Op Ed [Jul 17, 2015, 6:14 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Derek Smart - Interstellar Justice.
"Give backers the opportunity to hire an independent forensics accountant, and an executive producer, to audit the company records, and give an accurate picture of the financial health of the company, and it’s ability to complete, and deliver this project in a timely fashion. I hereby offer to foot the entire costs of this effort. And I will put up to $1m of my own money, in an escrow account of an attorney’s choosing, to be used as-needed for this exercise. I will pay this price to prove that I had every right to seek these answers. So this money can either go toward a good cause (righting this ship), or to attorneys who are most likely to burn it all down anyway."
LurkerLito wrote on Jul 18, 2015, 10:29:
It sounds like CIG is suppose to release something in 2 weeks or so they say. It'll be interesting to see what they put out. For some reason I can't stop thinking they are desperate to quiet the distension among the backers and are working in crunch time conditions to get it out as fast as possible.
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It's no secret that they are hard at work on Star Marine, the FPS module. You can read about the latest weekly status update here.
It seems to me they are just trying to find excuses now to delay until Gamescom so they can get lots of PR when releasing Star Marine at their event.
I more interested about this bit in the article:These reports range from rapidly dwindling funds left to see the project to completion; to a new report that SQ42 is almost a year away if they don’t reduce the scope, and that it is now going to be an episodic game, in which the first episode (about 3hrs long without cut-scenes) is free, while future episodes are going to be paid DLC.They absolutely did not mention or even imply the single player portion of the game was episodic requiring payment to get anything past the first episode. If they did even imply that during the KS time I would never have backed it. Episodic means it'll never be finished. I don't think I have ever seen a game that was labeled "episodic" finished.
The episodic release format is unfortunately correct but there is no way that they are going to charge us backers for episodes beyond #1. Squadron 42 is supposed to become a full commercial release, i.e. a $50 to $60 game which will naturally also cover all episodes at that price.
Other plans remain to be seen. The article is probably referring to a model where non-backers(!) would be able to download the first episode of Squadron 42 as a free-to-play game or maybe just the intro to the first episode because Christ Roberts once said that the 1st episode of S42 was supposed to become bigger than many full game releases (at three hours that would be a pretty blatant lie). It is also possible that their plan is a timed three hour trial version.
Whatever it may be... as backers we're getting all episodes for free and if you've been an early backer you're also getting the first expansion/"mission disk" (Behind Enemy Lines) for free, too.
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