#3663684 - 10/16/12 09:18 AM
Star Citizen Stretch Goals...??
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Make sense to you..it looks like you don't get a full game either MMO or SP unless 5 million come sin..if not your at an alpha only state..seems very odd, The SP doesn't surprise me..I have nofaith they can create both an indepth SP game and an MMO for 2 million..but then put the only comment on the full online game at the 5 million stretch goal is odd...it appears if they get eblow that you get an alpha so without some outside investment to take them to 5 mill you get an unfinished game. Or Chris really doens't know how to convey info at all... Go check the website and click stretch goal.. http://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/star-citizen/Taking $800,000 of peoples money to then announce they need 5 million before they get the full game seems wrong to me..if this is the case.
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#3663765 - 10/16/12 01:18 PM
Re: Star Citizen Stretch Goals...??
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They're certainly promising something that sounds like WC crossed with EVE, or STO at the minimum, and I also doubt that.
MMOs cost big bucks to get going.
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#3664578 - 10/17/12 05:20 PM
Re: Star Citizen Stretch Goals...??
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If they can get an MMO going for $5 million in 2012 I'll be shocked.
EA would be doing backflips if SW:TOR had cost them $5m and not around 20x that.
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#3664587 - 10/17/12 05:28 PM
Re: Star Citizen Stretch Goals...??
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Well, there will be more money then just the 2-5 million from crowdfunding. Ideally they get the 5 million and that allows them to get a few larger investors that match or double that. That gets them through the alpha/beta release when they can then start selling the game. Pay out to their investors as they start bringing in money from new sales. I doubt they could make the game for just 5 million but they never claim they will either. This game is ambitious. If we can raise between $2 to $4 million we have investors that have agreed to contribute the balance we need to complete this game as long as we can validate that there is a demand for a high end PC space game.
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#3664610 - 10/17/12 06:00 PM
Re: Star Citizen Stretch Goals...??
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Be sending them your monies, kind citizens! :-) All your monies are belong to hims
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#3666085 - 10/19/12 08:53 PM
Re: Star Citizen Stretch Goals...??
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How much would it have cost you to legally change your name to Chris Roberts first? The Jedi Master
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#3675473 - 11/05/12 03:14 AM
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Guys they have investors who are pledging the big bucks if they reach their milestones of somewhere between 3-5 million, so Chris Robert's isn't naive enough to think he deliver an MMO with all those features for 5 million.
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#3675659 - 11/05/12 03:23 PM
Re: Star Citizen Stretch Goals...??
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Considering WC4 cost more than $5 million almost 20 years ago...
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#3676857 - 11/07/12 01:04 AM
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Considering WC4 cost more than $5 million almost 20 years ago...
The Jedi Master ouch! It is good to hear the game will be on the PC. I made the detour into consoles for sim racing and was quite disappointed with the available games and graphics.
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#3677211 - 11/07/12 02:50 PM
Re: Star Citizen Stretch Goals...??
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Consoles look best about 2 years after their release. The initial wave of release games are hampered by late availability of reliable hardware to test on. Look at Forza. Forza 2 was ok but not a huge step over Forza 1 from Xbox 1. FM3 made huge leaps, while 4 made smaller ones and FH looks to me like F4 with a different focus, and if an F5 was made I'm sure it wouldn't look THAT much better. My guess is F5 will be a "720" launch title, but it will again only be a smaller step past FH...F6/FH2 whatever they make after THAT will be a big leap.
The problem is games really need lots of RAM as well as storage space, and while console HDs got cheap and large, they still have that same launch-day amount of RAM. The 360 has lasted too long for the games now running on it. MS needed it to last so they could turn a good enough profit (especially after the RROD debacle that cost them big in the first couple of years), but the fact is the new Wii U will likely have equivalent abilities to the 360 and they're likely to see a big sales drop.
That's why their denials to the contrary I'm convinced MS wants "720" out for next Christmas if they can at all manage it. No idea about a PS4.
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