I do like the fact that RSI to them free fly events. The problem with that is it doesn't give them the whole picture.. that it IS an alpha and that there will be wipes
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So.. the truth then.
Viajero
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Ah, if only there were the usual widespread independent reviews and scores to help new prospective players to be better informed about SC. A game being more heavily monetized than some of the wildest monetized games out there, and even stated as already released (in Early Access) by its developer.
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More like "it IS a prealpha, and it may be stuck in this state for many many years"
wooah! You can win ships for reporting bugs!
Finally something that CiG beats fdev at ....
Something free and nice? Yeah, you have to pry it from FD's cold dead hands. Got a gold skin I have no clue why but the Cobra IV I never saw. Usually in Warframe there are a couple events you run a mission and get a goodie.
I mean ppl pay FD to play the beta. Space Game players are just very, very tolerant of the corpo bulldung fed to them.
90% of people who payed to play the beta just did it to get a preview of the new content, I very much doubt a large percentage did it to report bugs, that's always going to be a problem with an open beta. But you have to remember the pay to play the beta also payed for the DLC, so that's slightly different than just paying to play the beta.
They pay for a buggy mess and in case of Odyssey it was pretty much misleading advertisement. FD pre-sell stuff that doesn't work as intended and keep very ambiguous about what the packet will actually contain. It's not only FD. Seen it with the "season passes", "early accesses" and whatyouwannacallthem. EA has pulled it a couple times with the SW shooters especially. EA-Bioware was a pretty big fiasko with Anthem. Bioshock Infinite was when I noticed this pattern. Robbers has had enough examples of what crap consumers swallow.
Interesting point and the thought that flashed into my mind was that of Mobius loop. That uncanny 'haven't we been here before' sensation as the weeks, months, years and millions speed by.
Well, never say never in this fearless never-been-done-before 'verse.....(I wonder if they can manage to spawn a planet inside a ship?)
All praise be the glorious leader.
You mean like an MC Escher Treppauf, Treppab? (infinite stairs picture using impossible perspective)
All the "season passes", "yearly subscriptions", "DLC passes" and all the like for content are all scams. The companies do it because it means they get pre-paid for work they have not done yet and have a guaranteed income regardless of the quality of content they then put out.
It also means they have zero incentive to do quality work, since they've already been paid for it. Just like CIG's business model.
Vote with your wallets.
This is the biggest takeaway. Triple A walking away with some cheap skins and wallpapers and calling it a day and maybe an unfinished gamemode.
Viajero
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Agree, although there is still a huge difference between those and SC. Those other games (with some exceptions) usually have a much shorter window between pre sales and explicit release; upon which the review machinery makes short work of any deficiencies and rendering everything public and obvious. The respective developers then have to face right away the consequent market reaction, be it in reduced sales, justified refunds or lost reputation etc. No place to hide. Not so with SC, hiding for over 10+ years under “alpha” even if it seems to have already released (in Early Access). That is probably one of the best and most amazing feats of CIG, to have their cake and eat it.
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Yeah, i really don't like it and try and avoid pre-paying unless i'm certain i will get a quality product.
Still waiting on Baldur's Gate 3... thought it would be done much earlier than it was. No complaints about quality so far, but i feel like its going to drag on and on and on.... not too dissimilar from a certain space game.
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