Day9 on his current life, casting MLG, and his game - Page 6

On June 20 2014 21:57 carlfish wrote:


According to crunchbase, Artillery took $2.5 million in first round funding from a diverse group of venture capitalists. They were also founded by a group of reasonably high-level ex-Facebook and Google devs, which means they're likely to have (a) good access to investors, and (b) a not insignificant amount of personal capital to throw into the project.

It's worth keeping in mind that the end-goal of the company isn't to build an RTS. It's to build a proven technology for delivering RTS-like games over HTML5. The browser-based gaming market is beyond huge, and if they can position themselves as the "Source/Unreal Engine" of that area, that's where the big money is going to come from.

Whatever actual game they're developing is just the necessary proof that the technology works and can attract people to play it. From the engine developers point of view, the more time they spend during "Atlas" development trying out how the engine can do different crazy things, the more complete and flexible the underlying code will be proven to be, and the more attractive it'll eventually be to license to others.

On June 22 2014 11:21 Ben... wrote:
Okay since people are seemingly not reading the thread and what was a few people taking a joke post seriously has actually turned into lots of people taking a joke post seriously, and people are being misinformed as a result and I don't want this stupid "he's retiring" thing to go further because the "Day9's dead" thing is insanely annoying and we don't need more of that, he said NOTHING about retiring in the interview and the accounting firm thing said on the first page was a well-placed JOKE that was clearly just supposed to be a poke at all the people who would comment without watching the video.

Again, he DID NOT say he was retiring in the interview. He ended it thanking his mom, his fans and subscribers and a few others. As a summary, he talked about his role at Artillery, his roommates, his fans, casting, and a few odds and ends. No retiring. No accounting firms.

On June 22 2014 11:06 fishjie wrote:
So is day9 retiring or not? I don't like watching interview videos, the pace is too slow. its much faster to simply read the transcript. that's why i've always preferred reading the news to passively watching the news.

anyway to work at an accounting firm you need a degree in accounting. day9 did not study accounting so i'm guessing this is a terribad troll attempt.

as for games being fun or not, of course its impossible to predict how popular something will be. also, fun and challenging are often times at odds with one another. most of today's games have been dumbed down to cater to the lowest common denominator, aka the console kiddies. example. The vetrans of the fighting game community loved street fighter 2: super turbo. it requires precise execution, knowledge of spacing, frame data, and matchups. The OGs hate sf4 because it dumbed everything down. but sf4 has taken off because it has "fun" pretty graphics and flashy supers. Likewise, guys like me who grew up playing the vs series think marvel vs capcom 2 is a masterpiece that suited multiple play styles from precise zoning keepaway games to fast paced mixups into difficult to execute combos. ditto mvc1 and xvsf. mvc3 ruined all that by giving everyone brain dead ez mode 100% combos. but mvc3 is more popular and "fun"

fun != high skill ceiling

On June 23 2014 16:29 .ImpacT. wrote:


Despite the way he came across, he's right. You don't need to be a CPA to work in accounting; in fact a quick google search for job postings at a few larger accounting firms reveals there's a ton of majors/degrees that are sought after (including mathematics/statistics especially). He came across as an ass, but that doesn't invalidate his point, nor is it correct to assume everyone that works for an accounting firm is purely an accountant, oddly enough.