How many of those fans have spent thousands of dollars on said game, before its release?Yeah, I doubt there is a single game on the planet that doesn't have some silly hyped fans making daft claims about it on twitter.
How many of those fans have spent thousands of dollars on said game, before its release?Yeah, I doubt there is a single game on the planet that doesn't have some silly hyped fans making daft claims about it on twitter.
How many of those fans have spent thousands of dollars on said game, before its release?
It's not gossip. The guy loudly publicly advertises it all the time. You are desperately attempting to make it sound like we are picking on just another hyped fan. Of course games have fans. I'm asking you if you have any other examples of a "hyped fan" having spent thousands of dollars on a game other than Star Citizen that has not been released?I have no idea, neither do you. Nor does it even matter. If you have some point to make about a computer game you should be able to make it without online creeping on the same handful or so of weird fans year after year. Gossiping about them is just... sad.
But you apparently have many examples of 'hyped fans' who bought into an unfeasible product and judge or slate them.It's not gossip. The guy loudly publicly advertises it all the time. You are desperately attempting to make it sound like we are picking on just another hyped fan. Of course games have fans. I'm asking you if you have any other examples of a "hyped fan" having spent thousands of dollars on a game other than Star Citizen that has not been released?
My guess is you don't have an example. And you won't have an example because Chris Roberts is running a confidence scam. Fans "hyped" about No Man's Sky, for example, didn't spend thousands on it before release because Hello Games wasn't running a confidence scam.
Got it?
I'm pretty sure two dozen is 24? unless of course it's a bakers dozenJust ignore Jorunn...everybody else does
Ian Skippy was desperately trying to make it sound normal. It's not normal. If it was normal, where are the examples with other unreleased video games?But you apparently have many examples of 'hyped fans' who bought into an unfeasible product and judge or slate them.
You received something. Star Citizen isn't released. Certainly not $50,000 dollars worth.Pug said:I bought a £3000 liquorice thong...
It's not normal? I and lots of others bought into Project cars long before it was released (lesser magnitude) I'm sure there are numerous examples.Ian Skippy was desperately trying to make it sound normal. It's not normal. If it was normal, where are the examples with other unreleased video games?
You received something. Star Citizen isn't released. Certainly not $50,000 dollars worth.
Ian Skippy was desperately trying to make it sound normal.
That just begs the question, though. How many of those people spent thousands of dollars on said games, before their release?It's not normal? I and lots of others bought into Project cars long before it was released (lesser magnitude) I'm sure there are numerous examples.
I also believe Elite was crowd funded in it's carnation?
It's not normal? I and lots of others bought into Project cars long before it was released (lesser magnitude) I'm sure there are numerous examples.
I also believe Elite was crowd funded in it's carnation?
It is Not up to you or your Shills to dictate what an individual will or is willing to pay for an item and judge them on it.
Because the shoe obsessive won’t be canvassing for other people to walk around in her shoes with her, in a supporting role. Or advising others to buy shoes so that her shoes will get made. Or running into chat rooms for therapeutic tights and shouting ‘These shoes will be able to cure sciatica! Soon!’
The shoe buying doesn’t usually come with an expectation of greater, cumulative things to come, which will change shoes utterly if only enough shoes are bought.
Plus when they buy shoes they usually get some shoes...
Who cares really?That just begs the question, though. How many of those people spent thousands of dollars on said games, before their release?
Who cares really?
You've been Trumped bud.
This is not a political statement moderators, akin to the statement "you've been trumped" e.g. playing cards (Top Trumps 1978)
Pug
There are broadly speaking two camps that do, but from pretty much the opposite direction.Who cares really?
I believe a 'shill' is a confidence trickster or someone who tries to make you 'buy' into their way of thinking. No difference to the many opinions in this forum, in my opinion.True. (Aside from the weird 'Shills' bit.)
But when people are so deeply into sunk cost, having spent $1000s like Jorunn on an incomplete product, it’s fine to take the mickey out of their bizarre mental gymnastics about that product. Not his enjoyment of it, but his perpetual attempts to make it seem more whole, and more stupendous, to others.
It’s fine if you wanna buy a liquorice mankini. But sitting on a down payment of liquorice, naked, while tweeting ecstatically about it will get people laughing and pointing . It’s tragi-comic.
As I put it to Mole once when he went for the 'It’s just like someone obsessively buying expensive shoes' rationale:
Your comparison is flawed friend. You’re leaving some fundamental differences out.
If it's attention that they want, then it is attention that they get.
It'd be a lot easier to ignore Star Citizen if CIG
Please take the Mickey, just don't be surprised when other people point out your small mindedness.
Who cares what shoes other people buy and there willingness to pay for them.
Each to their own, the other point is It Is Their Money and they can buy as many liquorice mankini's as they like. They may even taste horrible but as they have spent alot of money they will say they taste good, even if they taste like poo.
Who are we/you to decry them?
Pug
I believe a 'shill' is a confidence trickster or someone who tries to make you 'buy' into their way of thinking. No difference to the many opinions in this forum, in my opinion.
An accomplice of a confidence trickster or swindler who poses as a genuine customer to entice or encourage others.
A shill, also called a plant or a stooge, is a person who publicly helps or gives credibility to a person or organization without disclosing that they have a close relationship with the person or organization.