Star Citizen - Chris Roberts, lots of spaceship porn, lots of promises

For FIFA, not remotely. It’s absolutely tied to gameplay in FUT.

Wow! Is it full on PtW more money means a better squad?

Yep, entirely. You get players through what are essentially baseball card style packs. You can earn packs at a reasonable pace by just playing such that I never felt I needed to buy packs to have fun playing the AI and slowly building a fun team that I liked. But if you want to play competitively online or really want Messi then you absolutely have to pay if you want a strong team. (Or play a different game mode)

The odds of getting the real elite players is very very low, and then they also release upgraded super players during limited windows (Players of the Week, Players of the Year, etc) so if you want those players people are pushed to buy a bunch of packs in those windows.

Oh brave new world, that has such microtransactions in it. cries

And I know FUT is massively profitable. It’s just so depressing how that will influence game development.

That’s equivalent to the GDP of Greece, which is absurd.

The EU is not that genocidal, you’re missing 3 orders of magnitude.

The Judge said that she didn’t need oral arguments to rule on the last part of the MotD but hasn’t ruled on it yet. This apparently is fairly typical and doesn’t tip which way she will rule.

Most of the lawsuit will go forward regardless and unless there is a settlement discovery will occur. Crytek has put in their requests for discovery and CiG has cried about how they think it is all unfair. The Judge hasn’t ruled on what exactly will be included here.

So long story short is the lawsuit moves forward at typical lawsuit pace.

My latest article covering CitizenCon 2018, the next chapter in the hilarity, as well as the lawsuit, is live.

Would be interesting to have the internal numbers on the funding to see the breadth of the doners. Is it mostly a small number of “whales” or are they still adding new people? Regardless how this endeavor ends. Be it with an actual good game or a 38 Studios style crash and burn, this will go down as one of the more fascinating game projects ever.

That’s a good question, but I can’t imagine they’re conning any new people. Isn’t the narrative everywhere that this whole thing is a sham? Or am I just overestimating the good sense of people desperate to live in a fake space universe?

-Tom

“Roberts Space Industries (the parent company) reported $379,254 taken in on Oct. 10, plus another $600,000 over the next three days combined.”

Oh, those numbers are coming from RSI. hhhmmmmmmm

Where else could they come from? It’s a private company.

I have seen the Star Citizen icon in about one tenth of my students harddrives. The chart I linked to shows an increase in the player base that does not seem to fully track funding.

My current guess is that funding outside of sales is mostly new players and funding during sales is mostly whales.

So, yeah, mostly whales (sales are the main source of income) but the input and income generated by new players is not insignificant.

I’m at a loss to explain, but things like PUBG have been janky and buggy as hell but still wildly popular. Young players are really compelled by sandbox play boxes even if the gameplay structure is mostly absent, it seems. Also, PC whales are big whales.

Speaking of which, CIG’s accounts are still overdue.

Yes, aside from the fact that we know for a fact that the funding chart as well as the “citizen” count are bogus (designed to show interest in the project), our metrics show that it’s basically handful of whales still funding this train wreck. I have an entire forum dedicated to this. Below are numbers run during CitizenCon 2018.

https://imgur.com/iUtADE0.jpg

https://imgur.com/sHUwPAD.jpg

Considering my coverage of the 2017 numbers for F42-UK, which showed that the studio was insolvent, that they recently filed accounts for RSI but not CIG (the parent that owns all the other companies in the group) is expected. I didn’t think they would file before CitizenCon or even the anniversary or holiday sales because I expect there to be some more eye-openers in the CIG filing.

For those of you who like numbers, I have updated my latest article with a new section covering the 2017 financials of RSI.

Your obsession against SC is to me actually more baffling than people who are obsessed with SC. I can at least understand those to a certain degree but building a whole community around the idea to see another game and it’s community crash and burn is somewhere between destructive and sadistic.
Besides that I can’t be the only one to see the irony around the fact that you are exploiting the whole “SC outrage” angle for your personal gains.

LOL!! OK.

Well, we’re now in criminal behavior territory as they haven’t filed accounts for CIG (the parent company that owns/runs/funds RSI and F42)

It’s a criminal offence not to file your statement within 14 days of the end of the review period. If you don’t file, your company and its officers may be prosecuted. Your company may also be struck off the register.

Huh. I’m used to this being a non-prosecuted crime — back in the day football clubs were notorious for never filing accounts on time, and usually nothing came of of it. But it seems like they’ve started taking it more seriously in the last few years.