[PIXELS] New Backer rewards in Hangar!

MrSnuffles

...and some people say the game development is not progressing:

• 42M Reward - Explorer-Class MobiGlas Rig
• 45M Reward - Hadesian Artifact
• 47M Reward - Engine Tuning Kit
• 49M Reward - Xi’An Space Plant
• 52M Reward - BB-12 Manned Maneuvering Unit
• 55M Reward - Preacher Armament Inquisition XXII Gatling
• 56M Reward - J-Span Cryo-Star Cooler
• 100M Reward - 2944 War Bond

Have faith!

Adjuvant1

Add to the new-and-improved "you just don't understand game development" lexicon...

"assets" will hereby be known as "features".

They're going to have this business so convoluted by precedent, some great portion of the redditsphere is going to argue mocap as "gameplay" soon, I'm sure of it.

Adjuvant1

Best quote from the internet so far today...

"I'm starting to feel like SC is really an avant-garde art project attempting to destroy the meaning of language around software development. After ~3 years I think the terms 'open development', 'pipeline', 'design', 'refactoring' and maybe a dozen other words have been so conceptually obliterated that future software teams will be reduced to grunting and rude gestures to describe their process."

Exactly correct.

Xeno.phon

The sky is falling!

Erillion

MrSnuffles said:

**stuff**

Clarification: 

When the OP mentions "New Backer rewards in Hangar!" he means the "My Hangar" section on your personal account page. Things you have unlocked as backer rewards are listed here. The "news" is that the list just got longer for most people.

The OP does NOT mean the hangar in Star Citizen, where your ship is parked. The items listed at present do not yet appear in THAT hangar.


Have fun


PS:

Personally i am interested if the BB-12 Manned Maneuver Unit looks like this (the Shuttle MMU or its modern, stripped down version, the SAFER)

Nanfoodle

The real stretch goals... 

• 42M Reward - Sharks with friken lasers on their heads. 
• 45M Reward - Will finally buy a sports car for Sunday's, so far only has one for 6 days of the week. Kinda sad. 
• 47M Reward - Buy all the Apple watches and install Android on them. 
• 49M Reward - Get the implants he has always wanted for his wife... And cat. 
• 52M Reward - Buy that island he has always wanted. 
• 55M Reward - Higher a cast of Oompa Loomis to care for said island. 
• 56M Reward - Build a camp ground Mars for his new wife's kids. 
• 100M Reward - Split current game into a 3rd game and start a campaign to raise funds for it. 

MrSnuffles

Erillion said:

MrSnuffles said:

**stuff**

Clarification: 

When the OP mentions "New Backer rewards in Hangar!" he means the "My Hangar" section on your personal account page. Things you have unlocked as backer rewards are listed here. The "news" is that the list just got longer for most people.

The OP does NOT mean the hangar in Star Citizen, where your ship is parked. The items listed at present do not yet appear in THAT hangar.

Have fun

I think that is a given since 80% of what they sell does not exist in the alpha test yet.

Adjuvant1

MrSnuffles said:

Erillion said:

MrSnuffles said:

**stuff**

Clarification: 

When the OP mentions "New Backer rewards in Hangar!" he means the "My Hangar" section on your personal account page. Things you have unlocked as backer rewards are listed here. The "news" is that the list just got longer for most people.

The OP does NOT mean the hangar in Star Citizen, where your ship is parked. The items listed at present do not yet appear in THAT hangar.

Have fun

I think that is a given since 80% of what they sell does not exist in the alpha test yet.

But... to quote glorious leader, "The first 80% takes 20% of the time and the last 20% takes 80%..."

Does this mean we should see a SC mmorpg in about... 15 years? I really don't know much about game development, but I understand we'll have humans on Mars by then.

TiamatRoar

MrSnuffles said:

...and some people say the game development is not progressing:

Have faith!

I find the idea that increasing the size of a list in a player's account equates to development progression to be rather dubious, honestly.

Unless you mean "development of getting players' accounts up to date" or something, I suppose.

(er, or unless your post was entirely sarcastic, in which case, if it was, I gotta say that's pretty hilarious.  It's just hard to tell sarcasm in regards to Star Citizen cause some proponents of it are actually serious about the zaniest things...)

MrSnuffles

TiamatRoar said:

MrSnuffles said:

...and some people say the game development is not progressing:

Have faith!

I find the idea that increasing the size of a list in a player's account equates to development progression to be rather dubious, honestly.

Unless you mean "development of getting players' accounts up to date" or something, I suppose.

