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[CS420]

Recently, I have heard that EA will be seeking crowdfunding for Mass Effect 4, to make it the biggest, best Mass Effect game yet. As a former employee of Cloud Imperium, I cannot urge them to avoid this path strongly enough, for I have seen first hand how negatively overambitious stretch goals can affect a studio's environment.

 

I'd always had my doubts about the direction Star Citizen had been taking, but I didn't fully realize what Star Citizen had become until the day Chris Roberts decided that Star Citizen needed to be Watson compatible. For those of you not in the know, Watson is an artificial intelligence originally created by IBM to play Jeopardy, and is now being tested for applications in law and medicine to assist doctors and lawyers in gathering information. As soon as Chris heard about this, he spent $24 million to acquire a Watson unit for Cloud Imperium, and demanded that we adapt it to enhance the intelligence of the persistent universe's NPCs, to make them more lifelike than in any game before.

 

When I protested aloud and said that we should finish the features we had already promised before attempting such thing, Sandi Gardiner, the company's HR manager, strapped herself into an experimental powered exoskeleton Cloud Imperium had acquired from DARPA, dragged me into the basement by the scruff of my neck, and beat me with a beer bottle wrapped in a tube sock until my left eye ruptured. She then told me that there was no room for uppity (racial slur redacted) to defecate on The Chairman's dreams in her company, and that delivering more than we have already promised is the entire point of Star Citizen. When I returned to the ground floor, no one would make eye contact with me. Two weeks later, I snapped and began to cry uncontrollably while programming Watson to procedurally animate the animations of mortally wounded Vanduul, and was promptly fired.

Please, say no to crowdfunding. When Mass Effect 4's Kickstarter goes up, just let it fail so BioWare's employees won't end up like me.

[sjsharp2011]

I don't think so as ME4 is actually Andromeda and have set a release date of the end of next year for it.

[slimgrin]

No way this is real....

[Addictress]

No way this is real....

Oh but what a delight if it were!

[sjsharp2011]

Of course it's not real Bioware are owned by EA and they have more money than they know what to do with so wo0uldn't need any crowd funding for their games

[Awkward Octopus]

...Is this one of those tests to see if people actually read articles or just the headline?

[slimgrin]

...Is this one of those tests to see if people actually read articles or just the headline?

 

 

Looks like I failed.

 

*shame*

[The Hierophant]

 

When I protested aloud and said that we should finish the features we had already promised before attempting such thing, Sandi Gardiner, the company's HR manager, strapped herself into an experimental powered exoskeleton Cloud Imperium had acquired from DARPA, dragged me into the basement by the scruff of my neck, and beat me with a beer bottle wrapped in a tube sock until my left eye ruptured. She then told me that there was no room for uppity (racial slur redacted) to defecate on The Chairman's dreams in her company, and that delivering more than we have already promised is the entire point of Star Citizen. When I returned to the ground floor, no one would make eye contact with me. Two weeks later, I snapped and began to cry uncontrollably while programming Watson to procedurally animate the animations of mortally wounded Vanduul, and was promptly fired.

 

[Lumix19]

...Is this one of those tests to see if people actually read articles or just the headline?

I was actually going with it until I got to the "experimental powered exoskeleton".

[CS420]

No way this is real....

I know it's hard to believe, but DARPA really did trade us a powered exoskeleton. You see, the biggest obstacle to the deployment of these machines is energy consumption, and the model they traded us just isn't power efficient enough to run on batteries for as long as the pentagon needs it to. They didn't really have any use for it anymore, all we had to do was create a training video for them using our ship assets. Whole thing cost about $130,000 to put together, but power consumption isn't an issue at our studio, we have plenty of outlets.

[Brightwolf]

Recently, I have heard that EA will be seeking crowdfunding for Mass Effect 4, to make it the biggest, best Mass Effect game yet. As a former employee of Cloud Imperium, I cannot urge them to avoid this path strongly enough, for I have seen first hand how negatively overambitious stretch goals can affect a studio's environment.

 

I'd always had my doubts about the direction Star Citizen had been taking, but I didn't fully realize what Star Citizen had become until the day Chris Roberts decided that Star Citizen needed to be Watson compatible. For those of you not in the know, Watson is an artificial intelligence originally created by IBM to play Jeopardy, and is now being tested for applications in law and medicine to assist doctors and lawyers in gathering information. As soon as Chris heard about this, he spent $24 million to acquire a Watson unit for Cloud Imperium, and demanded that we adapt it to enhance the intelligence of the persistent universe's NPCs, to make them more lifelike than in any game before.

 

When I protested aloud and said that we should finish the features we had already promised before attempting such thing, Sandi Gardiner, the company's HR manager, strapped herself into an experimental powered exoskeleton Cloud Imperium had acquired from DARPA, dragged me into the basement by the scruff of my neck, and beat me with a beer bottle wrapped in a tube sock until my left eye ruptured. She then told me that there was no room for uppity (racial slur redacted) to defecate on The Chairman's dreams in her company, and that delivering more than we have already promised is the entire point of Star Citizen. When I returned to the ground floor, no one would make eye contact with me. Two weeks later, I snapped and began to cry uncontrollably while programming Watson to procedurally animate the animations of mortally wounded Vanduul, and was promptly fired.

Please, say no to crowdfunding. When Mass Effect 4's Kickstarter goes up, just let it fail so BioWare's employees won't end up like me.

