But every so often he returns to his first love, and writes tweet after tweet after tweet warlording about SC for about an hour. He normally mentions the "July Blog" himself, and that's not a joke.LoLhe know how to pick them, Dont he
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Hey, I got my Orginal „pledge“ from the old days. A super hornet + SQ42 so I have a rank of an rear admiral. They can’t take away my ship. If they do so I will send them an entire fleet of jpegs!
Send them a picture of a spider with 7 legs. Then demand they send it back.
It was most likely the part about "convention to collect money" which they probably took as meaning "Scam" and that was the trigger.
Over on SA someone brought up the Jennison letter. 4 years ago now. It was a fascinating read from a number of perspectives, especially the insight into how CIG works, but just reading it again i picked up on something that i think i missed on previous reading.
Hey, remember Sataball everyone? That game that totally wasn't a rip off of Ender's Game and CIG released as a... oh, wait, they never actually made it. They actually tasked the team to make the outfits only to never actually do the mode... a mode which they hyped and probably got some extra pledges from. CIG in a nutshell, pump it and dump it.
For anyone who has never read the letter, i suggest you do. Its rather fascinating.
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/3lyfb1/david_jennison_former_lead_character_artist_in/
Hey, remember Sataball everyone? That game that totally wasn't a rip off of Ender's Game and CIG released as a... oh, wait, they never actually made it. They actually tasked the team to make the outfits only to never actually do the mode... a mode which they hyped and probably got some extra pledges from. CIG in a nutshell, pump it and dump it.
For anyone who has never read the letter, i suggest you do. Its rather fascinating.
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/3lyfb1/david_jennison_former_lead_character_artist_in/
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Can you spoiler stuff that long. It makes reading this thread on a mobile a right pain
I love me some sataball.
Like originally because I really wanted them to make it.
And now, because backers set it up as a punchline alllll the time
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/hctkwb/sometime_its_hard_but_its_worth_it/fvhjp8f/
The short version is:
-The artist didn't get a solid concept to work from. Feedback would lead to changes in concept or CR simply changed his mind.
-A manager taking over the character CG department, coming from ship CG department didn't have the experience for it and demanded details without considering memory requirements or how it'll affect the game. Only concern was how good it looks and wield the power handed down from CR and didn't let anymore correct him.
-Something about good models need, concept budget and time. CIG management is very hit and miss with them.
-CR is a poor manager, micro manage every department "feared but not respected" by the artists who clearly knows more than the man. The man wants to be a visionary but can't communicate his vision so "no one knows what the vision is, including CR".
-Managers could filter down orders from CR but cannt explain the reasoning, there is non, jsut doing it to make CR happy. Team looses motivation, ownership and trust in each other, because CR makes decision but blames artists when it didn't work out like he thought, so peopel throw each other under the bus to save their own ass.
It's a depressing read. I've had a few bosses like that and understand his pain. By the end of the read I feel angry CR could absolve himself from any issue at all, assuming the claim about his micro management is true. Everything decision originated from him.
There is nothing really new in the video,but I surprised that even they noticed this.
The funny part is that when you count in the development cycle of CryEngine, FDev is actually doing pretty good in terms of development time. CE is the only reason CI has solid player avatar system (and even that they are slowly butchering away).
Is it really funny though?
When I found out there would be a "Wing Commander Reboot" I was honestly excited, and when they showed off "real game assets, rendered in real time, in engine, release 2014" - plonking a few hundred $$$ toward it sounded a great idea!
Here we are in 2020, with next to nothing to show for it all. The entire project has been a comedic tragedy at best.
However, along the way they have provided some of the most glorious lulz of all time.
When I found out there would be a "Wing Commander Reboot" I was honestly excited, and when they showed off "real game assets, rendered in real time, in engine, release 2014" - plonking a few hundred $$$ toward it sounded a great idea!
Here we are in 2020, with next to nothing to show for it all. The entire project has been a comedic tragedy at best.
However, along the way they have provided some of the most glorious lulz of all time.
Latest patch to evocati:
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Indeed. Who can ever forget the sheer joy of watching Genuine Cobblers playing his own game live. You can almost feel the fidels.
As an aside, I do wonder if one day that promo video will be thee first piece of evidence in a class action.
What an incentive!
It could be worse, they could have adopted the Coriolis approach of 'Murder, Death, Kill' - albeit this is perhaps a touch excessive for a legal landing (with or without loitering).
Feel the same way. The only reason why I backed Star Citizen back in 2012, was because I felt Elite: Dangerous would be too bare-bones for my tastes upon release. I preferred something approaching the gameplay in Frontier: Elite 2 - landing on planets, both atmospheric and airless, so I wanted something similar to play between ED's release, and whenever a sufficient variety of planets to land upon was in the game. That game was Star Citizen
Hear we are, eight years later, and Star Citizen is still no nearer to release than the machinima video Chris Roberts passed off as a pre-alpha build of his game during his Kickstarter pitch. My only consolation is that because I never actually tried to play the game, I successfully got my money out of this disaster.
Same reason I backed and maybe put in more money than I should have along the way. Then it morphed into something else entirely
Yeah, done it. I tried changing it from media to a link but the damn forums try to be clever and converts it back to media.
I love me some sataball.
Like originally because I really wanted them to make it.
And now, because backers set it up as a punchline alllll the time
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/hctkwb/sometime_its_hard_but_its_worth_it/fvhjp8f/
LOL, he walked right into that one.
Hah, they actually mention Jennison. Quite the coincidence.