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Quest for Infamy / Re: Has anyone actually received their physical boxed edition of Quest for Infamy?
« on: February 16, 2017, 02:16:04 PM »
Disgraceful. Good luck, Bt.
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Banter and Chit-Chat! / Re: A Tale of Two Kingdoms - on Steam Greenlight
« on: February 12, 2017, 11:03:17 PM »
I voted. I remember this game well. Never did finish it, though (to my shame). I remember it had beautiful artwork, a wide open world to explore, and I enjoyed the music. Good luck!
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Quest for Infamy / Re: Has anyone actually received their physical boxed edition of Quest for Infamy?
« on: January 04, 2017, 07:56:47 PM »
I had a very very long response to each of your points, but instead I decided to just leave it at these two points.
You jumped to "legal action" before Steve had a chance to offer a refund. Naturally he responded with a refund because that's supposed to be the first step anyway. You chose to escalate it to legal action first (against an individual, mind you, whose personal finances are on the line) just to get your precious box. You could have requested a refund first. That was your move.
Your whole attitude is not reminiscent of the Kickstarter spirit. Kickstarter is not a store where you buy products. It's a platform where you can support people to make their plans, visions, and dreams come true. They delivered a game, you have it, and you're squabbling about rewards. Their campaign was a success. They finished what they set out to do. It did not fail. You didn't pay for a box, you pledged a higher amount to help production costs for the creation of a game which granted you access to a free box as a reward for helping them make the game. If you really care more about that box and your money than this man doing his best (or suffering depression if he is indeed over his head and just putting it off) then you aren't the kind of person that should be backing Kickstarter projects because these things happen all the time. Most people are understanding of who they choose to back (especially if the project was completed which it absolutely was). You obviously are not. What Steve needs is support not constant hounding and badgering. If you can't understand that concept of human decency or see how it's relevant and still think you should be treating this whole ordeal like a customer demanding what their owed from a large company (who can afford the loss a lot more than one individual and his family's personal finances), then a refund is best for you. You should leave the realm of crowd-funding and never look back.
Enjoy.
You jumped to "legal action" before Steve had a chance to offer a refund. Naturally he responded with a refund because that's supposed to be the first step anyway. You chose to escalate it to legal action first (against an individual, mind you, whose personal finances are on the line) just to get your precious box. You could have requested a refund first. That was your move.
Your whole attitude is not reminiscent of the Kickstarter spirit. Kickstarter is not a store where you buy products. It's a platform where you can support people to make their plans, visions, and dreams come true. They delivered a game, you have it, and you're squabbling about rewards. Their campaign was a success. They finished what they set out to do. It did not fail. You didn't pay for a box, you pledged a higher amount to help production costs for the creation of a game which granted you access to a free box as a reward for helping them make the game. If you really care more about that box and your money than this man doing his best (or suffering depression if he is indeed over his head and just putting it off) then you aren't the kind of person that should be backing Kickstarter projects because these things happen all the time. Most people are understanding of who they choose to back (especially if the project was completed which it absolutely was). You obviously are not. What Steve needs is support not constant hounding and badgering. If you can't understand that concept of human decency or see how it's relevant and still think you should be treating this whole ordeal like a customer demanding what their owed from a large company (who can afford the loss a lot more than one individual and his family's personal finances), then a refund is best for you. You should leave the realm of crowd-funding and never look back.
Enjoy.
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Quest for Infamy / Re: Has anyone actually received their physical boxed edition of Quest for Infamy?
« on: December 16, 2016, 07:53:33 PM »
More entitled nonsense going on in this thread I see. Good luck with your legal action, eXoScoriae. That won't get you anywhere.
It's good to see at least some people with half a brain who don't treat a single person like a giant corporation.
It's good to see at least some people with half a brain who don't treat a single person like a giant corporation.
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Quest for Infamy / Re: Has anyone actually received their physical boxed edition of Quest for Infamy?
« on: December 04, 2016, 07:12:16 PM »MusicallyInspired, you fanboy hard.
I'm not a fanboy, Steven is a good friend of mine.
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Quest for Infamy / Re: Has anyone actually received their physical boxed edition of Quest for Infamy?
« on: December 01, 2016, 01:51:12 AM »It appears that you guys aren't reading my posts. Let me try again.
Time. Is. Not. The. Issue.
I beg to differ. Time is absolutely the issue. Why are you asking questions about promises that were made to you that you aren't getting answers for?....Because people pressed him for those answers and for those promises because.....they're worried about the amount of time it's taking. Don't pretend that's not where all of this is stemming from. This entire problem wouldn't exist otherwise.
