Out of Pod Experience

Can't wait to read the crisis management case studies after the pyramid scheme collapses in on itself.

I like bananas. They're really good frozen and dipped in stuff. Or in ice cream.

My opinion is that discussion of this particular scam belong in OOPE.

meh, OP just look down the list of topics here in oope, the SC thead is the one ending with "CQ door" in the title. Bananas are better.

Crowd funded game in development that have potential if it manage to overcome technical hurdles.

Why so pessimistic ?

I mean it's one thing to disapprove of the methods CIG uses to generate media attention and cash. It's another thing to claim that the developers won't be able to deliver. Or are you confusing people's expectations with Chris Robert's promises ?

From my point of view, I believe that Star Citizen and it's components will be a huge number of small multiplayer games within a seemingly large universe. It won't be anything like EvE. That's not what it's aiming for anyways. It's designed to be a Themepark FPS MMO. Both the infantry and the space combat are FPS oriented, therefore need fast and precise calculations for hits. This limits the number of concurrent players to a number below that of a traditional MMORPG.

Apart from breaking the playerbase into small manageable but temporary groups, they can still maintain a global market for all the players. I mean if steam can do it with its workshop, why should CIG not be able to do it ?

As far as having different parts of the game communicate with other parts of the game ... why should that not work ? CCP managed to exchange data between a PS3 and a PC game.

I put 30-40 dolllars into 1 small ship and thats it.
Its what a new game would cost anyways.. and having a job that money is well affordable to throw into the trash

On topic: I was one of the first 4,000 people to back it. I feel cheated about how "let's make a CR game like Freelancer Online but it's not Freelancer wink wink" became "let's try to make CR's dream game out of dubious funding and wishful thinking".

They lost me when it was made obvious that they were compromising to develop ships just in order to get funds to develop the ships previously compromised. Thus the "20 milion $ game done by November 2014" became "the horrendous feature creep blob of 89 million $ which would need 150 million $ to stand a chance of delivering sometime in 2017".

I still would want the game I kickstarted, before all the other 900.000 idiots started giving CR money for concept art.

Yet also I know enough of human nature to not blame CR for suffering gold fever when he struck kickstarter gold.

Nice picture and exactly my thoughts. They should had made the 20 milion $ skeeter and then go, God providing and if succesful, for the 90 million $ dream car.

Also about the customers thing, that's a concern I raised when they where in the 300,000 backers point. Who is gonna buy that game once it's done?

And last, accidentally, CCP could tell what happens when you deliver just a wheel of the dream car, in case CR attempted that:
"Houm, dudes... here's 25% of the ships, but the game is actually live and functioning... we plan to..." "RUMBLERUMBLEPITCHFORKSANDTORCHESWEWANTOURTHOUSANDOLLARSHIPSNAO!!!"