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SirJohn85

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  1. 11 hours ago, ShippyLongstalking said:

    This poll hints at the idea that newtonian / physics-based combat just isn't engaging or interesting...

     

    You can't get complaints about non-newtonian physics, if the people in it have not graduated high school. 

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    I already wrote it here. It is nothing more than stroking the ego phallus.

    If you want to get the attention you get on twitter or similar social media about how great you've built something and then get likes, go for it.

     

    But then you don't have to be surprised that you now have Landmark in space. With the difference that Landmark still had pvp...

    And Dhara hits the nail on the head: it's your own fault if the game can't keep players. It was laughed at back in December 2019 that pvp has no influence, now everyone is demanding it. And NQ listened to the wrong people.

  3. 4 minutes ago, joaocordeiro said:


    Your false expectation is that kickstart like projects have to fulfill their initial proposal.
    Quite common for ppl to have this expectation.

    This is a false expectation because fulfilling their initial proposal may be impossible to achieve due budget constrains, technology obstacles and other viability issues.
    The correct expectation for someone investing on a kickstarter like project is: 
    "As it stands, all my money is lost
    Lets hope they make something out of this, unlike most projects on kickstarter"

     

    I had never had any problems with KS. Factorio, Subnautica and other games I supported came out later on Steam.

     

    But if they try to sell me apples (AvA) and after 3 years I have to learn that they want to deliver oranges (CvC) instead, on the grounds that it is cooler, then I have a problem with that.

    It was never communicated that change and hit the community out of sudden. And now we're standing here, because of some decisions. ?‍♂️

     

    The only real thing they could have done was to be accommodating and offer refunds when they decided to change course.

    I can't get that time and energy back.

  4. 33 minutes ago, joaocordeiro said:

    You have an issue with this because of false expectations you let grow within your self.

     

    It was promised that AvA would be worked on first, as CvC was a stretch goal. This was made unmistakably clear in the KS video. The reason why I am here in the first place, by the way. 

     

    This is not a false expectation.

     

    What happened:
    NQ: I can do AvA!
    Me: *throws money at NQ*.
    NQ: *Makes CvC*
    Me: *Pikachu face*
    NQ: Sorry I didn't meet your expectations.

     

    It certainly wasn't my fault that NQ isn't capable of doing AvA.

     

     

    Edit: Here is the video, even with timestamp.

     

  5. 2 minutes ago, joaocordeiro said:


    Its standard behavior from PR personal to closely follow CEO's directions.

     

    Strictly speaking, she is a community manager, which means that she is the bridge between the brand and the playerbase. I know where you're going with the PR term, but to me that would mean that she's just doing PR and not trying to help the community or organise things that are for the community. And that would not be the case with her. 

    But I think we agree that she certainly talks to the team and the CEO and has done a wonderful job in the past and now.  

     

    7 minutes ago, joaocordeiro said:

    You are the one assuming she is not working as a team, unlike what is expected.

     

    Again, where is this assumption coming from that I'm saying she's not working with the team? In no word was that mentioned anywhere by me. Again, you are interpreting something I never wrote. 

     

    9 minutes ago, joaocordeiro said:

    The fact that she was quite quiet in JC's time and quite communicative with this new CEO suggests there was a change on the communication policy.

     

    I wrote in my linked post that there is a change that is noticeable in the last 2 weeks. But this was not the point of this discussion now.

    My statement was, that neither the CEO nor JC have commented. But you still have to give me your proof, since you claimed that.

     

    3 minutes ago, sHuRuLuNi said:

     

     

    Btw, why is it ok to say "dick move" but not "cunt move"? I do not accept the double standards.

     

    Good question! We should note that for the AMA.

     

    7 minutes ago, joaocordeiro said:

    To me, this can easily translate to "Being an investor, I expected to be warned and informed about management changes"

    But the thing is, you are not really an "investor". You are a player that bought a premium package.
    I'm sure true contractual investors were warned and informed about the changes.

    You have the right to be informed as a player, by the company that sold you your premium package.

    That company choose the community manager to keep you informed.

     

    In a way, the backers were the driving force.

     

    Without the backers, you wouldn't have been able to see the potential player demographic for Dual Universe. At the end of the KS campaign, we were at about 600k euros, with another 3.5 million coming from investors. We didn't reach the stretchgoal for the bounty system, but it was guaranteed to the backers. At that time, when it was not yet 20 million euros, the players were always thanked, in every video you heard the thank you for the support, etc., etc....  I would have shown a little more gratitude now. But a tacit exchange is certainly not one of them in my eyes.

