>kingdom of amalur mmo
lol the story behind that game is nuts. It started out as an MMO, and then transitioned to be a singleplayer game because they realized they had no clue what they were doing and needed to shit something out the door immediately. The guy in question is a rich former MLB player that is now a politics-obsessed boomer who likes to hang out on twitter. He got the idea to cash in on the vidya craze several years back and funded this huge project to make a WoW-killer with R. A. Salvatore as the writer. The best part is that he got the state of Rhode Island to give them a loan of 75 million dollars to fund the studio, on the promise of job creation and shit like that, only for them to default on the loan and have to panic-liquidate everything until they ultimately went bankrupt anyway. They ended up having to pay Rhode Island back like 60 million bucks in a settlement. When people say "flop", they usually just mean a game didn't sell well, and then far below that is what happened with Kingdoms of Amalur.
It's odd too because the game honestly isn't terrible. Just had super bad marketing and came out when the MMO-style grindy ARPG genre was oversaturated.
Shit I can't believe it has been a year already since those Black folk got vaporized by the depths.
I celebrate the lives of those men, for they brought to this fricking shithole site some good keks, good and interesting reads and lots of entertainment.
I love how the media tried to drum up sympathy for those trust fundies and everyone was like "let em die, idgaf". Even rightoids are turning on billionaires because of colored flags.
I am begging God for this kind of thing to happen over and over and over until I am bathing in a warm rain of billionaire blood, I want every single one of these planet-killing morons to suffer unimaginable death and horror at their own hands
god bless that the ocean continues to give zero fricks about our supposed technological superiority, everyone treats space as the Final Level but it'll always be the deepest ocean, ready and waiting to pop you open like bubblewrap in a fat man's hands
Isn't it that he said this, but actually he originally did hire them, and replaced them with yes-mans when they protested that he was gonna get people killed?
At that point the minority hires were warm bodies, to create the facade of the project being backed by safety experts. They didn't design faulty equipment, they had no part in it at all except rubberstamping checklists for him.
It's crazy, you'd think a literal billionaire could do the math and realize paying 0.001% of their wealth for a guaranteed safe experience in an actual submarine would be better than spending 0.0001% for something that could kill you just to save a few bucks. It's the equivalent of eating truck stop oysters when you can afford a ham sandwich, why the frick would you risk it? The monetary difference to them is negligible, but even a few percent risk of dying an avoidable death is moronic to risk especially when you're that rich. They could have gotten like an actual military submarine to take them with the net worth of everybody on that deathtrap lmao
It may come as a surprise, but money doesnt equal intelligence.
Yeah the dude was a nepo baby who was somehow moronic enough to get shitcanned from a cushy aerospace engineering job. So he got an MBA and got into venture capital grifting instead.
If you were doing it properly you'd have to rent a submarine and find a guy to pilot it and get them both to the site etc. It's a ballache whereas Titan was an off-the-shelf experiance: you just pay the money and go.
Notch is a billionaire and he's making a dungeon crawler, but it's clearly a hobby for him, he's probably not going to deliver anything.
Smarter billionaires probably realize that instead of wasting time creating imaginary worlds, they can put their "creative" force into the real world, so you have guys like Bill Gates and George Soros trying to reshape entire societies, sometimes the whole world, in everything from people's most fundamental beliefs to regional government politics.
the only example of a rich guy founding a game was that kingdom of amalur mmo and I think he lost millions on it and is now no longer rich lol
He wasted money making an MMO sequel for it. Pity. The game is unironically soulful and fun.
what sequel?
Project Copernicus. It got scrapped.
ah okay. makes sense then. thought that there was actual sequel that was released and just never heard of
>kingdom of amalur mmo
lol the story behind that game is nuts. It started out as an MMO, and then transitioned to be a singleplayer game because they realized they had no clue what they were doing and needed to shit something out the door immediately. The guy in question is a rich former MLB player that is now a politics-obsessed boomer who likes to hang out on twitter. He got the idea to cash in on the vidya craze several years back and funded this huge project to make a WoW-killer with R. A. Salvatore as the writer. The best part is that he got the state of Rhode Island to give them a loan of 75 million dollars to fund the studio, on the promise of job creation and shit like that, only for them to default on the loan and have to panic-liquidate everything until they ultimately went bankrupt anyway. They ended up having to pay Rhode Island back like 60 million bucks in a settlement. When people say "flop", they usually just mean a game didn't sell well, and then far below that is what happened with Kingdoms of Amalur.
It's odd too because the game honestly isn't terrible. Just had super bad marketing and came out when the MMO-style grindy ARPG genre was oversaturated.
