UmbralRaptop changed the topic of #principia to: READ THE FAQ: http://goo.gl/gMZF9H; The current version is 🐎. We currently target 1.5.1, 1.6.1, and 1.7.x. <scott_manley> anyone that doubts the wisdom of retrograde bop needs to get the hell out | https://xkcd.com/323/ | <egg> calculating the influence of lamont on Pluto is a bit silly…
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Lu. — well i asked a dev who was on discord on announce day and he said it probably wouldnt make the game fun for most players
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Lu. — so i doubt they doin it
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Lu. — anyway hope u guys end up adding it, n body is awesome 🙂
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Sir Mortimer. — It definitely won’t be quick. And as of now we don’t know if it will happen at all. We don’t know if any mods will happen. We don’t even know if the game will happen. All we have are some unspecific movies straight out of a 3d renderer, some even less specific statements of so called devs, and a hoard of hyped fanbois that now fet their hopes up so high that they inevitably will be dis
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Sir Mortimer. — It definitely won’t be quick. And as of now we don’t know if it will happen at all. We don’t know if any mods will happen. We don’t even know if the game will happen. All we have are some unspecific movies straight out of a 3d renderer, some even less specific statements of so called devs, and a hoard of hyped fanbois that now get their hopes up so high that they inevitably will be dis
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Space Dwarf. — I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some of actual footage
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Space Dwarf. — Of the in game versions of some of the trailer ships and stations
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Standecco. — @Sir Mortimer we also have 5 minutes of gameplay
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Standecco. — and no real reason for the devs to lie. This isn't an AAA title with a huge public, it's a niche game with a very dedicated audience and a very good educational reputation
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Standecco. — as someone said on the forums, this is a very good title, for a publisher, to have in their catalog; ruining the IP with devs blatantly lying is a very stupid move
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Lu. — i would argue that ksp2 is a AAA title
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Lu. — the price tag (90 here) is exclusively for AAA games, take 2 is a 'mid size' publisher and the dev team is relatively large and has been working on it for around 2 years
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Standecco. — this is _the_ off topic room
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Sir Mortimer. — Lol
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Standecco. — ksp is an AAA for its price, but you clearly can't compare it to what is currently considered an AAA audience
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Standecco. — that said, I'm obviously cautious with the game since we still lack the technical details; but I doubt microtransactions and the other controversial topics will be there
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Sir Mortimer. — Oh qnd btw: my general opinion of gamers and their sense of entitlement is only slightly better than my opinion of politicians 😉
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Sir Mortimer. — And as long as KSP2 won’t run on macOS it’s utterly irrelevant for me anyway.
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Sir Mortimer. — @Standecco i think one cannot have microtransactions and mods
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Sir Mortimer. — It’s either the one or the other
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Lu. — when they charge that price for it and put 30 ppl behind it for ~3 yrs and a big publisher buys out the prequel, it all points in that direction
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Standecco. — @Lu yeah, of course they're not on the level of the third best selling game of all times
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Lu. — i think some of the concerns are valid as we really dont know the extent to which they will turn this into a cash cow
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Standecco. — lol, ksp a cash cow
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Standecco. — @Sir Mortimer when they tried it went horribly wrong in a much more mainstream an larger audience
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Lu. — ~50k steam reviews on ksp1 indicate a reasonably large audience
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Standecco. — skyrim has 18k only in the special edition (only released in 2016) and ignoring the console players
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egg. — @Sir Mortimer
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egg. — > We don’t even know if the game will happen.
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egg. — or when, that is a point that too many forget
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egg. — also I like the fact that you properly use RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK for apostrophes rather than APOSTROPHE (which should not be used for apostrophes)
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egg. — afaict it is easier to do so on mac?
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egg. — @Standecco you do not need to lie for announced release dates not to align with reality
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egg. — you merely need to encounter the harsh realities of software engineering
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Standecco. — they said spring 2020, I doubt it'll happen much later
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Standecco. — it can be delayed, but not much more than a year
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Standecco. — @egg I don't even have that character in my keyboard
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Sir Mortimer. — @egg it’s the ios auto completion - in this case 😃
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Standecco. — ```I can point to dozens of single-player only games which are always online, and KSP2 doesn't even have that argument anymore, allegedly. Games are no longer individual experiences, they are "services" now.
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Standecco. — Plenty of games with mod support have DRM.
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Standecco. —
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Standecco. — I could easily counter saying that the only reason to believe it will stay on steam is hope and optimism. Despite what advertisements for lawyers tell you, past results are a good indicator of the future, its sort of what the scientific method is founded on.
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Standecco. — Easy. Extra skins, extra parts, extra planets. You know all those upgrades for the buildings in career mode? Easy micro-transaction targets. Want to revert to launch for the 11th time that day? Sorry, you've run out of revert tokens, wait 24 hours, or pay the low, low price of 500 kurbles (i couldn't think of a better pun for a currency then with "ruble", sue me). Why would they do any of this? B
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Standecco. — It would cost extra money to hire or train support staff, and there's not enough revenue to be gained to offset it, so there's no reason to support it. They'd have more of an incentive to try and get it to run on iOS or Android before supporting MacOS or Desktop Linux.```
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Standecco. — ```Easy. Extra skins, extra parts, extra planets. You know all those upgrades for the buildings in career mode? Easy micro-transaction targets. Want to revert to launch for the 11th time that day? Sorry, you've run out of revert tokens, wait 24 hours, or pay the low, low price of 500 kurbles (i couldn't think of a better pun for a currency then with "ruble", sue me). Why would they do any of this