Miner Wars gets funding

[CDN_Merlin]

http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/59395 ... 1M-Funding

1 million Euros.

[Gekko71]

Good to hear. Hat switch support plus 1,000,000 Euros would really make my day though.

[CDN_Merlin]

I've been playing the Alpha using the mouse. Couldn't get the stick working without a headache.

[Foil]

CEO and founder Marek Rosa is particularly pleased, citing that since fund-raising is no longer a burden to his schedule, he’ll have enough time to return to programming and finally finish reading New Moon.

Odd. Miner Wars has been taking pre-orders for months now, and Marek had stopped programming?

I think this might help explain it:

- pre-orders are a great method how to convince investors that this is a perspective business!!

So the pre-orders really were just being used as a means to market to investors. Interesting.

[Foil]

For anyone still considering "pre-ordering" MW, I'd suggest taking a look back through the Miner Wars news feed:

• MW claims they got investors and hired extra staff months ago. Yet what have they released development-wise since then? Almost nothing.
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• MW gets a third party to do an Intel Partner marketing write-up, and claims they will be "featured" by Intel at the Game Developer's Conference. Yet what happened? Nothing. They weren't at the GDC at all, and Intel says MW was never even a target app for any of their exhibits!
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• MW markets the game as an MMO and takes pre-orders, but then subsequently changes the name and breaks it into two separate products. When people who have given them $$ complain, they respond with "it was always meant to be two different games" and "we'll give you the MMO for free!" (remember, the MMO is the non-existent product) and a ludicrous refund policy.

Despite all the promises and all the marketing (the concept art, music, and screenshots are cool-looking), at this point MW is still nothing more than a "pre-Alpha" demo with no online functionality.

[Gekko71]

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[*]MW gets a third party to do an Intel Partner marketing write-up, and claims they will be "featured" by Intel at the Game Developer's Conference. Yet what happened? Nothing. They weren't at the GDC at all, and Intel says MW was never even a target app for any of their exhibits!
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That's very interesting Foil - being so far away I couldn't make it. I appreciate the heads up.

Where did you get that info? I take it that you were there in person?

[Foil]

Where did you get that info? I take it that you were there in person?

I was curious about the Intel "featuring MW" display at the GDC, so I tried to find more information online. However, beyond a couple of old articles echoing the claim from the MW site, there weren't any references about MW at the GDC at all.

I kept looking but I couldn't find anything, so I contacted one of the Intel GDC reps. He told me MW wasn't there, and was never even one of their "target apps" for feature/display.

As far as I'm concerned, it's just another huge red flag.

[CDN_Merlin]

Would be interesting to hear Marek's side of that story.

[Foil]

Would be interesting to hear Marek's side of that story.

Agreed.

I already asked about it once, no response so far.

[Alter-Fox]

Sorry to step out of line, and don't take this the wrong way, but:
Can we keep this particular forum positive please?
I think negative comments and their discussion are more suitable for the Miner Wars topic in the Cafe. AFAIK this forum is for discussion of 6DoF projects that are at least somewhat promising, the implication being that the discussion should be mostly positive.
Plus, more people will see it in the Cafe (which is supposed to be spelled with an acute accent btw).

[Foil]

Ah, true.

I'm not a mod in here, or I'd move it myself.

[psionik]

If you want answers or want to give feedback then I suggest taking advantage of our weekly public meetings to get your questions answered directly by Marek and the other team members rather than posting questions here.

[Foil]

So you're posting here... but no longer answering questions?

P.S. I know about your weekly meetings; I'm not available at those times.

[psionik]

My post was intended to give you an outlet to get your answers directly, I see you have ignored the chance to be thankful. I said nothing about what I personally will or will not be doing. Please think before you type.

P.S.
Reading your posts is like reading the Enquirer. I am not sure where you get your information, but it's always amusing to see what you come up with. :]

[Foil]

My post was intended to give you an outlet to get your answers directly.

You suggested I attend the MW meetings. As I said, I cannot.

Since you are posting here, I believe answering questions here would be a reasonable solution.

I am not sure where you get your information...

As I stated quite clearly above, I got my information directly from the Intel GDC execs.

[Thenior]

CEO and founder Marek Rosa is particularly pleased..and finally finish reading New Moon.

I'm not buying a game from anyone who reads New Moon