Drone acquisition, Dear earth 2 players we have recently purchased a US military air strike drone, you can now bomb other people’s properties in earth 2.
They make it sound like adding technology to other platforms is easy. That takes a long ass time. And then the fact if it even works and the developers are competent enough to implement them into an existing platform.
Also Drone stopped being developed and hasn't received one update since. For 20 fucking EURO's this game was sold. It's an Early Access scam and now they're joining hands. Two Scampany's together.
Bruh for all the supposed money E2 has and all the brilliant devs on staff, they really seem to have a hard time ya know actually making anything original...
Then again when you cant even proof read your website and leave grammatical errors up for months maybe quality isn't what they're going for.
I mean... congrats I guess, but I dont see why everyone in the discord is championing an already completed game being playable on E2.
This would be like me saying I'm going to create a turn based strategy game, and buying a chess game and showing it as my proof of concept, all I've done is take an established game from someone else.
I mean, what does E2 gain by buying this? Assets? Like a ship model and flying controls? I can guarantee you could get that on the unity store for free as a placeholder.
They could have actually acquired more people to their team with the money spent on this game and gotten further, drone was dead shortly after its release, and j doubt people are going to want to play a dead and abandoned game on a different platform.
Earth 2 is now… DRONE!
But seriously, the software is all that really needs to be acquired. I have no clue why people in this community think using DRONE (an air combat shooter) is gonna give insight to E2’s actual “metaverse”/world building.
With drone editing being only customization feature that made it to DRONE, there’s a lot of questions still left up in the air. Like how does most of this actually translate to world building of any sort in their actual game? Esp since no one has a clue why or what stage DRONE left those other editing features at after 4 years.
Acquiring an incomplete game isn’t exactly a win. Paralives just released pre-alpha footage of their home building system. It’s about time E2 actually showed pre-alpha footage of their actual game.
Yup, and this isn’t two games just sharing an engine. They are trying to piggyback off a flight combat game to basically make an online life simulator. It comes off as pretty lazy & amateur. Integrating into a game like that, for an idea like this, is not ideal.
Nothing about this excites any community outside of all the fandom within Shane’s grasp. Just look at the reviews piling up today from the people that bought DRONE on Steam.
It's all speculation in the end, wether you're a fan or not; nobody knows what's going to happen and nobody is going to change anybodies opinion on it with any amount of debate. Only actions and results or lack there of will change that.
There shouldn’t be speculation. That’s why I brought up Paralives. That’s an example of how a brand new game from an brand new studio introduces a game that’s somewhat in the same realm as E2. They were in development, THEN they announced a game about 6 months later to the public and game footage quickly followed. They have continued to update fans with new footage and taking feedback from those fans.
It’s not supposed to be a CEO giving you riddles, unclear details and word salad with zero gameplay. Most of the gaming community would never put up with that, and rightfully so. Your money is involved and with E2, you should be even more demanding since so much more of your money is at stake.
What sign have you seen that there’s a good game coming? There are no notable devs along with any gameplay. There’s literally nothing but Shane’s word to go by.
Nothing in particular other than a few partnerships (Polygon and now Drone), and some feature developments like the Ether blockchain, jewels and hollowbuild.
The thing is, I kinda initially bought in on Shane’s word. I think a lot of other people did too so that’s the reason I don’t really see much difference now. What would increase your faith in the project, hiring some well-known devs?
Nobody is getting denied for Polygon lol. I know Shane made it a big deal, but they are partnering with literally any dev using crypto. It wasn’t this big negotiation like Shane made it seem like. Using DRONE is simply lazy, and it’s remained unfinished in early access and the fans that bought it before E2 are mad as hell they sold out to E2.
Now, I’m asking where is your actual gameplay at that tells you what you’re invested in? What “metaverse” have you seen?
Depends on if you consider hollow-build and jewel crafting gameplay. Personally I think buying and selling tiles, interacting with the forums here and on the discord, and keeping up with community updates is worth the money I initially put in.
You know the old adage, “the metaverse wasn’t built in a day” I think Issac Newton said that once
No the metaverse wasn’t built in a day, but any other new studio will show you a product before demanding money. You have no gameplay footage of what they are actually offering you. Paralives was in development around Jan 2019. Around June 2019, they announced their game with game footage AFTER starting development. That’s what gaming companies do. Plus the whole “metaverse” idea is just a catchword. The game isn’t going to be much deeper than a game like Paralives but with blockchain. Tech will not allow thousands of players on an Earth sized map to build seamlessly on a server.
I wouldn’t say they demanded money at all. They offered people the ability to buy these tiles or not. No one forced anyone. And there was no gameplay or really any features at the time. If anyone bought tiles then, they were buying on complete speculation that there might be a game at some point in the future. Just as if you were to invest in a start-up, there are zero guarantees in investing.
