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Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12
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Do posh ships have posh running costs. I mean say in Elite taking something like Imperial Cutter for some noob mission is not going to pay even fuel costs and paint scratches.Decided to go posh whilst doing the boxes...even if you're penniless, you can at least pretend to be rich. It's like taking a Ferrari to Tesco to pick up some milk and bread
If CIG aimed to release anything, they would not be scaling up their staff numbers and buying buildings to house them in in two separate countries.
Those ship sales better scale as much as their staffing does. 1700 people supposedly working on a game is not cheap. And by game I mean stuff to sell on the cash shop.
Those ship sales better scale as much as their staffing does. 1700 people supposedly working on a game is not cheap. And by game I mean stuff to sell on the cash shop.
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I'm one such.
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I suspect we're less rare than you think. Occasional poster here, and a few free-flies under my belt.
Was just thinking back to the time LittleAnt tried to imply critics who had stopped posting here had seen the light and were now fans of SC.
Having thought about this, I wouldn't particularly be happy if, for some reason, eg: I die before SC releases or collapses (which isn't beyond the realms of possibility), if LA tried to claim my absence was due to me seeing the light.
Therefore i'd like to state clearly, that if i do stop posting, for any reason, be it death, in jail for scamming people out of hundreds of millions, or just get bored of laughing at CIG, it most definitely isn't because i've started playing SC.
Should that unlikely event ever occur, which i've stated i'll only consider if CR is removed, but let us assume i say forget it, i'll play anyway, then i'll be man enough to come here and post it, and will of course talk at length about how many Idrisii i've bought.
Having thought about this, I wouldn't particularly be happy if, for some reason, eg: I die before SC releases or collapses (which isn't beyond the realms of possibility), if LA tried to claim my absence was due to me seeing the light.
Therefore i'd like to state clearly, that if i do stop posting, for any reason, be it death, in jail for scamming people out of hundreds of millions, or just get bored of laughing at CIG, it most definitely isn't because i've started playing SC.
Should that unlikely event ever occur, which i've stated i'll only consider if CR is removed, but let us assume i say forget it, i'll play anyway, then i'll be man enough to come here and post it, and will of course talk at length about how many Idrisii i've bought.
Wouldn't trust Chris Roberts as far as I could throw his brother Erin. Never given him a penny and never will.
Viajero
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Well, it was you who originally equated Rockstar with CIG when it comes to hosting thousands of devs, and it was you who stated CIG is not wasting money, and it was you who dismissed the salaries and compensation of CIG directors as normal. Etc, etc.
My response simply highlighted how in fact CIG is far from comparable to Rockstar. And how the fundamental differences between them can in fact often lead to significan waste, non delivery and subpar quality and including the completely disproportional compensation packages for leadership teams that are still crowdfunded and haven’t yet even released a single product for 10+ years.
But hey, if now it turns out you don’t care about waste, or sub par quality, or leadership teams using your money to give themselves dividends, or non delivery… All that for a meager 400 millions of backers money, then please you do you.
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Those dividends make me wonder. Either CIG sells products and gets some income, preferably profits from where they pay dividends. OR they insist that their "sales" are in fact pledges, then it is not sale income, does not give profits, and there is nothing from where you should pay out dividends. It is like company taking a loan, and then paying "dividends" to owners from that "income". Crime in many legislations.
Viajero
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Indeed. Unless you consider that you have in fact released your actual product. Sales in exchange of an actual released product, not pledges or crowdfund anymore. But we have gone through this before.
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Viajero
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You forgot in that cycle the part where CIG gets backers cash especially during the hyping part, but doesn’t return it when walking back.
...without ever spending a dime?? Haters!
For running costs...not really. Bigger QT drives use more fuel...or upgraded components have a trade off by using more power etc. The only real differential cost of posh ships is in your wallet when you buy them
I bought Elite 1984.
I bought X-Wing and TIE-fighter.
I didn't buy Wing Commander or it's sequels.
I won't be buying Star Citizen. Even if it ever does get rele...hahahaha.
Ahem.
CIG provides the Jump Point magazine to subscribers. Completed product delivered
Let's be honest, there's already more than enough in their to-do library, so we might as well add on sandworms. I doubt it'll effect the release/finish date.
Star Citizen is Schrodinger's Game.
It can be thought of as live and not live at the same time.
So, they can just make it up as they go. And who'd have thought that they might do that...?
(e. Agreed, the dividends also made me 'wonder'.)
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You don't understand shell company development...