/v/ - Video Games

>>14082664

How do you even spend 200m on advertising a game?

>>14082677

pay off every publication to run ads, pay for the great reviews when the game launches, plaster ads on public transit, run TV ads (megajewbucks if you do it during something like the Superbowl), run ads before movies.

>>14082677

Because of how amazing its glass was.

>>14082810

My question is why do we tolerate that shit? I see titanfall threads here, when the first game came out there was a solid month of template thread flooding old/v/ at all hours. Everyone that gives money to the company that pushed that kind of shit should be banned.

>>14082810

second image

>The 2.0 patch fixed everything.

did it turn it into diablo 2?

>>14082677

capitalism, spending more money telling someone to buy a product than actually making a good product :/

>>14085514

>How the fuck did an Atari game cost 22 million?

Licensing rights perhaps? E.T. proved a very popular film, and I'd wager that, regardless of how the game turned out in retrospect (hindsight being what it is), I'm sure a number of companies would have been looking to jump on the rights to make money off it for a game "adaptation". Also, note that that $22mil in 1982 was apparently $55mil worth of a cost in [CURRENT YEAR +2], and probably somewhat more now.

>Are they sure they didn't confuse the game and movie budgets?

Said price actually blows the movie's own budget out of the water at that. Apparently the movie cost about $10mil to make, but a year later had pulled in almost $620mil worldwide in profit. Depending on how much of that profit was made when (both the film and Atari game being 1982 releases), I can see how Atari might have had less qualm than they should have towards dropping a huge amount of that $22mil on just the license, if it stood a chance to rake in similarly large profits for them. Also the factor that if memory serves Atari printed off WAY too many copies of the game, which could also have eaten a good bit of that budget on which they wouldn't see a return on.

>>14085501

Punished Roberts

A man denied his starship jpegs contraband.

>>14085514

>>14087021

If you've ever seen the game itself, you'll know that the development costs were about $120.

Games didn't start costing 1 million until the late 90s.

In the 80s, for the most part it was 1-2 guys sitting in a room programming for 3-6 months and that was it.

>>14087021

They buried the surplus games in the desert.

When you spend more on making a game than the market is worth, you'll have to water it down for the sake of wider appeal for a larger market. When indie devs get too much money, the problem is usually lack of oversight.

>>14087499

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>>14087699

>Butthurt Goon who fell for Scam Citizen crying.webm

>>14087699

Is that steak dish any good?

>>14088553

Erotic visual novel, it should be stressed.

>>14088553

>inb4 the guy making the visual novel asks for money and never delivers

>>14088553

I would willingly murder any Westerner and his whole family that tries to develop a visual novel. They always, always fuck it up.

>>14082647

>Should the real question be, have most AAA games produced so little for what development money that they've received?

If you've started with a new IP like Starcitizen, then it wouldn't be a good idea as it prevents you from having a sequel if it fails to earn that amount. Investors would prefer to invest in cheaper projects with a short deadline.

It also seems that developers tend to be creative with the limitations of smaller projects.

>>14085480

Been thinking about this aren't a lot of game dev studios located in socialist Europe like DICE and Rockstar North? It seems that most games developed in Capitalist countries games like Japan and US are devoid of lootboxes.

>>14096649

:(

>>14094943

Just because they have universal health care or some other things you don't like doesn't mean Europe isn't capitalist. Might as well complain that public libraries also mean the US isn't capitalist.

>>14096850

>the economy is completely controlled by said governments in every single way

It isn't, though. Unless you're some libertarian retard who thinks government safety regulations are a bad thing.

The marxism is propagated by the media, and it's growing in the US just as cancerously as in Europe.

>>14096850

>trying this hard to shit up a thread with your shitposting

Go away.

Games like SC only show that all these retarded has-been fatbody devs need a couple of suits to whip them into doing actual work.

Ironically, crowd funding to get away from "publisher meddling" only proves that devs by themselves are incompetent.

i spent money on it in 2013

where is the game

>>14082647

I'm not even going to try to defend SC. They clearly can't handle the scope of their project, and have slid the campaign directly into an illuminati money laundering pyramid scheme.

That said, I think all AAA games should have the scope and ambition of what Star Citizen "claims" it will be. I want to see companies gambling hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of careers on hail-mary overdesigned shots in the dark.

Why? Because at least 0.5% of those would turn out to be groundbreakingly amazing games, and vidya would actually be good again for the first time in nearly 30 years.

Also all those people would lose their jobs and their families would die from hunger, so that would be fucking cool.

>>14099182

This is bait but

>You don't make a billion dollars off of cattle with anything even close to resembling a poor experience

Tell that to PUBG.

>>14099199

>PUBG

No matter how much you hate this trash at least the game logic is pretty much fault less. You can play and win or lose. Game works. Star Citizen does not.

>>14099388

>Game works

Except for the awful optimization, known glitches and exploits, and abundance of hackers.

Requesting the webm of the guy climbing out of a space ship off a ladder with after credits added

Bump

>>14085501

>star citizen community

STOP POSTING THE SAME WEBM OVER AND OVER AGAIN AS IF EVERY BELIEVER WAS A FURFAG

>>14097856

Spending money on it is the game.

