The Official Martin Hash Video Game Thread

[Speaker to Animals]

Cherry picking.

[Okeefenokee]

This is the part of capitalism that gets it right. Star Citizen has NO accountability whatsoever. I am rather confident people are getting indicted for this fucking thing at some point, but you can well see what happens when people are not motivated by reducing costs and meeting basic deadlines.

These crowd-funded and alpha release titles are a fucking disaster except for a few notable exceptions. Even then, those exceptions took a very long time to deliver, and the finished product wasn't really all that much better than the beta versions we had been playing for YEARS before they said they were done.

This guy. The fucking balls on this guy. He promised the game in like three years. He failed to deliver all but like one or two of his goals. He is going on six years now, four of those behind beyond deadline, and he decides to use the money people gave him to start yet another title. Before he completes the one he promised would be completed four fucking years ago.

I am sure he will release something, just to ostensibly claim he met his obligations (which wouldn't hold up in court), but ask yourself if the product you see today is really to the caliber one would expect for a project with a budget of over 150 million dollars and now six years in development. Get real.

When government contractors do this to tax payers, people go to prison.

Now you're talking about prison. You have drunk the Derek Smart kool-aid. There's no saving you now.

This is the videogame equivalent of ooky hyperventilating over something she read on salon.

Take a look at what fakenews does, folks.

[Speaker to Animals]

Dude, in the time since we first had this debate, entire games have started development and been released to market.

You need help. You are like a battered spouse at this point.

[Fife]

Vidia games -- so important, only government contracts should be allowed for development and distribution. :goteam: :drunk:

How do you all find the time to play vidia games anyway?

If you all don't watch it, y'all are gonna end up like Jason Adderly's boy.

[Speaker to Animals]

Ask Martin what kind of software project he could develop and get to the market if people just handed him 150 million dollars he didn't even have to pay back. There's no excuse for this shit.

[Okeefenokee]

Dude, in the time since we first had this debate, entire games have started development and been released to market.

That means absolutely nothing. Not a damn thing. Not one of those games is anywhere close to being what SC is, but I remember you called some COD space pew pew a space sim, so it's understood that you don't entirely understand all of this.

Not even NMS or ED can rival SC. You can't even get out of your ship in ED.

[Fife]

Sounds like a bunch of rubes are eager to hand over their shekels.

The money was handed over for what, exactly? What is the nature of the contract?

[Speaker to Animals]

Dude, in the time since we first had this debate, entire games have started development and been released to market.

That means absolutely nothing. Not a damn thing. Not one of those games is anywhere close to being what SC is, but I remember you called some COD space pew pew a space sim, so it's understood that you don't entirely understand all of this.

Not even NMS or ED can rival SC. You can't even get out of your ship in ED.

It means everything. He bilked "backers" for over 150 million dollars, failed to meet the deadlines he promised, and he is delivering a project that should not have cost anywhere near that amount of money.

[Speaker to Animals]

Sounds like a bunch of rubes are eager to hand over their shekels.

The money was handed over for what, exactly? What is the nature of the contract?

Standard Kickstarter scam.


Kickstarter is the most retarded fucking idea I have seen on the internet. Really. It's fucking stupid as hell. The whole idea is that people advertise their business idea, and then other people give them money to develop and bring their idea to market with no real return at all.

Maybe you thought I mistyped that. "Backers" have no financial interest whatsoever in the business ideas they fund. It's like venture capitalism where the capitalist just donates money to people with no return.

[Okeefenokee]

Ask Martin what kind of software project he could develop and get to the market if people just handed him 150 million dollars he didn't even have to pay back. There's no excuse for this shit.

I know man. He practically robbed all those people.