Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12

Viajero

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Viajero
StuartGT said:

SC China kinda up in smoke
First part applies to IAE badges
Second part applies to UEC wallet limits (theres no limit now)
Third part applies obviously to the webstore and greymarket
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I suspect this will take ages to produce any kind of impact in the game industry in China, if at all. Given how big that industry lobby is there is going to be tons of resistance and possibly litigation to prevent this new regulations´ application.
 

VR Golgot

VR Golgot
So the claimed ex-CIG dev who shared the Erin email a while back has re-emerged:

And boy have they got things to say...

[my bolds throughout]

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Tony Z isn't on Star Citizen anymore and has been removed from the project for a while now.

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Nobody cares about CIG except the backers. CIG has not put anybody to shame. I don't know why and how they come up with these crazy theories, but they are wrong. Oh no wait, they do put some people to shame... For instance, I meet and know plenty of devs across many known studios. And every time I had to say that I was working for CIG, I was ashamed. So yes, they create shame for their own devs. But luckily nobody ever knew what the hell is Cloud Imperium Games so I was in the clear.

And I don't know how many times I have heard jokes in the industry about the mess that is SC. Nobody looks at that game with anything positive to say about it. Same for the broken and dated engine.
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As an actual game dev who had a front row seat at CIG and the SC development, CIG are the ones who know nothing about game development. It's astonishing.

And all the white knights do much more harm to the game than if they acted like the opposite. Management fails to see the issues since the money flows.
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The peeps from Pipeline have already been chatting with me here and there, but I guess I could say a few words on this sub if that's something people would enjoy. I have been keeping a low profile and I am not going to spoil anything that I shouldnt, but I think sharing work experience and how a company is, is fine. Especially if that company gets all its money from pledges.

For now I could simply tell you that CIG is a big mess. There's some competent and talented people, but most of them either leave, don't really work on anything meaningful for the core experience or most of the time are simply stuck behind the management mess. And then, you have all the others who are incredibly bad who are there to stay, sadly. I can't speak for everybody of course, but almost everybody I have interacted with thinks the company is rotten to the core, the game's a joke, the Roberts are shady as hell, the money is wasted in INSANE amounts for upper management's vanity, the tools are indubitably the worst in the gaming industry, there's no real pipeline in place, every time there's a new branch (multiple times per year) old content breaks and it's very painful, the AI director is probably the most incompetent person we have seen in the gaming industry and also devs keep getting empty promises, not just the players.
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Ex-cig dev here and yeah, you couldnt be more right. Only a handful of people work on the engine and I have always imagined it as a massive fire that is being extinguished using oil filled hoses instead of water. That sums up the engine, the tools and the overall workflow. I and many ex colleagues strongly agreed that restarting the project with better tools (and without the obvious horrible design decisions that go against any logical game design) a much much better game could be created in a much smaller amount of time. Sadly, I don't even think most SC players would move on to a new and better game because they are way too invested in whatever cult SC is.
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Navigare Necesse Est

Navigare Necesse Est
StuartGT said:

SC China kinda up in smoke
First part applies to IAE badges
Second part applies to UEC wallet limits (theres no limit now)
Third part applies obviously to the webstore and greymarket
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The largely untapped market stayed untapped. The Chinese didn't take too kindly to a gang of fraudulent online scammers invading the hallowed digital halls of the Great Leader after having saturated their domestic market with undelivered jpgs.
 

Viajero

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Phlegm said:
Tencent is owned by the Party. They will take it. Not like they'd have a choice anyway.
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I for one I am therefore happy to see companies like Tencent or CIG, selling virtual goods in China, fully and promptly complying with this new regulation, for which they will need to eliminate any and all player to player in game items exchange possibilities (since those enable speculation or auction of virtual gaming items) or, even better yet, stop sales in China altogether 😋

I mean, it is either that or they fight the regulation as much as they can within the party system delaying its practical impact for as long as they can. Party owned or not.
 
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Agony_Aunt

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Agony_Aunt

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Get it while its on sale! Bargain of the century!

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HansAcker

HansAcker
VR Golgot said:
So the claimed ex-CIG dev who shared the Erin email a while back has re-emerged:

And boy have they got things to say...

[my bolds throughout]

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Huh. One of those threads led me to an old video and I noticed a name in the developer console:
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Orbitron was designed so that graphic designers in the future will have some alternative to typefaces like Eurostile or Bank Gothic. If you’ve ever seen a futuristic sci-fi movie, you have may noticed that all other fonts have been lost or destroyed in the apocalypse that led humans to flee earth. Only those very few geometric typefaces have survived to be used on spaceship exteriors, space station signage, monopolistic corporate branding, uniforms featuring aerodynamic shoulder pads, etc. Of course Orbitron could also be used on the posters for the movies portraying this inevitable future.
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https://github.com/theleagueof/orbitron

Good to know that CIG doesn't waste money on a unique never-seen-before font. Or maybe they comissioned it?
It's everywhere:

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https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Orbitron?preview.text=QUICK BUY - 8 UEC

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https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Orbitron?preview.text=FLOOR 04
 
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