I don't believe SC will be half of what was promised and I'm aware it's far behind schedule. But they do have a real game out and it's still in active development. It's not a scam. And these videos are mostly annoying cheap shots.

>>14082647

Star shitizen is what happens when you let gamers design their dream game and give them basically limitless money to do it. No direction, conflicts of interest, dumb decisions and so on. This is why you need a publisher to keep the dev team within established time limits. This is also why the project manager should actually have business experience as opposed to being a kid in a candy store with mom's credit card.

>>14101143

Stating a reasonable opinion is not cool, you either absolutely abhor Shekel Yidizen and firmly believe that within the next 5 days it will come crashing down with no survivors and fans will organize group suicides, or you're a shill with $10000 worth of jaypegs.

>>14102206

>reasonable opinion

>dumbfuck thinks SC will deliver even half of what is promised

>thinks they have a great game currently

>when it's just a collection of CryTek mods that bug out at the drop of a hat and run at 5 fps when anything even remotely exciting happens

How many jpegs did you both buy?

>>14102265

>dumbfuck thinks SC will deliver even half of what is promised

Touche, it might be more like quarter, probably with 10-15% of the promised systems

>thinks they have a great game currently

No one said that, you're just demonstrating that you are exactly the type of retard I was talking about

>when it's just a collection of CryTek mods that bug out at the drop of a hat and run at 5 fps when anything even remotely exciting happens

Yeah no, it might well be a complete mess that runs at 5fps all the time, but still a quite enormous amount of work went into what they have now. Lots of work != good game, but certain aspects of what they've done are impressive regardless, and you can actually live your life without calling literally everyone who dares say anything good about them a shill.

>>14102359

>Touche, it might be more like quarter, probably with 10-15% of the promised systems

Just go to this page. Don't be misled by the 18%, because a lot of that has next to nothing to do with the game proper

https://starcitizentracker.github.io/

>No one said that

The faggot you were quoting said that. Learn to read you imbecile. Let me quote him for you

>But they do have a real game out and it's still in active development.

Learn to fucking read.

>and you can actually live your life without calling literally everyone who dares say anything good about them a shill

I didn't call you a shill, I just called you a cult member suffering under sunken cost fallacy. There is no game here, it's a bunch of mods that barely mesh together and break the game even in highly scripted vertical slices. They're five years into developing it and have nothing to show for it. By now all the core gameplay mechanics should have been implemented and they should be busy adding content, instead all they do is shit out more jpegs and find new ways to turn the "game" into an even bigger p2w scam. At least other p2w turds are actually out and functional.

>>14102435

It's not a real game either. Funny how you ignored everything else when I provided solid proof the game is a massive scam.

>>14082677

The same way you can spend $1 Billion on a losing presidential race

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>>14096842

>Implying that Capitalism isn't the 2nd most Jewed up ideology and isn't about as shit as Marxism

Sick of seeing people against NatSoc and pretend to be /pol/

>>14102206

This is /v/, what do you expect? They swallowed the Derek (jizz) Pill and lost over 100 IQ where thia game is concerned.

>>14100968

Arguably some games need more of a push than others, but I'm not sure I'd consider something with by then existing popularity like Call of Duty to be one of those. Especially not a "let's drop four times the actual development costs on shilling" tier push.

>>14087465

Hmm good point, I'll see if I can make a new version of my WebM using them instead.

>>14102527

You mean capitalism or (((finance capitalism)))?

>>14104554

Oh, he baked it, but still disgusting. Interesting documentary at least, Chris Roberts was a literally who to me until 8chan started laughing at his shitty space MMO.

>>14106929

Oh, wait, it’s just their SSD. Still, the firmware in those has a backdoor for Israeli surveillance.

>>14099853

>BELIEVER

Good Lord, Anon, it's an unreleased video game, not a religion.

>>14099853

This. Even if they're retards, furfags don't deserve to be compared to star citizenfags.

>>14082988

>My question is why do we tolerate that shit?

Because Mark the kike.

>>14107138

>asks you to contribute money despite being rich as fuck

>asks you to believe that the game is real despite offering no proof ever at any time

It basically is religion my dude.

>>14096842

This art style was extremely common on book covers from the 70s, is there a name for it?

>>14104181

Stop posting physics bug videos. Especially redundant ones.Especially bugs that are relatively easy to iron out. You're obviously just being petty.

>>14082647

I made the mistake of buying gta 5 like an idiot, and I personally believe they blew most of their budget on hookers and blackjack.

>>14107863

I enjoyed the game on ps3 it was a pretty good used game buy

>>14110962

What did CIG do to Crytek?

>>14111032

Violated their contract.

>>14111038

That's lewd.

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>>14110962

These are all great.

>>14107519

>it's easy to fix guise

Then why haven't they done it?

Besides, all kinds of things are happening in these.

10 print "We received too much money, of course we have to expand the scope of our project!"

20 print "Our scope has expanded, we need more money."

30 GOTO 10