Bog didn't move "from" Elite "mainly over" to SC, he moved from Elite to NMS. He's since added more games, including back to Elite (which he didn't stream in 2020), to his playing and streaming list.
A Star Citizen 2022 prediction:
- Ci¬G will go radio silent until April after 3 months of company restructuring and departmental development budget cuts disguised under the heading of 'Planning week'
- 3.16.1 release will be delayed until at least February or March with more planned 3.16 and further planned gameplay content being removed or delayed until 3.18 or later
- A much depleted 3.17 patch will be delayed until Q3, 3.18 won't appear until late Q4 at the earliest or realistically, Q1/Q2 next year
- Server meshing won't appear this year in any substantial form due to 'technical reasons'
- Pyro won't appear this year for 'technical' reasons
- Ship sales and marketing strategies will ramp up accordingly with game development slowing down even more
- Sqn 42 won't appear in any form, whether it be a vertical slice or any firm announcement of further progress in it's development this year
Call it a hunch
)Looking at Sullygnome's stats, Malic_VR is Elite's biggest streamer and has been for the past three years.
The biggest regular content creator for both Elite and Star Citizen would be Scott Manley, so let's see what he has to say...
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e76qJGzbiI0&lc=Ugw0oCCTNysf6jzSAtd4AaABAg
Welp.
What else do your demonic cows say O exalted Mole?Call it a hunch
It's an internet promotion company.
I look forward to hearing more from The Orkney Oracle, Mystic Mole in the not too distant future.
He just misspelled ObsidianAnt
Discussing Ci¬G's finances...fine. All the other private spending is none of your business (nor mine), full stop. I'm here to discuss the game, or lack of it, poke ridicule at Chris Roberts and have a rant at the insane development and mismanagement continually evident in the project.CIG raising half a billion, via what is universally agreed to be a buggy and incomplete alpha, is a striking story my friend. You don't need to be into the niche accountancy stuff. It's just a great big brassy tale
We've had enough hints now that whale purchases, rather than sheer volume of new backers, are the primary driver of that cash.
So whales are part of the story. New whales are part of the story. (And if you're gonna raise your eyebrows every time I mention the latest rapid demi-concierge, then you're gonna need a weekly round of botox just to lower them again
Because flagging those guys isn't about shaming them. It's about tracing a second part of SC's mystique: Are its mammoth sales driven primarily by current pleasure with the alpha, or by future dreams of a more finished product?
It can be a mixture of the two. But the guys who stop playing (like the above fella), the big spenders who flip within months and start calling SC a scam, the regular trail of concierge-types traipsing into the refund sub (like this guy just today). They all lend some weight towards the second scenario.
And if SC never makes it to its various promised lands, that's kinda important. That's a lotta guys (doubtless unwisely), throwing money at an alpha because its pretty, or because it's garlanded in dev talk of future advances. Or because gamer's are just really bad at judging game dev
Bottom line is though: That would be a lot of guys who essentially got conned. And that does feel kinda important. (Not terrorism tier important, I'll grant you. But there are other tiers of importance out there
Discussing Ci¬G's finances...fine. All the other private spending is none of your business (nor mine), full stop. I'm here to discuss the game, or lack of it, poke ridicule at Chris Roberts and have a rant at the insane develoment and mismanagement continually evident in the project.
Poking fun or making a deliberate point on what any private individual likes to spend on pixel spaceships...I can't see the public interest factor at all outside of creating or perpetuating a witch hunting 'them and us' mentality. Am I therefore one of 'them'? ...Since having spent a fair bit on the project, I can't possibly be one of the us's
No...it isn't. It's curtain twitching at it's very worst.
I don’t class you as anything. Much like those other posts your SC spending habits and motivations are also widely available and public and are also a crucial contribution to better understand CIG abuse.No...it isn't. It's curtain twitching at it's very worst.
Let me ask you this. Considering how much I've spent on the project overall, and how vehemently I criticise the project, it's marketing and it's mismanagement... do you class me as being of one group or t'other?
I don't feel abused in the slightest, for you to assume of anyone buying onto the project as being 'abused' is staggeringly arrogant
I didn’t suggest people spending money with CIG have to feel abused. I suspect some do, and some don’tI don't feel abused in the slightest, for you to assume that for anyone buying onto the project as being 'abused' is staggeringly arrogant
. I do think SC is abusing the market though, to the point where discussing the potential of fraud can be relevant.
