These forums have been archived and are now read-only.

The new forums are live and can be found at https://forums.eveonline.com/

Out of Pod Experience

 
  • Topic is locked indefinitely.
 

Transverse: the trainwreck
Author
Previous Topic Next Topic
Indahmawar Fazmarai
#1 - 2014-09-11 21:09:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Indahmawar Fazmarai
As some may know, Piranha Games Interactive (PGI), developers of Mechwarrior Online (MWO), have launched crowdfunding for a new game.

The game, called Transverse, is a space themed sandbox MMO whose features aren't exactly clear atm... but that is the lesser of its issues.

I suggest you reading this article at TMC, to get a glimpse.

Some bullet points:

Transverse was meant to be (?) Wing Commander Online, but now it is something dfiferent, with ships ripped from ressembling like... well, everything from Star Citizen to Battlestar Galactica.
The launch video must be seen to be believed. Yes, it's for real. The parody is this one.
All comments for the video were suspended after reaching a 10:1 ratio of negative vs positive
The pledge campaign has been... huh... successful up to 73 persons and 6,410 $
That, despite the site being a hog at 3.7 megabytes.
Also, stretch goals are funny. The first is to be able to fly in space. The second one is to be able to fit stuff in your ships. The third one is to be able to fight in space. Seriously.
PGI created a subreddit for the game. Their PR personnel ended up shadowbanned in a matter of hours for violating Reddit rules
And more and more...

It's a total trainwreck.

Oh, and last but not least:

PGI owns the Wing Commander IP. Yes, seriously. Shocked
Ila Dace
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2014-09-11 23:41:22 UTC
Indahmawar Fazmarai wrote:
...
PGI owns the Wing Commander IP. Yes, seriously. Shocked

The Mittani wrote:
~ I'm not making this up. ~

If House played Eve: http://i.imgur.com/y7ShT.jpg

But in purple, I'm stunning!
Destination SkillQueue
Doomheim
#3 - 2014-09-12 11:54:06 UTC
Reading his pathetic weaseling and the unsympathetic responses on their own forum made my day. I sort of feel bad for the poor guy, but not really, since he totally had it coming. Trainwreck indeed.
Indahmawar Fazmarai
#4 - 2014-09-12 13:28:49 UTC
Oh God... they just edited the stretch goals.

Now if they make it to 500,000 $, they will develop an alpha build of the whole game and look for additional funding... failing that goal, they will return the money to backers.

Numbers are 27 days remaining, 81 backers, 6.990 $.

It is unknown how many backers are employees & friends & relatives. What?
Destination SkillQueue
Doomheim
#5 - 2014-09-12 14:20:16 UTC
Indahmawar Fazmarai wrote:
Oh God... they just edited the stretch goals.

Now if they make it to 500,000 $, they will develop an alpha build of the whole game and look for additional funding... failing that goal, they will return the money to backers.

Numbers are 27 days remaining, 81 backers, 6.990 $.

It is unknown how many backers are employees & friends & relatives. What?

I read that too. It's the saddest thing. I mean the strech goals. I mean look at them. LOOK@THEM!!! 500k-liftoff, 1mil-flying, 1,5mil-building ships and 2 mil-combat. Meet all the goals and you might have something resembling an actual game. What an amazing deal. Sign me up.

That forum thread is still the best. I'm only a dozen pages in, but so far only 1 post has been even remotely sympathetic. Everyone else is just bursting schadenfreude and posting variations of "Karma's a *****!" and "I told you so".
Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#6 - 2014-09-12 17:01:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Zimmy Zeta
So after reading the TMC article (good read, thanks for linking it) I had an epiphany.

Nikolai Lubkiewicz of Piranha Games blames Mittani and the Goons from SA for the bad reception of his games.

Dinsdale Pirannha of Pirannha Corp blames Mittani and Goonswarm for everything bad in EVE.

Now what a coincidence that is...

Blink

I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of the post above and sincerely hope you didn't waste your time reading it. Yes, I do feel bad about it.
Indahmawar Fazmarai
#7 - 2014-09-12 19:30:54 UTC
Zimmy Zeta wrote:
So after reading the TMC article (good read, thanks for linking it) I had an epiphany.

Nikolai Lubkiewicz of Piranha Games blames Mittani and the Goons from SA for the bad reception of his games.

Dinsdale Pirannha of Pirannha Corp blames Mittani and Goonswarm for everything bad in EVE.

Now what a coincidence that is...

Blink


Mind: Blown. Shocked
Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
#8 - 2014-09-13 07:53:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Jandice Ymladris
Y'know, while this trainwreck is horrible, it's not yet the worst that could happen. Somewhere, someone convinced them that tying their Wing Commander IP to this Travesty (oops a typo Pirate ) was a bad thing to do.
Imagine if was the newest WC...

More then one lovely game has been ruined as of late by quick cash grabs; have some examples: Dungeon Keeper 3 (brower game) Sacred 3 (linear action game), the newest Sim City etc, ruining the once beloved franchise with a horrible game.

Providing a new home for refugees in the Aurora Arcology
Indahmawar Fazmarai
#9 - 2014-09-13 08:38:21 UTC
Jandice Ymladris wrote:
Y'know, while this trainwreck is horrible, it's not yet the worst that could happen. Somewhere, someone convinced them that tying their Wing Commander IP to this Travesty (oops a typo Pirate ) was a bad thing to do.
Imagine if was the newest WC...

More then one lovely game has been ruined as of late by quick cash grabs; have some examples: Dungeon Keeper 3 (brower game) Sacred 3 (linear action game), the newest Sim City etc, ruining the once beloved franchise with a horrible game.


Yes, that's the nicest part... they figured that their transhumanist mumbojumbo was better than WC IP -we can't thank them enough, albeit that probably was because someone already was developing WC Online.

What really baffles me of this disaster is that PGI intended to sell another game before they finished their last one. What did they think that would be the response?

"Oh yes, as you didn't delivered MWO yet, let's give you even more money for yet another project". What?
Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2014-09-13 16:54:13 UTC
Jandice Ymladris wrote:
Sacred 3 (linear action game),



sooo... I can't lose 5 hours just from trying to walk from one side of Ancaria to the other?


Sad

[img]http://eve-files.com/sig/grimpak[/img]

[quote]The more I know about humans, the more I love animals.[/quote] ain't that right
Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
#11 - 2014-09-14 00:13:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Jandice Ymladris
Grimpak wrote:
Jandice Ymladris wrote:
Sacred 3 (linear action game),



sooo... I can't lose 5 hours just from trying to walk from one side of Ancaria to the other?


Sad


If you spent 5 hours playing it, you're roughly halfway (if you took all side-quests & bonus-levels) in the campaign, total playtime for campaign is 3 to 12 hours (depending how fast or throughrough you want to be) Also: levels, no exploring a vast area, but linear action levels.

Providing a new home for refugees in the Aurora Arcology
Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2014-09-14 08:37:10 UTC
Jandice Ymladris wrote:
Grimpak wrote:
Jandice Ymladris wrote:
Sacred 3 (linear action game),



sooo... I can't lose 5 hours just from trying to walk from one side of Ancaria to the other?


Sad


If you spent 5 hours playing it, you're roughly halfway (if you took all side-quests & bonus-levels) in the campaign, total playtime for campaign is 3 to 12 hours (depending how fast or throughrough you want to be) Also: levels, no exploring a vast area, but linear action levels.

5 hours on Sacred 2 was nothing. that was, at the very least, a game that took some 60 hours to clear totally, with expansions.

[img]http://eve-files.com/sig/grimpak[/img]

[quote]The more I know about humans, the more I love animals.[/quote] ain't that right