Star Citizen Online - The search for more money
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Valderen
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WTF, they are opening a 5th Studio that they plan to grow to 100 people in next 3 years.
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Lithose
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Have actually been looking into this again, completely blocked it out in 2015 (fucking lol). The game looks impressive as fuck. Its exactly the kind of game that you'd get if if you got a bunch of super nerds who wanted to make the ultimate MMO-SpaceSim-Survival game together. Literally every small, crazy detail these guys are going after--from needing to eat, locality playing a huge role. Its a god damn shame that it will never come together. Their goals are all over, they should be trimming features by this point and it just keeps expanding (Even just watching videos on the features being worked on, hah--systems within systems).
What IS fascinating though is this is a literal test of what a gaming company would be like if they actually had unlimited time and money, and didn't have a publisher breathing down their neck giving them deadlines. And it turns out? The publishers are kind of right--without their evil whip cracking on a developers back, these guys will revert to artist mode and endlessly imagining something even better lol.
Maybe though, if there is enough endless money this will launch in 2030 with Musk's brain interface and be the first Matrix-MMO.
What IS fascinating though is this is a literal test of what a gaming company would be like if they actually had unlimited time and money, and didn't have a publisher breathing down their neck giving them deadlines. And it turns out? The publishers are kind of right--without their evil whip cracking on a developers back, these guys will revert to artist mode and endlessly imagining something even better lol.
Maybe though, if there is enough endless money this will launch in 2030 with Musk's brain interface and be the first Matrix-MMO.
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Cinge
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I have to think at this point its just the same group of people buying every new package/ship etc. The intial funding was a ton of people, but that ship has to have sailed and now its the circle jerk group that just gives them money every month.
Tuco
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I think it's all bullshit, it's privately funded and the current crowd source numbers are pretend to keep the farce afloat. I just don't buy that there are that many whales who haven't moved on and new players who are buying in.
Quaid
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$15mil is only 375k people spending $40/month
Given the population number of decently employed 25-45 year old sci-fi soy boys out there, I do not find these figures unbelievable at all.
The fact that Star Trek Discovery is still on the air after 3 seasons proves my theory.
Given the population number of decently employed 25-45 year old sci-fi soy boys out there, I do not find these figures unbelievable at all.
The fact that Star Trek Discovery is still on the air after 3 seasons proves my theory.
Tuco
I got Tuco'd!
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I find those numbers totally unbelievable. I think it's a very small population.
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Ambiturner
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Yeah if it were a brand new kickstarter that'd be believable, but 375k people donating $40 every month in perpetuity?
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Tmac
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Yeah, it's wild the amount of money they're making by releasing a gam...I mean a bunch of ships!
Furry
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I got a friend in a 3rd world shithole that is really looking forward to this because it's his favorite type of game. Makes about 300 a month, and gives about 30 of it to the roberts scam. I've tried to talk him out of it for years. The world is a big place, and hope is pretty much a religion now adays.
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Lithose
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Actually for me, its completely believable they are still raking in cash. Just researching the game and seeing how pretty it is and how amazing the systems sound, made me want to buy a ship just to be ready for the off chance it gets completed. And that's with me being an extreme jaded MMO vet who has seen enough pretty vapor ware to know this shit is probably going to go no where.
People who haven't been fucked by MMOs their whole life are going to get absolute fleeced just by how amazing the youtube content on this game is. (Seriously, I spent a couple hours listening to some E-architect doing fucking virtual ship reviews--and was entertained. This shit is like crack. Its promising literally everything I want in an MMO--if there was even a 10% chance I felt like this would get off the ground, I'd have bought in. Fortunately years of disappointment have left me a husk of negativity and largely immune to the hope of its potential
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Mahes
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That was something I never quite understood.
In WoW a player could have hundreds of mounts. As a player, you can only use one mount at a time. WoW never created housing, so you could not show off mounts in that kind of arena. Another player would never see all of your mounts, no matter how many you had, unless you chose to ride the achievement mount. Every expansion or patch introduced new mounts that did the same thing that the old mounts did. Only very select mounts were even tradeable/saleable. Only a few mounts actually came with more benefits than just increased run speed.
So why buy mounts from the store? I could understand it if they added features or if they actually added a buff to the character. All they did was look different. Its like entering a new zone. It can look awesome but after a week of seeing the zone, it is just terrain. When a person buys a car, they actually get value out of it even if they have another one. WoW mounts were not tradeable once used, so they had no value. It always amazed me how much money Blizzard made on mounts but could not be bothered to put in a Housing system where they could have printed money( 1 Billion a year would not have been an exaggeration at thier peek population) selling Housing cosmetics.
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