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shea · Post by **shea** » Sat, 9. Jun 12, 21:04

Has Iifrit Tambuur-san informed us why there hasnt been anymore screenshots,dont get the silence

NLS · Post by **NLS** » Sat, 9. Jun 12, 21:31

Well let's agree that if nothing comes from Gamescon, then it's most likely a dead project.

BTW I *have* seen more than once companies or projects die without ANY good bye. It's sad really. Forums go on like insects on a corpse. Then one day either the domain expires, or mods go on with their lives and spam posts grow like jungle grows on Inca temples.

I even remember once, that a company (making a single project) with MANY loyal users, got bought by some big name. Initially they said they will go on with the project etc. Never happened. The old company workforce got into other projects (seemingly "relative" but nowhere near in fact) and users were left hanging.

Let's hope we are NOT close to any of those scenarios.

In EGOSOFT's defense (and in fact if the guys that FEED the project with euros read me - they are not but anyway), currently there is NO other serious "space odyssey" single player project on PC. THERE MUST be a market for that.

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Sat, 9. Jun 12, 21:38

NLS wrote:Well let's agree that if nothing comes from Gamescon, then it's most likely a dead project.

Why? Why is it? Why do they HAVE to talk about it there otherwise it MUST be dead...? There is such a thing as, well, just silence, you know.

When I stop posting in threads here it doesn't mean I'm dead.

ConCorDian · Post by **ConCorDian** » Sat, 9. Jun 12, 21:48

NLS wrote:Well let's agree that if nothing comes from Gamescon, then it's most likely a dead project.

thats not the case for definate, im speculating that fact, i dont know what kind of finances EGOSOFT has, they may have more than any of us expect, and perhaps they can get by on that for far longer than we... well want them to

not that i want them to go bust just i want the game released. to be honest its common sense that the longer a game gets delayed the more likly for it to end up in financial turmoil... i wholely expect EGOSOFT to get Rebirth out before that happens, issue would be more for any further games after that, it would appear they have went beyond what they expected would be the development period, and obviously thats more wages and running costs than would have been present if they hit the release date which means more money spent and less money for profit.

NLS wrote:BTW I *have* seen more than once companies or projects die without ANY good bye. It's sad really.

yeh, but they aint EGOSOFT, they been the most loyal company to their fans ive ever known, they do read these forums, they do reply to the fans, and there have been a good few changes happen thats been a direct result of that. so i would be pretty surprised if that ever happened with EGOSOFT.

NLS wrote:In EGOSOFT's defense (and in fact if the guys that FEED the project with euros read me - they are not but anyway), currently there is NO other serious "space odyssey" single player project on PC. THERE MUST be a market for that.

this i would agree with totally... or at least youd think that would be the case... i remember when you could go into a games shop and have a half dozen PC space games on the shelves that was released fairly recently. now a days they are all dumbed down space shoot'ems or "strategy" games thats no harder than going to the shop for a loaf of bread. the X series has been a real diamond in the rough, and why it hasn't seen far larger worldwide appeal is beyond my reasoning!!

ConCorDian · Post by **ConCorDian** » Sat, 9. Jun 12, 21:49

EmperorJon wrote:When I stop posting in threads here it doesn't mean I'm dead.

damn

only joking mate

ConCorDian · Post by **ConCorDian** » Sat, 9. Jun 12, 21:54

another aspect to think of though... when you think about it the X Series has been shall we say, flawed, there are a lot of glitches on release, and they end up having more content and a better more complete game a yr or so down the line after updates...

this delay might be simply EGOSOFT having a new approach to Rebirth... wanting the game a far more finnished product on release so that they can hopefully get a bigger audience... it may actually make sense to delay a year and finish the game properly rather than spend 2 years after release updating and patching...

NLS · Post by **NLS** » Sat, 9. Jun 12, 22:05

EmperorJon wrote:
NLS wrote:Well let's agree that if nothing comes from Gamescon, then it's most likely a dead project.
Why? Why is it? Why do they HAVE to talk about it there otherwise it MUST be dead...? There is such a thing as, well, just silence, you know.

When I stop posting in threads here it doesn't mean I'm dead.

Well if you stop posting IN YOUR FORUM, maybe you are.

the-danzorz · Post by **the-danzorz** » Sat, 9. Jun 12, 22:25

NLS wrote:
EmperorJon wrote:
NLS wrote:Well let's agree that if nothing comes from Gamescon, then it's most likely a dead project.
Why? Why is it? Why do they HAVE to talk about it there otherwise it MUST be dead...? There is such a thing as, well, just silence, you know.

When I stop posting in threads here it doesn't mean I'm dead.
Well if you stop posting IN YOUR FORUM, maybe you are.

Actually that is pretty common, the EA forums for example, i rarely, ever, see an EA dev for that game post in that section.

Egosoft have the same sort of business model as a lot of other game development studios, including Fictional Games. Where they don't update that often, but when they do it tends to be big.