I unironically hope that you die painfully and soon.
Every non-indie game released in the past two decades.
10/10 games
Gaben fricked off to New Zealand for half-retirement and everything instantly went to shit...
>he thinks Gabe actually designs the game
He is just a suit.
gaben personally oversaw the games fool. he would tell them what to change
lol
lmao
what didya crop out there, anon?
nutin
tf2 community are complaining about bots and are giving negative scores recently. valve's already give up on the game.
The past which is no more.
They make garbage like New World, Kingdoms of Amalur and other MMOs destined to fail since that entire genre's ship sailed over a decade ago.
A game with a blocky pixelated world where you break stuff down into materials and use that to make items and build stuff
They're too busy committing heinous acts of violence and depravity to make vidya.
Shit I can't believe it has been a year already since those Black folk got vaporized by the depths.
I celebrate the lives of those men, for they brought to this fricking shithole site some good keks, good and interesting reads and lots of entertainment.
Zanzibart... forgive them
the memes were kino
>activate windows
The chudtopus outside the window always gets me.
kek, those guys can actually do fun stuff sometimes
>activate windows
got a genuine chuckle out of me
I love how the media tried to drum up sympathy for those trust fundies and everyone was like "let em die, idgaf". Even rightoids are turning on billionaires because of colored flags.
>x-oid
seeth-ing
seethoid
>Disposable submarine design that would be permanently weakened with each dive.
They asked for this, stupid fools unwilling to spend money.
I am begging God for this kind of thing to happen over and over and over until I am bathing in a warm rain of billionaire blood, I want every single one of these planet-killing morons to suffer unimaginable death and horror at their own hands
What was they all thinking as the ship exploded?
>OH N-
>I should check my Gamestop calls-ACK
god bless that the ocean continues to give zero fricks about our supposed technological superiority, everyone treats space as the Final Level but it'll always be the deepest ocean, ready and waiting to pop you open like bubblewrap in a fat man's hands
Except our tech has defeated it, we can safely dive to that level just fine. They just weren't willing to spend the money on it.
Ocean didn't defeat them, stupidity did.
>Make disposeable hull
>Use it more than once
>"The ocean did this!"
The ocean is in space.
Maybe safety regulation arent so bad after all.
>My sinister plan worked, now everyone will think I'm actually dead despite no dead body."
>maybe i should've listened to those 50 year old white engin-ACK!
Isn't it that he said this, but actually he originally did hire them, and replaced them with yes-mans when they protested that he was gonna get people killed?
At that point the minority hires were warm bodies, to create the facade of the project being backed by safety experts. They didn't design faulty equipment, they had no part in it at all except rubberstamping checklists for him.
That was a good controller.
>have all the money in the world
>gets turned into a human sardine at the bottom of the sea
It's crazy, you'd think a literal billionaire could do the math and realize paying 0.001% of their wealth for a guaranteed safe experience in an actual submarine would be better than spending 0.0001% for something that could kill you just to save a few bucks. It's the equivalent of eating truck stop oysters when you can afford a ham sandwich, why the frick would you risk it? The monetary difference to them is negligible, but even a few percent risk of dying an avoidable death is moronic to risk especially when you're that rich. They could have gotten like an actual military submarine to take them with the net worth of everybody on that deathtrap lmao
It may come as a surprise, but money doesnt equal intelligence.
Yeah the dude was a nepo baby who was somehow moronic enough to get shitcanned from a cushy aerospace engineering job. So he got an MBA and got into venture capital grifting instead.
the billionaire in question was not as smart as he thought he was
If you were doing it properly you'd have to rent a submarine and find a guy to pilot it and get them both to the site etc. It's a ballache whereas Titan was an off-the-shelf experiance: you just pay the money and go.
Now show the video of him dropping the controller on the floor in an interview as foreshadowing.
I still feel bad for the son that got convinced to go because he wanted to spend time with his dad.
that kid was the smartest man on that boat. he could've done great things if only one other person involved had his level of sense.
In the hunt
Boomers have lived a life of such ease, care free luxury that I'm not surprised this moron didn't see it coming.
Living such an easy existence deludes and rots the mind just as much as the constant self-induced suffering in the turd world.
Scrooge McDuck would have built a better deep crush depth submarine than these rich idiots
Notch is a billionaire and he's making a dungeon crawler, but it's clearly a hobby for him, he's probably not going to deliver anything.
Smarter billionaires probably realize that instead of wasting time creating imaginary worlds, they can put their "creative" force into the real world, so you have guys like Bill Gates and George Soros trying to reshape entire societies, sometimes the whole world, in everything from people's most fundamental beliefs to regional government politics.