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I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that they don't count subscriber revenue in their funding total. If even 10% of their backer base are subscribers, that's another million+ in revenues that most people don't consider when trying to armchair analyze their finances.

It's getting a bit silly now... Disc-O-Lantern on Twitter:

Edit for Palum: That's Ben Lesnick - he's, I guess, the head community guy at CIG. Sorry I assumed people in this thread were following the game. He's just demonstrating that their HID cards are, indeed, blank key cards and not "ID Cards" that could be used to verify an employee.

There are a couple big differences. 38 Studiosborrowedall of their funding and had to pay regular maintenance on those debts. They had to borrow more to pay the interest. They were in a very bad financial situation when Reckoning launched and they really needed it to be a blockbuster in order...

Lol, are you for real? Who gives a fuck if Sandi, on her own time, brought some of her acting buddies to the office and used cameras that were already purchased for the community shows? Did she break them or something? Seriously, have you people never worked in an office? I remember when I was...

If 1.3 delivers next month (as has been hyped), there will already be enough game to play to justify what most people have spent. If you buy the Citizen Con hype, we are getting multi-crew and FPS around that time. Add that to Arena Commander and Planetside, and you have all the components of...

Also, interesting info from Reddit: Tony Zurovec (Director of PU) was in chatroll earlier (and a lot of other devs too), here are some random answers he gave to questions we posted to him. Please note that most of these were with respect to the Social Module PTU which just launched: What...

Sorry for wonky formatting - cut and paste from official site.

Well, Chris Roberts promised they'd put the social module up "this month" and, believe it or not, they finally met a deadline!

Well, really, Draegan, I agree. In this case however, I'm happy to embrace it. It wouldn't be hard for CIG to turn off sound effects in space, but I have a lot more fun hearing those explosions and engines, etc.

I know you're just joking around, but it's been explained in lore that the AI in our helmets and ships simulate sounds in space because it helps humans react/cope.

You are safe to redo skills; your research won't be affected.

I don't often agree with Utnayan, but I thought it was pretty common knowledge that Sage was the cockblocker when it came to nameplates. He gets canned, and we get Rich Lambert (who has, according to the dev tracker, had an exponentially larger presence among the community than Sage ever did)...

I was reading a thread and some guy was saying his damage was cut in half in ALL pve, not just cyrodiil. That sounds dumb.

Eh, I dunno - I have my issues with the developers being assholes in this game, but I never had a problem with the way combat felt, other than when I was in Cyrodiil and shit was laggy. (in itself this was a huge issue, and one of the reasons I stopped playing.) Not sure if that's improved at...

I don't think this game's for you, bud. Sounds like you want to play Eve. Good news, you can!

You apparently don't understand the planned scope of this game. It's not a "space" game as you refer to it. You seem to think there's no reason to need to move around the inside of your spaceship. This would be true if they were just making a dogfighting game; they already have that - it's...

100x this. I'm sick of the fucking autistic HOTAS flight sim assholes trying to ruin the fun factor of the game for everyone else. BDSSE = best damnspacesim ever - notflightsim.

Magicka based whatever class is fun for leveling. Wear 5 cloth, 1 medium, 1 heavy (so you can level those lines.) Use whatever weapon, in fact take turns swapping different weapons in to level them up, but mostly use your class skills that are based on magicka. You can level with stamina and...

I think you are missing an important difference: Curt's game folded under the crushing obligation of his debt maintenance. SC doesn't have debt maintenance.

Why do you keep comparing Chris to Curt? 1. Chris is a famous game developer and successful movie producer -> Curt is a baseball player 2. Chris raised his money with zero debt and has ongoing income averaging 2+ million per month -> Curt borrowed his money and couldn't handle the payments...

Interesting tidbit from today's10 for the Chairman video- a guy on Reddit transcribed it, and here's something worth getting a little hyped about, imo: 01:14:11 ? Is Star Citizen impossible to finish? CR - Doesn?t think it's impossible at all. Very do-able; people who feel like that don?t...

Sad but true.

So, you don't really follow this game's development, do you? Edit: Even if they were both just running operations (not true in CR's case) - how can you compare a baseball player trying to run a 100 million dollar game project to a movie producer and game developer with a proven track record...

To be fair, Curt Schilling isn't a developer. Chris Roberts brings a lot to the table.

You should read his letter today - you might feel better.Letter from the Chairman - Roberts Space Industries Sample:

I don't get how anyone on this forum, who follow or have followed multiple MMOs through development, could be even remotely concerned about the amount of time this game seems to be taking. Anyone who could be assed to do it can find reams of data about the progress being made, more so than any...

The team's current plan is to deliver an FPS module to the PTU during or shortly after Gamescom, in the early-to-mid August timeframe. Roberts said something like "give or take a week or two." He also said, don't hold him to it, as it's just an estimate they feel comfortable with. It's a good...

Personally, I'm convinced that they already have it working good enough for "alpha" and that they are just polishing to make it as good as possible for a reveal at Gamescom. None of the "blockers" sound like real blockers - more like annoying bugs, like, as you say, many online games have and...

Heh, so I skimmed his 3rd article. No way I could read it word for word without going cross-eyed. He's basically just summarizing what has happened so far from his point of view and rehashing his "points" from his first article. Nothing new, except for some crazy demands like Chris Roberts...

Somebody talk some sense into me - the first official DLC is sounding good to me:

I'm not worried, either. Shit, boys, I've followed MMO's with nothing but teaser interviews for 5+ years of development. I think the problem is that SC is up to 900K+ citizens. That's a lot of people, and you're going to have a percentage of people that are just dumb fucks. They're going to...

I think Derek read the Star Marine update yesterday and realized his manifesto that claimed it wasn't being worked on anymore would look pretty dumb. He's probably feverishly writing a revision now. Star Marine Status Update - Roberts Space Industries

Buckle up, and get some popcorn:

Actually, to be fair, some things have improved with inventory: You train a mount "skill" now, so you are able to have 60 in carry capacity as well as 60 in speed and stamina (eventually) - so you can improve your bag space without gimping your speed. They increased the stack size of most...

Well, if he wanted attention, he's getting it. I wonder if CR will respond to any of this? I think his best move would be to ignore it. I can see Derek's rage when he doesn't get acknowledged - he actually posted this shit on FB and said he unfriended CR. A lot of people are speculating...

There's actually quite a lot that goes into the SQ42 that you'll see in the PU. It's supposed to be a seamless integration - the SQ42 experience is your introduction to the PU and your life in it. Things like the UI (mobi-glas), conversation trees, AI (wingmen and NPC crew members), character...

Where do you get this? Everything they're working on is for the PU. The only thing from Squadron 42 that isn't applicable to the PU are the motion captures for the cut scenes. There are a 30+ departments reporting in on their latestmonthly reportand only a handful mention working directly on...

This was interesting to me when I first read about it over the weekend. I've only really been following this game since around January, so it wasn't real clear to me who this Alex Mayberry was, and why this was a "big deal." Turns out, Mayberry was a big deal when CR signed him onto the team...

Looks like things headed in right direction. I also heard rumors that the imperial city has multiple zones and one of them is an arena where you you enter an instance to fight players from opposing realms. If that's true, I'm gonna have to try it. I guess having several of the people that...