EPTThe real number is zero or nothing. Video game publishers are not throwing around that type of money and good reviews don’t get them that much.
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
The real number is zero or nothing. Video game publishers are not throwing around that type of money and good reviews don’t get them that much. | ||
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iloveav
Poland1482 Posts
People just are not paying enough attention. Graphical downgrades, permanent alpha releases, terrible PC ports, you name it. We got free to play games that are far better then triple A titles FFS. To be honest, at some point, you just give u on people. If they want to support this kinda crap, its their problem. I mean, give it a 1 minute time, a game that is the size or the universe. Like... the size of the freaking universe. Does it sound too good to be true? well guess what, IT IS. Just google this crap. | ||
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Assault_1
Canada1950 Posts
On August 17 2016 13:18 Djzapz wrote: It's just how I am tho, I like maintaining low expectations for everything so when something good comes up it's that much more exciting. I'll buy Star Citizen if it turns out to be good but some people are already down literally tens of thousands of dollars buying virtual ships for a game that's not released -_- tens of thousands.. I really hope that's not true | ||
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beentheredonethat
2934 Posts
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ZenithM
France15952 Posts
On August 18 2016 06:37 Assault_1 wrote: tens of thousands.. I really hope that's not true Definitely accurate. https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/Combos/The-Completionist-Digital Yes, this is for multiple ships, but the Idris alone is worth like 3k$. Star Citizen has had the more shockingly awful funding strategy I can think of. After a 80 million dollars inital crowdfunding campaign, while people were waiting for news about the actual gameplay, the devs were churning out always more fucking ship concept-arts costing several hundred dollars for you to pre-order, with imaginary features like a "hacking generator" or I don't know what else. Ludicrous. Literally like printing money, except you save up on the cost of ink. | ||
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
On August 18 2016 06:37 Assault_1 wrote: tens of thousands.. I really hope that's not true There's a "completionist" package for $15000 and there was a video where the lead dev for Star Citizen met a fan who spent $30k on the game. Maybe the guy was loaded but he looked like a regular joe. And there's no doubt in my mind there's many "whales" like this, making the game unappealing to normal people who feel, possibly years ahead of release, that they'll be irrelevant in a universe of big shots with more money than sense. | ||
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Duka08
3391 Posts
On August 18 2016 07:36 Djzapz wrote: There's a "completionist" package for $15000 and there was a video where the lead dev for Star Citizen met a fan who spent $30k on the game. Maybe the guy was loaded but he looked like a regular joe. And there's no doubt in my mind there's many "whales" like this, making the game unappealing to normal people who feel, possibly years ahead of release, that they'll be irrelevant in a universe of big shots with more money than sense. Anyone that can drop 30k on a game is loaded to some degree. Doesn't matter what he looked like lmao | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17486 Posts
More No Man's Sky Content all free of charge as the developer and publisher promised! actually, its paid DLC. http://www.gamezone.com/news/no-man-s-sky-founder-backtracks-could-get-paid-dlc-3442515 More amazing news! A big No Man's Sky movie deal signed with Ronda Rousey starring as an explorer. + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/qveKeav.jpg) | ||
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
On August 18 2016 07:48 Duka08 wrote: Anyone that can drop 30k on a game is loaded to some degree. Doesn't matter what he looked like lmao I don't consider myself loaded, I could scrounge up $30k and spend it on stupid shit. With a couple of days I could round up that kind of money and bet everything on red at the casino. Does that make me loaded? Because I definitely wouldn't be loaded after that. | ||
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Endymion
United States3701 Posts
On August 18 2016 06:49 beentheredonethat wrote: The last AAA title that was really good was Skyrim IMHO. Cannot name another one right now. i hate AAA gaming as much as everyone else, but what about doom's singleplayer :o it was actually pretty awesome | ||
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Birdie
New Zealand4438 Posts
On August 18 2016 08:47 Djzapz wrote: I don't consider myself loaded, I could scrounge up $30k and spend it on stupid shit. With a couple of days I could round up that kind of money and bet everything on red at the casino. Does that make me loaded? Because I definitely wouldn't be loaded after that. Having 30k in loose cash/liquid assets is relatively speaking quite loaded, for a LOT of people. | ||
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LaNague
Germany9118 Posts
But people just love to throw money at games and they forget about it in a month and will buy the next game. So the big companies will abuse it and some indy devs will try to get in on it. Also i would not stop my game when people throw the full 60 EUR at it months in advance and i discover that i suck at making games and wont be able to make it any good. I will take those millions, too. Although i would not be so pretentious, then again thats probably the reason the hype started in the first place | ||
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Assault_1
Canada1950 Posts
On August 18 2016 07:36 Djzapz wrote: There's a "completionist" package for $15000 and there was a video where the lead dev for Star Citizen met a fan who spent $30k on the game. Maybe the guy was loaded but he looked like a regular joe. And there's no doubt in my mind there's many "whales" like this, making the game unappealing to normal people who feel, possibly years ahead of release, that they'll be irrelevant in a universe of big shots with more money than sense. that's kinda sickening that they offer a $15k bundle and expect people to buy it.. how do people get any sense of accomplishment by buying their way to the top anyway? | ||
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
