Creston wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 17:33:

Tanto Edge wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 17:30:
Half a million dollars, and they're just reskinning XCOM.

How else do you expect turn-based combat to work? This is how turn-based combat has worked since the dawn of... turn-based combat.

nin wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 16:33:

jdreyer wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 16:26:

Creston wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 12:56:

ASeven wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 12:15:
Hmm, I wanted a new Ultima but my points against this project have been exposed quite well by Creston.

Also, I am now having second thoughts on Civitas. Upon further review I think Civitas might be a scam and I'm not the only one thinking that.

Yeah, I have to admit that I've felt a little warning signal going off in my mind when I look at Civitas.

I hope I'm wrong, and I have a reminder on the page so I'll have another look 2 days before it's set to expire. But so far it does seem a bit iffy. And again, I see no way you can make a game of this kind with $250K, especially not if you're going to be releasing all these mod tools.

Creston

Might not be a scam, but it doesn't look to be a very experienced team, either. Posted by this guy.

I love the fact that they talk about getting PP links/page up and running, when they should never do that until they reach their initial goal...something fishy there. Obviously if you give to them now via PP, not only are you charged immediately, but it also doesn't count towards their KS goal...

http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/1584821767/comments

InBlack wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 09:43:

Sho wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 09:39:
FTL is an example of a KS breakout success that's already been released, but I'm guessing you mean big KS games. I think the first one to release is Broken Sword: The Serpent's Curse in September (which was a no-brainer for me, big adventure fan and fan of the series, and these guys know what they're doing).

Ahh thanks Sho, I guess Ill have to get around to checking FTL. If I had played that I would probably be aware of that fact.

Verno wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 09:34:

It's SimCity. It's a brand name that has the potential to sell millions, though of course it doesn't mean it has.

It's a brand name that hasn't been around in awhile and it's a different market these days. I'll reserve judgment on sales figures for awhile.

Quboid wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 09:33:
Yeah, passing $2 millimetres so quickly is impressive, probably.

InBlack wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 09:29:
I wonder what the game is really like though, even those glowing 9.5 reviews are very suspect. My bet is that even if the game was performing 100% as advertised it would still be a buggy mess, with artificial limits on size and terrible AI....

Verno wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 09:25:
Why do you assume a lot of people did? Everything we've seen from EA so far with this game doesn't exactly scream competency. For all we know they can barely handle 200,000 copies. I'm not assuming Sims 3 numbers or something.

Anyways I did vote with my wallet and I'm glad I waited.

Joss wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 23:35:
Now what would really be interesting is if Dice released a full-on Free SDK for the current Frostbite engine out of spite.

Verno wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 12:18:

NegaDeath wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 12:16:
Update via Kotaku via EA forums.

We are continuing to do everything we can to address the server issues. In the meantime, so that we can give you as good an experience as possible, we are in the process of deploying a hotfix to all servers. This includes various improvements and also disables a few non-critical gameplay features (leaderboards, achievements and region filters). Disabling these features will in no way affect your core gameplay experience.

We will continue to let you know as we have more information. We know it has been said before, but we do appreciate your patience as we complete this latest update. Getting you playing is our absolute highest priority.

Disabling online features so that people can just play the game. That's a new one to me.

There is some hilarious hypocrisy going on there. First the online requirements were due to game design aspects that they consider core to the experience but now it's ok to turn them off because they're secondary? They even listed leaderboards specifically. That is pretty amusing.