Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen turns out to be a real game (real bad, geddit?)

[HaemishM]

There definitely appeared to be something up that character's rectum. Whether it was horse-y or ministry-related, I am not qualified to judge.

[Draegan]

I can tell you for a fact that Ian is hosting/was hosting the site for free so his buddy could try to make eqbrowser.

They're all silly shits.

I have no idea why people still pay attention to this. It's a bag full of sad shit, it's to the point where it's not fun anymore.

[Goreschach]

No, it was not-funny years ago. It's now firmly lapped back into hilarious.

[Fordel]

No, it was not-funny years ago. It's now firmly lapped back into hilarious.

I ask again, has it?

There's no punchline here, no big 'I told you so'. Just a handful of sad, deluded people, surprised that fire is hot.

[Senses]

Because train wrecks you can see from miles away are more fun than train wrecks that happen suddenly and leave no room for speculation.

[sam, an eggplant]

I ask again, has it?

There's no punchline here, no big 'I told you so'. Just a handful of sad, deluded people, surprised that fire is hot.

Yes, I still feel pleasure at Brad's failures, even after so much misfortune across so many years. I'm not proud of that. I know it makes me a small man. But it's true. I'm a schadenfreudholic. A veritable schadenfiend!

[Simond]

eqbrowser.

[Der Helm]

A veritable schadenfiend!

More like a Schadenfreund.

[Lantyssa]

[patience]

Brad will never change.

Pretty much. The rumors from Signe's post aren't even more outrageous than the shit he pulled that was covered on this site for Vanguard.

The man is a con-artist, just not a very good one.

For all of McQuaid's faults I would call him a con artist when other MMOs literally ran away with money without releasing a game to play. He's always offered something for his fans to slobber over.

[Rokal]

His previous games really would have been conning investors/publishers (Sony, MS, etc.) instead of players. This is the first time that players *are* the investors thanks to the magic of crowdfunding, so we're in for some exciting shenanigans. Certainly, a crowd-funding campaign that bills itself as a way to fund future development on a new game but is actually just used for back pay (or seemingly, to go into Brad's pocket) is a great start to this con.

[HaemishM]

{McQuaid's} always offered something for his fans to slobber over.

Masochism. He's offered masochism.

[tazelbain]

A confidence trick (synonyms include confidence scheme, scam and stratagem) is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence, in the classical sense of trust. A confidence artist, con-man (or con artist) is an individual, operating alone or in concert with others, who exploits characteristics of the human psyche such as dishonesty, honesty, vanity, compassion, credulity, irresponsibility, naïveté, or greed.

Yep, he's a con man.

He's not peddling masochism, it's just convenient explanation as to why some people are be repeatedly fooled by him.

[satael]

BRAD MCQUAID IS CREATING PANTHEON: RISE OF THE FALLEN. Not afraid to make an MMO targeting gamers who want a challenge! 

This is pure unadulterated gold. 

[Nebu]

Anyone that gives money to this deserves what they get. 

[Scold]

Wait so does Vanguard still exist?

[tazelbain]

That's quite the business model.

[angry.bob]

BRAD MCQUAID IS CREATING PANTHEON: RISE OF THE FALLEN. Not afraid to make an MMO targeting gamers who want a challenge! 

This is pure unadulterated gold. 

Sooooo...

Wasn't he already making that?

Patreon seems to be a horrible choice for game development, but a good choice for him since he gets the money regardless of goals or delivering.

At 3 patrons and $17 he would have made way more money if he claimed to be a pansexual transgendered otherkin who was fighting the mancentric caucasian manocracy on his own terms. Also, just setting up a webcam in his living room and broadcasting his meth and coke fueled shenanigans would work too.

[Lantyssa]

Is $17 even enough to afford a hit of something these days?

[HaemishM]

Anyone that gives money to this deserves what they get. 

He's already got more Patrons than me. I fucking hate people. 

[Scold]

At 3 patrons and $17 he would have made way more money if he claimed to be a pansexual transgendered otherkin who was fighting the mancentric caucasian manocracy on his own terms.

please please please let us come no closer to gamergate debate breaking out of the politics forum

[sam, an eggplant]

My original version had laser beams coming out of his eyes, but I thought it a bit much.

[Trippy]

BRAD MCQUAID IS CREATING PANTHEON: RISE OF THE FALLEN. Not afraid to make an MMO targeting gamers who want a challenge! 

This is pure unadulterated gold. 

I don't understand the pledge levels. Are the patrons paying $X for *each* screenshot and video that Visionary Realms craps out?

[Malakili]

BRAD MCQUAID IS CREATING PANTHEON: RISE OF THE FALLEN. Not afraid to make an MMO targeting gamers who want a challenge! 

This is pure unadulterated gold. 

I don't understand the pledge levels. Are the patrons paying $X for *each* screenshot and video that Visionary Realms craps out?

Yeah, that's how Patreon works.  Normally people who make recurring content use it.  You can mark a maximum monthly charge too so if they put out 10 things a month when they usually only put out 2 you aren't paying a ton.  It's a terrible model for a video game, it makes no sense.

[Hutch]

It's a terrible model for a video game, it makes no sense.

They're not making a video game.
They're staving off the inevitable future that awaits every washed out fraud: waiting tables, tending bar, flipping burgers, mopping floors, until they figure out what else they might be qualified to do.

[Rendakor]

At least I'm not the only one who found the pledge system odd; the only other Patreon I've looked at had monthly payments which made more sense to me.

[HaemishM]

Some do it by monthly like mine, other do it per creation. I'm really surprised he didn't go for the monthly thing since he's ostensibly trying to sell a subscription based MMOG called "Vain Hope."

[angry.bob]

It's a terrible model for a video game, it makes no sense.

Yeah, for an actual game it makes no sense, but for a con man sort of making a sort of game it's a great model for giving yourself money each time you post a "screenshot" until you hit your limit.

[Rendakor]

I'm surprised Chris Roberts doesn't have one of these yet...or does he?

[Draegan]

You can subscribe to something over there. I don't know what it i though.

[HaemishM]

Maybe Brad should offer towels as one of the pledge rewards.  That way when he's arrested and put in jail for cooking meth with idiot's money, they'll have something to dry their tears with.

[Falconeer]

It is literally stuck at 17$ and 3 patrons. I feel guilty saying it, but this is so desperate it is fucking hilarious, it's doing infinitely worse than the most pathetic crowdfunding attempt ever, which was PGI's Transverse. I mean, it's like not even his mother is supporting this.

[shiznitz]

Is it worth $300 to name a character in the video? That might actually be fun.

[Yegolev]

Maybe Brad should offer towels as one of the pledge rewards.  That way when he's arrested and put in jail for cooking meth with idiot's money, they'll have something to dry their tears with.

The irredeemably delusional do not cry about such things.

[Fabricated]

There are really, really bad webcomics and people who play videogames on youtube pulling in like literally 500x what Brad is.

Jim Sterling just left the escapist and went on Patreon and is pulling in like $7k a month now.