Chris Roberts Back in your wallet - STAR CITIZEN

[Yegolev]

Assuming it is real, where does this jackoff get his money?

[Malakili]

I have no idea if its true, but in the previous blog post he mentioned something about investments.

[Falconeer]

He keeps mentioning here and there that he made money through sound investments.

Here’s the thing. I wasn’t rich when I started out. And I’m not crazy rich or anything. At all. But being rich is relative. If you’ve never had $1m, and you then you have it, that’s one level of rich. To another guy who is crazy rich, $1m is nothing. It is safe to say that my rich, is the kind that “Fuck You” buys.

Since the gains from my first game, and sound investments, over the years, I’ve kept my developments small, manageable, indie etc. I don’t live a life of wanton spending and such. For example, I’m not going to go out and buy a $1m car, or a $20m house just because I can afford it.

Yes, I do have lots of nice things, nice cars, houses, apartment, I dress well, eat well, live well etc, but they’re not things I wouldn’t otherwise do or have if I had a $250K a year job. It’s all relative.

... which also seems to imply that his current job earns him more than 250k a year. Which sounds like science fiction, but it's not like I understand money.

[Yegolev]

Somehow that explains so much and so little.  I'm not sure I trust the article completely but I'm sure if you head up a company and avoid women, getting that first million is easy.

One more bit of crazy is that he doesn't seem to understand how much things cost.  Or maybe I don't understand how much things cost, I'm just a regular type dude.

[Merusk]

I thought he was a trust fund baby. Independent designers as old as he is in the industry typically were

[Paelos]

I knew I still got the NY Times for a reason.  Looking forward to that one.

Is the reason you forgot to cancel it?

[Yegolev]

I thought he was a trust fund baby. Independent designers as old as he is in the industry typically were

I did expect this, but if he still has a lot of it then maybe he's not terrible at everything.  I might also assume that he isn't going to really spend $1M on something dumb.

[Malakili]

I knew I still got the NY Times for a reason.  Looking forward to that one.

Is the reason you forgot to cancel it?

Nah, I actually do read the paper every day.

[Sky]

I thought he got his money from settling out of court for his bajillion lawsuits people just want to make go away.

My favorite thing about Dmart is the unflinching lack of self-awareness and hypocrisy. He goes ballistic with the first whiff of anyone talking shit about him, and then ceaselessly talks shit about people. Everyone should respect him but he can casually disrespect anyone at his whim.

What a dick.

[Sky]

From the Dep't of Irony, here's the header from the page linked above with the latest rant:



 

[Paelos]

I knew I still got the NY Times for a reason.  Looking forward to that one.

Is the reason you forgot to cancel it?

Nah, I actually do read the paper every day.

I would if I had the time. Sometimes I do on Sundays.

[Abagadro]

Shit got serious. He's taking out an AD. An AD on real paper!

[Yegolev]

There is probably more where that came from, too.

[Teleku]

Shit got serious. He's taking out an AD. An AD on real paper!

Next up, AM radio spots.

[Kail]

Shit got serious. He's taking out an AD. An AD on real paper!

[jakonovski]

Posters hate me, because it's this one weird trick.

[Sophismata]

My only exposure to that style of ad has been via other people mocking or satirising them. I think the jokes are more common than the real thing.

...well I'd hope so, anyway.

[Goreschach]

What are you even talking about? The internet hasn't had ads in years.

[Lucas]

Star Marine weekly update:

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/14838-Star-Marine-Status-Update

Also, a temporary ship status thread has been posted on the forums, waiting for a nicer version to be published on the website proper.

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/272231

[Sophismata]

What are you even talking about? The internet hasn't had ads in years.

Essentially my point. But it could also be regional, as internet advertising is a lot more intelligent these days (profiles users and serves ads based on key interest and age demographics).

[Furiously]

I'm trying to figure how they are going to balance people that have spent $1500 on a ship vs. someone who buys one in game. I've come to the conclusion the only way they cannot piss the original backers off is to continue to sell ships for RL money.  Or just laugh at the rubes.

[Ginaz]

I'm trying to figure how they are going to balance people that have spent $1500 on a ship vs. someone who buys one in game. I've come to the conclusion the only way they cannot piss the original backers off is to continue to sell ships for RL money.  Or just laugh at the rubes.

