That’s really the best thing to come out of this: all the space games others have been inspired to make. We’re really in a second golden age of space gaming.
That said, some part of me believed they actually wanted to finish this, but by adding this useless face thing, that part died. It’s just angering and makes me so sad. I wanna see the best in all of this stuff, and I feel like that’s been abused. It’s not rational but it is, and I have to deal with the resulting emotions of anger, loss and frustration.
Once this folds, I hope someone starts selling custom t-shirts.
“I spent 265$ on Star Citizen, then I had to pay another 30$ for this t-shirt.”.
Edit:
Feels like they want to ship version 6.0 of the game before they’ve even released version 1.0
I remember when I first read about simulating the gravity stuff in the ship and commented that the “realism” thing is really silly, that was when I first started tracking this thread.
This dynamic avatar is way over the top. I mean if they wanted “realism”, a camera would suffice with a small in-game insert would suffice. This is beyond ridiculous.
rei
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FOIP means something different in government. A FOIP would unearth their mismanagement.
Kadath
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Did they announce the price for the webcam?
Steve_G
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Everquest 2 added something like FOIP years ago:
It was janky and added nothing to the game.
Just like this new thing.
rei
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Good thing there’s no game even.
Remeber that Gamestar interview a few months back?
The plan is, to have 90% of the population to be NPCs.
What is the damn point of FOIP if only 10% of the population players run into will make use of it anyway? And even that is assuming that 100% of player characters make use of it. It’s a ridiculous thing to be working on when they don’t even have any game loops in the game yet.
No it’s extremely smart. It’s the old bait and switch that has been going on since the beginning of time - the bait is the facial animation tech, the switch is THE ENTIRE GAME. Welcome to Crobert’s Magic show, the greatest show on earth!
I said before they were skillful propagandists and felt myself that statement might be a bit harsh. But what I saw today only underlines it. Show off shiny new features that distract from the fact that the world itself is a beautiful but hollow facade.
What amazes me is how many people continue to uncomplainingly swallow this manipulation and will no doubt shell out for ships and the glorified webcam. The only mechanism I can come up with is that people want to have bought into a dream - the reality will always be worse than the dream and people know that on some level. So they go along with the horizon being pushed out endlessly as long as the dream continues to grow beyond all reality. In South Africa - where I come from - the local lottery used to have the tag line “buy a lotto ticket - it’s your license to dream.” Buying ships in Star Citizen has become the analogue of that - your license to dream. However, I am beginning to think that I would have more chance of winning the lottery than RSI delivering a game that checks all the boxes CR is content to invent on the spot. The fallout - in the end - is going to be nuclear.
Whenever someone tells me that regulation of the market is unnecessary as informed consumers will easily discern the good from the bad, I’m going to point them at this thread.
I actually don’t know if this will ever turn out to be in breach of UK law. There are certain Trading Standards and consumer protection laws that they are surely close to falling foul of. But I’ve no idea if it will amount to anything.
Agreed. Unfettered market forces in and of themselves are insufficient to achieve the greatest good. They simply achieve the greatest profit - which is the greatest good to a few, but oftentimes to the great cost of many. And Star Citizen certainly appears to be an exemplar of this in the gaming industry.
So they are claiming something is novel and never done before even though FaceRig did it two years ago?
Not to mention the stream for it is massively full of uncanny valley.
dsmart
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The current JPEG sale, 200hrs out
Star Citizen is giving the free market a bad name? Now I’m mad.
Naw. The free market always had a bad name.
kedaha
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Is that not missing the Gamescom 2017 data?
We’re only 24 hours or so out and it’s hard to spot:
