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On 4/28/2019 at 12:02 AM, LittleAmadillo0 said:

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It looks nice. Similar vibe to Psychonauts.

Shame if it is a Playstation Exclusive. We should boycott it and demand that it also is released on Steam, because all games should be released on Steam and there should be no other stores or platforms, and everything that isn't on Steam is a restriction of my consumer freedom.

 

Sorry went off on a tangent there :)

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Doesn't matter if it does, The current gaming rage against exclusivity is only targeted against games that aren't released right away on Steam. If it is exclusive to Steam then there is no issue. So following the current trend: a console game: problematic. A PC game: fine, as long as it releases on Steam (doesn't matter if it is exclusive to that store).

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👍 Think bigger!! All digital media...games, music, books, etc. should be exclusive to Steam!!!

PS sales would probably shoot through the roof is they were also offered on Steam. But Sony is large enough to support their own "store front" so why bother giving away a piece of the pie.

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1 hour ago, melkathi said:

Doesn't matter if it does, The current gaming rage against exclusivity is only targeted against games that aren't released right away on Steam. If it is exclusive to Steam then there is no issue. So following the current trend: a console game: problematic. A PC game: fine, as long as it releases on Steam (doesn't matter if it is exclusive to that store).

You sound like a shill for Epic.  No doubt a Chinese intelligence agent, to boot.

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2019/05/01/exclusive-the-saga-of-star-citizen-a-video-game-that-raised-300-millionbut-may-never-be-ready-to-play/amp/

Possibly  a hit piece, but it has value in that it'll at least wind up Roberts' bonkers fanbase some.

More random, but funny.

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On a summer Saturday in 2007, a trespasser slipped by a security gate and entered Chris Roberts’ L.A. home. Inside, Madison Peterson, Roberts’ former common-law wife, with whom he had a long on-and-off relationship, was startled and feared her young daughter could be harmed or kidnapped. Peterson later identified the trespasser as Sandi Gardiner, who is now Roberts’ wife (for the second time) and a cofounder of Cloud Imperium. Roberts reported the incident to police, and a California judge issued a temporary restraining order that required Gardiner to stay 100 yards away from Peterson, who claimed in her temporary restraining order application that Gardiner had been stalking and threatening both her and her daughter for nearly three years.

“Ms. Gardiner has an unnatural and irrational fascination with my daughter and me,” Peterson wrote. “I constantly and continually look to make sure my daughter and I are not watched.”  


In a court-filed declaration he signed at the time, Roberts said Gardiner had also visited Peterson’s San Diego home and once became violent and tried to strangle him. “I believed that if she had a gun she would have killed me,” Roberts said in the declaration. “I believe that Ms. Gardiner is not emotionally stable.” After three months, the restraining order was dissolved. Today, Roberts says he cannot recall signing the declaration and that what is ascribed to him in the court filings was prepared by Peterson and false. Despite the documentation, Gardiner flatly denies the incidents took place.

 

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What the hell.

/Edit: They just released ArcCorp, by the way. A full planet covered in city. It looks pretty cool.

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On 5/1/2019 at 11:04 AM, Katphood said:

Gameplay looks fun but the jokes are not funny...at all. 

I think I half-chuckled at him trying to "sneak" but that's about it. Claptrap in particular has always been one of those good in tiny doses or silent-movie sequences things. The more you let him ramble on and on the less amusing he (often) becomes.

I like the idea of switching ammo/effect types on a gun, along with a couple other minor changes. So far looks pretty much like "more Borderlands", which imo is good. I'd like more  footage of the chrs. skills in use. Amara and Zane's listed trees don't excite me in text.

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I thought the writing was superb in Borderlands 2. So many fun moments and so many colorful characters. Same goes for Tales from the Borderlands. I just hope Gearbox doesn't solely focus on the gameplay department, I want the gameworld to be fun to explore.

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On 5/1/2019 at 6:40 PM, Malcador said:

Possibly  a hit piece, but it has value in that it'll at least wind up Roberts' bonkers fanbase some.

“Star Citizen is a playable game,” Roberts insists. “It has more functionality and content than a lot of finished games.”

I mean, he's not even wrong. I also enjoyed the "ignorance of crowds" pics interspersed.

I predict a 2025 launch after Roberts has sold a technically-not-bankrupt CIG to Activision and they re-start the project barely using any assets at all. It'll then be forever immortalized as a "killed in the crib" myth with gamers everywhere wistfully musing about "what it could have been".

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Well, the SC people are upset by it.  Great thing about this post I saw on Reddit is that it's hard to tell if they're serious or not.

This article was pure tabloid trash and I’d not be surprised if it was funded directly by EA or some other soulless, greedy game publisher. They have always been terrified of what this game represents, of what it could one day prove.

They could not buy Chris off.

He refused to sell out his vision and be beholden to ridiculous “deadlines” because deadlines kill games. So they rejected him. Yet thanks to a ragtag crazy gang of space gamers, Chris achieved complete financial and creative independence, with no deadlines, no compromises, no constraints.

And when publishers saw that, they trembled. ”What if...?”, they started to ask, hardly daring to finish the thought aloud. Because they knew the answer to that unspeakable question, and it would be their very undoing.

So now they rage, they conspire, they infiltrate, they collaborate with the enemies of this project. We have seen this ourselves for years. They enjoin assets in big media to publish meritless hit pieces, all meant to sow discord and doubt, meant to undermine confidence in the one game, the true game, the pure game that terrifies them more than anything else in the marketplace. The game that can unmake them.

But it will not work. It has never worked. It didn’t work when Kotaku UK did it, or Wired, or even the old Grey Lady herself, The New York Times. And it will not work now, with this cheap shot hit piece written by nobodies for the toilet read of Boomer stockbrokers and sellouts.

The game will come out when the game comes out, and the longer it takes, the better it will be. Its “Tier Zero” is better than EA titles in the Gold Release stage. It already has more content than most AAA games and it is only just begun, it is still early days, we are just getting started. Chris has barely begun to fight, yet he’s already won, for in the beginning of this game we see the end of EA’s. And both are glorious!

 

 

 

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The article is pretty dismissive of crowdfunding as a whole, which seems silly. Everyone should understand that crowdfunding is a decent risk. If it wasn't a risk, bigger fish would be throwing money at these projects instead of all these small fish. I've actually been surprised at how many of these crowdfunding projects have paid off. 

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53 minutes ago, Lexx said:

Eh, should be easy to verify the facts in the article?


I mean, if there was a police report filed and a judge issued a restraining order, then yeah it should be pretty easy to verify.

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1 hour ago, Lexx said:

Made something in 7 days a couple weeks ago and was finally able to release it.

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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1731998436

Little did we know what secret project was....the Kwisatz Haderach

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