[quote who="Arch Zero" reply="430" id="3710430"] Quoting Timmaigh, reply 426 Where did i say i know more about the subject than him? Am i not allowed to discuss things and have different opinion? Nowhere did i say brands have no value, or that StarControl mark specifically has no
[quote who="eride" reply="427" id="3710397"] I wasn't making the argument that you actually think you know more about the subject than Brad but that is what your posts implicitly suggest. It looked to me you were claiming, through multiple posts, that you don't believe that the mark itself was worth what Stardock paid if it was solely for the "brand" name. Brad gave multiple explanations and analogies, none of which persuaded you from your "gut" feeling. I don't know how
[quote who="Starkillr" reply="425" id="3710384"] Quoting eride, reply 424 Timmaigh, just out of curiosity... between yourself and Brad, the CEO of a software company, who do you think knows more about this subject? It feels surreal sitting here reading posts where you argue with Brad over whether or not a trade
[quote who="eride" reply="424" id="3710381"] Timmaigh, just out of curiosity... between yourself and Brad, the CEO of a software company, who do you think knows more about this subject? It feels surreal sitting here reading posts where you argue with Brad over whether or not a trademark has value from identifying the software product to the public. I don't even think your opinion reflects commonsense, that of course a "brand" name has value. If the Star Control
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="422" id="3710350"] Quoting Timmaigh, reply 421 Quoting Frogboy, reply 420 I'm really not goi
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="420" id="3710337"] I'm really not going to get into a debate with someone who isn't clear on how important brands are to sales or suggests there isn't vast empirical data on it. Two sodas. They're identical. One is called Coca Cola. The other is called "Fizz One". We can debate on the value of these brands. But that's subjective and unless you have a background in marketing and product sales, it's not a very interesting discus
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="418" id="3710302"] Actually, that’s a very good analogy. Wargaming bought the Total Annihilation trademark for something near $1.6M. Why? Because that has a lot of name recognition. If Ashes f the Singularity had been called Supreme Commander 3 (would have required design changes to make it a SupCom game) we’d probably have sold multiples of what it has sold so far. Brand awareness is v
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="410" id="3710243"] @Starkillr: Agreed. My opinion on these things is well known. For instance, we bid on the Master of Orion IP too. If we had got it, you can bet that we would have developed a Master of Orion game that was a natural evolution of Master of Orion II. When we released Ashes of the Singularity, we spent around $600,000 in marketing. Acquiring Star Control for $300,000 allowed us to instantly c
[quote who="Kavik_Kang" reply="313" id="3709358"] No, it's a real thing. Star Trek, Star Wars, and Babylon 5 have a "formula" that runs through them. They share a set of qualities that other sci-fi stories don't have. It's not "semantics", it is a tangible thing. One of those qualities, to give just one example, is "scope and scale". Those stories aren't about "a fictional world" or "the humans". They are about "a fictional galaxy". That
[quote who="Kavik_Kang" reply="310" id="3709270"] Quoting Timmaigh, reply 308 You see, i love Star Trek to bits, DS9 and then Babylon 5 are my favourite shows ever, but you are so wrong here, its mind-boggling. But whatever, feel free to ignore all the quality new stuff there is, without checki
[quote who="Kavik_Kang" reply="303" id="3709181"] It is not already here. There is now a big, huge, gaping opening in sci-fi that has not existed since Star Trek became dominant in the mid-1970's. Shows like Firefly and The Expanse are virtually unknown, and not in the same category as Star Wars and Star Trek. And they never can be, because they don't follow the formula that made Star Wars and Star Trek so unique and so dominant in the genre. It does matte
[quote who="Kavik_Kang" reply="301" id="3709163"] None of those shows ever competed with Star Wars or Star Trek, they were not even remotely in their league. Babylon 5 came close, in England, but never in America. By comparison, very few people have ever even heard of Firefly or The Expanse. Battlestar Galaxtica never became a big thing, not even as bit as the original BSG had been in it's day. Just being a sci-fi story doesn't put you in the same class with Star
[quote who="Kavik_Kang" reply="299" id="3709159"] What "creative works"? If you are just demanding to write your own Star Trek or Star Wars stories, for example, that is not really "creative", is it? It's actually kind of admitting that you are not "creative", can't come up with something of your own, so you just want to tell your own story in someone elses universe because you aren't capable of creating your own. If that is the case, you are just a pretender anyway.&nb
[quote who="DeepSpaceNine" reply="273" id="3709020"] Talonius, I'm no lawyer either.. but in the broadest terms: they have since announced a game that claims to be a sequel to our trademarked IP, gone on a public offensive against us and our motives for months, and interfered with our ability to market the new game and creating confusion. After that, there's no real way to go back in time and pretend that no harm has been done. All tha
[quote who="JerkClock" reply="280" id="3709032"] It sounds as if Reich may be the 3rd person in his family with that name...................just saying............... [/quote] Saying what? Something involving Third Reich?[e digicons]:D[/e] On more serious note, i am with Talonius here, if there is any chance to drop all the lawsuits and find common ground, it should be taken, instead of dragging this to bitter end.
