Chris Roberts Back in your wallet - STAR CITIZEN

[WayAbvPar]

You can live like a king in Slovakia for that 

[Teleku]

Yes, I mean, I make that joke comment above not actually working in the industry.  If it was just me now as a general computer tech/person getting a job offer to do whatever from them, sure, lets burn shit down together.  If I actually had a career in game development and cared about continuing to have a career in game development, then things would be different.

Edit:  Also, Slovakia is pretty damn nice.  There are far worst places to not be paid for work.

[Phildo]

I imagine a lot of the individual employees find the work fulfilling.  There are teams of artists and developers that spend all their time making really cool spaceships and an expansive universe to fly them around in.

[Yegolev]

Slovakia is indeed nice and they have real money.  Unlike Hungary, which is only nice.

[Zetor]

Slovakia is indeed nice and they have real money.  Unlike Hungary, which is only nice.

Them's fighting words...

... Hungary is not 'nice' by any definition. 

[IainC]

The number of people who will find themselves unemployable after working on a shit/unreleased game is very small. if you're a random codemonkey or an animator, or a 3d artist or a content designer or whatever, you'll be fine because everyone understands that the game you worked on didn't fail because the animations were bad or because the asset batcher was a bit clunky. The worst that happens is that you end up like me, not having worked on a game that actually released since 2015. You go to an interview and people ask about your recent projects and you have to say, "well they were cancelled so I can't tell you too much about them."

I turned down CIG because I'd have been a small part of a big machine. After leading my own project at Wargaming, I didn't want to go back to that, and Perihelion offered me a more senior role with a lot more creative control over the direction of the project.

[schild]

There are times when morality should supercede desire to work in gaming.

Chances are high Star Citizen never releases in the form promised. With the money they have and time they've spent, they should have released five AAA(AAAAAA) games by now.

I am intimately familiar with doing a job to put food on the table, but being party to one of the most absurd (incredibly likely) scams in the history of gaming is a bridge too far. I would take a job on Duke Nukem Forever 2 before Star Citizen.

[Teleku]

On the flip side, it feels morally correct to do anything that transfers wealth away from Christ Roberts (to myself).   

[Yegolev]

Morals only ever kept me from succeeding.

[schild]

without morals i'd be a right wing demigod and they'd be building statues of me

like if you're gonna do something morally bankrupt, go all the way

[Yegolev]

I do have them, but not an excess, which explains my mediocre success.

Whether I'd work on this game or not would depend very much on the money and total compensation, but I'm really happy with how IBM is treating me so it would have to be a LOT of money.

Though it seems like I could get a job for Roberts and just phone it in part time for a month or three.

[justdave]

Or at least five years, by the looks of things.

[satael]

..and this just passed the $200m mark. Maybve one day it will go from alpha to beta too. 

[patience]

*coughs*





It's safe to say now my previous estimates was on the mark.

Amazing that they got someone to buy 10% shares. The potential return on investment seems like it won't work out considering the current state of the game.

They also now have a web page that directly sources their project management software so you can follow their roadmap changes.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/roadmap/board/2-Squadron-42

[HaemishM]

After $200 million in crowdfunding, why the fuck would they need to get another $46 million in money from investors?

I realize the answer is obvious, but the more relevant question is who are these idiot investors and can I have their number?

[Soulflame]

Money laundering?

Tax evasion?

Outright fraud?

[Abagadro]

Some dipshit failson in South Africa convinced his music-mogul, billionaire dad to pony up 50M apparently.  Gotta love the valuation of a studio that hasn't released anything, has no real income stream beyond fleecing autists, and is run by a historic failure, at half a billion dollars.

[koro]

https://www.pcgamer.com/star-citizen-has-cost-nearly-dollar200-million-so-far/


Eight years of dev time and nearly $200 million later, we may possibly maybe see a beta some time this year. Maybe.

$4 million a month in costs is ludicrous.

[01101010]

Quantum PCs will be common place by the time this goes to beta. 

[schild]

https://www.pcgamer.com/star-citizen-has-cost-nearly-dollar200-million-so-far/


Eight years of dev time and nearly $200 million later, we may possibly maybe see a beta some time this year. Maybe.

$4 million a month in costs is ludicrous.

lol

[Setanta]

Quantum PCs will be common place by the time this goes to beta. 

Sounds like a good excuse for RSI to change the game engine... again.

[Falconeer]

They made a movie on Netflix about this. Mark Hamill is played by Ja Rule.

[Tale]

Free to Play for a week, May 1-8.

[lesion]

jesus christ

the fucking installer

BritizenCon? development subscribers? weekly development update show? serialized fucking fiction?! 

[Teleku]

Free to Play for a week, May 1-8.

[HaemishM]

God, I'm so tempted to download this just to shit on it, but really, ain't nobody got time for that.

[01101010]

I can't even imagine all the 'other' things that would get put on your machine. But that aside, I'm assuming they are trying to cast a wider net for the fish to give them more money for this fever dream?

[HaemishM]

Buying an asteroid doesn't pay for itself.

[Soln]

Crypto miner installed 

[lesion]

5 minute impressions (super sciencey, watch out):

- spacebiff is amazing because in the future we all walk at the speed of retarded babies but sprint normally, and due to space every sound is muffled until you die instantly to CoD-like TTK
- loadout is kept by some very pissed-off troll UX designer (DA YA LIKE SCROLLIN' AND TABS)
- you can interact with some junk in person-station-walk-mode! and then it clips to the back of your hand and falls through the floor. I am immersed in stars
- the only ship I can find after exiting the overblown copy-paste station interior has no obvious way to get in, but there is someone opening and closing a high-up bay door I can't reach because of my retarded baby legs. you bitch
- I bought a helmet and a jumper and ran out of money
- fuck this pile of shit

edit: I didn't read any instructions because this isn't fucking Battlecruiser 3000AD

[Sky]

thank you for your service

[Tale]

Can you feel the $250,000,000 investment? :) Also, I very much want someone from the Elite Dangerous thread to try this and compare.

[01101010]

Can you feel the $250,000,000 investment? :) Also, I very much want someone from the Elite Dangerous thread to try this and compare.

1...2...3... NOT IT!

[Cyrrex]

I only ever played Elite in VR, so darn it, wouldn't be a fair comparison.

Also, I would rather have someone hack my bank account.  That seems like a safer way to get ripped off.

[Count Nerfedalot]

I'll pass. But I've got an out-of-state friend who was a first round Kickstarter for SC. I'll be meeting up with him in July, so maybe we can do side-by-side comparisons then! 

Hm, I wonder if my laptop can handle E:D. It's a beast and does fine with the likes of Ark, but it's no 1080 GPU. And Elite makes my desktop whine. Runs it fine, but complains about it, lazy thing! I'd almost forgotten it had fans until I started playing Elite.