Lost Colony

[tbdsamman]

So I downloaded their "compatibility" test. And so much for the game being original... they stole ideas from PlanetSide; they bought models and they bought their engine. So far they've pretty much created a crappy mod for a game and added network capabilities.

And they've included some of their source code. Thats probably gonna bite them in the butt when someone finds their code in it without credit.

[Hamma]

Yesterday there was supposed to be a test, no word at all from the so called devs.

Edit: nevermind looks like they did realease it, posted at the same time released at 12am wts

[tbdsamman]

And apparently one of the staff wanted to close the forums and only let people that has pre-ordered to have access to them. Wtf? And this was the idiot that cried cause he was stupid enough to post his name and number online and got calls from pissed off people because they can't follow a deadline.

So apparently their game server and web server are on differently servers but on the same network and their hub crashed. And then when they lost connection to their game server; it became corrupt and they lost their latest work.

I guess a lot of people have fallen for this scam, they seem to have lots of money to have a server hosted at a remote location. Never mind, the company they chose must suck if their network crashed after a couple hundred people tried to download a file.

[Hamma]

Yea.. thats a little wierd.

I think PSU would have had better planning than that

[OneManArmy]

I'm sorry but even the phantom console had a better website set up than this. Not to mention REAL hype.....

if you're gonna scam the people or be business idiots at least learn from a pro.

[Happy lil Elf]

The only way I could love this game is if all the whiney worthless fucks who stopped playing Planetside ages ago and yet feel compelled to infest internet forums to complain and bitch fell for it.

Or if it gave them all syphilis.

Either way, I'd love this scam, err, I mean high quality game that will be everything Planetside wasn't!

[Hamma]

We should install a lawsuit countdown.

[Happy lil Elf]

I'd prefer a "Cash Scammed Out of Suckers" total board akin to what is used in telethons

[tbdsamman]

Even if they actually produce something that works, I don't see how they can keep it up and add all the features they are promising. I'd love to see how they manage 5 versions of the game (PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox 360, PS3), 6 APIs (DirectX 9 & 10, OpenGL, OpenAL, Xbox 360 DirectX, whatever PS3 uses). And in case they didn't know, coding for a console is only a couple hundred times harder and costs a lot more. And not to mention all of the graphical features they say.

So assuming this isn't a big scam and they are actually trying, it won't last past a couple of weeks before people realize its crap and their loyal fans leave. And some of their fans are pretty stuck up and refuse any logical assessment of this game's future.

And anyone wanna bet that they don't have a legitimate copy of vBulletin?
Edit: They did a horrible job of hiding the vBulletin copyright.

[Hamma]

The Dev kits for Xbox/PS are extremly expensive alone.

I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't legit. You have to pay a pretty hefty sum to hide the vBulletin Copyright info.

[tbdsamman]

A little birdy told me that someone reported their site to vBulletin; I wouldn't be surprised if their forums disappear one day.

[Hamma]

owned

[Hamma]

Actually it may be legal hehe.

http://www.vbulletin.com/links.php?l...computer_games

It's listed there.

[tbdsamman]

Even so, they probably didn't pay to remove the copyright.

[tbdsamman]

Update on what their staff has actually done.

I certainly would like to beleive what SOS is telling us. The problem I am having is there is still to much evidence to lead me to believe otherwise. If you go to torque's site you will see that the level the SOS claimed to have worked hours on is actually a demo level included in the license for the torque engine. Also, if you do some research on the server you will find that it is only set to allow 64 people. Doesn't sound like much of a stress test to me. Also included in the license is the networking features to set the demo up to allow people to log in. So far the only new thing that I have seen them acutally make is the login in screen and imported, prebuilt models. Oh, and a base with one small door to get in. Doesn't sound like a very exciting fight for it.

And if anyone wants to look at where they bought their engine, its at http://www.garagegames.com/