Everyone needs to just shut up and wait. Nothing is going to speed the process along.
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The only conclusion that seems to make sense is that they ran out of money which is quite feasible if they did underestimate the cost of fulfillment. That being said, I even offered to pay for my shipping and suggested that they offer it to the backers as an option to help easy the burden but received no response.
Maybe you're right and maybe he should. Is anything you're saying really helping? I'm just floored because you all actually got a game. You got it. They delivered exactly what their whole campaign was about exactly how they said they would. It was everything they promised and they gave it to you. And you're going to write off their integrity entirely over the stupid rewards? I can understand if a KS completely failed to deliver outright, and there was no compensation given (even though none is required), but this one finished in incredible time. And causing unnecessary stress to the man while he's doing the best he can isn't going to help anything. Just wait. I've been waiting for Double-Fine's stuff for 4 years and it's finally shipping. SpaceVenture has just missed its deadline, let alone the rewards. I just didn't expect this amount of whining over the rewards after getting the actual project. Unbelievable.
Honestly, Kickstarter was the worst thing to ever happen to gaming. Indie gaming, specifically.
I'm sorry, I'm heated. I just hate seeing this kind of attitude ferment into such a big problem for so many people. And I'm not just talking to you specifically, helmishgen. There are a lot more much less civil and much more vocal and negative people out there throwing tantrums over this.
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IQ Chat / Re: SQ2 VGA - SQ1 Corridor Easter Egg
« on: November 29, 2016, 07:28:29 PM »
I just think there should be a distinction between social media for you and your family and friends, and an online community of random people who happen to share the same passions. It's not the same. I know you can make your profile and status updates private only to friends etc, but then you get all the constant nagging of people asking to be your friend and even if you don't feel bad denying them all, it's still annoying that they constantly pop up. That's not what Facebook is to me and I'm almost forced to use it that way now.
Some days I come really close to closing my account altogether because of it. But I want to remain in the community and there aren't so many ways to do that now.
Some days I come really close to closing my account altogether because of it. But I want to remain in the community and there aren't so many ways to do that now.
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Quest for Infamy / Re: Has anyone actually received their physical boxed edition of Quest for Infamy?
« on: November 29, 2016, 07:18:08 PM »
Everyone needs to just make their peace with the fact that it may take a long long time to get your box and rewards and whatnot. But they will get done. There is no way around the delay. IQ (and especially Blackthorne) are incredibly sorry, but there's only so much one man can do. They're not a big distribution company. They're literally one man doing all the shipping for hundreds of shipments by himself in his house, while living in real life with jobs, health issues, children, bills, and who knows what else. Think about how you would be able to get all that done by yourself and chill out.
Let me be clear, I'm not a member of IQ, but I have an inkling of what it's like having been a part of another Kickstarter. It's no walk in the park and just because these guys are awesome enough to complete a game (in the style of something 25 years old, let's remember, not modern and full 3D DX12 etc that costs millions to develop and publish) doesn't mean they can do everything in record time. These people have lives. This is their side hobby and every one of you pledged for them to make a game. The rewards are coming but stop and think about this for a moment: they actually finished and released their games and you can all play them right now. That's more than a lot of Kickstarted games can say. Especially indie ones.
You have a game. Enjoy it. The money you pledged helped fund it. Be happy about that. Put this on the back burner and go on with your life. Then one day it'll arrive on your doorstep and you'll be thrilled and forget all about all of this.
Paskarl especially is driving me completely nuts with his entitled attitude and unrealistic expectations while blasting them on different Facebook groups about it. Just stop it. I mean, you helped the underdog get a few games out. And now you're complaining because they're acting like the underdog? They're still the underdog! The measly amount of money we gave them to make a couple games doesn't change that.
Let me be clear, I'm not a member of IQ, but I have an inkling of what it's like having been a part of another Kickstarter. It's no walk in the park and just because these guys are awesome enough to complete a game (in the style of something 25 years old, let's remember, not modern and full 3D DX12 etc that costs millions to develop and publish) doesn't mean they can do everything in record time. These people have lives. This is their side hobby and every one of you pledged for them to make a game. The rewards are coming but stop and think about this for a moment: they actually finished and released their games and you can all play them right now. That's more than a lot of Kickstarted games can say. Especially indie ones.
You have a game. Enjoy it. The money you pledged helped fund it. Be happy about that. Put this on the back burner and go on with your life. Then one day it'll arrive on your doorstep and you'll be thrilled and forget all about all of this.
