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Elder Scrolls Online announced.

Awesome.
 
Next issue - missing 'thumbs up' smiley :D

With the Two Guys' Kickstarter on its way in the near future, I thought this video raises some excellent points about the creative advantages of the crowdfunding model over traditional video game publishing routes.
 
Extra Credits, Season 4, Episode 10: Crowdfunding
 
Just food for thought...
 
Jess

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s96/tomlee80/PaulTrowe.jpg
 
And still he continues.... In all honesty I never saw the orginal Paul Trowe comment on Kens personal facebook page, seems Ken might have deleted it :) But still Paul persues a response - even though the Sierra Alums page is open to a number of Sierra fans like myself.
 
Too bad, it shows Paul Trowe up in a pretty bad light. He is blissfully ignorent to this thread and I think we should keep it like this. I'm pretty sure all the other ex-Sierra/replay team think he's being a massive douche.
 
Kudos to Josh for telling Ken Allen to do the music for this game. I'd love that too!

Changed the color of the unread message icon. Hopefully it's bright enough now. :)

Definitely wasn't trying to say anything bad about Spaceventure -- only felt that Paul Trowe was a little bit iffy for his comments, and overall.. Doesn't really over-shadow the good he's doing, but still.
 
Along with the letter/update he wrote a few days back, I have to say Josh Mandel has the right tone / fundraising-speak-style and best pitches from their campaign -- great closing video sends folks to Jane & the Two Guys when they launch:
 

I'm not for mudslinging myself -- I'd like to think those days are past me -- but Paul's remarks against Chris Pope just struck me as being a tad disrespectful.

But with all the shit-slinging here, let's not forget about the GOOD things Paul Trowe has done. He DID bring Leisure Suit Larry back from the brink, with Al Lowe AND Josh Mandel on board. That deserves credit.
 
What doesn't deserve credit is his way of going about things, and -- apparently -- slinging his filth at people who won't conform to his expectations.
 
This is me, being diplomatic.

For those who haven't seen it, Paul Trowe (Replay Games, with Josh/Al doing LSL1VGA on Kickstarter) said this to Ken Allen (former SQ4 composer and about to be interviewed by the Two Guys) on Facebook today:
 
"Ask them a hard question. Ask them why they didn't join up with the folks at Replay Games to create Sierra 2.0 and instead chose some guy they've never heard of, Chris Pope, to run a company they don't own."
 
Thoughts/comments please! Talk about putting the flarx amongst the kjorn.

Another minor tweak: I believe the conventional spelling is "Andromedan." The Spaceport forum currently has an extra "i" in there.
 
Sorry to nitpick!
 
On an unrelated note, I'm curious to hear how SQ fan games will be integrated into the new site. Are we planning to give them their own link in the navbar? That's the option I'd favor. I think it's a good idea as far as rebuilding an active community to drive as much attention toward Incinerations, VSB, and the SQ2 remake (as well as the older fan games like Replicated and TLC) in order to keep the fans busy while they're waiting for the SPACEVENTURE to come to fruition.
 
Just my two cents...
 
Jess

I feel the same way -- Double Fine hit a very narrow 'novelty/nostalgia' Kickstarter "window" with their adventure, and I'm not sure it's possible to incite that level of over-enthusiastic giving again. To me, this puts a lot of weight on their game to actually "help the genre" in some way. Sure it was "Tim Schafer & Ron Gilbert and they're amazing," but not to the extent of the giving -- I've certainly seen a lot of posts from people who backed Wasteland "just because it seemed like a great idea, but never played the games." To me, this seems like there was an extension of that "Kickstarter-enthusiasm" that bled over, bolstering it beyond fanbase donations. Who knows whether that amounts to 10%, 25%, or more of the raised amount.
 
I realized at some point that I was funding things I wouldn't have otherwise bought or played due to the addictive excitement of the pledge/campaign model -- then pulled the plug on some donations, and tried to account for this strange game-ification of the non-profit fundraising model.
 
I guess I would advise Scott & Mark that by keeping the "goal amount" as low as possible they stand to spur a lot of magical-infectious-thinking. I think this is one thing that hurt (amongst many other things) the psychology behind the LSL Kickstarter. I think it's easier to raise money when aiming at a low "Oh, that's easily achievable" goal-amount, and then easier to raise money off of the "leveling-up" of the game after that's achieved -- opposed to the opposite, a goal which initially turns off would-be backers by appearing to be "a stretch." The same psychology works similarly in non-profit telethons and fund-raising, and it is a more traditional model to spur donations -- but I don't believe there's a more predictable method of recreating any of the Kickstarter successes that relied heavily on that impossible-to-recreate enthusiasm.
 
Edit: I'll likely give between $100-$150 to Spaceventure, almost regardless of the above or revealed facts about the game -- but that's after a lot of review. I'm a sample of one, but I do trust Scott & Mark more than Tim Schafer (who I will say is incredibly likeable, high on charisma and marketing, makes broad but often confused games, and is overrated on 'trust meters').

It says it in the page title too! :P
 
I can put Janitorial Times at the top in a tag if you think that will help.

Episode 2 live!

Episode 2 live!

http://www.startrek.com/article/tng-the-first-season-blu-ray-arrives-on-july-24

We got rid of them. No off-topic posts in the new order.

Looks good. One small criticism, the drop shadow on selected text just kind of smudges it, reducing readability.

Hey guys,
 
It'll definitely take some time getting some used too. But that's not to say we won't be listening to your criticism! So please share any thoughts you might have. The look & feel still needs some tweaking. And I'd love some additional features myself... We'll get there. The pase will be a bit different I imagine, compared to ten years ago.
 

Indeed. Please note that I am working on stuff, but I need a little bit more time to prepare. Sorry, but I can't say anymore. I'm under orders and bed sheets. Now where did those offtopic and middle finger smileys went off to? :D

Should be better now.

Who is this Frede guy???

Well, we did it! Welcome to the new website! It's still heavily under construction and needs a ton of content but for now we've still got the old website archived and accessible for you to peruse. We've also got a working forum complete with converted database from the old phpbb board so all your accounts and posts should be intact! If you encounter any problems please let us know! We're working hard to make this the best Space Quest site since the last version of SpaceQuest.NET! Any suggestions for what content to add are also welcome. So please speak up and help make this place awesome because you all make it awesome.
 
Some new features of the new site:
 
-All accounts are integrated into the entire website so if you're a reporter you can add content and articles to the rest of the site with the same account you use to access the forums
-You can log into the site with your Facebook and/or Twitter accounts
-You can comment on articles!
-You can like posts/articles!
-You can "Facebook Like" articles!
-You can Tweet articles!
-You can pretty-much-any-social-network-interact with articles!
-If you have a Gravatar account you can use it for your forum avatar (the 2GFA website uses this system as well for comments on their website)
 
There's a lot of features, these are off the top of my head after looking through a bit.
 
EDIT: Anybody who used off-site linked avatars will have to reupload, but otherwise everyone's avatars should be intact.
 
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Holy hell! Congratulations, guys! It looks awesome!
 
I can't wait to get my grubby hands on the admin panel and start causing some mayhem. ;)
 
*STANDING OVATION*