(er, or unless your post was entirely sarcastic, in which case, if it was, I gotta say that's pretty hilarious.  It's just hard to tell sarcasm in regards to Star Citizen cause some proponents of it are actually serious about the zaniest things...)

I was not being serious.

Daderick

I find it funny that someone would bad mouth a game that is making progress and then have an EQNext picture in their sig...

stayontarget

That's cool OP.

IceAge

Daderick said:

I find it funny that someone would bad mouth a game that is making progress and then have an EQNext picture in their sig...

I find it funny that you are putting EQN in the same boat as SC. 

EQN is offering free dreams...

Adjuvant1

Unbelievable. From a "ask me anything" discussion. Think it's real?

IceAge

So , they are also paying ads on google. That is pathetic. 

scorpex-x

IceAge said:

So , they are also paying ads on google. That is pathetic. 

How is paying for ads to improve revenue pathetic?

IceAge

scorpex-x said:

IceAge said:

So , they are also paying ads on google. That is pathetic. 

How is paying for ads to improve revenue pathetic?

You are exactly the player which SC needs. 

It's nothing wrong to improve revenue on a REAL product. It is very wrong to improve revenue on something which ... might come to light .. someday. 

Also, advertising on google, instead on real game websites , is clear that their are aiming for people who does not actually knows the whole story of SC , or "new" people to the gender. 

Adjuvant1

scorpex-x said:

IceAge said:

So , they are also paying ads on google. That is pathetic. 

How is paying for ads to improve revenue pathetic?

Because they have enough revenue for making a game they promised to many, many other people, far, far more than originally was anticipated for the need in development. It's dirty, very dirty.

edit: Also, it means they're using "development funds" for further advertising. Rotten.

tawess

IceAge said:

Also, advertising on google, instead on real game websites , is clear that their are aiming for people who does not actually knows the whole story of SC , or "new" people to the gender. 

I think it is called diversifying the potential customer base (or some such... My marketing speech is getting rusty these days) because to be fair the amount of people you reach with a single google ad pretty much wipes out how many you reach if you advertise on ALL the gaming sites... Not to mention that most gaming sites have run SC stories from day one... So that is kind of redundant. It would in essence be to toss money on the grill. Google ads are fairly cheap for the reach they have. 

Daderick

I would reply to the random idiocy going on here but it wouldn't change anything.

Adjuvant1

CIG is using developer funds also to create more concept videos. The game doesn't look like this. There are not spaceships flying around in planets' atmospheres chasing each other through canyons.

https://www.facebook.com/215475438505750/videos/983573301695956/

They should use the money, which is more than they said they needed, to make what they said they were going to make, not to make more misleading commercials.

IceAge

tawess said:

IceAge said:

Also, advertising on google, instead on real game websites , is clear that their are aiming for people who does not actually knows the whole story of SC , or "new" people to the gender. 

I think it is called diversifying the potential customer base (or some such... My marketing speech is getting rusty these days) because to be fair the amount of people you reach with a single google ad pretty much wipes out how many you reach if you advertise on ALL the gaming sites... Not to mention that most gaming sites have run SC stories from day one... So that is kind of redundant. It would in essence be to toss money on the grill. Google ads are fairly cheap for the reach they have. 

Don't compare google ads with gaming sites ads, when we speak about a game. 

You reach many more people with google ads, I know that, but the conversion it's very low in comparation with ads on gaming websites. 

That's why I said that they are aiming for "new" , "noobs" , etc type of (potential) players, because those are much more easier to make them purchase their "product" . 

I am not against this whole ads think if they would have had a real product, but they don't have a product. Plus, money spend on that ads, are actually money from the players, which they already funded the "product" long time ago. 

IceAge

Daderick said:

I would reply to the random idiocy going on here but it wouldn't change anything.

I would reply to the random fanboys and give them X reasons as to why this whole SC story is smelling dirty, but it wouldn't change anything. 

Adjuvant1

IceAge said:

I am not against this whole ads think if they would have had a real product, but they don't have a product.

This is the most important part. Crowdfunding for your dream is one thing. Advertising a product on google which is not a product is a garbage act of desperation.

tawess

Yeah but it is not like they are a unkown on gaming sites. Low conversion rates and all it makes muhcmore sense to do google ads. 

You are correct in that it is about new customers... That is kind of why you market. 

Adjuvant1

tawess said:

Yeah but it is not like they are a unkown on gaming sites. Low conversion rates and all it makes muhcmore sense to do google ads. 

You are correct in that it is about new customers... That is kind of why you market. 

Market what, tawess? What are they marketing? Say it.

Don't say "game". There is not yet "a game". What are they marketing?