And why should your songs be unfit for my halls??
The cherry tomatoes in that scene never stood a chance
Yeah, that’s a rant
And in case you missed his 2015 one, it’s epic
ROTFLMAO!! I can’t stop laughing. Watch this. No, seriously, watch this.
I notice he talks at length about the toxicity in the community but fails to mention that the root cause would be cured if only Roberts were to release a damn playable game in a reasonable timeframe!
Well, Fanbois are toxic regardless of release or not. But I’m guessing there is a lot of venom still remaining in some of the backers who never fell into the ‘fan’ crowd. Personally, I’m just resigned with the whole idea now.
Bug with a working title - if it matches everyones hopes and dreams - most people will be too busy playing and enjoying the game to worry about an angry post or two on public service internet (reddit).
Latest in the Crytek v CIG/RSI fireworks
I think you meant “when one side reneges after hitting it big” but I like this formulation better.
LOL! :)
I still get newsletter from RSI and I gotta admit their screenshots and having “top players” in the Leadership Board does give an impression of a working game. It’s kinda scary how attractive these newsletter can be to lure players into believing otherwise. Is there no law to this type of scams/attempts to cheat?
In the US, generally, no, as there is enormous leeway in how marketing and advertising claims are handled. Unless you are outright lying by making direct, refutable material statements “Listerine cures cancer,” for instance, which was an actual claim long ago IIRC), you can insinuate, imply, give the impression of, etc. to your heart’s content. It’s possible that a strong legal challenge might at some point establish a pattern of intent to deceive, but that’s a very high bar to cross. I mean, look at the bajillions of ads on TV and the Internet that clearly are promising far, far more than any reasonable viewer would believe. The key thing is that the law here does not protect the imbecile from the slimy.
Cures/treats common colds. Ordered to remove in that claim in 1977. Although it may have been cancer and lord knows what in the 19th century, too.
Yep!
It strikes me as fascinating that two TV sitcoms that pulled very young audiences in the 1970s – Happy Days and The Brady Bunch – felt the need to do “Let the buyer beware” episodes about lemon cars, mostly because of the way US law protects sellers against legal/civil action for basically lying.
This is a point that most of us keep bringing up from time to time. The whole project is about perception and flair. So it makes sense that they spend time on that with the newsletters (I still get those on my alt account), as well as the JPEG concept ship sales.
The metrics for those “playing” the game are so bad, that we won’t even track them anymore. And I have an entire forum section dedicated to that. Just take a look at the most recent metrics which we ran. It’s abysmal.
The devs made some startling comments ahead of the latest dev schedule. My latest article covers that and the recent lawsuit filing.
Yeah ,you’re right. Dunno where I got the cancer thing in my head. They also claimed it cured chronic dandruff and stuff like that.
In case you didn’t want to watch an hour of rubbish, someone wrote up a breakdown of the video (below) that’s the topic of the latest furor, and a subject in my latest article (previous post above). The fun starts around 10:15 mark.
“This means that currently, every single frame, every single flag and counter and variable and absolutely any field whatsoever having to do with players is sent over the wire.”
In other words, they still don’t have a network model and only a vague notion of what they need, which also keeps increasing and adding to the technical debt.
“they want to develop a motorcycle, so they start out with a car, then they try hacking apart the frame, engine, and suspension while it’s running into something vaguely motorcycle-shaped.”
Surprisingly, it sounds about right, assuming you’re correct; I don’t care enough to watch the video.
I’m a very little guy who has no experience with huge projects like this, but even I know you don’t start anything of this scope without knowing if you have the right tools for the job! I mean, geez louise! All those people and money, and they couldn’t get that right?
For the above example, starting out with a motorcycle (or motorcycle-related vehicle) is the smartest thing if a fancier motorcycle is what you want to end up with as the final product. Trying to shoehorn a cycle engine into a car and wondering why it doesn’t work right is exactly what you never want to do, if you actually intend on finishing a product and having it be what you want.
Fail fast, technical risk, blah blah blah. Just sell more JPEGs of spaceships and it’ll be fine.