Paskarl especially is driving me completely nuts with his entitled attitude and unrealistic expectations while blasting them on different Facebook groups about it. Just stop it. I mean, you helped the underdog get a few games out. And now you're complaining because they're acting like the underdog? They're still the underdog! The measly amount of money we gave them to make a couple games doesn't change that.
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IQ Chat / Re: SQ2 VGA - SQ1 Corridor Easter Egg
« on: November 24, 2016, 09:21:35 AM »
It's too bad social media is killing forums because sometimes the anonymity is nice and forums have far more community-centered functions and features than Facebook or Twitter does.
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Quest for Infamy / Re: Kickstarter Hits and Misses.
« on: November 13, 2016, 04:15:27 PM »
SV's release date is this month. They said there would be a KS update very soonish. Not sure what it will entail. They've not said anything yet about delaying, but they still could.
Mage's Initiation is in alpha/beta testing phase right now. Lots of bug reports coming in and getting fixed all the time. You'll probably see it in 2017, in my own personal opinion.
Mage's Initiation is in alpha/beta testing phase right now. Lots of bug reports coming in and getting fixed all the time. You'll probably see it in 2017, in my own personal opinion.
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Banter and Chit-Chat! / Re: The new comcast ISP data cap blues
« on: November 07, 2016, 12:54:25 PM »
Here in Canada, I live outside of town so I don't get the two main providers. I got with a satellite provider which is super expensive for 240GB of data at 24mbps speeds (realistically, more like 11mbps) and if you go over, they don't throttle you they charge you $2/gigabyte. You can buy some extra data to top up, but that overcharge is brutal if you're not careful. Plus, like I said, charges are super high anyway on a good day. Meanwhile, 15 minutes away in town I hear they bumped up speeds to 170mbps for significantly less....sigh....
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IQ Chat / Re: Paul Quest II
« on: October 22, 2016, 10:29:22 AM »
That EF Digital Sans is spot on! I did some further searching and found a Bold and Bold Italic variation which looks much closer to the weight of the box lettering. The only small problem is that the characters "D," "P," and "0" have their holes filled in with black while the italics version doesn't. A strange oddity. Perhaps it's a bug in the font? I don't know how fonts work at all.
http://fontsov.com/font/digitalsansefbold47553.html
Better yet, even heavier variations!:
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ef/digital-sans-now/ml-bold/
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ef/digital-sans-now/ml-extrabold/
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ef/digital-sans-now/ml-black/
And Here's the whole pack
The only "issue" is that they are much closer to the SQ3 lettering style than SQ1/SQ2 (where the bottom stroke of the loop on the 'P' doesn't go as low as it does on the SQ1/SQ2 lettering).
Sadly, none of them appear to be free besides the demo font which is the thin version Paul Quest is using, which is a shame. It's like $350 for all of them lol.
http://fontsov.com/font/digitalsansefbold47553.html
Better yet, even heavier variations!:
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ef/digital-sans-now/ml-bold/
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ef/digital-sans-now/ml-extrabold/
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ef/digital-sans-now/ml-black/
And Here's the whole pack
The only "issue" is that they are much closer to the SQ3 lettering style than SQ1/SQ2 (where the bottom stroke of the loop on the 'P' doesn't go as low as it does on the SQ1/SQ2 lettering).
Sadly, none of them appear to be free besides the demo font which is the thin version Paul Quest is using, which is a shame. It's like $350 for all of them lol.
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IQ Chat / Re: Paul Quest II
« on: October 20, 2016, 09:57:16 PM »
Nice! Actually right after I posted that I did a Google search and that's the one that came up. Made an account and grabbed it. One minor qualm is there are no special symbols like the apostrophe or exclamation point. Something you can easily create yourself if one really needed it in Photoshop or something though. Well done!
Besides that, I was specifically looking for the font on the boxes where the A comes to a point at the top instead of a flat side. I wonder what font that guy's using for the thumbnail of his Paul Quest video.
Besides that, I was specifically looking for the font on the boxes where the A comes to a point at the top instead of a flat side. I wonder what font that guy's using for the thumbnail of his Paul Quest video.
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IQ Chat / Re: Paul Quest II
« on: October 19, 2016, 08:00:05 PM »
Completely off-topic, but what is that Space Quest title font anyway? Is there a name for it or something similar?
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Banter and Chit-Chat! / Re: Crystal Shard Adventure Bundle - on Steam Greenlight
« on: October 15, 2016, 02:23:54 PM »
Cool!