SQ42 shoved out in a bad state at the end of 2017 because of necessity to recoup some funding and consolidate development efforts. If the backlash isn't severe enough, they get to squeeze out a very-MV beta version in '18 that eventually gets honed to a releasable product lacking the vast majority of features and gameplay, but with an MT business model that lets a decimated team drip-feed minor content upgrades for a year or two… If the backlash is sufficient, on the other hand, Chris steps down and the chances of an actual full-featured game in '18 increases dramatically.
In other words, they're hindering the potential sales by focusing on a niche of an already-small niche, overlapped with a second niche. Sure, it may be the type of customer they're aiming for with their whale-centric marketing, but that just means they've deliberately reduced the sales potential of the game.
The Tandy part.
No. That's exactly what sets Star Wars, Alien and Blade Runner apart from the run-of-the-mill stuff: they have a unique style, which is then aped by tons of followers who don't have the visual acumen of Ridley Scott, Ralph McQuarrie, Syd Mead, Ron Cobb, and H.R. Gieger. Their artistry is what sets those movies apart from the copy-cats. Their being copied does not mean that they're generic — it means they're original. SC's design work is not original. It's one of the copy-cats… and not even of the good original designs, but of other copy-cats.
Scope, no, but that's not a factor; development process, yes, because that doesn't actually change — software is software is software. Well, I suppose it changes if we're talking about a competent team vs. an incompetent one. So as far as finding these “real alphas” go, you have no problem finding the full gamut there. If we were to introduce scope as a variable, it gets worse: we can look at those simpler games and see how long it takes for them to get from the state SC is in to beta to release, and now we multiply it by the complexity of what CIG claims they're doing at which point we end up with a release date somewhere in the mid-'70s.
…and it's still the CryEngine rendering pipeline with the stuff that's available in that engine. The rendering pipeline is the reason they picked the engine to begin with, and even with the point upgrades, it is still an engine that is now lagging behind. There's simply no two ways about it: unless the completely rip it out and replace it with something more modern, it is not standing up to what's currently top of the crop, and will definitely not stand up to what's released by the time the game is actually out. Console games are beating SC at the moment. Guess where the SOTA will be in two or three years?
There is when it's a well-known fact that he micro-manages every project he's in and when he has a well-established, well-documented history of needing to have the final word about all things visual (a word that may then change at a whim). He's the one who decided that they should go with the most inefficient and outdated method possible of creating world detail. It doesn't really matter how much experience the actual artists and developers have when their expertise is being overridden by someone who thinks he knows better in spite of having no worth-while experience at all…
Oh Derek my dear friend... you're passion allways obscured your reasoning. We've come a long way... way before you adopted Smart as your last name (I know and understand your reasons, no biggie one does what one has got to do to cope with these things).
And yes Derek, your info comes from us that feed you stuff in the SA thread and the rest is up to your imagination.
We are the same guys that mocked and alienated you 10 years ago and we are doing the same now, and you know it, but since it suits your agenda you roll with it.
You know that both Bootcha/Beer/Ace or any disgruntled ex-employees are just using you, you can try and use them back to raise "awareness" for your cause but you know that there's no way that this will end up good for you, but you don't really care, there's really nothing left for you besides GamerGate and CitizenHate.
The thing is, there's no stopping this Star Citizen train, whatever you and your gang of hecklers try: mock/ harass / stalk / CIG staff at will, scavenge for all the furniture, concept art, lawsuits, peoples personal life at will, do your best at being your worst. It doesn't matter in the end it's just lulz while the Big Boys work.
And people do care about what I do think and post, that's why they feel the need to post back. As you know Star Citizen now has way way more than 500.000k paying backers. In 2015 alone they got 178 million page views and 9.5 million visitors while having 80,000 players playing the 2.0 Crusader Universe. Have a look at the videos in their channel, their weekly show has +100k views , the minor ones go from 20k to 50k. Their gamescom demo amassed millions of views between the 3 official versions and around 4.5 million$.
What's the number of the haters cultists that you gathered? 50? 100?
Just because you try your best to keep screaming and shouting very loud adnauseum doesn't mean people will listen. It's the opposite really, like I said, you burned your bridges by making this personal, you are emotionally attached and that's hindering your judgement even when using the text-book trolling tactics. You went from "Warlord" to "Oh Lord". Oh yes your twitter stats are also impressive 32k tweets 90% about Star Citizen or it's Staff, talk about having a collective aneurysm over a video-game. [rolleyes]
Why do you say I've lost it? Do you see me punching coke machines or shouting from the top of my lungs so that you let me fk finish? Might as well call my PSD Nam Vet friend to clear things out.
You want sources about your 2015 Gamescom diatribes, sure you asked for them.
Just skim trough the pages while you sip your coffee, careful to not spill it. [big grin]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfJgirJ-HgI
Enjoy Citizens!
Of all the jokes, I love CIG's the most.
I loved their hilarious Joke 0.8
Don't forget about the Free-Fly Weeks! They have one every 2/3 months so people can actually try the game for free before making their decision.
Perhaps he means this?
