[QUOTE=Lebofly;53033559]Holy shit how much money do they actually need[/QUOTE]
Cults tend to need a lot of money so their leaders can throw yacht parties.
At least "Scam Cultizen" will be released At some point unlike Half Life 3.
1. They have over 400 employees across four major studios and a satellite studio now. That isn't free.
2. When the game launches, it will be pay once play forever, so if they can bank up a bunch of dosh to pay the way for years of server bills and maintenance ahead of time, all the better and they won't have to push post-pledge income as aggressively.
3. CIG needs to maintain healthy credit scores for their leases and so on; this requires bringing in regular income, because in the conventional business perspective, a company that isn't making any money is dying.
Whether you think they can actually succeed at their hyperambitious goals or not, Star Citizen is trying to be a crazy ambitious game and has relied entirely on crowdfunding. It makes sense that they're going to try and continue to raise as much as they made last year and extend the runway by at least another year.
[QUOTE=ColossalSoft;53033580]Cults tend to need a lot of money so their leaders can throw yacht parties.[/QUOTE]
If SC is a scam it's the worst scam ever, because apparently nobody told Chris Roberts that you're supposed to take the money and run, not hire hundreds of talented developers and artists in five studios around the world and put out buggy but credible playable prototypes and alpha builds delivering on tech demos shown a year or more earlier. Nobody told the daft bastard that he's supposed to grab the cash and flee to Barbados, and he's gone and had an army of ex-Crytek devs in Frankfurt rewrite a big chunk of CryEngine into allowing maps 8 billion km a side with mm precision, rotating local physics grids (frames of reference), and ridiculously complex large capital ships that don't make every consumer GPU on the market catch fire. :thinking:
Considering MMOs typically cost well in the 10s of millions of dollars this isn't as much of a controversy as everyone wants it to be. On top of the salaries, this is an MMO being built to the graphical and functional standard of a modern single player game, it's going to take a lot of time and a good deal of money to get done, if it manages to get done at all.
Remember, Curt Schilling managed to sink two studios despite spending 50 million on his Amalur MMO, all of which was composed of his baseball career life savings. Video game development is bloody expensive, people should learn to accept that.
[QUOTE=Lucien1337;53034169]Considering MMOs typically cost well in the 10s of millions of dollars this isn't as much of a controversy as everyone wants it to be. On top of the salaries, this is an MMO being built to the graphical and functional standard of a modern single player game, it's going to take a lot of time and a good deal of money to get done, if it manages to get done at all.
Remember, Curt Schilling managed to sink two studios despite spending 50 million on his Amalur MMO, all of which was composed of his baseball career life savings. Video game development is bloody expensive, people should learn to accept that.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I can only imagine how of that crowdfunded money was spent on Mark Hamill alone.
People always thinking their witty calling it "Scam Citizen" despite new builds that bring it closer to its vision every year. I think its whether they run out of money first or how long it will take to release, but a scam it is not.
The other day I was trying out the new build. I was fishing for a blackbox out of the wreckage of a ship for a mission in the dark. Then on my way back to my vessel, I saw the sun come over the horizon of the planet I was on and it was one of the coolest moments I've had in a game in a long time that wasn't scripted. Suddenly all of the doubt faded, everything made sense and I felt at ease.
And then my game crashed.
Reminds me of when I first spawned a Caterpillar in the recent PTU build, I walked out up the stairs to the launchpad to where the ship was waiting and it was eclipsed against the sun behind it with the godrays around the nacelles. Looked awesome, felt awesome, then my game crashed.
My experience with the game so far has been hilarious bugs interspersed with cool shit happening that you'd swear was scripted.
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