Derek Smart

[Raven]

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[Raven]

What it must be like to live in @Scouse's head


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[Raven]

Cloud Imperium responds to Crytek's Star Citizen lawsuit | PC Gamer

 

[Gwadien]

It's a pretty strong play from Crytek though.

I bet they didn't even try and sell another licence for Squadron 42, I bet they just went straight to court because more £££ because SC won't suddenly change engine this late on.

 

[Raven]

...it has already changed engine. It now uses Amazon's Lumberyard.

They are just salty they sold all their rights to Amazon and lost out. They are doing this in the hope of a cash injection into their failing business.

 

[Gwadien]

...it has already changed engine. It now uses Amazon's Lumberyard.

They are just salty they sold all their rights to Amazon and lost out. They are doing this in the hope of a cash injection into their failing business.

oh.

Then this is silly, very silly.

Why does Amazon create engines though? Bit of an odd venture?

 

[Moriath]

Probably bought it.

 

[Raven]

They did buy it, from Crytek, which is why Crytek are losing their shit. Amazon bought it and will make a fortune from it. It's another pie for them to have a finger in, I imagine they will be hosting Star Citizen too.

 

[Gwadien]

They did buy it, from Crytek, which is why Crytek are losing their shit. Amazon bought it and will make a fortune from it.

So Crytek made an engine and sold it, as a business which makes engines and sells licences to make you know, a cash flow...?

Doesn't make any sense.

 

[Zarjazz]

oh.

Then this is silly, very silly.

Why does Amazon create engines though? Bit of an odd venture?

Amazon sell a shit load of video games. Amazon own Twitch which has been growing exponentially in recent years and they'll promote / stream this massively on the site when it's released. The game servers will be on the Amazon Cloud.

Seem's pretty fucking smart to me.

 

[Ormorof]

oh.

Then this is silly, very silly.

Why does Amazon create engines though? Bit of an odd venture?

odd ventures can become wildly successful, their side business of cloud hosting is worth 15 billion per year or so these days

 

[Scouse]

$27,000 player pack for Star Citizen.

Who's buying it?!

 

[BloodOmen]

As cuntish as it sounds I genuinely hope Star Citizen bombs hard, I think the concept of the whole thing sounded great until they got massive crowdfunding and kept adding on and on and on and on, now it just sounds like a pile of shite that's trying to cater to every tom dick and harry now.

 

[Scouse]

I'd love it to come out and be brilliant. Really ground breaking. But at the moment he's found a business model that allows him perma-development and non-delivery whilst sucking in thousands from fan-boys. And it is boys, unfortunately, just look at the audiences in his regular "aren't I great! I'm on stage!" videos...

 

[Zarjazz]

$27,000 player pack for Star Citizen.

Who's buying it?!

If you read the article it's only being offered to people who already bought the $1k and above packages. So they are already really interested in the game and have lots of spending money.

As for the other points. So far they have raised $200m which is around what a triple A game costs to produce these days. Sure it's a lot for a crowd funded game but the production level they are aiming for it's appropriate.

Whether the game(s) they are releasing will be any good or not, fuck knows.

 

[georgie]

which includes nearly all its spacecraft plus extras

Tbh for $27K I'd want more than fucking "nearly"!

 

[Scouse]

If you read the article it's only being offered to people who already bought the $1k and above packages. So they are already really interested in the game and have lots of spending money.

I know. It's still fucking nuts though.

 

[fettoken]

Tbh for $27K I'd want more than fucking "nearly"!

You'd want your own civilization from that amount.

 

[Gwadien]

Yeah... I'm still happy for Star Citizen to slow burn, hopefully they'll have an amazing end product.

 

[Scouse]

I think they're probably out of cash. They should be focussing completely on publishing what they have but seem to be caught in an out-of-control add-new-content tornado. I suspect they're doing that because they don't know how to publish what they've got as their tech isn't working and doesn't look like working any time soon.

Maybe if he gets another 200 million he can keep creating more content, whilst keeping his family in shits and giggles, until computers become powerful enough to run the fucking thing.

 

[Gwadien]

I think they're probably out of cash. They should be focussing completely on publishing what they have but seem to be caught in an out-of-control add-new-content tornado. I suspect they're doing that because they don't know how to publish what they've got as their tech isn't working and doesn't look like working any time soon.

Maybe if he gets another 200 million he can keep creating more content, whilst keeping his family in shits and giggles, until computers become powerful enough to run the fucking thing.

To be fair the content I have seen looks very polished.

Look at DayZ for example of a bad thing; been in early access for ever and is still broken as shit, it'll be refreshing to play a polished game upon release.

 

[Scouse]

To be fair the content I have seen looks very polished.

Yep, when it runs above two fps and doesn't crash, apparently.

You only have to take a cursory glance at their forums to see people complaining about their focus being on more cash, rather than delivery.

I'll say it again - I'd love to see it come out. Before 2025...

 

[Scouse]

Could be coincidence @BloodOmen. How many ways are there to change ship design?

I bet the naysayers will be all over it, checking models from now. So if there's a glut of similar stories...

 

[BloodOmen]

Could be coincidence @BloodOmen. How many ways are there to change ship design?

I bet the naysayers will be all over it, checking models from now. So if there's a glut of similar stories...

I dinna, I haven't touched Eve for years, the moment I saw both pictures it just looked like a blatant rip off to me, even the names are similar, it's like they didn't even try.

 

[Scouse]

Well shit - it's apparently free to play this weekend.

Wish I'd known earlier. It's doubtful I'll get a look in - but if anyone fancies picking it up and giving us their thoughts

 

[Scouse]

Well then, better give it a reboot :\

 

[SilverHood]

I've had Alpha access for years now, maybe I should give it a go.

 

[Scouse]

Squadron 42 trailer is like a geeks who's-who of how many people you can cram into a game:


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[Job]

What happened to Raven?

 

[Scouse]

@Raven had a bit of a meltdown I think, which is a shame. But he couldn't help but pre-judging everything certain forum members were saying, so it was impossible to hold a conversation with him.

He probably left for the good of his own mental health. Hope he's OK