     

    When I compare DU with other Kickstarter mmorpgs, NQ brings up the rear for me in terms of how it treats its players. 2 weeks does not make you forget 4 1/2 years.

    And everything else, as written in the other post, only time will tell.

  6. Let's go through your statements before you start trying to defame people here again.

     

    1 hour ago, joaocordeiro said:

    We wanted NQ to communicate. They are trying.  

     

    Correct. As mentioned here in my post, I appreciate that: 

     

     

    1 hour ago, joaocordeiro said:

    I say you are wrong. The CEO is the leader of the company. He has no responsibility to be the PR. 

    His responsibility is to make sure there is a PR spokesman. 

    And he is doing nice in that job. He delegated this to Naerais and she is doing it.

     

    It is perfectly okay to disagree with someone because a view is subjective and accordingly cannot be wrong. 

    On the other hand, it is different with objective things, because everyone has the same facts on the table. Since I have not read anywhere and there is no statement from Naerais that the CEO has done or said anything, this is speculation on your part that you are trying to put on the table here as facts. Therefore, I would be grateful if you could post a source here.

     

    1 hour ago, joaocordeiro said:

    And you go and say: "nope, i want to hear from the new CEO NOW!!!!"

    My wording from this quote is not a fact, which you want to interpret here and pass off as a fact.

     

    I wrote that the CEO did not approach the player base 1 month after taking office. Neither did JC. This statement, just like the action, is true and obvious to everyone. From my life experience I know that such changes are usually communicated. At the latest when JC has been the face for so many years. See the departure of Jeff Kaplan from Blizzard Entertainment as the most recent example, who took the time to still devote himself to the players. That's where the subjective expectation came from. A demand, on the other hand, was never made in my statement. What you read and interpret in it is not what I wrote. 

     

    1 hour ago, joaocordeiro said:

    So no. I dont agree with you on this. 

    And that joke makes a perfect caricature of your actions. 

     

    As I said, it is perfectly okay to disagree. If you think you've won a prize with it now, I don't begrudge you the feeling.

    Nevertheless, I would recommend a lecture on objectivity and subjectivity. 

  7. Just now, joaocordeiro said:

    Auch that hurts allot, dont know how im gonna sleep tonight. 

     

    But does not really change my point. Just means you runned out of arguments. 

    I'm not sure how you go from a statement to a joke to no arguments. I thought I'd keep you company for a bit. But enough trolling. 

    But to return to the topic at hand:


    Of course, it's your own fault if you believed in the vision of a scientist who showed you that server technology worked at the time. Nevertheless, you have learned something and in retrospect you also see what kind of people they are now.

     

    You draw a conclusion from it and take something with you on your way. And that's also totally okay. I like to take the time to point out such grievances. There are no arguments for me, because in the end everyone decides for themselves what to do with the statement. Everyone should be able to muster a mind to make up their own minds from things.

     

  8. 1 hour ago, joaocordeiro said:

    There is a "joke" suits this well:

     

    A woman stuck on the top floor of a burning building prays for God to save her. 

    Firefighters get some fall absorvers and tell her to jump. 

    She says: "no, God will save me" and continues to pray. 

    Airforce sends a helicopter. They trow a rope and tell her to grab it. 

    She says: "no, God will save me" and continues to pray. 

    The building falls down and she dies. 

    When meeting God in haven and asks:

    "Why did you not save me?" 

    God answers:

    "Who to you think that sent the firefighters and the airforce?" 

     

    Do you know the joke about the implementation of the npcs in the near future?

    Nevermind, you won't get it.

  9. 1 hour ago, joaocordeiro said:

    Its not a requirement. 

    Of course, this is not necessary. It has a bitter taste when money (I'm Ruby Founder) has been invested on the basis of a person's vision and the person wordlessly steps down as ceo and you don't hear anything wrong him. Especially when a company has always preached to be transparent, this is simply a dick move towards the people.

  10. It has now been 1 month since the change in management. Neither JC nor the new CEO have managed to say a few words to the players. You know, something you would expect when NQ preaches that they are a small team and you are a backer who has been following the whole thing for a few years. 