On August 18 2016 08:56 Birdie wrote: Having 30k in loose cash/liquid assets is relatively speaking quite loaded, for a LOT of people. Still, a common average 25-30 year old guy can have 30k in assets without being rich. That's a car and some savings, I'd never call that "loaded". A plumber with a passion can easily use a couple of years of disposable income plus some credit toward a 30k luxury. On August 18 2016 11:22 Assault_1 wrote: that's kinda sickening that they offer a $15k bundle and expect people to buy it.. how do people get any sense of accomplishment by buying their way to the top anyway? Couldn't tell you what motivates people to do that, but I'd say there's an element of it that's not strictly about being better, but it's about having an alternate life in an expansive universe that features endless possibilities. If your life sucks, why wouldn't you buy yourself a cool life in a world where you're cool? I'm sure that's what motivates a lot of people. | ||
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Duka08
3391 Posts
On August 18 2016 11:55 Djzapz wrote: Still, a common average 25-30 year old guy can have 30k in assets without being rich. That's a car and some savings, I'd never call that "loaded". A plumber with a passion can easily use a couple of years of disposable income plus some credit toward a 30k luxury. Generally when people are talking about dropping $30k on a fucking gaming hobby they're thinking flexible spending cash. Not "could the average 25-30 year old theoretically come up with 30 grand if they sold all of their assets and played it on their computer in a cardboard box on the street". | ||
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
On August 18 2016 12:30 Duka08 wrote: Generally when people are talking about dropping $30k on a fucking gaming hobby they're thinking flexible spending cash. Not "could the average 25-30 year old theoretically come up with 30 grand if they sold all of their assets and played it on their computer in a cardboard box on the street". The exact point I'm trying to make is it's not necessarily people who should be spending that money. Like people who realistically should be buying a trailer but buy a ship instead. I'm not talking about people with 30k of disposable income, I'm talking about guys liquidizing everything to barely manage to afford to buy a luxury, which turns out to be a financial decision that'll fuck them over for years. People do it all the time. You can be completely broke and come up with thousands of dollars and buy a fancy car. To assume like anyone who can summon up 30k is loaded or capable of affording anything that costs 30k is silly. I could right now pull 30k and use it to buy something that has no monetary value like Star Citizen ships and it wouldn't put me in the street but I'd regret my decision pretty badly. And another thing that makes this particularly dangerous is people are not used to the notion that you can buy something and it's entirely gone. If you bough a $30k car, you could resell it for $25k or whatever if it didn't work out. Here it's a total loss, the money is gone and you have nothing. Now I understand that someone who comfortably drops 30k into a hobby are probably quite loaded, my point is I'm thinking a lot of people who can't really afford it still spend money they don't have or shouldn't spend. Wouldn't be the first time it happened. People buy cars they can't really afford routinely. Same thing with homes. The concept of Star Citizen with all the promised features seems so perfect and dreamy that the people who want it the most will get irrational about how they spend whatever money they have. And that's how they raised 100+ mils. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17486 Posts
On August 18 2016 11:55 Djzapz wrote: Still, a common average 25-30 year old guy can have 30k in assets without being rich. That's a car and some savings, I'd never call that "loaded". A plumber with a passion can easily use a couple of years of disposable income plus some credit toward a 30k luxury. around here plumbers make almost as much as vascular surgeons  i guess they're both plumbers | ||
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gingerfluffmuff
Austria4570 Posts
Man, mah game  | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17486 Posts
On August 18 2016 05:55 iloveav wrote: Its been almost 7 years since games are using false marketing. People just are not paying enough attention. fraud existed from day 1 in the industry... and i'm pretty sure Eve lied to Adam on day1 of planet earth.. but i'm not up on the bible. around 1980 + Show Spoiler + the Intellivision Keyboard component never arrived despite Mattel's promises. Mattel said that you were not just buying a video game toy .. but a powerful computer when u bought the Mattel Intellivision. the US Consumer protection agency threatened a giant stupid fine so Mattel made a crappy keyboard years later than only worked on the Intellivision 2 and not on the Intellivision1; it only fulfilled about 1% of the promised features in order to get the US government off their back. A keyboard for the Intellivision1 was never made. The Intellivision1 retailed for $400 in 1979. It'd be like a $900 system today. fuck. 1981 + Show Spoiler + Mattel tells its programmers they must not reveal their real names in media interviews. They were encouraged to lie and pretend they had a different name. 1983 + Show Spoiler + Atari dumps millions of unsold Pacman and ET cartridges in a new mexico landfill and then lies about it to keep game prices high. a couple of years ago it was proven that it in fact millions of unsold pacman and et cartridges were in the landfill. its hilarious Atari/Time Warner/AOL-TimeWarner tried to hide this for so many years. around 1995 + Show Spoiler + the Atari Jaguar was advertised as a 64 bit system. Its CPU was 32 bit and its GPU is 32 bit and Atari justified the 64 bit phrase by claiming you can add the two 32s together.. Uhhh ya ok guys.. by that logic a Dreamcast is a 112-bit monster ... the 32-bit, 16-bit, 8-bit etc comes from the width of the instruction set and the width of the individual memory elements processed by the CPU and GPU. no one adds them together.. its idiotic. The Jaguar is a 32 bit machine and Atari lied.Lie. Cheat. Steal. | ||
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bo1b
Australia12814 Posts
The Witcher 3 was the only game in recent memory to come from a AAA studio that wasn't complete shit, instead it was solidly meh. The good news is that a rise in indie game studios is occurring, and for a fair few genres there's plenty of alternatives that cost very little and offer so much more. Particularly in the realm of rogue like gaming, though they are admittedly more complicated to learn. | ||
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