 

As the HR manager in charge of remotivating this programmer, I can assure you that everything he has said about Cloud Imperium is patently false.  He is angry and lashing out because he was terminated due to an inability to look at a computer screen because of a ruptured left eye.  We are based in a non-union area, and thus had every right to terminate and under performing worker and have no legal obligation to provide workers comp or other forms of renumeration for injuries sustained during attitude adjustment therapy.  Please address and additional questions, comments, or concerns to our legal department.

[Remix-General Aetius]

I know it's hard to believe, but DARPA really did trade us a powered exoskeleton. You see, the biggest obstacle to the deployment of these machines is energy consumption, and the model they traded us just isn't power efficient enough to run on batteries for as long as the pentagon needs it to. They didn't really have any use for it anymore, all we had to do was create a training video for them using our ship assets. Whole thing cost about $130,000 to put together, but power consumption isn't an issue at our studio, we have plenty of outlets.

 

you should've gotten a Nanosuit instead.

[Laughing_Man]

That was a good one.

[SetecAstronomy]

I have no idea what's going on...

[BatarianBob]

Please don't give EA ideas.

[Killroy]

What is even the point of this? There is no punchline. It's just a bunch of dumb ****.

[Addictress]

What is even the point of this? There is no punchline. It's just a bunch of dumb ****.

Great armchair message board post connoisseur A+

[Fidite Nemini]

0/10 base points for company bashing, even if it isn't the one that owns this place.

 

-2 points for impersonating salty CI ex-employee

 

+1 point for mentioning the general outline of complaints about SC overstretching its goals

 

 

When I protested aloud and said that we should finish the features we had already promised before attempting such thing, Sandi Gardiner, the company's HR manager, strapped herself into an experimental powered exoskeleton Cloud Imperium had acquired from DARPA, dragged me into the basement by the scruff of my neck, and beat me with a beer bottle wrapped in a tube sock until my left eye ruptured. She then told me that there was no room for uppity (racial slur redacted) to defecate on The Chairman's dreams in her company, and that delivering more than we have already promised is the entire point of Star Citizen. When I returned to the ground floor, no one would make eye contact with me. Two weeks later, I snapped and began to cry uncontrollably while programming Watson to procedurally animate the animations of mortally wounded Vanduul, and was promptly fired.

 

+2 points for creativity.

 

Overall verdict: 1/10, would not bang, would misappropriate crowdfunding to buy two slots for next spaceshuttle flight and toss out the airlock.

[Remix-General Aetius]

What is even the point of this? There is no punchline. It's just a bunch of dumb ****.

 

spoken like a true Jacqueline Naught.

[BraveVesperia]

Sandi Gardiner, the company's HR manager, strapped herself into an experimental powered exoskeleton Cloud Imperium had acquired from DARPA, dragged me into the basement by the scruff of my neck, and beat me with a beer bottle wrapped in a tube sock until my left eye ruptured.

Sounds like fun, can I have a go?

[wolfsite]

Shenmue 3 is another fine example of croudfunding

 

Project goes live on Kickstarter and is funded, however the project was already funded by Sony and another company before going public for more money

https://www.kickstar...e-3/description

Ended up getting $6.3 million

 

Then they re-opened Paypal for additional fan funding (called the Slacker Backer)

 

 

Now the developer wants more money and we haven't even seen any actual work

http://www.escapistm...-Use-More-Money

 

Just doesn't feel right that a developer needs to take advantage of crowdfunding when they have full backing from a big publisher that appears invested in the project.

[Laughing_Man]

What exactly is Shenmue 3? RPG? Anime BS? Dating sim? Something else?

[wolfsite]

What exactly is Shenmue 3? RPG? Anime BS? Dating sim? Something else?

It takes elements from several genres, but it is primarily considered an open-world Action adventure game, but it has lots of mini games and social elements among NPC's as well as having classic arcade games hidden within the actual game world.  It's also the series that popularized quick-time events.

[LinksOcarina]

So long as people realize crowd-funding is the equivalent to hedge-funding in many ways, and your money is at risk when you back a project, I am all for it. More interactions with the fans can be a good thing, and if EA is willing to do it, go for it.

 

I think, however, Mass Effect is a bit too far along to do this. Plus, I know people will be cynical because they will claim EA is holding back content or some stupid **** like that. 

[Han Shot First]

 

When I protested aloud and said that we should finish the features we had already promised before attempting such thing, Sandi Gardiner, the company's HR manager, strapped herself into an experimental powered exoskeleton Cloud Imperium had acquired from DARPA, dragged me into the basement by the scruff of my neck, and beat me with a beer bottle wrapped in a tube sock until my left eye ruptured. She then told me that there was no room for uppity (racial slur redacted) to defecate on The Chairman's dreams in her company, and that delivering more than we have already promised is the entire point of Star Citizen. When I returned to the ground floor, no one would make eye contact with me. Two weeks later, I snapped and began to cry uncontrollably while programming Watson to procedurally animate the animations of mortally wounded Vanduul, and was promptly fired.

 

 

 

I lost it at powered exoskeleton. 

 

Well done sir or madam. That is one of the funniest things I've ever read on this forum. I am now a devoted fan and look forward to your future endeavors.

 

Also numbered BioClone, please do not delete this magnificient thread. Show mercy and allow it to stand the test of time as the pyramids have, locked if necessary, but preserved for future generations to enjoy it as I have. Thank you, kind benevolent forum masters. Praise be to EA, our ever just and magnanimous overlords ,etcetera, etcetera...