I bought the early access to Arma 3, and at the time I think it was about $30. I've got a lot of hours in that game. Many shenanigans, others tears, explosions, accidentally throwing of flash bangs at teammates, and much fun was had. I loved the mobile artillery in that game.... So much fun dropping shells on targets.
Star Citizen's Gamescom Presentation has 30X More Viewers than ED on Twitch!
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meh, Space Engineers easily sold over a million copies its first year.
Im starting to think Braben is the kind of guy who makes his daily constitution, wipes himself and with a smug smile says, out loud, 'That was a Colossal Epic'.
I don't know why I get this impression.
Thing is, I don't think Fdev is too concerned about Q4 2020 revenue at this precise moment, so the comparison of "1 year after the release of SC" hardly seems relevant.
She's probably nervous, you should try to put her at ease a bit and make her feel good about herself before you go try and do it
SC has fantastic concept art. I haven't bought the game but I still visit their website occasionally just to see the great artwork. If ED had more artwork with cities and buildings and people, I think that would generate more hype. On the other hand I also like that the stuff released by ED is mostly true to what the game looks like.
Hype, de art of sellin dream = SC
Reality, wid luv an negativity = ED
Easy to sell a dream. Reality not takin a bite!
Word.
Star Citizen and No Man's Sky have not yet been released, so haven't yet had a chance to disappoint.
In first they there were 2000 viewers on FD stream. So no, it was 9 times more, not 30 times.
True, and my guess is that Star Citizen is going to dissapoint on a colossal epic scale.
Not because it'll be a bad game (it'll quite likely be pretty good), but because it can never live up to the expectations that some of the hardcore fans have of it.
Yeah, it is in the Sandro interview from today's stream.
Fortresses, which you can attack from you ship or CRV can have a defense system with smaller CRVs that are remotely controlled. These small drones, called Skimmers, will try to repel your attack. You may destoy them directly. or destroy the relay that is connecting them to their drivers. If you have air support, getting them to launch a few dumb fires at the relay towers could help your chances at taking the buildings.
Sidebar: Not AI controlled, as Sandro explains, AI is not permitted in the Elite universe due to past issues with them...learn something new every day!
I love going onto the SC forums and hearing about how Chris Roberts saved someone's infant from falling off a bridge and cured their dog's cancer at the same time. Really inspiring.
If it's simply more streamers that would make it more accessible to the "gaming public" then I'd happily stream my own game play so that everyone can laugh at how bad I am
A couple of problems with that though.
1: I play either on DK2 or triple screen. Neither of those would translate nicely to a clean view.
2: I don't know how to stream.
A couple of problems with that though.
1: I play either on DK2 or triple screen. Neither of those would translate nicely to a clean view.
2: I don't know how to stream.
ED would have sold more if it was on Steam since day 1 of the Alpha as Early Access and discounted on every sale like Space Engineers was.
Indeed. Oh, well. They can't rely on SC being crap forever. Well, OK, maybe they can. LOL.
I dont think its going to be that good....
Well it looks like Star Citizen is gonna have x30 more disappointed players when the game is released lol
I think it will be buggy as hell.
Frontier is terrible at marketting.
I dont think I know of another company that has so many PR distasters as Frontier does.
1) Terrible Kickstarter for E
2) Offlinegate
3) Steamkeygate
4) DDF binned
5) Horizon prizing
FD also seems to have a big problem with communicating clearly.
Most of their announcements are just vague and unclear.
UK companies in general are terrible at marketting.
My guess is that this is due to the 'Island mentality'.
There's the UK, then there's the Commonwealth, then there's the former colony in the US.
After that the world pretty much stops as far as Brits are concerned.
Just look at the latest Horizons teaser.
'Coming Holiday 2015'. 80% of the world has zero idea what that actually means.
Apparently it means around christmas.
Localization for other languages also seems to be pretty low on the priority list.
Finally, I can't understand that you have this Colossal announcement and you only have a small teaser trailer to go with it.
Bombard us with (scripted for all I care) gameplay footage, show us some pretty pictures, give us some stats on the scarab, whatever.
Having a good product is not enough, you need to actively sell that product and 'sell' your company by creating enthousiastic customers.
Agree with you on this one
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