Maverick Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 https://robertsspaceindustries.com/roadmap/board/2-Squadron-42  Alpha planned for Q1 2020, Beta for Q2 2020. 😯  €dit: And now the "Letter from the Chairman" arrived. I was a little concerned, that it would be released without any announcment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stahlkopp Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 Oh man... that's even worse than expected. Â No wonder that they decided to make their finances public... and these are also worse than expected. Â https://cloudimperiumgames.com/blog/corporate/cfo-comment-2012-2017-financials macgivre 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick Posted December 20, 2018 Author Share Posted December 20, 2018 Hm, those numbers kinda hurt... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stahlkopp Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 Just $14MÂ at the bank... even the worrywarts did not expect this. And finally a $46MÂ Dollar investment... a year of cash... more or less. Â Edit: Well, $14M by the end of 2017... prolly even less before the investment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devil Khan Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 Cutlass red and the Hull C are listed, so I'm guessing the are mission specific, specific being the story line really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowZone Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 I was a little surprised at the state of progress in AI development. Weren't Kythera supposed to be working hard at it for years now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comet Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 In all honesty I was expecting it. How in the world could they have announced a 2016 release date back in the day is beyond my understanding. Anyone that follows game development suspected as much. If your game vertical slice is unpolished, your entire game is still far from release. As simple as that. Games take time to develop. That's for sure. The 10 years to develop predictions were right. I hope that for some people this gives them a bit of a reality check of the state of the game and why it is important to look at this game development with objectivity. It is true that this is an ambitious game and that they are hopefully creating a game that people will enjoy for years. But also true that they have not been honest regarding how long it would take. A good example is @Voa comment bellow.  VoA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boildown Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 It wasn't dishonesty, it was Chris Roberts being optimistic combined with the opportunity to delay and get better planets in trade. I mean tiny landing zones on the moons and planets vs having the whole thing being explorable? Sign me up for the delay. The game is going to be far far better than it otherwise would have been. Well, if you have some terminal disease or are getting married to someone who hates gaming, this sucks, but for the rest of us, this is best. Financials don't look so bad to me. I've said all along the thing "CIG BANKWUPT" people didn't understand was they had no debt, and they can get private financing to finish the game if they needed. I thought they'd take a bank loan, but a private investor with a non-controlling interest is probably better... no loans to pay back with interest. This only means Chris Roberts makes less money proportionally than before. Even without the investment, they were spending $5M more than they took in per year if 2016 to 2017 was the typical rate. I bet 2018 was a better year than 2017 though, so not sure they would have netted down $5M again. I just don't know how seasonal their income is... do they depend on November/December sales to finance the whole year? Possible they could have liquidity problems in August/September waiting on end of year promotion sales. Anyways, that's no longer a concern. LowZone and Danakar Endeel 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VoA Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 Sandi ends up grilling Chris Roberts on ATV about the schedule but nobody can say cloud Imperium games is not being transparent enough power to Sandy Shore being the person who can obviously hold her husband to task   Danakar Endeel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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