Your choice of course
I wasn't really being a backseat developer though, more of a back seat project manager, or should i say front seat project manager, since i spent several years as one
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Your choice of course
I wasn't really being a backseat developer though, more of a back seat project manager, or should i say front seat project manager, since i spent several years as one
Your choice of course
I wasn't really being a backseat developer though, more of a back seat project manager, or should i say front seat project manager, since i spent several years as one
Fair enough.
Oh, you're right, he did say he now was more looking forward to SC because SQ42 was effectively released with CoD:IW.
So, i guess if while waiting for SC to release, some other company releases a game like SC, then player preferences might shift again.
Good point!
And as @Intrepid3D noted, we don't tend to hear of some games until they are 2 years away from release, so it is conceivable there is a SC killer out there in the works and will release before SC does.
Now that would be a blow for the whales who have invested thousands into SC.
Not really a blow, I'm all for potentially good space games (looking at you Starfield)...I'd just buy that as well
I didn't really feel robbed by supporting the development of Hellion either, I gave them a fair bit but the development unfortunately failed. I will say that overall, Zero-G were far better stewards of my miniscule investment than Ci¬G ever were or will be though
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Hmm... i like the Elder Scrolls games and been a big fan since Daggerfall, but while graphics have improved the gameplay and replayability i feel has got worse, although i'd rate Skyrim over Oblivion. Morrowind was the best to date in my opinion.
Bethseda also have a bit of a bad rep for buggy games.
So i'll hold my excitement in check for Starfield until i see a released product and can evaluate it properly.
CIG has a publisher these days:
Backer money hasn’t done the trick. The Calders cash came to the rescue, and filled the gap.
That will mean they want a return though, in some form or other. And they won’t wait forever.
Just how it seems to be, and so far, it seems to be how it's going. I started thinking this back when Holo-Me came out. Noone asked for that, I dont recall anything like polls being done, etc, it just happened. So it makes sense they're working on other things in the background, like Carriers, and then when & if good to go, they market and release it.
I prefer this way, since you can at least do some things, instead of having to wait till everything is done, like SC seems to be doing. When SC is really playable and persistant, they'll begin ironing out the bugs that come with everyone playing at the same time. Can.not.wait!
OMG. My person, you are the best consumer any vendor of anything could count on.
So what you’re saying is that CIG could be saved if the Dark Web decides to use grey market ships to launder their money, thus artificially increasing demand for the actual game to absurd levels, allowing CIG to charge premium+ prices for inferior products as well. Got it.Publishers are not going to fund games with this much intended scope and detail, because they know costs can quickly spiral out of control.
With Star Citizen you are not buying a completed game that has its costs locked in to it and now you're trying to recover those costs and hopefully make a profit.
Yes, you are asking people to invest in your idea, not something gamers normally do. but it happens in other walks of life every day.
I'll give you an example of something that we as gamers have some knowledge of.
Due to a car crash of events AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) was on the brink of going bust around 2015, their share price at under $2 reflected that.
Long story short they pulled themselves out of it by creating some excellent products that sold is huge numbers, now they make the best X86 Processors, they make all the hardware for all the consoles, Samsung are using their chips in their phones and tablets, they are about to buy another tech company for $35 Billion.
These days they are trading at $85 to $95 a share.
Had you bought $20,000 of shares in 2015 you would now be $980,000 better off, the risk was you bought $20,000 of shares and they go bust, you lose your $20,000.
Backers, with varying degrees of pocket depth are risking whatever they think is worth it to get the game no one else will make at the end of it, or nothing, that's the risk.
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Why?
Approach X stumbles therefore approach Y must be solid?
(A more pertinent question might be: Why does SC inspire this type of magical thinking in people?
)As Intrepid noted earlier, SC still risks failing as a launch product. If that were to occur, it would just have been failing very slowly over this intervening decade
It seems peculiar to see it as a validated model prior to launch, at any rate.
Also i am curios, why CR moving to UK, has such a big impact?
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You really know nothing about CR and his management style?
Here an interesting read from 2016
The Chris Roberts Theory of Everything - Gameranx
"Roberts said he wished someone had sat him down, forced him to pick four or five things that it was important to do well, and focus on those."
gameranx.com
In short, he's a micromanager, obsessed with minute details, often sending things for rework over tiny things, and he doesn't like people who tell him no, so the only people who work for him long are people who say yes to everything he asks. In short, he surrounds himself with yes men, and that rarely works out well for projects.
His going to the UK is probably a tragedy for the UK team and a blessing for the US team. The US team might finally be able to get some stuff done while he is across the pond, but the hope for SQ42 actually shipping at some point has probably gone out of the window.
There is a reason that "make that pixel green, not blue" is a meme among skeptics, he actually said it.
Unfortunately, no reviews at all for SC anywhere. Anyone who writes a "review" of the alpha will have to face the blinding armour of Joe Blobbers as he rushes to CIG's defense in the comments.
Are US and UK teams work on different games? Or different aspect of the games?You really know nothing about CR and his management style?
Here an interesting read from 2016
The Chris Roberts Theory of Everything - Gameranx
"Roberts said he wished someone had sat him down, forced him to pick four or five things that it was important to do well, and focus on those."
In short, he's a micromanager, obsessed with minute details, often sending things for rework over tiny things, and he doesn't like people who tell him no, so the only people who work for him long are people who say yes to everything he asks. In short, he surrounds himself with yes men, and that rarely works out well for projects.
His going to the UK is probably a tragedy for the UK team and a blessing for the US team. The US team might finally be able to get some stuff done while he is across the pond, but the hope for SQ42 actually shipping at some point has probably gone out of the window.
There is a reason that "make that pixel green, not blue" is a meme among skeptics, he actually said it.
Unfortunately, no reviews at all for SC anywhere. Anyone who writes a "review" of the alpha will have to face the blinding armour of Joe Blobbers as he rushes to CIG's defense in the comments.
If I recall correctly
the UK Studio was Focuses on Sqn42
Generally yes, with UK focused on SQ42 and US/Germany focusing on SC/Engine. There is also Turbulent in Canada which CIG now have a stake in that initially were the website guys, but also do marketing, and apparently now are working on the actual game. Its never been made clear if CIG's 700 employees are all direct employees or that number also includes contractors/third parties.
However, over the years, we've also heard that the UK team were also working on SC, and i might be misremembering, but as i recall, this was during the years of SQ42 radio silence from CIG, circa 2017/2018, before CIG announced they had effectively thrown out the previous missions for SQ42 and were redoing them all.
Oh wow there was actually an 1 hour gameplay video of SQ 42:
I thought it was just cinematic trailers. Did players sliced and diced this video, and anlysied it somewhere under microscope? Or what this what was removed and remade?
I thought it was just cinematic trailers. Did players sliced and diced this video, and anlysied it somewhere under microscope? Or what this what was removed and remade?