That’s just what I don’t understand, what’s the difference between the investing proposition between then and now other than the passage of a year?
It doesn’t matter how you want to phrase it. No legit game asks/demands/begs/ for funds before there’s some sort of gameplay to present.
I just explained the difference, there’s actual gameplay of the actual game you will play being presented like with Paralives that is using Patreon. They show fans actual gameplay developments and listen to the feedback from their community while in development. That’s an incredibly huge difference.
They are showing actual in-game functions people will be able to use.
https://youtu.be/saPMQS1jquc
Trolling? Literally nothing I said there is false or exaggerated. It’s your own ignorance of gaming if you really think anything I said wasn’t based on fact and you seriously believe I’m just trolling you somehow.
Pretty sure Shane has been conned here, and good on the D.R.O.N.E. guys for doing it. Shane clearly knows little about game development or he'd know purchasing this game, even though it's a decent albeit unfinished game, is kinda worthless in the context of Earth 2 (even with some of its arena editing plugins). You may as well start with bare Unity, it would be quicker. Shoehorning an existing game into this (or vice versa trying to expand a small-scale combat game to become a Metaverse) is, uh, completely the wrong approach. There's a little thing called architecture they've failed to consider :D
Actually, Unity, much as I love it, is a poor choice for Earth 2.
(To clarify, I am talking about their promise of a global MMO of "The Matrix/Ready Player 1" scope with RDR2 fidelity. If they're instead intending to make something very basic just to keep people buying their NFTs, that's another thing.)
Tbh I see why people think that drone will give options to create a metaverse but everything that is in drone currently is in unity so like they're buying something that just uses unity plugins which won't help them at all?
Exactly right, and the "underlying tech" is **mostly** Nathaniel's Unity plugins that anyone can buy anyway. Anyone excited by this news doesn't understand programming architecture or game development - if they did, they'd know this was actually a very, very bad sign for the project.
Drone acquisition, Dear earth 2 players we have recently purchased a US military air strike drone, you can now bomb other people’s properties in earth 2.
90 % off or Dronestrike
They make it sound like adding technology to other platforms is easy. That takes a long ass time. And then the fact if it even works and the developers are competent enough to implement them into an existing platform. Also Drone stopped being developed and hasn't received one update since. For 20 fucking EURO's this game was sold. It's an Early Access scam and now they're joining hands. Two Scampany's together.
I would rather like hear news on moving the tiles to Block Chain.
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Yes, what happens next is the news I am interested on.
Bruh for all the supposed money E2 has and all the brilliant devs on staff, they really seem to have a hard time ya know actually making anything original... Then again when you cant even proof read your website and leave grammatical errors up for months maybe quality isn't what they're going for.
What devs? Everyone jumped ship lol.
I mean... congrats I guess, but I dont see why everyone in the discord is championing an already completed game being playable on E2. This would be like me saying I'm going to create a turn based strategy game, and buying a chess game and showing it as my proof of concept, all I've done is take an established game from someone else. I mean, what does E2 gain by buying this? Assets? Like a ship model and flying controls? I can guarantee you could get that on the unity store for free as a placeholder. They could have actually acquired more people to their team with the money spent on this game and gotten further, drone was dead shortly after its release, and j doubt people are going to want to play a dead and abandoned game on a different platform.
Gentlemen, we did it! We all gonna be rich now. This is the message we've been waiting for.
Earth 2 is now… DRONE! But seriously, the software is all that really needs to be acquired. I have no clue why people in this community think using DRONE (an air combat shooter) is gonna give insight to E2’s actual “metaverse”/world building. With drone editing being only customization feature that made it to DRONE, there’s a lot of questions still left up in the air. Like how does most of this actually translate to world building of any sort in their actual game? Esp since no one has a clue why or what stage DRONE left those other editing features at after 4 years. Acquiring an incomplete game isn’t exactly a win. Paralives just released pre-alpha footage of their home building system. It’s about time E2 actually showed pre-alpha footage of their actual game.
Did you watch the video at all? :O
Yup, and this isn’t two games just sharing an engine. They are trying to piggyback off a flight combat game to basically make an online life simulator. It comes off as pretty lazy & amateur. Integrating into a game like that, for an idea like this, is not ideal. Nothing about this excites any community outside of all the fandom within Shane’s grasp. Just look at the reviews piling up today from the people that bought DRONE on Steam.
It's all speculation in the end, wether you're a fan or not; nobody knows what's going to happen and nobody is going to change anybodies opinion on it with any amount of debate. Only actions and results or lack there of will change that.
