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Oh wow. Look at those upvotes! I just cancelled my subscription
In case you haven’t heard, there is a space motorbike, the Drake Dragonfly, going on sale today. You know, for those whales with more money than sense.
For the rest of you, here is a friendly reminder:
Yeah – he’s a moron. The Kickstarter ToS, has nothing to do with the CIG/RSI ToS. And it does apply to everyone; regardless of where you backed the game. As long as you downloaded the game, you had to have agreed to a ToS on CIG/RSI website.
Seriously, it’s astonishing to me. Seriously, read this crap. Most of these folks are ignorant, clueless and/or are Shillizens. Nothing else explains this level of cognitive dissonance and/or denial.
“Companies change their ToS all the time and never tell anyone. This isn’t news. This isn’t unusual. This isn’t interesting unless you want to peddle FUD.“
I mean, did he even read the ToS? What about all the posts online which show the glaring differences between the previous and current versions; and which clearly show that CIG/RSI took away two key components they had used as carrot sticks to gain backer confidence, and thus funding. My guess, yes, they have seen/read it, but like everything else, they’re in complete denial or just continuing to deny that CIG/RSI could do anything wrong. That’s how a cult operates. Completely.
Interesting that normally gamers won’t be making a big deal about a game’s ToS. I made noise. So now they pay attention. And we’re 17 pages into a discussion that some were claiming is no big deal. Go figure.
Go make your voices heard because ignorance and exclusion are no excuse if you’re seeking accountability.
The resident Goon effort poster, has one of his analysis up. In case you don’t have access, here is the full text.
If you want a vision of the purgatorial gaming experience that is Star Citizen, I invite you to watch Batgirl’s latest episode, “Star Citizen AA MORE FUN IN THE PU”
So, early in the video she notes that she’s running 2.4 on a machine that can run all other games in max settings with no difficulties whatsoever– on her overclocked 970, i7 (I think), liquid cooler, etc… But of course her frame rates are terrible through much of this.
She decides she’s going to earn some AlphaUEC by performing on the low-paying “let’s go flip a switch inside a satellite array” mission…
She parks her ship an absurd distance from the array. Why? Because she’s worried about being shot if she starts too close. If there’s one thing Chris Roberts has taught players, it’s fear of mortality. Death should have consequences– and by ‘consequences’, Chris means teleportation back to a bed a bazillion pretend miles away, followed by indeterminable sprint-a-thons through generic sci-fi hallways so you can mash a button on an ATM machine for spaceships which you sprint through yet more hallways to hopefully board, followed by flying through a bazillion miles of pretend space so you can get back to where you were before that oh so consequential death occurred.
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8:45 – PARKING THE SHIP – Batgirl parks her ship in the space boonies and starts floating her way towards the array. Over the course of the float, she notes “I’m finding, the game… It’s pretty much a boring game right now.” Well, yeah. Parking your ship over two minutes away from a mission objective that is as fun as flipping on a light switch does seem a bit light on the thrill factor…
10:55 – ARRIVAL AT THE ENTRANCE – Finally, she’s floated her way to the outside of the array. The mission begins!
11:25 – MISSION COMPLETE – Thirty seconds are spent floating through the bowels of the ship to flip the all important ON switch. Uplink online! 1000 credits earned!
11:59 – ESCAPE! – After some frightening encounters with giant pipes and a non-fatal bonk on the noggin, she’s finally FREE!
13:39 – RETURN TO THE SHIP – She is back in business, 1000 temporary credits richer!
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Now, lets ignore the fact that she repeats the mission at other arrays, and fast forward to yet another moment of such absolute absurdity that it must be watched to be fully appreciated.
21:51- THIS PART SAYS EVERYTHING – “In real life, I’m freaking awesome at landing an airplane! But I can’t land a spaceship to save my frickin’ life!”
Now, you can watch the whole thing from the link above if you want, but if you want to get to the final indignity she endures for the sake of the game she clearly loves, watch her make her final attempt at landing.
36:32 – TOUCHDOWN! – What else do you need to know about this game?
She spent 40 minutes playing and, so far as I can tell, earned 3000 temporary credits. (Please correct me if I’m wrong- I wasn’t watching THAT closely.) A fun exercise would be digging into the 2.4 stores and seeing what that 40 minutes of play time earned her.
More fun in the PU, indeed!
You don’t know the half of it. I just finished a new blog, “Star Citizen – The Finality Of Failure” and which will go live after E3 and once I’ve made whatever revisions my lawyers request.
All of you just need to hang on to your email correspondence, don’t download the 2.4 launcher, thus agreeing to the new ToS. We’re working on something legal which I will announce soon and which will require participation by US residents who i) want a refund, and were denied ii) didn’t agree to the new June 2016 ToS.
