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Only took one post to back off from the absurd notion that "The only role of a tester is to emulate the customer". I don't know what to say to that other than you probably don't even believe that statement or think of testing in such meaningless terms that any use of the product is emulating the...

I agree with Skanda on #1. Regarding motion sickness, it's not a binary thing like driving, boating or even roller coasters where someone 'gets sick when I sit in a car and read', it's a continuous spectrum of sickness that depends on what you're doing in the game and whether everything is...

Agree 100%. I think the hard part of high damage ballistics is making a hard game without players getting instantly gibbed.

Re: Vats, one thing that Project NEVADA did was make it so you could engage bullet time at the cost of whatever the VATS resource was. You could also sprint using that resource. So it was essentially a mana bar. The bullet time worked like in Max Payne, and gave you the advantages of VATS...

Yep. A big dreamer gets 100 million dollars and no bean counters are above him to whip his ass. The other, more insidious part to that is that unless this thing gets widespread adoption far beyond the 1 million backers it has now, it's possible they are making more money than they will...

fucking swiss, too neutral to even link an article

Because its awesome. When i get into a show that has already concluded i stay the hell away from threads on it. In this case the show is stronk enough that it warrants a thread for that large group of people.

CiG will enter a lawsuit against the Escapist, buy/sell? I'd say sell. Their lawyers will probably tell them any resolution will happen long after the game is supposed to be released. The only upside would be the immediate PR boost of, "CiG is so confident in SC that they're opening their...

Even if SC is amazing there is going to be a ton of salt over the amount of money spent on unused ships.

Thank you for the information. Of those examples you listed, were they unknown journalists with no reputation who built their reputation by publishing anonymous sources in the same shady way the Escapist did? And even if they did, how much other bullshit was published the same way that was...

Didn't we all agree there'd be three threads? 1. Spoilers galore. 2. Published content only. 3. HBO content only. Oh wait that's what I and nobody else wants =(

Yeah. The response of, "Would you want your grandma looking through your bank records? No? Then our donators shouldn't be able to see how much money we have." is pretty inappropriate.

We shall decide what to do with the winner of this competition when it happens. I think all ideas are on the table including permanent banning.

I wouldn't hope for much more than being able to see a bunch of cool, undiscovered worlds that no one has seen and if you cut through far enough it's very possibly no one will ever see again.

It's a lose/lose for them. If they disclose that they are running out of funds people will think the payoff of a real game release is in jeopardy and be hesitant to dump money in it. If they disclose that they are sitting on mountains of cash people won't have the extra motivation of helping the...

I wonder why they didn't announce a release data on Colbert. It's not like they'll get a bigger platform to announce it?

I nominate Eomer for not posting enough this year.

Look, don't engage in this kind of logical argument unless you want to risk Hodj coming in here and shitting in this thread with overly verbose descriptions of whynegative proofsare annoying. Here's what we know about IDCardGate: 1. The author of the article identified an image of these...

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I think it's an idea they had that appeals to people's hopes for a space exploration meta verse (Like Quaid's favorite game, Star Citizen). But the developers never set out to do that, they just wanted a procedurally generated universe.

Yes, the one source that they've leaked out enough information to be proven wrong on is bad. That makes them 0/1 and they have the ability to confirm at least two of the other ones. At this point I think you want to believe the Escapist as much as whales want to believe Chris Roberts. I know...

From that link: The card in question, identified by the author: I'm just disappointed I'm on a machine that doesn't have mspaint, but just imagine me writing derek smart on that card then poorly blacking it out.

The author confirmed via twitter it was those generic HID cards:Liz O Which means the only confirmation on their anonymous sources the Escapist has provided has turned out to be false or misunderstood by the Escapist. This should give you pause to take the Escapist at their word for whatever...

Ok video interview and presentation. One thing that caught my attention, I'm surprised they invented their own periodical table. I'm sure they had good reasons for doing this, but initially I feel the same disappointment I felt when I started hearing about details about Spore. Not using our...

A source is anonymous if their identity isn't published. Source (journalism) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia When a publication uses an anonymous source they are saying, "This person who has real credibility says this. You will have to trust us that A: That person has credibility. B: That...

All these shenanigans really circle around the real point here: Anonymous sources shouldn't be the core of your journalistic entry.

I don't really give a shit either way I'm just here mostly for the lulz, but according to: Liz O @lizzyf620 If it's one of those, they're not ID (ie. not personalized). They have some numbers on them, and unlock doors, in my experience. @I_Am_A_Number gotcha. Was told that the identifying...

Oh and their lawyer made a public lawyer-demand: Chairman's Response to The Escapist - Roberts Space Industries The funniest bit was that the Escapist verified sources by looking at their sources' ID cards, but CiG claims they don't have company ID cards.

I tried looking for a first post in this thread to tell me when I backed this game but couldn't. One of my first points was comparing SC to Amalur, so if you guys are going to look for someone to take the heat for the lazy comparison it's me. This is in 2013:

I think you're reading into an argument that me or Erronius aren't making. Neither of us are saying that SC will follow the same path as Amalur because of the similarities. Just that the similarities exist. There are massive differences between the two games and franchises that are almost all in...

What other cases in gaming history have there been where a new IP has a massive MMO development underway made by a high profile person making 'the game he always wanted to make', but that MMO was preceded by a more constrained singleplayer game in the same IP? I really can't think of one...

Would be extra shock if they finished the scene, zoomed in on Howland Reed and then faded to this guy looking as if he was reminiscing.

Chris Robert's TLDR response, big waste of time, IMO: Chairman's Response to The Escapist - Roberts Space Industries (When I read that link earlier he hadn't responded, so I figured I'd repost it)

Thanks for the correction.

Bro I already made that joke you can't take it.

The 12 dollar retail margin seems extreme and the lack of a publisher assumes cig isnt taking a healthy cut to continue development of the game. I also dont know what sales promotion is and how it is different than the sales promotion they have done for their ships. But the big problem i have...

I think this is pretty specious. Facebook's motivations are unclear but it's likely they want to branch out from social media technology and want to keep relevant in the upcoming meta-verse social media. Short term gaps from their 2billion investment not being recouped in the initial VR release...

I think the $350 was an honest figure produced based on the thought of, "If we can rip apart consumer electronics and shove them together to make a best-in-class VR system for $350, surely scaling up to 1million+ units will allow us to do the same with a much improved system." However as we...

NASA's interns just finished photoshopping a bunch of fake moon pics that I haven't seen before: Project Apollo Archive | Flickr - Photo Sharing! some cherry picked ones stolen from reddit: Some of the Apollo Missions High Resolution Film Scans - Album on Imgur