Bryy

You guys do know you're talking about piracy on a developer's forum, right? The OP was talking about piracy over one of the PoE rewards, no less. It's a sad friggin' day when fundraising rewards start getting pirated.

https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly There's that, too.

Five dollars is an unfair pri - Five dollars.

http://contest.rpgmakerweb.com/ One month to make a game under one hour in length. $10k prize. Anyone interested? I was thinking of using RPGMaker myself; not the most creative, I know, but the proof is in the game that comes out of it.

No, they should just kindly ask people not to tell and hope they won't be totally offended by this. Worked great for Doublefine. I'm sure they'd recommend it. ... I have so many issues with how DFA was handled, but this is by far not one of them.

Yeah, Jurassic Park only became about dinosaurs in the movies. The books just used dinosaurs as a plot device.

You always have the most hilarious posts.

The idea of the raffle in itself in not unfair, but it would need to be something publicized OUTSIDE of Kickstarter. Such as, you wouldn't be able to put "$10,000 - make a weapon (limited to 50, but 3 will be done outside Kickstarter and for free)". I think your main hangup is why didn't Obsidian themselves do this. Because there were plenty of contests, raffles, and participatory events done outside of the actual Kickstarter.

I apologize for sounding so snarky, Halsy. But this area, along with your extremely harsh post, set me off.

Excerpts from an interview with Trevow: - What do you feel are the biggest misconceptions from the leaked rumors about the Jurassic World story versus the real screenplay? That’s the thing about leaks, sometimes they aren’t misinterpreted or false. They’re real story elements that the filmmakers were hoping to introduce to the audience in a darkened movie theater. But unfortunately, in 2014, you read about it on a computer. Last week was discouraging for everyone on our crew–not because we want to hide things from the fans, but because we’re working so hard to create something full of surprises. When I was a kid, you got to discover everything at once, it washed over you and blew your mind. Now it only takes one person to spoil it for everyone else. I hope whoever leaked it is actively trying to undermine what we’re doing. Because if they’re trying to help, they’re doing it wrong. - So the rumors are true? Yes. Jurassic World takes place in a fully functional park on Isla Nublar. It sees more than 20,000 visitors every day. You arrive by ferry from Costa Rica. It has elements of a biological preserve, a safari, a zoo, and a theme park. There is a luxury resort with hotels, restaurants, nightlife and a golf course. And there are dinosaurs. Real ones. You can get closer to them than you ever imagined possible. It’s the realization of John Hammond’s dream, and I think you’ll want to go there. - How long has elapsed since the third film and how has the world we knew from those films changed in that time? This film picks up twenty-two years after Jurassic Park. When Derek [Connolly] and I sat down to find the movie, we looked at the past two decades and talked about what we’ve seen. Two things came to the surface. One was that money has been the gasoline in the engine of our biggest mistakes. If there are billions to be made, no one can resist them, even if they know things could end horribly. The other was that our relationship with technology has become so woven into our daily lives, we’ve become numb to the scientific miracles around us. We take so much for granted. Those two ideas felt like they could work together. What if, despite previous disasters, they built a new biological preserve where you could see dinosaurs walk the earth…and what if people were already kind of over it? We imagined a teenager texting his girlfriend with his back to a T-Rex behind protective glass. For us, that image captured the way much of the audience feels about the movies themselves. “We’ve seen CG dinosaurs. What else you got?” Next year, you’ll see our answer. - What are the relationships between the main characters and the dinosaurs? Are there “good guy” and “bad guy” dinosaurs in the movie? There’s no such thing as good or bad dinosaurs. There are predators and prey. The T-Rex in Jurassic Park took human lives, and saved them. No one interpreted her as good or bad. This film is about our relationship with animals, how we react to the threat they pose to our dominance on earth as a species. We hunt them, we cage them in zoos, we admire them from afar and we try to assert control over them. Chris Pratt’s character is doing behavioral research on the raptors. They aren’t trained, they can’t do tricks. He’s just trying to figure out the limits of the relationship between these highly intelligent creatures and human beings. If people don’t think there’s potential in those ideas, maybe they won’t like this movie. But I ask them to give it a chance. - Will there be crossbred dinosaurs or new species created for the movie? We were hoping audiences could discover this on their own, but yes, there will be one new dinosaur created by the park’s geneticists. The gaps in her sequence were filled with DNA from other species, much like the genome in the first film was completed with frog DNA. This creation exists to fulfill a corporate mandate—they want something bigger, louder, with more teeth. And that’s what they get. I know the idea of a modified dinosaur put a lot of fans on red alert, and I understand it. But we aren’t doing anything here that Crichton didn’t suggest in his novels. This animal is not a mutant freak. It doesn’t have a snake’s head or octopus tentacles. It’s a dinosaur, created in the same way the others were, but now the genetics have gone to the next level. For me, it’s a natural evolution of the technology introduced in the first film. Maybe it sounds crazy, but most of my favorite movies sound crazy when you describe them in a single sentence. - What makes Jurassic World different than the previous three Jurassic Park films? That’s something you’ll have to tell me after you see it. We’re trying to tell a bold new story that doesn’t rely on a proven formula, because the movies we watch over and over again are the ones that surprised us, that worked when they shouldn’t have. I understand the risks of leaving the safe zone. We’ve all been disappointed by new installments of the stories we love. But with all this talk of filmmakers “ruining our childhood”, we forget that right now is someone else’s childhood. This is their time. And I have to build something that can take them to the same place those earlier films took us. It may not happen in the same way everyone expects it to, but it’s the way I believe it needs to happen. Honestly, the biggest misconception on this movie is that there’s some massive conference room at the studio where all these cynical story decisions are made. There is no committee. Universal has given us the resources to tell the story we want to tell, on the scale we want to tell it. Will this one be different from the other movies? You bet it will. And I’m not going to pass the buck if it doesn’t work. This one’s on me.

