Yes, yes it is. All of it. They’re not even hiding the bs anymore. It’s one massive cash grab now.
Geezus. Fucking. Christ.
Now I kinda want it all to burn.
This is insane.
Yesssssss…what I’ve always wanted!
Oh wait…
Wrong game.
It’s like that old EA ad - ‘can a computer make you cry?’
Except in this case it’s ‘can a game make you despair for humanity?’
Well… there are no decent mech games out… wait. Nevermind. :)
in a bubble all of the things they ‘offer’ would have me excited. Have they even delivered 1% of the content/ships/modes promised? ships, tanks, fishtanks, mechs, bars, so much stuff
Mech bars with cool fish tanks?
How about a mech that can carry your hangar fish tank in the center torso?
Too much sloshing when the CT gets hit … anyways, who would miss the opportunity to also buy a pet mech, with a motion compensated fish tank in the head, so the fish can drive the mech.
Can someone explain why the eurogamer / polygon / pc gamers / kotaku’s of the world are not writing about this sham every day?
What am I missing?
If it does, somehow, miraculously, gets released, they still want access to it, so they can’t flat out shit all over it. Plus, if they did, that would also have idiot gamergators (and fans of the game) crying out “agenda” and “actually…” As the day is long.
This is pretty much why I’ve stopped talking about it altogether on my blog, and only barely in the podcast. It’s just not worth the fallout.
The Escapist wrote an article a year or two ago. If I remember correctly, they retracted it under threat of lawsuit. Probably spooked everyone else plus, as @BrianRubin says, they hope to keep access if it does work out. It’s not like gameing has a particularly independent media willing to write exposés on most other disastrous projects.
Edit: And, to be fair, most of the stories that could be written need inside information. If no-one is willing to be a whistleblower, there isn’t much verified to write about.
I am not sure that is accurate. I don’t think it was retracted, but it really was not followed up on either. @dsmart I am sure knows the scoop there
Don’t expect the gaming press to take this on at this point. As everyone pretty much knows, the gaming press is much like the automotive press; it relies on the manufacturers for all of its access and in effect all of its content. While you can trust, generally, reviews of games (publishers understand, usually, the difference between pre and post-release coverage), everything else should be consumed while always remembering the symbiosis between the media outlets and the people making and selling the games. Nothing wrong with that, at all (I was a journalist for years) but you can’t expect Woodward and Bernstein type investigative journalism, either.
No, your best hope is that the WaPo or NYT gets a hold of this in some way, or maybe Wired.
WaPo or NYT readers aren’t going to care, or are suspicious of the industry as a whole due to all the violence in games. This isn’t like VW faking its diesel emissions tests. It’s more like how most people won’t care if a porn star experiences sexual harassment.
Yeah, so some gamers got took, they’ll think. Dumb gamers who live in their parents basement. Who cares!
My guess is the Crytek lawsuit is their perfect out. So sorry, but the meanies at Crytek put us out of business and kept us from delivering this ultimate game.
Nah, I can see the mainstream press jumping in here, but right now there’s still not quite enough here yet.
But given how much money is involved here, if it does come crashing down the press is going to be all over it. They just need an easier story to tell than the current lay of the land right now.
OTOH, someone has yet to make a porno with a $170m budget. I think this would attract a lot of mainstream attention. (Compared to Star Citizen.)
The New Yorker did a big piece on No Man’s Sky (didn’t read it; I confess I am allergic to mainstream coverage of games because of so many obvious things they are totally unaware of). If that was worth an in-depth feature, no reason the Star Citizen debacle wouldn’t be.
When I was a member of the ‘gaming press’ (and no, I won’t pretend that what I did was journalism), I wrote a pretty long piece on Star Citizen. It was considerably soft-peddled compared to what Derek writes, but it expressed quite a bit of skepticism too. I think gaming press coverage of Star Citizen falls somewhere between Woodward & Bernstein and ‘OMG teh awesome hypezors.’ I mean, I don’t think anyone can write the latter with a straight face at this point.