If you look at the news and updates on TC, there was hardly any until the end of development. You guys need to remember this is an entirely new engine, game and approach, a lot to tweak, fix and test. They aren't using the same engine before with upgrades. So development time will be longer. So that does mean more time between updates.

The project isn't dead, i agree egosoft should update us more often. However i also believe too much info upfront will also make the game less exciting when i go into it.

amtie · Post by **amtie** » Sat, 9. Jun 12, 23:38

DarkKlown77 wrote:
amtie wrote:Conspiracy theories!

Maybe the Pandorans from the Mitikas empire (who gets the reference? ) are infiltrating Egosoft and X:Rebirth is their secret weapon!
Isn't that a book reference?

Yes.

Lorien · Post by **Lorien** » Sun, 10. Jun 12, 00:14

I think there's been no new screenshots recently as they're all off playing Diablo 3

Aragosnat · Post by **Aragosnat** » Sun, 10. Jun 12, 00:23

EmperorJon has died today.

Yokes aside. CBJ
did make a post in the "Rebirth Release Date" thread page 16 saying they are still working on it. Would have been nice if he added a screenie too. But, oh well.

shea · Post by **shea** » Sun, 10. Jun 12, 01:48

Oh maybe they are keeping things quiet as a release date might be coming soon or even better release of REBIRTH

strude · Post by **strude** » Sun, 10. Jun 12, 03:05

EmperorJon wrote:
NLS wrote:Well let's agree that if nothing comes from Gamescon, then it's most likely a dead project.
Why? Why is it? Why do they HAVE to talk about it there otherwise it MUST be dead...? There is such a thing as, well, just silence, you know.

You might not have heard, but all the random forum members who have no connection to Egosoft have a RIGHT to information. They are all ENTITLED to receive information on THEIR OWN schedules, and any failing of their expectation MUST indicate something has gone horridly wrong, or Egosoft would not be violating the RIGHTS to information of forum members.

Additionally, other forum members are a bit daft, likely applying the principles of reverse psychology. I guess they assume that Egosoft is staffed by 8 year olds. By making outrageous claims that the new game will never be released, Egosoft will be 'tricked' into releasing some information.

I suspect they would have more luck telling Egosoft that unless they release more information immediately, then they will be banned from watching cartoons on Saturday mornings.

amtct · Post by **amtct** » Sun, 10. Jun 12, 05:32

squirrelrider wrote:You guys are weird... a few months without info and you already think the game is cancelled O.o

I think Bernd fire the guy who was supposed to tell us that the game was canceled

SieurNewT · Post by **SieurNewT** » Sun, 10. Jun 12, 14:17

or the guy is so happy with test of the game that he don't have any more time for the updates

DiabloTigerSix · Post by **DiabloTigerSix** » Sun, 10. Jun 12, 16:18

the-danzorz wrote: Actually that is pretty common, the EA forums for example, i rarely, ever, see an EA dev for that game post in that section.

That's because EA studios don't have a tendency to make games for their loyal fans at all. They always try to mainstrimize everything so that it can sell as much as possible.

For example, whenever there was a developer on BF3 forums (before it was released), he/she just made it even more clear that they're turning the franchise into a generic CoD clone and dropping 90% of the things that made it special in order to appeal to wider audience.

As a result, those threads instantly became instant hatefests. They do have a community manager posting every now and then, but he's under NDS and therefore never provides any useful information, geenrally acts like an ad machine and people can see through it.

Post by **Ketraar** » Sun, 10. Jun 12, 16:54

Also please dont make any relation between XUFQ and possible release dates, the team making the quests knows as much about XR as any one else.

MFG

Ketraar

Observe · Post by **Observe** » Sun, 10. Jun 12, 17:22

We have no idea what has caused the 2012 release delay. Perhaps some key developer left the company, or Egosoft decided some new capability requiring more time was worth extending development. Hell, for a while I wondered if they were being purchased by some larger game company.

One year can seem like an awful long time for those of us waiting in the wings for release, but one year can be a surprisingly short time when you are developing something as complex as modern games of this nature tend to be.

I'm not sure we'll ever know the real reason for the delay, but I have no doubt Egosoft is very busy working on Rebirth release.

BigBANGtheory · Post by **BigBANGtheory** » Sun, 10. Jun 12, 18:36

It could be something as simple as multi-lingual voice recordings, that can take ages to do and schedule in externally. Though personally I reckon they left doing the UI late in the day and discovered it was much trickier than scoped for.

ConCorDian · Post by **ConCorDian** » Sun, 10. Jun 12, 19:06

specualting on this is pointless, there is thousands of things that could cause it, perhaps after completion they have found an issue with the Engine that they need to repair that now requires a lot of minor tweaks to the programing. perhaps they have came across a large compatibility issue with multicore processors... perhaps there has been too many curries going about and there has been more time spent on the loo than in front of the computer programming.... i mean come on, yes it could be anything... so speculating is a waste of our time

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