     

    But nevertheless, the real MVP is Naerais.

  11. 12 hours ago, Elitez said:

    What exactly do you know about the mechanic of automatic mining because i dont know anything ? Which game offers passive mining to a level that thats the nr1 source of income, because i play games for 20 years and the most auto thing a game offered was BDO's system where u can afk slow, very slow fishing with pc open. Which other games had passive slow income?

     

    Star Wars Galaxies.

  12. 9 minutes ago, ShippyLongstalking said:

     

    I agree that DU will likely go F2P eventually....but I think it'd be a mistake for them to do that anytime soon.

     

    While the sub model makes no sense for DU in its current state, it does work as a gate to ensure that only very interested players willing to pay install the game. 

     

    If they go FTP, they'll be opening those floodgates and neither the new player experience nor the technicals can handle this gracefully.

     

    They have a lot of work to do before they can even get to the point where FTP will make them money. 

     

    I agree with everything you say. It just doesn't make sense where the journey should go now. What is currently shown does not work in its state. In principle, the game would have to be tackled from scratch. The only things you can take over are assets (meshes, textures, sound...).

     

    12 minutes ago, CptLoRes said:

    Yes and no.. The 'vision' was why they had a successful kickstarter and initial VC rounds. The inability to turn the vision into reality, and then finally subverting the vision in later patches was what made people leave the game. So new management could still try to make DU using the original vision, but this time using sensible priorities and dev methods.

     

    The 20 million euros are gone. The question is to what extent the new management is willing to save the game. I am still actively following Ashes of Creation and from the original 30 million euros that the CEO invested, he talked about having to revise upwards and invest another 10 million euros. 
     

    I hope that NQ will slowly but surely make a statement about the situation.

  13. 50 minutes ago, Taziar said:

    Here's the thing... 

     

    Unless JC got fired for a scandal or health/drugs issue then he got fired because they think the game is failing.  So one of two things will happen.  They shutter it, or they 'fix' it.  Lets look at the latter. 

     

    If a VC is going to fix a failing restaurant they don't just come in and change the wallpaper and add a dash more paprika to the chili.  They reevaluate the entire business because whatever is there clearly isn't working.  That means major changes, and since the biggest issue is lack of customer interest they will focus on appealing to more people.  A broader appeal to a more mainstream audience. So anyone who uses the term 'casual' to denigrate suggestions they don't like are in for a very rude awakening.  When a game is failing, you don't double down on niche appeal after firing the guy who designed it.

     

    As a newcomer it doesn't bother me but I suspect most of the people who consider themselves fans of the game will be writing a lot of angry forum posts in the near future.  

     

    (The only other possibility is they are keeping JC and just giving him a boss, but I wouldn't hold my breath as it was his 'vision' that caused the subscriber count to tank in the first place)

     

    I couldn't have put it better myself.

    The change of the ceo certainly opens up many possibilities. Of course, that also leaves a lot of speculation, but what you say also has a lot of truth to it. 

     

    I am clearly convinced that we are experiencing the final nail in the coffin, that we are no longer getting the game that was advertised in the KS.

     

    DU will survive with this action. The only question is, what will change?

    My speculation: DU goes F2P, avatar and element skins are coming to the cosmetic shop asap.

  14. Just now, sHuRuLuNi said:

    Still not for me, because I cannot play as a robot (cannot identify with it) ... also it does not seem to have much emphasis on exploration, which is always No.1 on my Space Games List.

    It's not my job to convince people. But for those who don't see a flamethrower, rocket launcher or C4 Explosives aka Avatar vs Avatar as "much different", then I'll set the record straight for a moment.

  15. 8 minutes ago, TonyTones said:

    It also has ship breaking as a job or hauling rocks back to station to have people mine there. Gas harvesting which is new and I don't know much about ect. Combat is actual dogfighting and skilled flying, first person shooting. Shooting with your character ect. DU has staring at a screen hitting a button for combat and sitting in a hole for 8 hours on a meganode and selling it to bots to buy schematics that are in place to slow you down. woo content

    And you can snipe people out of ships. (Here shooting to a tank fuel)

     

     

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    16 minutes ago, EasternGamer said:

    I don't think Starbase is much different. You build, you shoot, you mine. I haven't played any of it, but, seeing the videos, it's not the answer to everything.

     

    It has Avatar vs Avatar and electricity... 

     

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