You have the best job ever, obviously. I am massively envious [e digicons]:D[/e] So what is it that designer vision of yours for Ashes, which may never come to existence due to various limitations? Is there any similar game you have in mind you want it to come close to, or several games, i mean, do you have some kind of ideal in mind? In my humble opinion, i tried to voice it before, the one aspect, where Ashes comes short and why i pretty much rarely play it, are
Nice article/video, thanks. Ashes is really pretty game, although i could nitpick few visual deficiencies, the unit design though, is indeed neat. Supreme Commander was indeed very well done in this regard, some of its unit designs became classics - like MonkeyLord or the UEF mobile base (whatever was its name)... I would say bigger challenge than differentiate visually between factions (human, alien, whatever else) is to differentiate between the different unit types of a
[quote who="Anuben" reply="12" id="3706261"] I can't just get over that Call of duty...it's interesting! [/quote] What is interesting about that?[e digicons]:)[/e] To me, its actually interesting game in regard to its changes over past decade and how i am unable to play it successfully anymore. I mean, i was never good at it, but i in older iterations, like original Black Ops, i had my way of playing, which made me keep about 1,35 kill-death ra
[quote who="Anamatron" reply="11" id="3706238"] If you're still looking for different games to play, I could just drop a fat list of them here. From there you could prbly take a quick look at each of them and see if any pique your interest. Not sure exactly what you might find fun and interesting, but maybe you'll find something. Anyways, just let me know if you'd want said list and I'll post it. [/quote] Feel free to give some tips!
So i bought 3 big games lately, around Christmas: - Call of Duty WW2, - Forza Horizon 3 - PES 2018, and sadly, as expected, i played them nowhere near enough to justify their price. Oh well.
[quote who="lenguyentrung" reply="46" id="3705666"] OH, I must be weird. Of all the shows listed in this thread, I did not watch any of them. [/quote] Perhaps you have better ways to spend your free time? Anyway, some of the shows listed here are really great, so safe to say, you missed a lot.
[quote who="starkers" reply="47" id="3706061"] A new show I want to check out is Hard Sun, a British sci-fi thriller that looks quite promising, according to the previews I've seen. Hopefully I'll know more in the next few days. [/quote] Just checked the trailer, looks really promising, thanks for suggestion! Meanwhile, i watched Mindhunter , 2 seasons of Leftovers , Stranger Things season 2<
[quote who="NightShadowPT" reply="205" id="3705981"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 181 The hope was that Paul and Fred would one day return to their story. So when they do, this is what happens [e digicons]:)[/e] Poetic. [/quote] Very well said. So now,
As a massive Sins fan i feel sad seeing money being poured into pointless legal battles over StarControl, when it could be used to more productive endeavors...like developing next Sins game. Cant shake the feeling that Sins became sort of red herring stepchild in StarDock´s portfolio - GalCiv gets constantly developed and updated, cause its historically the main title, now Ashes gets the pass, cause its a new thing, technological benchmark, spiritual successor to Total A
Nice, congrats! So no i9 then? Thought you were hellbent on high core count CPU cause of the GalCiv. Anyway, is the 8700k delidded? Are you going to try OCing it to 5 GHz and above?
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