Star Citizen: Chris Robert`s new space sim (the Wing Commander guy)

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Stringjam

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I've seen about three articles over the last couple weeks. One was talking about a $75 ship, next was $125-150 range, and now the $250. As one that hasn't gotten involved with the game yet, it gives the impression that significant $ will be needed to have fun.


Why? Because something is available for sale you have to buy it to have fun?

There's no reason you can't just buy the game and get all those ships the old-fashioned, FUN way.
 

Stringjam

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The article itself was pretty well written. The title of it though is absolute clickbait.

"Buggy, half-built game."

So...how many developers actually release playable content during development stages? I don't see any intelligence in reviewing how buggy a mid-development game is.

I'm pretty sure if this writer played any of his favorite games during development builds, they would be equally or more buggy. They ALL are. He didn't give any indication that he actually even played any of the SC modules, however, which makes sense considering the level of legitimacy most of these article writers seem to have.

Seems like more than anything, this writer just wants to get a ton of clicks from a troll title so he can get a big gold star from his boss.
 

Fallen Kell

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Seems like more than anything, this writer just wants to get a ton of clicks from a troll title so he can get a big gold star from his boss.

Agreed. I havn't gone to read the article for that exact reason. I am also not sure if they have a comment section on their site under the article, which will off course invite all kinds of posts both bashing on the game and defending its current state of development. I mean seriously, it is still in alpha state. The point of having access to end users now is to get good data on actual gameplay. Seeing data from thousands of matches lets them get real usable data for algorithm optimization targets (i.e. bulk of CPU time is in function XYZ, bulk of memory usage occurs during function YYZ, etc), and target overview of those functions for optimizations.
 

Red Storm

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I think what Star Citizen has shown is that the majority of us - the customers - would be absolutely terrible publishers, even worse than the likes of EA. I am so very glad that the community's contributions through Kickstarter and the like are strictly donations. If they had any actual entitlement this game would be forced to an early release.

As for the clueless writers who love to troll and post clickbait headlines, let 'em do their worst. They can try all they want but they won't be getting in the way of the best damn space sim ever.
 

Stringjam

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Pretty much this. Title doesn't really represent the thought/concentration of the article. It's actually a rather good article.


It seemed to me that the article was more of a subjective critique of the community and had very little to do with the actual game (probably because the author didn't bother to play any of it.)
 
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TheVrolok

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It seemed to me that the article was more of a subjective critique of the community and had very little to do with the actual game (probably because the author other didn't bother to play any of it.)
Yea basically. I think it was quite a reasonable take on the community (and I'm in for over 300), though. I feel like it may be hurting some feelings, but what about it was unreasonable?
 

JSt0rm

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He has sold everyone on everything at this point. It will be funny if he cant deliver.
 

Red Storm

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Well the alternative was to buy an Apple Watch Edition. I think I'd rather have all the spaceships. :awe:

Seriously though, good for him. He's got money to burn, and his contributions go towards making the game better for us all. :thumbsup:
 

SunnyD

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I backed this game a long time ago for 30 bucks or something but I couldnt imagine giving that much money to this guy.

This is his current track record:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490087/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_5 <---- 22 million spent. Never released.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462465/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_6 <---- 50 million spent. Made 160k at box office

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0785077/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_7 <--- 7 million spent made back 5.5 million

This guy knows how to burn money.

Somebody doesn't know how to properly track movie receipts.

Outlander grossed $6 million (still a failure, but not a $160k failure).

Who's Your Caddy? only has domestic numbers attached to that $5.7m gross figure.

You forgot a few movies too:

The Punisher (2004) - Estimated budget $33m, Gross $54.5m
Lucky Number Slevin - Estimated budget $27m, Gross $57m
Lord of War - Estimated budget $42m, Gross $72.6m

So, about that "he knows how to burn money" comment...
 

JSt0rm

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Somebody doesn't know how to properly track movie receipts.

Outlander grossed $6 million (still a failure, but not a $160k failure).

Who's Your Caddy? only has domestic numbers attached to that $5.7m gross figure.

You forgot a few movies too:

The Punisher (2004) - Estimated budget $33m, Gross $54.5m
Lucky Number Slevin - Estimated budget $27m, Gross $57m
Lord of War - Estimated budget $42m, Gross $72.6m

So, about that "he knows how to burn money" comment...


Yes I only listed his most recent films. His work over a decade ago is what it was. I think you picked the 3 movies that actually made money. What I wanted to look at is what is happening right now. Before I spend 22k D: on a video game I need to research the maker.

But I digress. I dont want to thread crap and this thread is clearly for pro-starcitizen people. There are places on the internet with threadnaughts laughing at all of this. I can post in those ;)
 
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Yes I only listed his most recent films. His work over a decade ago is what it was. I think you picked the 3 movies that actually made money. What I wanted to look at is what is happening right now. Before I spend 22k D: on a video game I need to research the maker.
But I digress. I dont want to thread crap and this thread is clearly for pro-starcitizen people. There are places on the internet with threadnaughts laughing at all of this. I can post in those ;)

JStorm, you have legitimate concerns & we appreciate the heads up about spending. I assume you will wait for the game to be released. Let's keep our fingers crossed that its a kick ass PC game!
 

Fallen Kell

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Also on Outlander, it was only released in 81 theaters! It was no wonder why no one went to it because you were lucky if there were 2 theaters in your state that had it playing. Personally I really liked the movie. I think it would have done better had they managed to get a PG-13 rating, but can understand the R for the gore (which I also understand why they kept it because it would have really diminished the end movie to remove/alter many of those scenes). In the end, it was a movie that the publishers bailed on by not putting it in more theaters and not advertising for it at all. I was going to the movies a lot back then (probably every weekend), and I didn't see a single trailer for it (and quite obviously, neither did anyone else). But it is a decent movie (a sci-fi twist on beowulf). Certainly better than "Cowboys and Aliens" and yet that managed 100mill in the domestic box office (because it actually was played in ~3800 theaters in the USA, vs 81 for Outlander).

That said, this is getting way off topic.
 

TheSlamma

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Yes I only listed his most recent films. His work over a decade ago is what it was. I think you picked the 3 movies that actually made money. What I wanted to look at is what is happening right now. Before I spend 22k D: on a video game I need to research the maker.

But I digress. I dont want to thread crap and this thread is clearly for pro-starcitizen people. There are places on the internet with threadnaughts laughing at all of this. I can post in those ;)
You are an idiot if you think you need to spend $22K for this game.

Some things in life are gray area.. but this? this is black and white simple you are an idiot if you really think this. Seriously, please don't procreate.
 

JSt0rm

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You are an idiot if you think you need to spend $22K for this game.

Some things in life are gray area.. but this? this is black and white simple you are an idiot if you really think this. Seriously, please don't procreate.


1. Your sarcasm meter is broken

and

2. some people have no chance to procreate and if they want to live in a alternate universe that costs them 22k and it makes them happy and their neck beard all tingly, who are you to say thats not money well spent?