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My god, I hope this leads to Star Citizen being released for linux. Maybe this'll be the $50 million stretch goal?

by bstar77 13y ago

wlesieutre 13y ago
That game has piles of stretch goals already. Maybe they'll just say "We're doing Linux because it's easy and will help us make money" instead of trying to juice more preorders out of it. Then again, whether it helps moves sales would depend on whether the Steam Machines get any sort of adoption and on RSI releasing the game before Linux has a lot of notable titles supporting it. Who knows?
- bstar77 13y ago
  The stretch goal comment was meant to be sarcastic.
  - wlesieutre 13y ago
    Oh thank god. With all of their stretch goals and what they're charging for preorder ships that you can look at in a pretend hangar, it's awfully hard to tell. I'm looking forward to the game, but their crowdfunding is a kind of strange mess.
    - sbarre 13y ago
      Their crowdfunding is a hot mess, as they just passed $40M.. Hard to argue with their success there...
      - wlesieutre 13y ago
        Yeah, I'm just not a big fan of the endless stream of stretch goals. Some of them are notable things like an improved mission editor, but a lot of them are "not particularly remarkable star system" and "extra class of fighter that we hadn't mentioned before." As if they weren't going to have a huge pile of star systems and several types of fighters anyway. It comes across like they're trying to guilt people into upgrading to higher preorder tiers because otherwise there won't be any more ships or worlds. I backed it on Kickstarter for whatever tier buys the game, but I'll pass on the $275 in-game spaceship and spaceship shaped flash drive (plus a pile of other stuff). But hey, it's their money and if people want to invest it in this, that's up to them. Hell of a lot better than Candy Crush, if you ask me.

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My god, I hope this leads to Star Citizen being released for linux. Maybe this'll be the $50 million stretch goal?

by bstar77 13y ago

My god, I hope this leads to Star Citizen being released for linux. Maybe this'll be the $50 million stretch goal?

wlesieutre 13y ago
That game has piles of stretch goals already. Maybe they'll just say "We're doing Linux because it's easy and will help us make money" instead of trying to juice more preorders out of it. Then again, whether it helps moves sales would depend on whether the Steam Machines get any sort of adoption and on RSI releasing the game before Linux has a lot of notable titles supporting it. Who knows?
- bstar77 13y ago
  The stretch goal comment was meant to be sarcastic.
  - wlesieutre 13y ago
    Oh thank god. With all of their stretch goals and what they're charging for preorder ships that you can look at in a pretend hangar, it's awfully hard to tell. I'm looking forward to the game, but their crowdfunding is a kind of strange mess.
    - sbarre 13y ago
      Their crowdfunding is a hot mess, as they just passed $40M.. Hard to argue with their success there...
      - wlesieutre 13y ago
        Yeah, I'm just not a big fan of the endless stream of stretch goals. Some of them are notable things like an improved mission editor, but a lot of them are "not particularly remarkable star system" and "extra class of fighter that we hadn't mentioned before." As if they weren't going to have a huge pile of star systems and several types of fighters anyway. It comes across like they're trying to guilt people into upgrading to higher preorder tiers because otherwise there won't be any more ships or worlds. I backed it on Kickstarter for whatever tier buys the game, but I'll pass on the $275 in-game spaceship and spaceship shaped flash drive (plus a pile of other stuff). But hey, it's their money and if people want to invest it in this, that's up to them. Hell of a lot better than Candy Crush, if you ask me.