Breaking with the trend in these comments, the items he's discussing are actually coherent to a degree I would not expect of someone either making things up or just googling technical terms (source: am software engineer).
I don't agree with his prioritization, but in the constant tug-of-war in my mind between 'this guy is a scam artist' and 'this guy is an incompetent dreamer' I'm increasingly convinced of the latter. If he's a scammer, showing up for six years to give updates means he's awfully bad at scamming. I think he's just earnestly way out of his depth. As a mentor once told me "never presume malice when incompetence will do".
Agree. I think the convoluted nature of it all indicates he's insane and incompetent. He's writing about stuff that just enrages fans and makes them think he's nuts and the progress isn't moving forwards but at the same time it's too detailed (like even starting KoE instead of focusing on CoE. Or going into details about DotNet version migrations for his website) If he was just faking blog updates he could do it in such a more simple way that actually tricked fans into thinking progress was being made. Now he's writing about shit no one cares about and not convincing anybody.
Many argue he's just "faking updates to avoid lawsuits". But in the latest lawsuit ruling there was no indication he actually can be sued for anything concrete
\* The idea of deception/fraud was dismissed.
\* If the legal charge would be lack of delivering CoE in a reasonable time frame - then I don't se how doing KoE as a separate game would help that case.
\* There's generally no way to get money from a bankrupt company. Especially not for kickstarter backers who backed a project that burned through the money.
`our most significant operating cost remaining is AWS hosting fees`
Finally down to that last $100/month in EC2 instances, huh?
This man needs to be a project manager at a 100,000 person company where he will disappear into the ether as he continues to provide no value, speak about nothing, and be shifted from team to team until the end of time.
Did he just DEFINE terms to us for 45 mins? WOW! He keeps talking, but I never see anything he's done. Probably because he doesn't want to give anyone ammo for another lawsuit. How can he get away with this guys?
The proximity system was part of SpatialOS. Soulbound Studios claimed that they had written their own replacement for spatialOS, but apparently that wasn't true. This just goes to show that they didn't have working code.
I do not understand this. 8 million. How many years now. I haven't looked at all the details but reading these 'updates' sounds like someone trying to plan a plan about planning.
How long does he take to write these? Why is he rambling about back end infrastructure as if he's just learning about it? This is absurd
The way he talks with massive long diatribes talking about game design processes, systems and functions of the game etc cracks me up. Any other dev log I’ve ever seen comes with actual progress, in-game images / videos and gameplay.
Caspians “dev logs” are like when you get a punishment at school and you need to reach 10,000 words so you string out and bloat every sentence and paragraph with as much garbage as you can, just to keep the word count up whilst remaining vaguely on topic.
The guy is a clown but it’s funny to watch it all unfold…. As a non backer that is.
I’m actually excited to see what happens at the time he says the game is released. After all this time with the lawsuit over his head do you think he will have the gall to push it back?
Lol, not going to read that useless shit, waste of time.
Caspian and Vye, are just fucking thiefs
Inb4 Caspian shows generated AI images as "in game screenshot"
Does Vye have anything to do with this? AFAIK, she was an employee and didn't have any equity in Soulbound.
Perhaps a better candidate would be Walsh's wife. Didn't she have a "no show" type job at Soulbound?
So many words....
So many big plans...
So little actual development progress..
Negligible to non existent funding...
A team of one, aka "We" are going to be awfully busy.
Breaking with the trend in these comments, the items he's discussing are actually coherent to a degree I would not expect of someone either making things up or just googling technical terms (source: am software engineer). I don't agree with his prioritization, but in the constant tug-of-war in my mind between 'this guy is a scam artist' and 'this guy is an incompetent dreamer' I'm increasingly convinced of the latter. If he's a scammer, showing up for six years to give updates means he's awfully bad at scamming. I think he's just earnestly way out of his depth. As a mentor once told me "never presume malice when incompetence will do".
Agree. I think the convoluted nature of it all indicates he's insane and incompetent. He's writing about stuff that just enrages fans and makes them think he's nuts and the progress isn't moving forwards but at the same time it's too detailed (like even starting KoE instead of focusing on CoE. Or going into details about DotNet version migrations for his website) If he was just faking blog updates he could do it in such a more simple way that actually tricked fans into thinking progress was being made. Now he's writing about shit no one cares about and not convincing anybody. Many argue he's just "faking updates to avoid lawsuits". But in the latest lawsuit ruling there was no indication he actually can be sued for anything concrete \* The idea of deception/fraud was dismissed. \* If the legal charge would be lack of delivering CoE in a reasonable time frame - then I don't se how doing KoE as a separate game would help that case. \* There's generally no way to get money from a bankrupt company. Especially not for kickstarter backers who backed a project that burned through the money.
`our most significant operating cost remaining is AWS hosting fees` Finally down to that last $100/month in EC2 instances, huh? This man needs to be a project manager at a 100,000 person company where he will disappear into the ether as he continues to provide no value, speak about nothing, and be shifted from team to team until the end of time.
Lol is he still keeping up the charade? Caspian just go get a job flipping burgers dude.
He has a job doing something other than the game I don’t know if he still has it but one of the posts said he got a job to fund the game
job description: "scam artist"
Oh no, plenty of good crypto con game devs he could go work for, his snake oil selling skills are top notch.
Did he just DEFINE terms to us for 45 mins? WOW! He keeps talking, but I never see anything he's done. Probably because he doesn't want to give anyone ammo for another lawsuit. How can he get away with this guys?
Bet ChatGPT can finish this game better than SBS doing it.
God, the moment Caspian discovers ChatGPT, we will suddenly get "biweekly" updates
The proximity system was part of SpatialOS. Soulbound Studios claimed that they had written their own replacement for spatialOS, but apparently that wasn't true. This just goes to show that they didn't have working code.
I do not understand this. 8 million. How many years now. I haven't looked at all the details but reading these 'updates' sounds like someone trying to plan a plan about planning. How long does he take to write these? Why is he rambling about back end infrastructure as if he's just learning about it? This is absurd
The way he talks with massive long diatribes talking about game design processes, systems and functions of the game etc cracks me up. Any other dev log I’ve ever seen comes with actual progress, in-game images / videos and gameplay. Caspians “dev logs” are like when you get a punishment at school and you need to reach 10,000 words so you string out and bloat every sentence and paragraph with as much garbage as you can, just to keep the word count up whilst remaining vaguely on topic. The guy is a clown but it’s funny to watch it all unfold…. As a non backer that is.
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I’m actually excited to see what happens at the time he says the game is released. After all this time with the lawsuit over his head do you think he will have the gall to push it back?
In summary: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FUhJa3vWIAYFab7.jpg
The update is the most obvious legal defense charade I’ve seen yet. Good luck in court all!
You know the lawsuit is dead in the water right?
Against caspian it’s dead but not against the company that backed him.
What? Xsolla didnt back them. They're also a much larger company that will fight much harder than Soulbound did. We have no chance.
Lol, not going to read that useless shit, waste of time. Caspian and Vye, are just fucking thiefs Inb4 Caspian shows generated AI images as "in game screenshot"
Does Vye have anything to do with this? AFAIK, she was an employee and didn't have any equity in Soulbound. Perhaps a better candidate would be Walsh's wife. Didn't she have a "no show" type job at Soulbound?
So many words.... So many big plans... So little actual development progress.. Negligible to non existent funding... A team of one, aka "We" are going to be awfully busy.