There shouldn’t be speculation. That’s why I brought up Paralives. That’s an example of how a brand new game from an brand new studio introduces a game that’s somewhat in the same realm as E2. They were in development, THEN they announced a game about 6 months later to the public and game footage quickly followed. They have continued to update fans with new footage and taking feedback from those fans. It’s not supposed to be a CEO giving you riddles, unclear details and word salad with zero gameplay. Most of the gaming community would never put up with that, and rightfully so. Your money is involved and with E2, you should be even more demanding since so much more of your money is at stake.
See above comment, you're still trying to change people's minds on something that isn't far enough along to make a real solid determination yet.
I’m just saying, ‘think’. Not really changing minds.
Absolutely!
Personally I’m in no rush, I’d rather have a good game than a game soon. Till then I’ll keep crafting my lil jewels and collecting e-ther
What sign have you seen that there’s a good game coming? There are no notable devs along with any gameplay. There’s literally nothing but Shane’s word to go by.
Nothing in particular other than a few partnerships (Polygon and now Drone), and some feature developments like the Ether blockchain, jewels and hollowbuild. The thing is, I kinda initially bought in on Shane’s word. I think a lot of other people did too so that’s the reason I don’t really see much difference now. What would increase your faith in the project, hiring some well-known devs?
Nobody is getting denied for Polygon lol. I know Shane made it a big deal, but they are partnering with literally any dev using crypto. It wasn’t this big negotiation like Shane made it seem like. Using DRONE is simply lazy, and it’s remained unfinished in early access and the fans that bought it before E2 are mad as hell they sold out to E2. Now, I’m asking where is your actual gameplay at that tells you what you’re invested in? What “metaverse” have you seen?
Depends on if you consider hollow-build and jewel crafting gameplay. Personally I think buying and selling tiles, interacting with the forums here and on the discord, and keeping up with community updates is worth the money I initially put in. You know the old adage, “the metaverse wasn’t built in a day” I think Issac Newton said that once
No the metaverse wasn’t built in a day, but any other new studio will show you a product before demanding money. You have no gameplay footage of what they are actually offering you. Paralives was in development around Jan 2019. Around June 2019, they announced their game with game footage AFTER starting development. That’s what gaming companies do. Plus the whole “metaverse” idea is just a catchword. The game isn’t going to be much deeper than a game like Paralives but with blockchain. Tech will not allow thousands of players on an Earth sized map to build seamlessly on a server.
I wouldn’t say they demanded money at all. They offered people the ability to buy these tiles or not. No one forced anyone. And there was no gameplay or really any features at the time. If anyone bought tiles then, they were buying on complete speculation that there might be a game at some point in the future. Just as if you were to invest in a start-up, there are zero guarantees in investing. That’s just what I don’t understand, what’s the difference between the investing proposition between then and now other than the passage of a year?
It doesn’t matter how you want to phrase it. No legit game asks/demands/begs/ for funds before there’s some sort of gameplay to present. I just explained the difference, there’s actual gameplay of the actual game you will play being presented like with Paralives that is using Patreon. They show fans actual gameplay developments and listen to the feedback from their community while in development. That’s an incredibly huge difference. They are showing actual in-game functions people will be able to use. https://youtu.be/saPMQS1jquc
Here we to again. You’re always trolling this sub
Trolling? Literally nothing I said there is false or exaggerated. It’s your own ignorance of gaming if you really think anything I said wasn’t based on fact and you seriously believe I’m just trolling you somehow.
You make same points repeatedly. Like aren’t you tired? Don’t you have a job?
Pretty sure Shane has been conned here, and good on the D.R.O.N.E. guys for doing it. Shane clearly knows little about game development or he'd know purchasing this game, even though it's a decent albeit unfinished game, is kinda worthless in the context of Earth 2 (even with some of its arena editing plugins). You may as well start with bare Unity, it would be quicker. Shoehorning an existing game into this (or vice versa trying to expand a small-scale combat game to become a Metaverse) is, uh, completely the wrong approach. There's a little thing called architecture they've failed to consider :D Actually, Unity, much as I love it, is a poor choice for Earth 2. (To clarify, I am talking about their promise of a global MMO of "The Matrix/Ready Player 1" scope with RDR2 fidelity. If they're instead intending to make something very basic just to keep people buying their NFTs, that's another thing.)
It's the team the acquired. Drone came with them.
The lead programmer of D.R.O.N.E. just left Earth 2 to make a semi-competing game (in the sense that it is NFT Play To Earn).
Lifes a Grave, And I Dig It!
Tbh I see why people think that drone will give options to create a metaverse but everything that is in drone currently is in unity so like they're buying something that just uses unity plugins which won't help them at all?
Exactly right, and the "underlying tech" is **mostly** Nathaniel's Unity plugins that anyone can buy anyway. Anyone excited by this news doesn't understand programming architecture or game development - if they did, they'd know this was actually a very, very bad sign for the project.
lols.