This isn't Bethesda where they are making a huge trailer for Skyrim. The OP's fears are completely unfounded.

Yeah, this is insanely cool.

But by all means, lets get pissed off at Obsidian for doing their jobs.

Sure, a few people find it weird. I myself find it strange. But it makes sense for the progression of a company, and this has not made them an outcast of the industry.

There's a reason why E4All, the public E3, was lame. E3 is like SDCC at this point for anyone in the industry: a necessary evil. But you're right, GDC is the place for anyone, especially newbies, to be. For one, there are actual panels. For two, the panels are extremely, extremely interesting. Even new indie companies can apply for a post-mordem panel and get it. For three, exhibitors get ten free passes to the show floor that are upgradable. For four, it's open to the public. Now, GDC is far more expensive than E3, with the least expensive pass being $600-$900, and the most expensive being $1900+.

From who?

The vast majority of gamers think E3 is a convention like SDCC or Emerald City. They watch IGN coverage from their computers, where so little of the show is actually shown, that they get the impression the place is far more exciting than it actually is. They watch the press conferences streaming and think that those games are actually playable on the floor. And the ones that are actually playable are completely on rails. The pressers are incredibly boring, stiff, and snooze inducing. I got in as a guest of EA/BioWare last year, and for the previous two years before that as a journalist, and the pressers are ridiculous. Even this year, E3 has set up new measures to keep those out that are not allowed in. NeoGAF got denied. My friends geek site got denied. If you don't have the number of visitors they want, you don't get in. And if you really want to get in? The tickets for the public start at $599. And honestly? People shouldn't want to go to E3. It's boring. The average gamer would balk at how much a business event it actually is. Every year, the outer lunch hall is packed with people in three piece suits and briefcases filled with graphs.

1) Obsidian is sort of a game studio. This is their job. They also have more projects than Eternity. 2) Publicity for Eternity. And closed door demos (especially of highly PR'd games like Eternity) build hype and awareness. 3) "Most of the attendees" = E3 is a TRADE SHOW. Every single attendee is in the industry. It is not San Diego Comic-Con for video games.

Now you're just being mean to them.

.... you have not proven that at all. Your opinion =/= fact.

I may be misremembering, but IIRC Kickstarter forbids contests/lotteries based on backing which makes sense as you'd have people who pledged the same tier getting different backer rewards. I'm pretty sure at least one kickstarter I had joined ran into that issue. Besides the TOS: 1) What would the incentive to pledge higher be if everything was a lottery? 2) Giving stuff away for free defeats the purpose of fundraising. 3) While Obsidian could have made lotteries, it would be akin to the Add-Ons rather than towards an actual reward tier. The best example I can think of is if Obsidian showed us concept art for 3-4 party members, and we got to pick which one ended up in the game due to voting. Votes would be gained through Add-Ons. Each new party member update would reveal the winner and start the process over again.

Just now noticed the Pillars. Woah. I was like woah, guys.

This is a bit weird since it's a Kickstarted game, but nothing out of the ordinary.

Godzilla. Very good film with some obvious flaws that kept it from the greatness it promised.

A dark Shazam story? I don't know whether to laugh or cry. The Kingdom Come version of Shazam was downright freaky.