Why not both?

[Furiously]

I'm trying to figure how they are going to balance people that have spent $1500 on a ship vs. someone who buys one in game. I've come to the conclusion the only way they cannot piss the original backers off is to continue to sell ships for RL money.  Or just laugh at the rubes.

Why not both?

I mean, can they seriously make a ship that people spent thousands of dollars on take a week or two to get? Won't a founder firebomb their studio? Their ship marketing is darn good, but once the game comes out....

[apocrypha]

but once the game comes out....

Edit: yes, the gif artifacts were bothering me.

[penfold]

I'm trying to figure how they are going to balance people that have spent $1500 on a ship vs. someone who buys one in game. I've come to the conclusion the only way they cannot piss the original backers off is to continue to sell ships for RL money.  Or just laugh at the rubes.

Yeah, so if i play a vanilla version I'll never be able to have a decent fighter or capital ship? The way they've set this up means its likely it wont be playable for anyone with $50 to drop on a box copy.

[Falconeer]

I think you should compare some of those ships to EVE ships. You know those immense carriers that take hundreds of people to build and that are worth a few thousand dollars and when one gets destroyed it makes the news? I think this is what they are aiming for. They ARE available in game, but not without a prolonger combined effort of a lot of players. In EVE, players are fine with that, so I guess Chris Roberts assume they will be fine with that in Star Citizen too.

[satael]

I think you should compare some of those ships to EVE ships. You know those immense carriers that take hundreds of people to build and that are worth a few thousand dollars and when one gets destroyed it makes the news? I think this is what they are aiming for. They ARE available in game, but not without a prolonger combined effort of a lot of players. In EVE, players are fine with that, so I guess Chris Roberts assume they will be fine with that in Star Citizen too.

I thought the idea with all those "premium" ships was that they were fully insured (or something like that) so you won't really lose anything if your ship gets blown up?

It would make for some awesome reading if you'd actually lose the ship like in EVE. 

[Lucas]

They'll piss off the original backers who thought they would get an in-game advantage by buying ships in advance during the funding campaign. It remains to be seen if this is the mindset (getting a gameplay advantage) of the vast majority of the original backers or not (I suspect many among those are just impulse buyers). For example, although I purchased a few ships (but only among the small/mid ones: biggest one I have is the Freelancer MAX), I never did it because I genuinely though I would be a step ahead.

You also have to keep in mind that, unlike the current status of E:D, game will probably launch will guilds, so it won't take THAT long to acquire one of those $1,500 carriers, no matter their equivalent in-game credits.

[tmp]

The obvious solution is to make the ship in game require Sucker Points in the amount it'd take you a million years to acquire... unless you spend ~1.5k USD on Sucker Point Boosters.

[Ironwood]

The obvious solution is to make the ship in game require Sucker Points in the amount it'd take you a million years to acquire... unless you spend ~1.5k USD on Sucker Point Boosters.

 

[Lucas]

New video interview with Chris Roberts regarding the FPS module (15 minutes long) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seD9YAtqZ0I

[Ginaz]

New video interview with Chris Roberts regarding the FPS module (15 minutes long) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seD9YAtqZ0I

Good lord, Jon Snow has really let himself go after getting killed off.  Also, if that woman who is now VP of marketing or whatever really is Chris Roberts wife...Roberts is richer than I thought.  He is not a handsome man.

[Yegolev]

Of course he's rich.  Now.

[Samprimary]

I'm trying to figure how they are going to balance people that have spent $1500 on a ship vs. someone who buys one in game. I've come to the conclusion the only way they cannot piss the original backers off is to continue to sell ships for RL money.  Or just laugh at the rubes.

A large segment of the whale backers are going to be pissed off one way or another. The demographic of people who are going to drop that kind of cash on the promise of future spaceship pixels in a game that doesn't exist yet self-selects very heavily for conspicuously fixative personalities who are not going to be able to handle that their investment greatly exceeds the effective value of any fucking game that anyone on earth could ever make, because games are rarely worth more than sixty dollars.

At the same time, another segment of the whale backers will just be obsessed with the game forever and worship any decision or update or lack of update made by the company, no matter how questionable.

[Samprimary]

Also, we need a Star Citizen prediction thread. I am legitimately intrigued that so many people strongly believe the game is going to vaporware.