Chris Roberts Back in your wallet - STAR CITIZEN

[WayAbvPar]

It is probably going to be worth it for me to spend up to $50 if/when this ever launches just to get in to troll all the dumbfucks who spent $11k.

[MahrinSkel]

What is the spaceship version of Fetapults?

--Dave

[Rasix]

It is probably going to be worth it for me to spend up to $50 if/when this ever launches just to get in to troll all the dumbfucks who spent $11k.

I wonder if we'll be able to huddle around someone's space Ferrari and emote *azzrape*.

[HaemishM]

What is the spaceship version of Fetapults?

--Dave

I bet they'd sell it to you for $20k. 

[Samprimary]

for what it's worth I think that the most likely outcome is "it's an okay game" coupled with lots of birthing pains across a laborious tiered release.

or it could be actually good, but it will neither be vaporware nor the digital coming of jesus

[Falconeer]

The most likely outcome is a game with "a lot of potential", but which will always be plagued by technical issues that will prevent it from even being 'OK'.

[ajax34i]

More likely, an idea with "a lot of potential", but always plagued by technical issues that prevent it from becoming an actual game.

[Sky]

The ironic thing is, if he had just made a modern Wing Commander with amazing graphics and sound, he would've been a hero.

Except to the tits who would complain it's "just a new wing commander", but fuck those assholes, anyway.

[Samprimary]

More likely, an idea with "a lot of potential", but always plagued by technical issues that prevent it from becoming an actual game.

I guess that's ... marginally better than an idea with lots of potential but always plagued by a lack of actual content

i.e. Elite: Repetitious

[Jeff Kelly]

I'm always a bit miffed when SC is being compared to Elite. Elite might not be the game we wanted, it might be an anachronism even. Yet it is finished, was released, is still maintained by the developer and included most of the things David Braben has promised. It's also mostly what the majority of E:D backers wanted or expected of the game.

So I don't really see the parallel.

[ajax34i]

The space-sim genre is so small that everything about every single game is compared.

[Furiously]

I'd be willing to bet they will run out of money before it releases.

[Malakili]

I'd be willing to bet they will run out of money before it releases.

Look at it another way, when they run out of money is WHEN it releases, regardless of what "it" is at that point.

[Job601]

For me, what makes this all so funny is that I don't think the backers would like what they think that they want, if they ever actually got it.  Which they won't.  The design on paper has the kind of absurd fetishization of "realism" at the expense of gameplay that you usually get from kids in high school.  Squadron 42 is a new and better Wing Commander is the only possible positive outcome that I see.

[Margalis]

I'd be willing to bet they will run out of money before it releases.

Every time they collect X dollars they commit to a new feature that will cost 2X - so very safe bet.

[MahrinSkel]

At a certain level you have to kind of admire it: It's "Feature Creep" as a business model.

--Dave

[NiX]

At a certain level you have to kind of admire it: It's "Feature Creep" as a business model.

--Dave

Kickstarter culture is both gross and fascinating.

[Samprimary]

I'm always a bit miffed when SC is being compared to Elite. Elite might not be the game we wanted, it might be an anachronism even. Yet it is finished, was released, is still maintained by the developer and included most of the things David Braben has promised. It's also mostly what the majority of E:D backers wanted or expected of the game.

So I don't really see the parallel.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely prefer and admire elite's general model, because what you saw is what you got and at the end of the day they shipped the damn thing and no promises were denied. But at the same time I am starving for things to do in that game. Most are.

[lamaros]

At a certain level you have to kind of admire it: It's "Feature Creep" as a business model.

--Dave

Kickstarter culture is both gross and fascinating.

Why does every stupid thing get called a 'culture' these days. It aint a fucking culture.

[Lantyssa]

It's the culture of sub-cultures.

[Lucas]

A few updates:

- Weekly Star Marine report (includes a couple videos, with a brief overview of the "Gold Horizon" map at the bottom)
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/14857-Star-Marine-Status-Update

- KRGR (Kruger Intergalactic) P-52 Merlin is on sale and flyable in Arena Commander ( $20; link includes a flying and racing video):
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/14854-Kruger-Intergalactic-P-52-Merlin-Now-Available

I think it has a nice "retro" feeling, similar to the old Wing Commander ships. Constellation ship owners have it for free (Constellation is designed to have it as an accompanying interceptor)

- Audio update:
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/14853-Star-Citizen-Audio-Update

Lots of technical stuff about the first iteration of Wwise audio for Star Citizen (link has several illustrative clips and images).

- Potential new segment, called "Game Commander" (looks like the content may vary for this. This one is mostly about fixing bugs with the Local and Global physics grid, explained by Roberts in the video) :
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/14856-Game-Commander-With-Chris-Roberts

[Setanta]

I can't help but think that CR actually reads this thread for his own entertainment. Not because f13 is wrong, but because he's raking in the cash on a level that none of us will ever experience.

In another time he could have formed his own religion. Actually, I swear he has.

[satael]

A few more decades (of scientific development) and CR can make his "sea org" in space! 

[Falconeer]

Chris Roberts would have made Ayn Rand so proud. I can totally see him starting to (crowd)fund his own version of Bioshock's Rapture anytime now.

[schild]

He doesn't need to crowdfund anything else. He can just siphon money from his current bullshit company.

[Sky]

He doesn't need to crowdfund anything else. He can just siphon money from his current bullshit company.

"need"

Well, why not just pick up a few more million next time around? It's the promised land, and ain't nobody ain't going there once they found the door.

Also, what you said as well.

[Teleku]

Chris Roberts would have made Ayn Rand so proud. I can totally see him starting to (crowd)fund his own version of Bioshock's Rapture anytime now.

Posted this in another thread, but seems appropriate:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-21/inside-liberland-the-place-of-no-taxes-where-crowdfunding-rules

A nation where all critical services are crowd funded.  He'd fit right in!

[Tebonas]

Heh, well they will need an army soon since Croatia arrests all would-be settlers and no sovereign nation can let THAT slide. Maybe he can crowdfund them some advanced space weaponry. 

[jakonovski]

Denture tech! 

[tmp]

3d artists, undoing the advancements of orthodontics since ~2010.

[Yegolev]

This is worse than Toady working on dwarf beards in a text game.

[Malakili]

How else would I be able to get the full digital eating experience?

[Paelos]

This is worse than Toady working on dwarf beards in a text game.

Man, it actually is. How sad is that?

[Lucas]

Nah, don't worry: they'll just implement a dental surgeon simulator mini-game 

[Shannow]

Nah, don't worry: they'll just implement a dental surgeon simulator mini-game 

No, they'll PROMISE one if they can get 50k in kickstarter contributions.