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[MrPenguin]

Lil Cthulhu, on 26 March 2013 - 07:52 PM, said:

Tell me again how five million dollars isn't a lot of money?

Considering how most normal people can blow that in less then a month on themselves. You tell me.

Edited by MrPenguin, 26 March 2013 - 07:54 PM.

[Flying Fish]

"coming soon to mechlab" may i remind everyone april 1st is coming in less than a week

Edit: P.S. how awesome would that thing be?! i mean look at the megaphones on the head! i hope it plays "eyes of the panther" by steel panther in-game whenever ur within 90 meters of it

Edited by Flying Fish, 26 March 2013 - 07:57 PM.

[MadPanda]

What's this whole "5 million dolla" business?

[Lil Cthulhu]

MrPenguin, on 26 March 2013 - 07:54 PM, said:

Considering how most normal people can blow that in less then a month on themselves. You tell me.

I don't know who the **** you know but they are really good at ******* away money.

Maybe they should take some financial responsibility classes.

MadPanda, on 26 March 2013 - 07:55 PM, said:

What's this whole "5 million dolla" business?

Five million dollars is about how much they got from founders purchases alone.

[Roadbeer]

Lil Cthulhu, on 26 March 2013 - 07:52 PM, said:

And here we go with the half brains making excuses for poor choices on the side of the development team.

Tell me again how five million dollars isn't a lot of money?

Office space, Internet access (not your standard DSL Rates) Server hardware, work stations, power bill, waste disposal, water, payroll, payroll taxes, employee health insurance, Does Canada have provincial taxes like we have state taxes?, Income taxes, ping pong table, coffee filters, asset insurance, legal services...

want to know more?

I bet with 50 employees, $5 million (adjusted to Canadian rates) is barely one year of operating costs.

[Tennex]

Lil Cthulhu, on 26 March 2013 - 07:52 PM, said:

And here we go with the half brains making excuses for poor choices on the side of the development team.

Tell me again how five million dollars isn't a lot of money?

welll for starters (accoridng to the pax pannel) a map takes 200k to make. a mech takes 60k. and i'm assumign thats converted from hours and paycheck of artists/programers.

right now we have 5 maps and 16 mechs. that makes 1mill + 1mil = 2 mil spent so far. not including
office/internet/development softwar/hardware/features/interface/salary of other employes/moeny to the publisher etc etc.

Edited by Tennex, 26 March 2013 - 08:04 PM.

[MrPenguin]

Lil Cthulhu, on 26 March 2013 - 07:56 PM, said:

I don't know who the **** you know but they are really good at ******* away money.

Whoa whoa whoa! Hold back the swears buddy!
They're children in this thread!

[Skadi]

I was going to buy it anyway

[Precarious]

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Roadbeer, on 26 March 2013 - 07:46 PM, said:

Capital letters make everything more important.[/i]

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<p>Yeah, and you apparently subscribe to the notion that pointing out another person is using capital letters makes you important. Hint: it doesn't.</p>
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Roadbeer, on 26 March 2013 - 07:51 PM, said:

I love how people throw that $5mil figure around like it's a lot of money. Cracks me up. But when you're weekly allowance is $20, I guess it would seem like a lot of money.

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<div>You have a few choices here, but we'll go with running the organization lean.</div>
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<div>Three million will get you 100 people at an average of 30,000 a year. I don't know why you would need 100 people to make a video game as simple as this, when you're not building the engine from the ground up, so the realistic number of people necessary to create this game is actually far lower.</div>
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<div>Even with this absurd figure, however, that still leaves two million dollars for renting out some hole to program in, purchasing the necessary hardware, and all sorts of other things which are, in reality, far cheaper than you imagine them to be.</div>
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<div>People like you create inflation with ignorance. I'm sorry you don't know how to spend money wisely, but that's probably why you immediately jumped to some puerile aspersion relating your misunderstanding to someone receiving a pittance of an allowance.</div>



See, look at this. They can't even use forum software which allows you to paste into an editbox without junking up the whole thing with a ton of HTML. No, it was not rich text: it was from NOTEPAD. Nice job, clearly we are in good hands.

I guess five million dollars isn't a lot when you're too stupid to spend it appropriately.

Edited by Precarious, 26 March 2013 - 07:59 PM.

[Kiiyor]

SnuggleBug, on 26 March 2013 - 07:52 PM, said:

I am just saying I like the buiness model. Whatever keeps this game on my computer screen for the foreseeable future works. It is just an advance purchase for something that we will all be able to get in a few weeks anyways.

Well, my apologies my dear sir. I may have been headshotted by my own mech. I too would have no problem with that particular release model. Only EA have the technology at the moment to force people to pay for things.

I'd like to point out though that they havent explicitly stated they are releasing that glorious pink monstrosity before the generic ones. Conjecture and all that.

[MrPenguin]

Roadbeer, on 26 March 2013 - 07:57 PM, said:

Office space, Internet access (not your standard DSL Rates) Server hardware, work stations, power bill, waste disposal, water, payroll, payroll taxes, employee health insurance, Does Canada have provincial taxes like we have state taxes?, Income taxes, ping pong table, coffee filters, asset insurance, legal services...

want to know more?

I bet with 50 employees, $5 million (adjusted to Canadian rates) is barely one year of operating costs.

Well, theirs no "employee health insurance" since thats pretty much given to you as a citizen. So instead, we usually just get dental. Don't worry, thats still mad expensive.

