Indeed. And that’s the hilarious part. As I mentioned in my thread this morning, CIG was using these mechanics (melting, CCU, LTI) in order to keep players engaged, spending etc. Then those same backers hit their personal spending cap; thus stemming the flow of lots of new cash. So they started nerfing everything.
Whoever asked about Starlancer a few pages back, it did come with nice manual and physical swag but I couldn’t be arsed to finish the campaign. Freelancer I played lots of though.
Yeah, I played through to the end. It was a cool game. It would have been a great start to a new series Digital Anvil could have built on.
There were mods that added online persistence functionality weren’t there?
Agreed. But that’s what most of us thought he was building back in 2012. Oh well.
ps: Whoa!! Hey Mark! Long time!
That’s the guy who “liquidated” $500 worth of ships for store credits, only to find that he couldn’t use them to buy the latest Hercules chariot.
I can’t even stop laughing while I’m typing this.
Yeah, it’s called Discovery Freelancer and it’s great. There’s also Freeworlds, which is very Star Warsy.
For those of you who don’t Twitter. Thread.
Before anyone else gets clickbaited in, there’s no actual new news posted in the thread, that I can tell. Oh well.
Tease. We’ve standing by for months now, there’s no point in celebrating before the fan gets hit (or whatever metaphor is appropriate for things that have to be kept (temporarily) secret for legal reasons). It’s like stupid watergate, the only thing that will move you is something actually, finally happening, because nothing surprises you anymore.
YOU SECURE THAT SHIT, DEREK
Deeerrrek, there doesn’t seem to be a there there in that thread there. Is there a there, there?
I tend to forget that not everyone is on my Discord channel. Sorry. :(
Those of you here who are, should know by now that I give lots of notice when something big is about to happen. I just posted this there. It’s in response to a post similar to yours:
"I do that specifically to increase Shitizens anxiety levels. pretty much what Avenatti is doing to Trump and his posse
anyway, still working on the blog; while waiting to hear back from my attorney about what I can|cannot reveal (it’s explosive)
Legally, and according to my attorneys and EFF, I am a blogger (as well as a game dev) writing about things of the public (a crowd-funded game) interest. So suing me for leaking stuff, is a non-starter. Plus, CIG know they can’t intimidate me anyway. But I still have to check with legal, regardless.
the Crytek lawsuit one was no comparison to the 2015 “90 days funding” fiasco though; and I was basically covered when other employees confirmed it to media.
this one is way - way - worse than either of those. plus the Crytek one (and another govt issue that’s brewing) are not about CIG coming after me for leaking. they’re about parties telling me specifically not to leak anything that’s not already public. I tend to honor those requests or people won’t tell me jack shit."
I absolutely agree. Also, CIG have screwed up badly so many times, that even though the Crytek lawsuit was a shocker, most debacles are now considered the norm, and just another day at the farm.
So, there’s still no there there?
I didn’t say that. Please read my previous post above.
I did. As far as I can see, there’s nothing you can or have told us yet, just that you may, subject to legal, have something to tell us.
