FPS was promised for ED years ago as well, including concept art. Btw, I can drink beer just as efficiently on my own as with mates. No reason not multi-crew at the local pub...
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FPS was promised for ED years ago as well, including concept art. Btw, I can drink beer just as efficiently on my own as with mates. No reason not multi-crew at the local pub...
I'm hoping they're watching and learning how not to do it, and how crummy an idea this is.
Despite people loving to criticize FD on gameplay, I kinda trust them more on 'learning and improving' part than CIG at this point.
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Folks
I know it is difficult to remember, but please keep this to discussing Star Citizen. That is, Star Citizen. The game in development by CIG. Star Citizen. Remember?
Feel free to discuss Frontier's game Elite Dangerous in the massive dedicated part of the forum. Not here. This is for Star Citizen.
Got that?
I know it is difficult to remember, but please keep this to discussing Star Citizen. That is, Star Citizen. The game in development by CIG. Star Citizen. Remember?
Feel free to discuss Frontier's game Elite Dangerous in the massive dedicated part of the forum. Not here. This is for Star Citizen.
Got that?
Well with the content for 2.6.1 being on schedule for completion today, they only have SM and UI upgrades to complete and be ready for launch on 16th Feb.
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/schedule-report The second half of Feb looks like a bumper crop for fans of space games
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/schedule-report The second half of Feb looks like a bumper crop for fans of space games
426 million cause remember one publisher dollar = 3x CIG dollars
From his royal high leader; CR himself.
426 million cause remember one publisher dollar = 3x CIG dollars
From his royal high leader; CR himself.
Hey, so he could refund everyone yet still have 284M in bank, right?! \o/
You dirty FUDsters should be ashamed of yourselves, Chris Roberts actually said 1 CIG dollar was worth 5 publisher dollars. So the real total is 710 million.
"In the old model as a developer I would have captured 20 cents on the dollar," Roberts said. "Ultimately that means I can make the same game for a fifth of the revenue, a fifth of the sales, and I can be more profitable, and I can exist on lower unit sales. I think that's good for gamers, because crowdfunding and digital distribution are enabling more nichey stuff to be viable."
Source : http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...w-incredible-community-transforms-development
"In the old model as a developer I would have captured 20 cents on the dollar," Roberts said. "Ultimately that means I can make the same game for a fifth of the revenue, a fifth of the sales, and I can be more profitable, and I can exist on lower unit sales. I think that's good for gamers, because crowdfunding and digital distribution are enabling more nichey stuff to be viable."
Source : http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...w-incredible-community-transforms-development
I wonder if he stands by that comment or if he says it got taken out of context or something?
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Of course it MUST be out of context. Otherwise how else would had he been able to state recently that, were funding to stop today, he would now need SQ42 revenues to finance SC proper?
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I get the increasing impression it's because he is just making up as he goes along...
Hi Thorn,
I'm not going to argue that CIG haven't produced a lot of stuff. However, it doesn't form a coherent, persistent whole as far as I can tell.
-- Do you have access to specific ships, with the same damage, fuel, loadout and ammo count as when you logged off?
-- If you complete a mission once, does it never appear again because you've already done it, or does it appear again, with the possibility of doing exactly the same thing with a different outcome (practically the definition of insanity
) ?.I've only been enthusiastic / silly enough to participate in 3 alphas. For two of those alphas, each new release stood on the shoulders of the last, e.g.:
-A choice of single player scenarios --> A selection of multiplayer scenarios --> A selection of multiplayer scenarios with rudimentary rewards and loadout management (including the option to change ships entirely) --> A selection of multiplayer scenarios with rudimentary rewards and load out management, each scenario playing out different star systems with hyperspace travel between them.
To be honest, it does sound like the PU is getting there
. However, SC development has been too compartmentalised for me to consider it in alpha state. There's one huge difference between SC and ED: I never felt I had to excuse ED for being in alpha when showing it off to friends, over facebook, or at E3; it was always "look how cool it is already!"
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'Making it up as you go along' (AKA systematic feature-creep) is the new game development paradigm.
As we can see "Open Development" does not equal automatically "Successful development" - currently they are years away from release 1.0 and have high risk to run out of funds, due increasing operating costs every year and more and more refunds and increasing doubts about project in general...
Never thought of it that way before!
Profitsssssss
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Wow...how the same heck did I remember that so wrong.
They should refund everyone, take the $284M and invest them in the game. That would turn them into one beeeellion publisher dollars!
I remembered it wrong as well, I was sure he'd said 1 to 4 dollars. I went looking for a source and found that 1 to 5 one which I'm pretty sure I've never seen before. Which is very confusing as I'm certain we've laughed at the 1-4 version before in the thread, but the source wasn't that interview as the wording is totally different.
There's a fairly obvious explanation for this which Marcus already gave.
It was this image
But the Marcus quote was spot on as now apparently the equivalent of almost $600m isn't enough to get SC out, only Sq42
Unless you have access to the company accounting records, that bit is 100% gratuitous assumption with no basis in fact.
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