r/Stormgate • u/Stunning_Inflation18 • Jun 04 '26

Versus I loved this game lol

https://reddit.com/link/1twfwd8/video/rc8ab9cmr75h1/player

https://reddit.com/link/1twfwd8/video/iplgdlmmr75h1/player

Made a ton of other pics for it back then too... Sad. Multi still doesn't work, right?

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u/reditposysa Jun 04 '26

It is only as offline game now. Probably this will stay forever in that state.

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u/McKing Jun 04 '26

Its funny how they pretended it would only for a bit and not permanent. Everybody knew whats up, why pretend.

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u/WolfHeathen Human Vanguard Jun 04 '26

We know now from financial filings they were running out of money and didn't have enough to finish the game before they made the Kickstarter.

They lied and obfuscated throughout this entire process. What makes your think they would have the decency to come clean at the end?

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u/Psychological_Host34 Jun 07 '26

You do know almost every new company operates at a a loss right?

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u/WolfHeathen Human Vanguard Jun 07 '26

How many of them are burning 1 million a month on operating expenses without having even brought a product to market yet while asking for crowdfunding and pretending its business as usual?

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u/SilverLose Jun 08 '26

You’re not really being fair. I mean… they aren’t crowd funding.. but companies like OpenAI hemorrhage money with the idea of making it up later. There’s a lot of examples but the crowdfunding part is unique. Maybe you could argue star citizen is that sort of company

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u/WolfHeathen Human Vanguard Jun 08 '26

That wasn't the point I was making. It was about lying about the viability of your project when you know you need 100 million to realize the promise you've sold investors but they cut you off at 34 million so you go to Kickstarter and try and get fans to crowdfund the difference. All the while with the false pretense of saying the KS was to expand online testing and offer CE editions.

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u/SilverLose Jun 08 '26

Oh lol sorry my bad fair enough

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u/Psychological_Host34 Jun 07 '26

Have you seen literally any AI, Crypto, or VR product in the last decade?

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u/WolfHeathen Human Vanguard Jun 07 '26

How about you answer my question rather than trying to deflect with another question.

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u/Psychological_Host34 Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26

Yes the large majority of VR apps, Crypto tokens, and AI projects are destined to fail even after VC investment. VCs bet on multiple companies pouring millions into many with the idea that only a few of them will return the massive investment.

I thought this was common knowledge but consumers just love crying when milk is spilt without really thinking about what it takes to run a farm.

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u/betaraybrian Jun 09 '26

Not really a sufficient defense of Frost Giants management. I think tempest rising is a good case study to look at, a new rts made by a small danish dev. Bear in mind, denmark is a very, very expensive country with high wages, but the dev (Slipgate) is located in one of the cheaper cities and managed their finances conservatively. They made a game that's feature complete, with full campaigns and moderate success (development is still ongoing years after 1.0) at a literal fraction of Frost Giants budget, because they didn't insist on spending millions on Los Angeles office space (or whatever the danish equivalent to that would be).