I used Pay2Crash before but Cash4Crash sounds just better.
There is some disconnect with people who buy mtx. They like to deny they buy advantages. Noone likes to admit having a small e-peen.
Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12
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Ultra faithful Morph isn't happy with the news there is no major patch in the first quarter, so of course the comments are full of faithful telling him he's wrong to be upset and that he doesn't understand game development.
Careful, that's his livelihood. How long until he caves and makes the right content again like a good doggie?
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I liked Mike's response to the April date
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✂️ So it'll be in June
10 seconds · Clipped by factabulous · Original video "SaltEMike Reacts to Roadmap Roundup February 7, 2024" by SaltEMike Reacts
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I pick this.
That's one of the many reasons I never gave and probably never will give a dime to CR & his ilk.
So it's actually Pay2Lose?
Ubisoft are a major example of that with the sheer amount of grind they bloat a bunch of their more recent AC games with, and then shove in real money purchases that skip it so you can get on with enjoying the story.
I was pondering recently the various ways CIG's marketing adds abnormal drag to 'alpha phase' development. They really do start to add up:
Cinematics:
I thought this claimed Rockstar experience was insightful:
Considering the absurd levels of 'pre-emptive' marketing that CIG pump out: The endless YouTube ads, the bespoke ship adverts, the 'Jax' specials for IAE, etc etc etc.
Even taking into account that CIG seem to have a pretty broad marketing/cinematics team, you can still see that the Lead Facial Animator, Snr Lead Mocap Specialist, non-marketing Cinematic Artists, audio guys etc all get sucked in to making the Jax vids, for example.
And CIG will periodically give a nod to the fact that teams like Animation have their resources drawn off into outright marketing endeavours. IE:
Not to mention the odd strangled scream emerging from Glassdoor
Dev Blogging
A relatively minor point, but even dev blogging in front of the camera is a drag on dev at the scale which CIG employ it.
Even though they don't have to jump through every hoop mentioned here, the core principles still apply:
And that's before considering any visualisations, demos etc made specifically for fan consumption.
Convention demos
The early years consisted of outright demos which never folded back into the game:
And the 'live demo' track record that followed hasn't been stellar on that front either
In-game marketing events:
The devs have now modelled numerous cavernous marketing halls for different locales, which are tenuous game additions at best. But the most obvious sign of broad-spectrum dev diversion has to be the Javelin tour, with its small army of sales assistant NPCs, chuntering away about its many delayed features
'Marketing first' ship design
It's harder to discern whether this is definitely the case. But it's certainly been referred to in the 'grey market' of dev gossip on numerous occasions
That last one likely being the Apollo:
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I was trying to find this video, and realized it is unlisted.
He reuploaded it after changes and bemoans the fact that it won't get the traction it should have due to YTs algorithms.
Beautiful, thanksHey CW
(Have some recent PES shenanigans
(They've recently added pro gen recoil, which half-explains that last one...)
I am glad they continue revolutionising the area of real time distributed systems.BTW, I think you good people are overthinking the the PXSomething aspect. Star Citizen is predominantly a P2P game.
Meaning "Pay 2 Pay".
The best description of SC/CIG.
Especially when you consider you need to pay a certain amount before they show you even more expensive packages.
Uhmm, isn't this a bad thing?
Source: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2057798903?t=0h51m20s
They're pushing 1.2 petabytes of traffic between cloud 'zones' a day, in one region. "Unheard of". Amazon say they've never seen anything close to that level of traffic from other customers.
Just makes me think of their generally insane bandwidth usage...
They're pushing 1.2 petabytes of traffic between cloud 'zones' a day, in one region. "Unheard of". Amazon say they've never seen anything close to that level of traffic from other customers.
Just makes me think of their generally insane bandwidth usage...
The Senior Director of Publishing Technology there, Ahmed Shaker, jokes about hoping he'll be around to publish 3.23. All of these guys work out of Austin...
He's also the guy who boasted about p-cache scaling to handle anything
He's also the guy who boasted about p-cache scaling to handle anything
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There's times when "never been done before" is not a good thing.
You have to ask why they even need to transmit so much data. Yes, if you need to transmit every single position of every bullet's XYZ coordinates for every tick across all servers you may somehow approach that. No, actually, if you transmit every single atom of argon, then maybe you will approach that. But no way should you approach anywhere close to that if you're just transmitting what really needs to be transmitted.
This is insane.
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They guy chuckles and says it as if it is a good thing though. Just probably denotes how bloated and poorly optimized everything is.
I´m just looking forward to seeing how the usual white knights spin this as "normal" or even a good thing.
A telling wee segment...
Source: https://youtu.be/_70W7tda_Uc?si=1rgY8pg1ntGNWpnD&t=34m29s
Vice President of Corporate Technology says it's 'candyland' for guys like him to spend years tackling problems that no one else has.
Jared suggests that CIG's 'crazy asks' are received by employees in two ways: 'It cant be done' or 'it just hasnt been done yet'. The former guys leave the company. The latter try and figure out what nobody else has figured out.
(He should probably include a 'it would be dumb to do it at all' camp in there)
Vice President of Corporate Technology says it's 'candyland' for guys like him to spend years tackling problems that no one else has.
Jared suggests that CIG's 'crazy asks' are received by employees in two ways: 'It cant be done' or 'it just hasnt been done yet'. The former guys leave the company. The latter try and figure out what nobody else has figured out.
(He should probably include a 'it would be dumb to do it at all' camp in there
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Nah, they have no idea what they are doing. After 12+ years, they can´t figure basic physics. They can not figure collision checks. They can not figure basic AI not constantly going on top of furniture. They can not figure basic inventory. They can not figure basic UI. They can not figure basic respawn persistence. Etc etc. It´s amateur hour all around. The only way to try to hide so much failure is trying to convince us that no one has done it before.
"Ambition is the last refuge of failure"
- Oscar Wilde
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