State of the Game

Darth Ender

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Rat Catcher said:
Are you sure it is still profitable?
Kickstarter cash (only around £300,000) will be written off this year - Odyssey was in production for around 3 years with up to 130 developers (from Frontier's own financial statements) so has cost a few millions to develop... All of which has to be recovered to satisfy investors / shareholders, preferably showing a healthy profit. Unless the console version sales are huge, I doubt the development cost will be paid.
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hahaha if odyssey cost millions then lots of people need to lose their jobs. You're suggesting that the money to tack on a weak fps that is just straight copying existing games and adding nothing new or unique or has to implement or develop anything new that doesn't already exist (and in many cases exists as open source) ...exceeds the cost to create from scratch something that didn't exist by over 3 times - including creating all of the assets and ships and such... and took longer to do on top of that... and we ended up with Odyssey.

The thread is funny... but that's straight up hilarious.

I'm sure it's possible to pee away tons of money by hiring a hundred unqualified developers to do the job that far fewer but individually more expensive ones would have cost.. or wasting a bunch of money in overhead by having too many cooks in the kitchen.... but i think it's more likely the 130 were either working on all kinds of projects and not just dedicated to ED. ...or were not even close to concurrent .. Cuz the alternative is just too sad to consider.

i think fdev makes plenty of profit on ED. because they really dont invest all that much into it. More than maybe their other IP, but not more than their income from it.
 

Raliel

Raliel
Darth Ender said:
hahaha if odyssey cost millions then lots of people need to lose their jobs. You're suggesting that the money to tack on a weak fps that is just straight copying existing games and adding nothing new or unique or has to implement or develop anything new that doesn't already exist (and in many cases exists as open source) ...exceeds the cost to create from scratch something that didn't exist by over 3 times - including creating all of the assets and ships and such... and took longer to do on top of that... and we ended up with Odyssey.

The thread is funny... but that's straight up hilarious.

I'm sure it's possible to pee away tons of money by hiring a hundred unqualified developers to do the job that far fewer but individually more expensive ones would have cost.. or wasting a bunch of money in overhead by having too many cooks in the kitchen.... but i think it's more likely the 130 were either working on all kinds of projects and not just dedicated to ED. ...or were not even close to concurrent .. Cuz the alternative is just too sad to consider.

i think fdev makes plenty of profit on ED. because they really dont invest all that much into it. More than maybe their other IP, but not more than their income from it.
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It looks like an awful lot of money was spent on advertizing, as the EDO trailer crops up everywhere I go
 

Raliel

Raliel
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Darth Ender

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anthonycsheehy said:
Haikus are easy
but sometimes don't make much sense
Refrigerator!
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posts that this thread has a very strict anti-poetry / song lyric policy stemming from the fact that the game seems to attract people who feel obligated to post bad poetry or bad songs in threads in a desperate attempt to get someone to tell them that their stuff is good ...polluting threads and forcing forum players to ignore users or report posts for deletion.

fades back into the bushes.
 

CMDR Sheehy

CMDR Sheehy
Darth Ender said:
posts that this thread has a very strict anti-poetry / song lyric policy stemming from the fact that the game seems to attract people who feel obligated to post bad poetry or bad songs in threads in a desperate attempt to get someone to tell them that their stuff is good ...polluting threads and forcing forum players to ignore users or report posts for deletion.

fades back into the bushes.
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I blame Cisco!
 

xzanfr

xzanfr
Darth Ender said:
posts that this thread has a very strict anti-poetry / song lyric policy stemming from the fact that the game seems to attract people who feel obligated to post bad poetry or bad songs in threads in a desperate attempt to get someone to tell them that their stuff is good ...polluting threads and forcing forum players to ignore users or report posts for deletion.

fades back into the bushes.
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Top of the rangeanti-vogon sentiment.
Coming over here and destroying our world with just a minor mention at alpha centari.
 

Erei

Erei
Darth Ender said:
That sounds so hot.

not.

Know what does sound hot? Triple digit temps! "It's over 102 out!" now that has power and instant recognition behind it.

what does 39 have? Nothing. Loser number.
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I mean, if you live in the USA, Liberia, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Palau, The Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, then yes it makes sense.
For the rest of the world, 102° means you are slightly above boiling water temperature.

Bonus point is you can place at least half of those countries on a map :D
 

Darth Ender

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Erei said:
I mean, if you live in the USA, Liberia, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Palau, The Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, then yes it makes sense.
For the rest of the world, 102° means you are slightly above boiling water temperature.

Bonus point is you can place at least half of those countries on a map :D
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it's not about all the countries who are doing temps wrong with celcius now. but about how much more things would make sense if they didn't.

the range of too cold and too hot in celcius is like 20 degrees. the rest of the scale is wasted for talking about atmo/room temp.

f has about 60 degrees to describe the same range.

wake up. you're using a crappier scale
 
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