Proof of what? is there some shenanigans or crime here?
Got to go guys I will check in later
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Proof of what? is there some shenanigans or crime here?
Got to go guys I will check in later
CiG doesnt share lay-offs or announces when people leave the company of their own accord so I find that 600 number highly unlikely especially when you consider that "more isnt better" in terms of game development. Once you reach a certain team-size and cover all the required bases there really is no need to hire new people. And if you do there is a good reason for it. I just cannot see "production requirements" being one of em which leaves only other less favorable explanations.
Of course CiG announced 1 planet and 2 moons for next year. If they really handcraft it all painstakingly without the use of procgen as I think then taking on 94 designers is probably a necessity....still nor reassuring
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Proof of share sales actually happening. Because if thats the case its another red flag?
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It's reassuring to see that they have no Network Engineering openings - they must have their architecture for those 1000 player instances fully pipelined and ramped up already
It's reassuring to see that they have no Network Engineering openings - they must have their architecture for those 1000 player instances fully pipelined and ramped up already
There are two openings.
Junior Network Gameplay Programmer - Wilmslow
Network Programmer - Wilmslow
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Their internal team is about 5 people from what I remember.
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Neither of those are Engineering positions.
All it says to me is that their current expenditure requires more money than they are bringing in otherwise they would not be needing to seek outside investment, which kind of goes against some of the message they try to perpetrate.
I suppose if you were very skeptical you might see three stakeholders potentially profitting from selling shares for their own gain but that can't really be proved at this time.
Both are. It's also listed right there.
Junior Network Gameplay Programmer - Wilmslow
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Wilmslow / Derby , UK
Network Programmer - Wilmslow
Engineering
Wilmslow / Derby , UK
Nope - neither role is an actual Engineering position.
The difference between programming and engineering in network architecture and implementation is significant, and known to everyone with industry experience.
The difference between programming and engineering in network architecture and implementation is significant, and known to everyone with industry experience.
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I know this isn't addressed to me but the biggest problem for me with Lior's proposed 3 month timeline is it depends wholly on CIG's honesty in their public facing statements which oftentimes tend to contradict each other.
Take for example this article that Sean Tracy was interviewed for just a few short months prior to the announced switch. This quote in particular caught my attention:
So they branched off in early 2015 due to the problems of a codebase now so far removed from CryEngine itself but somehow managed to not only reconcile these differences in CryEngine to the point where Lumberyard themselves forked but also reconciled all the problems from the changes Amazon themselves made in the time since they forked and as Chris Roberts stated in December 2016:
He also stated (differently to Sean Tracy I might add) that they stopped taking code at the END of 2015 around the time of the Amazon deal. Which one is correct is anyone's guess. Personally I think Sean Tracy was telling the truth just 3 short months earlier but make up your own minds on that one.
So they basically went from being unable to import CryEngine changes due to unreconcilable code changes to being able to somehow switch to a different engine based off of a much newer build of CryEngine in 1-2 days with a couple of engineers.
This is the real crux of the case, not the exclusivity angle. CryEngine will be looking to prove CIG have continued using CryEngine at the core and merely using certain elements of Amazon Lumberyard and that is what is likely to extend that 3 month timeline.
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Jacques d'Orleans
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These aren't wages, that are the sums the made by selling shares which belonged to them personally. Nothing really unusal except that Crobear was spouting the "We don't want and need investors or publishers" for years.
I'm asking myself how long it will take until he gets EA into the boat. /cynism
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Probably worth pointing out that adding more people to a software project usually slows it down as they need a lot of help to get up to speed.
I'd probably agree that it's been their best year. Finally looks like something might come from it if players keep stumping up.
Jacques d'Orleans
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Companies house is a UK Government run organisation, so if there are 2million dollars mentioned in a official form, he better pays his taxes otherwise he could end up in HMP Pentonville.
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If he's resident in the US, he' ll need to declare it on his IRS return, as foreign income.
Yup, another 200 million might see something that can be released!
But they did have private investors on from the start, this is known.
The thing is, investors expect a return on their investment, meaning he should be listening to them over the backers, which kind of makes the whole developed for the backers thing a bit incorrect.
This week's Guard Frequency podcast is well worth a listen for a discussion on GIG versus Crytek and CIG's funding position. All speculation, but Tony is a US lawyer, and seems to talk a lot of sense. The edited podcast won't be out until Tuesday next week, but you can watch the unedited Twitch at:
http://www.twitch.tv/guardfreq/v/349267422?sr=a&t=1306s
Not sure if that time is correct - wind forward to 01:08:00.
http://www.twitch.tv/guardfreq/v/349267422?sr=a&t=1306s
Not sure if that time is correct - wind forward to 01:08:00.
No-one is arguing the former, but that does not imply the latter. There are entire communities and subgenres dedicated to enjoying things that suck. Now, if you want to argue the threshold for what levels of broken, incomplete, or just outright missing mechanics and features pushes something into the “suck” category then that's a different matter, but at that point you need to accept that it's a two way street: just like enjoyment isn't universal, sucking is a matter of subjective tolerance for brokenness.
You cannot on the one hand demand that some people must accept that others are enjoying the then, and on the other hand refuse to accept that for some people it does indeed suck. The existence of the latter group does not mean that it doesn't suck.
So yes, it does suck exactly for the reason you offer: enjoyment isn't universal.
For what purpose? What game dynamics give rise to any kind of need to worry about “fleet compositions”?
By what measure, and what leads you to those two conclusions? Especially when you consider that they seem to be suffering from team bloat (something that will only ever slow things down) and have a long history of not being able to actually hire anyone in the areas they need the most — the few ones that actually need to be expanded because they're so pitifully small and lacking in key competences.
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Yes, and this is exactly the reason Skadden want the whole kitchen sink in discovery. When and if CIG switched to Lumberyard is central to all of this. Whether they were allowed to in the first place is being disputed.
It's up to CIG to present evidence that they switched, it's up to Crytek to show evidence that they did not. This is when it gets into technical experts presenting source code in court - and in fact snippets of code have appeared in CIG's Bugsmasher videos.
Note the two core OCS pieces, which were originally in 3.3.5 (or earlier), have been moved to 3.5.
AND they are only at 25% completion and 14% completion. But, hey, FoIP improvements made it in.
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