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Scam? No. Totally ill conceived business plan? Absolutely. The guy is a pants-on-head retard. The kickstarter was a joke, and his handling of his team & finances were even worse. He deserves a lot of criticism... But a lot of what is getting said here is just bullshit.

The guy has no technical skills... He needed crowd sourced money to pay the people who did have them to produce this prototype. Selling his home to obtain the funds for said prototype would have been incredibly stupid. I'm not sure what you aren't putting together here...

More and more assumptions keep piling up. It's entirely possible that he owes more against his house than he could get out of it. Google the term 'mortgage' to be enlightened.

Wtf are with these dbl posts?

Leveraging your personal assets for a high risk startup venture is one of the most unwise moves you can make in entrepreneurship. This isn't a movie, it's real life.

Leveraging your personal assets for a high risk startup venture is one of the most unwise moves you can make in entrepreneurship. This isn't a movie, it's real life.

Yes! Sell your children's home to fund your incredibly risky start-up venture! It's fucking brilliant!

Wise man say: 'those who register business on April fool's are sometimes fools themselves'

California state records. The house was appraised in 2007 after renovations

Old news. He paid 375k for his home in 2005. Hardly a baller, and apparently also not a shotcaller either

After that gameplay video this is officially on my radar. I combat looks just great, and I love the art style.

The EQN lore takes place before the even cultural splits I think. I'm sure a rallying call will happen when Faydwer is released that involves 'The split of the wood elves, and founding of Kelethin'. Similarly, I'm guessing the Halflings rode out the dragon war/combine exile and are just chilling...

Uhhhh, almost not at all. I mean, I'm a bit egocentric, I'll submit to that... But that's about the only thing in that post not based on assumption and minimal evidence.

From my understanding, Iksar are one of the 8 playable races. I haven't seen any indication anywhere that Halflings are playable. IIRC there have been no major Halfling characters in the books or released lore. Yes, they refer to halflings in the ebooks (ex. Dancing halfling bar girl), but only...

Well, sounds silly... But the hyperthreading thing may start becoming important once next gen consoles really take off. If he went R9 290 and went balls out on a top of the line i7 he probably wouldn't need a new CPU for like 6 years... Maybe longer. Then in 2 years sell the 290 for $150 and put...

Ya, I'd sooner go balls out on a CPU than buy a 780ti for 1080p gaming. It's just so overkill. Well... Unless you like 120hz gaming.

I imagine that there are few gamers who upgrade to a new GPU generation every time they have to dip their settings below 'Ultra'. The majority probably upgrade whenever a particularly interesting title comes out that they want to run very well/can't run at all with their current rig.

This kid has a real hard-on for me eh? It's sweet.

Potato.

I didn't see that, and I would love a link if you can find it.

Where is the evidence that the former VRI employees fulfilled or did not fulfill their contracts?

I don't believe anyone. Ever. I don't believe Brad, Salim, internet radio hosts, disgruntled MMO forum mods. Nobody. There are always shades of 'truth' in every situation. I believe paper, and I believe numbers.

What contracts weren't paid? Where is the evidence? I'd love to see it so that I can get on the same page as everyone else. Who did Brad misappropriate funds from? Is he not the owner of VRI? From my understanding, the original dev team were just employees with stock in the company. Am I...

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Why would you continue to pay a team of employees who produced mediocre results, or none at all? Would you spend $45,000 on another month of development if this were the case?

Ceder... The project was fucking over. The funding failed. Paying out 45k to developers who were under performing was not going to change anything. Pay my family's bills or be 'the good guy'? Easy decision for me.

It's a game of exploration and resource collection. There is combat both in space and on land. There is an 'antagonist' of some sort. The main 'goal' is to make it to the centre of the galaxy by one means or another, but the player doesn't have to do that if they don't want to.

Meh, I've been in management for quite a while, and I've seen numerous employees become disgruntled for one reason or another. The most common situation is when they think they deserve pay they didn't receive, but didn't actually complete a task or did it poorly.

From my understanding it has MMO elements. If Star Citizen stays in MMORPG General then so should this.

How is his severance pay at all relevant to the situation with VRI? So because Salim and the boys had 'hurt feels' it's okay to break NDA? We are a bunch of internet dudes at rerolled and even we have the decency to not break NDAs we have signed. If there is any evidence of the dev team not...

Well, at least 45k for 8 months work is a far more reasonable figure. I'd even call that pretty low. He does have a point when he talks about compensation. Yes, he was a shareholder in VRI, as were the other people in his employ (4-10% each according to him). They were tasked with projects...

They said 'Asian' and I wonder what they mean by that... I would have preferred to see Kerrans with a more Persian vibe like in EQ1. I guess Persia is in 'Asia' so maybe I'm just misinterpreting. Arches, ornate pillars, smooth dome top buildings, colourful mosaic tile work, courtyards, vast...

Looks like Kerran architecture is gonna win for the next building workshop. I got the distinct impression that the team itself doesn't have a coherent vision for what their style should even be. All they said was 'Asian and stuff'. I think they thought Dwarf was a shoe-in, and I bet they have a...

How about the radeon 270? There's no need for you to spend as much as you are on the CPU & mobo you have selected. Downgrade those before you sacrifice gpu power.

Ah I guess I underestimated the 750 ti. Surprising numbers to say the least.

I'd say that's a pretty optimistic FPS estimate for some of the games you listed. I'd be shocked if he saw higher than 25-40 FPS in BF4... and even lower in Metro. Also, radeon 265 is probably the superior card in that price bracket.

1080p on a 42' screen is probably gonna look terrible compared to your current setup. Unless you are sitting way far back the pixel density is probably gonna bother you. That's why more PC gamers don't already do what you are suggesting.

DOTA 2 is pretty current, but I understand why you'd exclude that.

I used to buy anything Squaresoft or Blizzard put out on release day without reading reviews, but not any more. Valve and Team Ico are the only ones of these left for me. I will purchase any TRIBES or EverQuest title on release day though, regardless of reviews etc. Some Nintendo franchises like...