Precarious, on 26 March 2013 - 07:58 PM, said:

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<p>Yeah, and you apparently subscribe to the notion that pointing out another person is using capital letters makes you important. Hint: it doesn't.</p>
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<div>You have a few choices here, but we'll go with running the organization lean.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Three million will get you 100 people at an average of 30,000 a year. I don't know why you would need 100 people to make a video game as simple as this, when you're not building the engine from the ground up, so the realistic number of people necessary to create this game is actually far lower.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Even with this absurd figure, however, that still leaves two million dollars for renting out some hole to program in, purchasing the necessary hardware, and all sorts of other things which are, in reality, far cheaper than you imagine them to be.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>People like you create inflation with ignorance. I'm sorry you don't know how to spend money wisely, but that's probably why you immediately jumped to some puerile aspersion relating your misunderstanding to someone receiving a pittance of an allowance.</div>

Dear god, are you trying to break the forum?

[Noobzorz]

I didn't buy a founders package, but I am pretty sure they were explicit that the founders payments allowed them to start a bunch of dumb side projects.

[Roadbeer]

Precarious, on 26 March 2013 - 07:58 PM, said:

<p></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Yeah, and you apparently subscribe to the notion that pointing out another person is using capital letters makes you important. Hint: it doesn't.</p>
<p> </p>
<p></p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<div>You have a few choices here, but we'll go with running the organization lean.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Three million will get you 100 people at an average of 30,000 a year. I don't know why you would need 100 people to make a video game as simple as this, when you're not building the engine from the ground up, so the realistic number of people necessary to create this game is actually far lower.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Even with this absurd figure, however, that still leaves two million dollars for renting out some hole to program in, purchasing the necessary hardware, and all sorts of other things which are, in reality, far cheaper than you imagine them to be.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>People like you create inflation with ignorance. I'm sorry you don't know how to spend money wisely, but that's probably why you immediately jumped to some puerile aspersion relating your misunderstanding to someone receiving a pittance of an allowance.</div>



See, look at this. They can't even use forum software which allows you to paste into an editbox without junking up the whole thing with a ton of HTML. No, it was not rich text: it was from NOTEPAD. Nice job, clearly we are in good hands.

I guess five million dollars isn't a lot when you're too stupid to spend it appropriately.

1: Learn to post
2: 30k isn't a living wage
3: http://mwomercs.com/...ost__p__2135162

Edited by Roadbeer, 26 March 2013 - 08:02 PM.

[Tennex]

Noobzorz, on 26 March 2013 - 07:59 PM, said:

I didn't buy a founders package, but I am pretty sure they were explicit that the founders payments allowed them to start a bunch of dumb side projects.

vacations?

[jakucha]

Noobzorz, on 26 March 2013 - 07:59 PM, said:

I didn't buy a founders package, but I am pretty sure they were explicit that the founders payments allowed them to start a bunch of dumb side projects.

Pfff, Mechwarrior Tactics probably isn't dumb

[Precarious]

Roadbeer, on 26 March 2013 - 08:01 PM, said:

1: Learn to post 2: 30k isn't a living wage 3: http://mwomercs.com/...ost__p__2135162

Listen very carefully to what I am about to explain to you.

1. On no other forum, ever, have I had this happen. IT IS A PROBLEM WITH THIS FORUM. It is not a matter of learning to post.

http://data.typerace...=precariousgray

I am also one of the fastest typists to have ever lived, by the numbers; not to mention that whole having mastered the English language thing. You're quite literally have no space to talk.

LEARN TO COGNIZE WITH ANY DEGREE OR SEMBLANCE OF ADEQUACY WHATSOEVER.

Or I suppose you could reduce your cognitive dissonance via the meager assertion I utilized capital letters in so succinctly, summarily decimating your insolvent proposition. Kids these days, sheesh.

2. http://en.wikipedia....verty_threshold -- sorry, but decades of economic research and graduate degrees and accomplished human beings (read: not you) disagree, and 30,000 is a living wage. You are wrong, again.

3. I'm not going to bother clicking the link, since it is clearly irrelevant and offered up as some pitifully self-centered, narcissistic attempt to protect your effete, delicately contrived sense of self.

I am more intelligent than you. Deal with it.

Edited by Precarious, 26 March 2013 - 08:10 PM.

[Roadbeer]

Lil Cthulhu, on 26 March 2013 - 08:06 PM, said:

I believe you meant "there are" and the censor has all that covered for me, care to make another informative post?




Well you're just an I D I O T

sorry excuse for a censor.

Aww, did I step on your wittle peelings with the harsh reality of what it actually takes to run a business? There's a ton of other costs I left out for brevity, but I'd be happy to list them for you if you like.

[MrPenguin]

Precarious, on 26 March 2013 - 08:09 PM, said:

Listen very carefully to what I am about to explain to you.

Unless you're going to post this on soundcloud, he isn't going to listen to anything...

[Lil Cthulhu]

Roadbeer, on 26 March 2013 - 08:10 PM, said:

Aww, did I step on your wittle peelings with the harsh reality of what it actually takes to run a business? There's a ton of other costs I left out for brevity, but I'd be happy to list them for you if you like.

What harsh reality? All you did was prove you know nothing of what you speak.

[SnuggleBug]

Soooo, how about this highlander thing.............Pretty neat huh?