ. lmao I knew it
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Jun 9, 2021 03:55
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Goddamn what is it about gearbox that skeevy poo poo always happens around the company. I mean good on them for the HW remasters I guess but I think BBI should look for a new publisher.
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Jun 9, 2021 06:06
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murphyslaw posted:Goddamn what is it about gearbox that skeevy poo poo always happens around the company. I mean good on them for the HW remasters I guess but I think BBI should look for a new publisher. Randy Pitchford owns the rights to the Homeworld IP, so BBI can go wherever the hell they want, they'll never be able to make another Homeworld game anywhere BUT at Gearbox. At least they're now able to make Homeworld games period after THQ sat on Relic Entertainment and forced them to pump out WarHammer 40k games until they crumbled into insolvency and Pitchford snatched the Homeworld IP out of their rotting corpse like Thanos picking up an Infinity Stone. It's the worst of all worlds, but it's via this dark bargain that we'll ever (hopefully) get a game that looks, sounds like, and in actuality is "Homeworld 3".
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Jun 9, 2021 06:28
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This is probably an unpopular opinion, but while I appreciate the storytelling highlights of Cataclysm, I honestly found the ship designs totally butt-ugly. And like, I get the whole "it's a bunch of civilian utility ships that have been gunned up into combat duty" thing... but I still think they look butt-ugly.
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Jun 9, 2021 07:11
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It's incredible that through their sheer scumbaggery, this is the only Homeworld 3 news we have had in a good long while. Bravo Gearbox.
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Jun 9, 2021 07:12
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:This is probably an unpopular opinion, but while I appreciate the storytelling highlights of Cataclysm, I honestly found the ship designs totally butt-ugly.  
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Jun 9, 2021 07:56
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chaosapiant posted:Totally off hand comment here but wouldn't it be cool if Homeworld 3 supported VR? Like you're a commander and you're zooming into a version of Homeworld's strategic view that spreads around you like the galaxy map in Elite Dangerous? Probably no way it could work, but in my mind's eye it seems amazing. You could reach out and touch each ship and zoom in to get a 3D "holographic" view of the ship while you spin it around IronMan/Jarvis style and retrofit its guns and check its specs out. Now that I've typed these words I've decided I want this. A VR version of the UI would be really lovely just to get some dang depth perspective.
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Jun 9, 2021 09:38
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It even has the hole...
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Jun 9, 2021 15:22
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That's a garbage scow! 
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Jun 9, 2021 15:46
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thedangergroove posted:That's a garbage scow! It literally is a garbage scow, yes. Original purpose is to attach to and propel large pieces of debris or asteroids. Cataclysm’s ships’ ugliness is their beauty but honestly that “ugliness” doesn’t last for very long either. The recon, worker and processor, mimic, ramming frigate, and carrier (the kind of ships a mining fleet would need) are certainly sharp, boxy, and functional but the acolyte and the newer ships built over the rest of the campaign are pretty neat looking. What they really lack is a kind of unifying aesthetic once you start building hive frigates.
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Jun 9, 2021 16:07
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Still not as sexy as the Kushan battle tortoise.
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The Cata dreadnaught is still one of my favorite sci-fi designs ever even if it's extremely simple in the end.
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Orv posted:The Cata dreadnaught is still one of my favorite sci-fi designs ever even if it's extremely simple in the end. I preferred the Destroyer. Looked like a knight's helmet. But nothing beats the Taiidan Ion Frigate or Qwaar-Jet.
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Jun 9, 2021 19:00
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For the rest of the series it's the Taiidan destroyer from 1, for me. Looks cool as hell, like an animal.
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Jun 9, 2021 19:03
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And is modeled on one, in universe! A very cool spaceship
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Jun 9, 2021 19:16
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For me it's the Vaygr. Their ships are so pretty. Just a giant assortment of guns strapped to engines and given invasion strips.
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Jun 9, 2021 22:25
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I hate the HW2 destroyers for both factions though, they feel halfbaked
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Jun 9, 2021 22:32
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Arcsquad12 posted:For me it's the Vaygr. Their ships are so pretty. Just a giant assortment of guns strapped to engines and given invasion strips. Balance wise each ship being designed around a single purpose had issues but the visual design of being one fuckoff weapon with engines strapped on is just so cool. The Vaygr are what you get if you took the design philosophy of the Ion Frigate and used it for every ship type.
