Give Yamiks an Alpha key!

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Well, are you a gamer or a game developer? I do know marketing, having been a part of it for many years, but marketing and ethics are two very different things.

I'm the CTO of a Fortnite 500 company therefore i have a black belt in gaming, game development, and marketing!

Top that!

To be honest, i'm not sure what you are driving at or why you are even mentioning eithcs.

Its just a business/marketing decision. Who do you give early access keys to? Those who are most likely going to give good reivews and be fairly critical.

Yamiks is a fan (i'm sure i've jokingly called him a fanboy on more than one occasion) despite his criticism, but he will use the access to generate some cheap laughs. Its his idiom.

So from FD's perspective i'm sure its just a case of "let him wait for a few days longer to get those cheap laughs"
 
because it's not really about the key?

stay on it, you'll get it. :ROFLMAO:
So it's about Frontier insulting him? That's what it is ... right?
Because Yamiks complaining about it, is VERY unprofessional. How unprofessional? If he was an actor, he could pretty much accept he'd never work as an actor ever again. Yes I know, he's not an actor, but he is in the entertainment industry.

Look, I have a list of complaints where I am not happy with Frontier Developments for one reason or another, yet weirdly I have not made any monetised Youtube videos moaning about Frontier.

Want to know why? Stay on it, you'll get it.
 
This always fascinated me about people in general.
How quickly they can start feeling like the world owes them something.
I think some of that can be explained by the social contract none of us ever signed, but we still mostly agree upon, but seen from a spaceship, down at the planet, it owes about as much to us as it owes to the water or the rusty cars.
 
So it's about Frontier insulting him? That's what it is ... right?
Because Yamiks complaining about it, is VERY unprofessional.
no, frontier just wanted to pick&choose social media but were incredibly clumsy and stupid in the way they dismissed one particular individual in the process, and he exploited the situation and it is backfiring. not the end of the world, and not about $30 either.

relax and enjoy the excitement in the zoo! 15 pages already!
 
It's not even that - he was only asking for a key to the same Alpha everyone will be accessing next Monday. So all they've done is change the preface from "Thanks to fdev for the key" to ... something more sweary ;)

Huh?

He just wanted a freebie alpha key?

Seriously?

I mean, he doesn't already have one?

That's just shocking. He's not getting enough money from his streams to shell out a few extra dollars?

Jeebus... perhaps we should have a whip round for him instead. Poor Yamiks. Do we need to start a GoFundMe?
 
It's not even that - he was only asking for a key to the same Alpha everyone will be accessing next Monday. So all they've done is change the preface from "Thanks to fdev for the key" to ... something more sweary ;)
Frontier not giving him a key is irrelevant, as is the wording of their response.
Have you bothered to ask if they've given ANY alpha keys out? Have you bothered to ask how Yamiks worded the request? Have you bothered to ask why Yamiks doesn't have an LEP, or hasn't already bought the Alpha?

No, just fast forward to "WAAA, GIVE YAMIKS FREE STUFFS WAAAA"
 
Huh?

He just wanted a freebie alpha key?

Seriously?

I mean, he doesn't already have one?

That's just shocking. He's not getting enough money from his streams to shell out a few extra dollars?

Jeebus... perhaps we should have a whip round for him instead. Poor Yamiks. Do we need to start a GoFundMe?
Yes - lots of people who haven't bothered watching his vid say that - which is why the thread is growing so fast :D

Social Media pile-ons are fun eh ;)
 
He's not getting enough money from his streams to shell out a few extra dollars?

You're right. I'd have thought "game license" counts as an 'overhead' to your average youtube user's business model?

This thread should be renamed to "FDev have kindly given Yammiks a tax write off!"

Aren't they kind and fluffy!" ;)
 
Let’s face it: Yamiks is one of the most honest creators out there - he calls it when it’s good and, more importantly, when it’s bad. There are forum dad shills on here who never criticise and would praise FDev if they released a new ship that was basically a yoghurt pot with no hardpoints: creators like Yamiks are necessary as they provide a counterpoint. It looks like honesty doesn’t go down too well though, and criticism - creative or not - isn’t welcome.
Genuinely hope the other content creators refuse to give any feedback on the basis that FDev has basically called them shills who they trust to “say the right thing”.
 
16 pages indicate that you are very much wrong about what is relevant. ;)
Oh well if it's all about the number of pages in a thread ... I could link to several threads with many many times the number of pages.
I am sure the Star Citizen thread(s) or the Abraka Drabble Thread(s) are much more relevant then.

Or maybe .... it's not about how many pages a thread has.
 
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