John Kowalski
Banned
all the money will have been worth it five hundred years from now when those ship control algorithms are used in real life spaceships
Star Citizen surpasses $100 million dollars in funding
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paperspace
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source pls
Huevos de Oro
Member
That sounds like a neat idea. Put HL3 as an early access game on Steam with nothing but a blurry .jpg of some rock texture, and see the game get fully funded in no time.
However, the game would still be made in Valve time. So everyone loses.
Well, it's there just not a mode.
Arena Modes are coming later once they get the new movement modes up to scratch.
Oh dear. Another psychic reading to tell us all how it is. There's just no hope, Rising_Hei said so.
OrlanisWorks
Banned
To make the most ambitious video game, one hundred million sounds low. Then again, they seem like they know exactly what they are doing.
Awesome. I can't wait for persistent universe. Elite Dangerous will only satisfy my thirst for space-sim for so long
Awesome. I can't wait for persistent universe. Elite Dangerous will only satisfy my thirst for space-sim for so long
Zalusithix
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$100 million isn't all that much considering the planned scope scope of the game, but at the same time you can't compare it to traditional publisher numbers. Unlike traditionally published games, all of it is pumped into development, and not advertising.
Yes, but then, you actualy have games with 120mil dev cost and a 120mil advertising campaign. Or destiny, which supposedly blew combined cost to 500 mils. Of course, could also be Activision boasting.
Bankastuba
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That's a lot even for well established AAAs... Damn, son.
0.1.1.2.3.5.8.13.21.34.55
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I see an Escapist article on the way.
Fuzzification
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Currently has the equal fifth highest development budget according to the wikipedia list (forgiving wikipedia inaccuracies). And this is while parts of the game are still technically in a pre-alpha state.
Here's to the next $100 million! ^_^
spindoctor
Member
I've never seen gamers want a game more than this. And we've put up 100 million dollars of our money to back it up.
Sadly, I've also never seen as many gamers who want a project to fail. I don't understand that part.
Sadly, I've also never seen as many gamers who want a project to fail. I don't understand that part.
0.1.1.2.3.5.8.13.21.34.55
Banned
It's easy to speak ill of something you aren't invested in, I suppose.
Damn I feel like I have been hearing about this game forever now. Like 3 years if not more of hearing about it. Its wild to read this thread and see Alpha 2.0 releasing soon. Its like DAMN really? When is this expected to release its launch version? Is that still unknown at this point?
Sax Russel
Banned
ONWARD AND UPWARD
orthodoxy1095
Banned
I don't know how much people want it to fail. If anything, I imagine there are more people like me who are worried about it failing. I haven't even invested (although I convinced friends to lol), but I'm still interested to see what this game does for crowdfunding.
They were saying 2016 I believe for at least the single player portion. Seems like an ambitious timeline but you never know.
Arena 2.0 is released already. Squadron 42 Episode 1 will be released in 2016.
Thats the most confirmed dates You will get though. Game is in development from October 2012, but they started totally from scratch. The best way to see how development went is to watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEH2GpV8Ua4
Well, sure. That's why they've no intention to stop selling ships anytime soon and why they'll keep coming up with ways to continue funding (merchandising, subscribers, etc.) for as long as it's needed / makes sense to do so. Squadron 42 will likely bring in a substantial sum as well, once it's released. Making one of the most ambitious games to date comes at a high price, there's no going around that, publisher or no publisher.
Alpha 2.0 is out now. Squadron 42, the single player (+ coop) story / campaign part of the game, will be released next year (or it might slip to 2017). The persistent universe, the mmorpg part of Star Citizen, is a long-er term project. They'll keep adding to it as time goes by, but as of right now it's pretty much impossible to say when something resembling a fully fledged product will be made available to the general public.
The 500m figure was vehemently denied by everybody. It may be the long term figure, but it certainly isn't dev cost for just one game.
McHuj
Member
Lol, what is that?
PeakPointMatrix
Member
Man, was there really this big of an untapped space-sim market just sitting around? Or is there a cluster of high profile private investors involved too?
I hope it turns out great, but it feels like it won't come out for a long time. I guess it won't hurt tho, by then there'll be much more powerful graphic cards to power this thing.
I hope it turns out great, but it feels like it won't come out for a long time. I guess it won't hurt tho, by then there'll be much more powerful graphic cards to power this thing.
exmachina64
Banned
What is this from?
No idea, actually. Looks like Wing Commander (pre-III, maybe?) era Chris Roberts at an expo / convention, swagging it for the camera.
EDIT: Or directing, indeed.
I suspect this is from a wing commander shoot.
Also if anyone has 1:40 to kill here is a 1997 CGDC group interview with Nolan Bushnell, John Romero and Chris Roberts. It is really interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fqY...ature=youtu.be
Roberts definitely hit an untapped (or rather abandoned) market. The big publishers wouldn't touch the genre and said it was dead.
Here are some more videos. The first one is about Strike Commander:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8gj2YyB0Hg
http://fabiensanglard.net/reverse_engineering_strike_commander/
Second one with Tony Zurovec:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dL3nrrj2ZA
This should give anybody curious some insight as to why people are backing the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8gj2YyB0Hg
http://fabiensanglard.net/reverse_engineering_strike_commander/
Second one with Tony Zurovec:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dL3nrrj2ZA
This should give anybody curious some insight as to why people are backing the game.
Basileus777
Member
I guess there really are a never ending supply of whales.
This game has always been sold on promise. It's always about what the game will look like in x years. So to people who are not spending 40$-300$ on a promise it looks like something not worth there time. Even the ships have been sold on promise. You can buy and look but not fly some. Of course there is hostility, the business model is going to attract that.
It's like uh... basically Wing Commander Privateer 3, combined with a singleplayer mode that's pretty much trying to be Wing Commander 6.
Fuzzification
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You'd be surprised how crazy dedicated some backers are. PC Gamer had this article just last month interviewing someone that had sunk in $30k alone, taking up additional side jobs just for this game.
My dreams (17:32).
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
Man the graphics are so good but the first person / other human animations are so janky. I just saw the latest citizen con gameplay video stuff and when he's in zero g his hands are glitching out and disappearing.
:/
:/
Antilurker77
Member
This is the most well-funded space sim of all time and they still can't get the flight physics to work properly. lol, just lol
Managing to break FPS in Cryengine is quite a feat.
Managing to break FPS in Cryengine is quite a feat.
Fuzzification
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There's still a long way to go for even the tech behind the animations.
This is part of the animation talk from the latest monthly report:
Yup, it is a good thing that they have 60hz on the team...
>-Baron-Spamedi-<
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Wow. $1m for each year it's going to be in development?
Incredible money.
Incredible money.
What now, what´s wrong with the flight physics?
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Orochinagis
Member
Wow, thats a big load of accomplished goals