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Jun 9, 2021 22:34
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I actually really like both. The whole broadside design is objectively kinda dumb but the Hig ones look really fuckin cool firing in formation. The Vaygr one is just a neat design. Edit: Destroyers I mean
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Jun 9, 2021 22:36
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Psycho Landlord posted:I actually really like both. The whole broadside design is objectively kinda dumb but the Hig ones look really fuckin cool firing in formation. If they had more guns or something I think they'd work but a broadside of like two guns at a time is kind of eh
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Jun 9, 2021 22:42
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RBA Starblade posted:If they had more guns or something I think they'd work but a broadside of like two guns at a time is kind of eh Higs have 4!
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Jun 9, 2021 22:43
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Psycho Landlord posted:Higs have 4! I want like twelve for that!
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Jun 9, 2021 22:51
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nine-gear crow posted:Reasons Thanks for filling that in. Of all the people to own the IP, it had to be Randy loving Pitchford. But I guess this is why Hardspace Shipbreaker is published by Focus Home Interactive?
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Jun 10, 2021 06:12
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"We have enough money to make something but give us more money just because we want more money" really rubs me the wrong way. Like, you have way more money then I do, don't need it, then still have the nerve to ask my poor rear end for more?
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Oh no, some fans of the game who were offered an opportunity to pre-order the game like a Kickstarter and were never charged a dime will now never be charged a dime. Let me clutch my pearls. 
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Jun 11, 2021 17:51
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Oh no, some fans of the game who were offered an opportunity to pre-order the game like a Kickstarter and were never charged a dime will now never be charged a dime. Swing and a miss
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Jun 11, 2021 18:00
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I mean its not a great look but its also far from being the worst thing that crowdfunding has ever done. The only people """""""""hurt""""""""" here were people that wanted to get their own stack of money out of Homeworld 3 being made and they aren't losing any money at all. Anyone who just gave their $60 for a copy of the game and a bananaship buttplug in the future aren't affected at all. The only thing cancelled was investor payments.
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Jun 11, 2021 18:15
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Larian Studios basically did the same thing with the Divinity: Original Sin 2 kickstarter, just without even making backers literal investors in the game. They already intended to make the game and had the funds themselves to make a technically-complete game out of it. The kickstarter was a series of stretch goals from the start to just add more content and features into the game.
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Jun 11, 2021 19:34
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Yeah no one lost any money on this so while kinda lovely-looking it's not exactly a huge scandal or anything.
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Rhjamiz posted:Yeah no one lost any money on this so while kinda lovely-looking it's not exactly a huge scandal or anything. Oh, I thought everyone was still on the hook for their donation pledges and the money just went up in smoke. If they weren't actually charged for it yet or they're all getting refunds then that's probably the best way this story could end. Still it proves the power of the IP as a concept alone that people forked out $1.5 mil out of their own pocket, with basically zero prompting, and in a matter of days because they thought it would help make Homeworld 3 a reality. Apparently people really want to play Homeworld 3 for some reason 
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What was cancelled were the actual investment contributions and they were refunded. No one lost any money except what they hoped they’d make back if the game was successful. Fig also does regular pledges the same as Kickstarter or IndieGoGo and since the game is still being made those are still being treated as they were.
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Jun 11, 2021 21:22
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Orv posted:Lmao, loving Gearbox jesus christ. Had been curious what was happening with this game. Not the news I wanted to see. :/
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Jun 11, 2021 21:23
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Finally finishing Deserts on a different computer. Hooray for automatic cloud saves! Also I love how extremely Canadian every background voice is.
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Rhjamiz posted:Yeah no one lost any money on this so while kinda lovely-looking it's not exactly a huge scandal or anything. Nobody lost any money and it's not a huge scandal but it's hyper greedy move #5,000 by Gearbox who already just sucks a ton.
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Kibayasu posted:What was cancelled were the actual investment contributions and they were refunded. No one lost any money except what they hoped they’d make back if the game was successful. Fig also does regular pledges the same as Kickstarter or IndieGoGo and since the game is still being made those are still being treated as they were. Fig never even charged any of the investment backers. How that works over all this time I do not understand, but that was Fig's official statement, they never charged anyone.
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Fairly unrelated but someone mentioned VR above. Checkout BattleGroupVR on steam, never seen anybody at all talking about it but stumbled across it one day. Been the one consistently updated VR game I own, it's pretty fun and scratches the spaceships in virtual reality itch.
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Abongination posted:Checkout BattleGroupVR on steam, never seen anybody at all talking about it but stumbled across it one day. But is it good?
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