Merusk
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Sunk cost fallacy, delusion, dreams of grandeur, and plain old stupidity and naievity make this possible.
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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sell everything.
players start naked.
Dude, you of all people should know better. People start in ugly underwear and pay to be naked. Then sell dingdong/booby enhancement packs. |
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Mandella
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You guys are forgetting the speculators, who are neither naive nor stupid, although they can be overconfident.
There are people buying stuff that they have no intention of ever using, nor do they even really care if the game ever ships -- they are just betting that they can resell the virtual junk for a markup before it all collapses.
Still ends up with a dumbass end user who actually wants the stuff, I suppose. Makes it even worse that there are enough of them to make a middlemen market of speculators possible.
But if everyone always spend their money wisely, me, and probably a lot of folks here, would likely be out of business...
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Merusk
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Speculators who looked into this deserved to be fleeced as well. There was no way it was going to be delivered, ever.
If folks spent money wisely, I'd be busier, as training and education would be more valued than "figure it out" and "Joe is the 'computer guy' he knows how to install Windows."
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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taolurker
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Every once in a while a couple of streamers I know do this game, it's usually worth it for the comedy.
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I used to write for extinct gaming sites
details available here (unused blog about page)
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Samprimary
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I know a few star citizen speculators. Their take on the situation was more or less correct and wise: when millions of fools are parting their money, try to valuate it and act on it. Star Citizen is a giant pit of money being hurled out by fools.
They have done ok with limited edition ship pack trading.
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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So is this an actual game in development or some psych-economic experiment?
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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Furiously
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Incompetently run Ponzi scheme???
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Draegan
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It doesn't look incompetent to me. Looks like they're doing ok swindling money from folks.
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Teleku
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Yes. This may be the most creative ponzi scheme ever.
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."
-Stephen Colbert
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rk47
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The Patron Saint of Radicalthons
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Colonel Sanders is back in my wallet
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Trippy
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Is the box riding simulator part of the base game or a paid add-on module?
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schild
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what a game
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Malakili
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That's just a creative use of game mechanics. Anyone who doesn't box surf is just a fucking noob who doesn't appreciate the complexity of the physics system.
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Khaldun
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Coming soon, special box rewards for donors.
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patience
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OP is assuming its somewhat of a design-goal of eve to make players happy.
this is however not the case.
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ezrast
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An exit strategy! Send all the money overseas, declare bankruptcy, blame Crytek for everything, and let them field the death threats.
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Khaldun
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I actually suspect that's what's going to happen.
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Falconeer
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a polyamorous pansexual genderqueer born and living in the wrong country
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But it's a meritless lawsuit!
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Jeff Kelly
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I'm an apathetic, hedonistic, utilitarian, nihilistic existentialist.
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It’s a lawsuit over 75,000 in unpaid licensing fees. That’s barely three spaceships sold in game.
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Abagadro
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Possibly the only user with more posts in the Den than PC/Console Gaming.
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You are reading that wrong.. 75k is a jurisdictional threshold to be in that particular court. Ths pleading is for an unknown amounr in excess of 75k. They are actually going for the full enchilada of all the gains CGI has made with their IP.
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
-H.L. Mencken
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Please tell me that include the box surfing.  |
Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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schild
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You are reading that wrong.. 75k is a jurisdictional threshold to be in that particular court. Ths pleading is for an unknown amounr in excess of 75k. They are actually going for the full enchilada of all the gains CGI has made with their IP.
and i hope they get it |
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patience
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You are reading that wrong.. 75k is a jurisdictional threshold to be in that particular court. Ths pleading is for an unknown amounr in excess of 75k. They are actually going for the full enchilada of all the gains CGI has made with their IP.
and i hope they get it If it doesn't come out by the end of 3019 it should be running dangerously low on funds. If those estimates made by Smart are mostly right the loan sharks get everything and Crytek nothing except the shirt on Chris' back. |
OP is assuming its somewhat of a design-goal of eve to make players happy.
this is however not the case.
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Der Helm
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"I've been done enough around here..."- Signe
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Samprimary
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If it doesn't come out by the end of 3019 it should be running dangerously low on funds.
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Gimfain
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When you ask for a miracle, you have to be prepared to believe in it or you'll miss it when it comes
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Viin
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Are they, by chance, registered as a church?
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- Viin
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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I'm sure there's an emeter SOMEWHERE in one of their offices.
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Khaldun
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You know how right now if you want to make fun of someone who is gullible, you offer to sell them the Brooklyn Bridge? Or similar cliches that invoke actual 19th and early 20th cons? In the mid-21st Century, the colloquial way to do the same thing will be to offer to sell them a spaceship in Star Citizen.
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Jeff Kelly
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An „actual patent attorney“ on Twitch.
Just when I thought I have seen everything.
The video was great though and very informative as well
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Ginaz
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Gotta pay for that copyright legal defence somehow.  |
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Gimfain
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They showed squadron 42, a full hour of "gameplay". Video |
When you ask for a miracle, you have to be prepared to believe in it or you'll miss it when it comes
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Falconeer
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Their stuff used to look incredible. As in "so amazing that it is never gonna work", but at least it looked fantastic. Five years later, it is starting to look absolutely MEH, and it's still clunky and actually not working nor close to release. It feels and sounds like a generic Mass Effect at this point. Sure, with space fighting added but I believe that even a lot of people who used to drool over the screen are starting to feel severely underwhelmed by these videos.
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