You mean may last year?

I lost the count, you are probably right

For someone who wants to bring back to life the Arena FPS scene, James seems very uninvolved in his project. :c

james has been selling smoke since day 1 and the reborn to diabotical name change was a bad decision... probably the design took another path a bit due to the investor (that phone game company).

all i know is that im not gonna pledge a cent for this game... we have reflex and quakechampions on it's way. They seem to be better games on paper than diabotical, 90% guaranteed.

also james is a bit stupid, he could easily be involved in lots of gaming communities and people love him but he gets kicked out of events for being a cunt where he's the host and what not (by gaben himself)... the same guy who expects his game to be esport but he prefers to be a clown instead of using respect and formal informative actitude around other scenes...

at this point nobody cares about reborn with QC around the corner.

gaben kicked him off an event? what happened? : D

He got hired to be a host for this DOTA2 event in Shanghai, he was hired quite informally and was just told to by a few people that he should just "be himself" -- So within the first five minutes of an event he decides to make jokes about pornography. In China. In front of thousands of people. Amazingly, that wasn't the final nail in the coffin.

Later once he was kicked off and reddit was in an uproar, Gabe Newell (CEO of Valve) posted a thread to the DOTA2 sub-reddit thing, calling james an ass.

There is probably more to it, but this is just all that I know about it. I don't like watching DOTA2 nor do I like playing it.

To be fair the event was a disaster, long delays and issues with player treatment. It is remembered as the worst major event in recent history. He was just filling air during an unexpected delay at that point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TCnO9XX3OY

you can get an idea pretty quickly. it is kind of funny.
but imo for an event that has that much publicity, is one of the valve major tournaments, it gets clear pretty quickly why he got fired after 1 day.

you are putting shit out of context and you are also simplifying, especialy why he was kicked. so please sihtdw3W4d, upgrade you mechanics.

oh yeah i didn't go full detective on this shit because nor that i care either, all i know this guy is a clown and he was really disrespectful as a host to the teams & players in china, just like he used to do at this studio. His job is talking shit pretty much, professional troll... that's what he understands for "be yourself".

His game is also garbage so I don't think my post isn't accurate.

And the guyz at valve knew he was like that and they hired him, because he was like that, but Gabe didnt knew that and he did what bosses do best, come in half knowing, do a shit storm and leave before you can hear shit hitting the flor.

... i agree that talking about masturabation/porn in a culture where that is a taboo, isn't the best choice ... well that was his own landmine he steped on. That said knowing cultural behavings in a "global" gaming community is a difficult thing to know.

Diabetical has no reason to be made anymore.

Back when it was announced there were no other non-realistic FPS games on the table. The premise was to make a new Quake, since id software was done with that franchise. Four years after, now there are many fantastic FPS games and many more are coming soon, Quake included.

Plus his game most likely won't be good at all, considering the troublesome development and small budget for a very much ambitious project. Then, certainly it won't be played by many, which is a death sentence in a multiplayer game, since the game shouldn't be on Steam.

Won't back the project (if there ever is a Kickstarter), won't play the game. I would have had four years ago.

Not on Steam? Do you say that because GabeN said 2GD is an ass?

Yep, and the reply 2GD made after. With that he burned all bridges with the owner of the monopoly of PC gaming.

I read that reply and can't remember any such bridge burning. I think you're dramatizing.

He should have issued an apology, not a confrontational response.

His broadcasting career in Dota 2 abruptly stopped since the reply, that's for sure. That fact shows the reply wasn't received well.

he didnt burn bridges in that reply... how his reply was taken is another mater. James praized the guy he worked with, just to be then fucked by ignorance of the "allknowing boss sindrome". -if you havent worked for this type of boss, don't bother to reply. (yes megamen i am talking to you :PP :)

In the end both sides (we) are speculating.

If Reborn is on Steam then you will be right, if it is not then I will.

having 2GDs game on steam is not an indicator, cuz steam is bussines and percentages. That side of the bussines isn't personal in this time of age. So yes f he has a game having it on steam is a no brainer.

I'm instigating so badly, but whatever...

You're loaded (not that loaded pot heads) and at the helm of steam.
You already have bad feelings towards Jay.
Then a few months later, Jay is saying he'll tattoo your face on his ass cheek if he can get more money for a game which he then wants to market in your online store.

Are you telling me someone with a net worth over 2 billion dollars isn't going to be a teeny tiny bit naughty?

I guess time will tell.

I really don't think Valve would stop making more infinite monies because of a cunt.

cunts dont matter in a world of capitalizem where every1 is a cunt to get more money. ... to them cuntz are like calling nigga to some other nigga, shitz is balanced, yo. :)

2GD hasn't been involved in Dota in earnest since the TI4/Hub.

Based off of comments made about distribution in the Diabotical discord, they still plan on bringing it to Steam since the userbase is so big and it can help with their monetization plans. Bringing it to other distribution platforms as well wasn't completely out of the question.

I think this game was vaporware from the start, was there ever a demo of it?

Yeah theres been a bunch of alpha releases. They stopped making them public a couple of months ago to prep for KS

You really believe that they won't fuck up QC by turning it into a Overwatch/TF2 clone (they say they won't now but ...)?
They haven't really shown any competency towards Quake titles of the communities for at least a decade. One could say that they have been systematically killing the games and communities for years by any means possible.

It would be good to have a decent 1v1 FPS.

Hadn't kept up with this at all, those eggbots look neat

this game i think still has potential to bring something new to the table. It has that evolution of the FPS genre and its nothing like OW and/or QC.

you talk like you have played QC for 2 years

well wtf ... will QC have eggbots?

eggbots the evolution of FPS genre, you are right, I missed that one

you know that evolution doesn't always means things are correct/heading in the correct direction, rite?

yes, why?

you seemed sarcastic and i tried to address your ignorance.

what is that im ignoring?

tell me what do you want to hear.

QC could totally have Eggman: the eggbot
Primary Ability - Shell: Gain 200 armor for X seconds, root Eggman in place for X seconds, afterwards initiate hatch.
Hatch: Eggman throws off the remaining shrapnel from his shell, doing damage too all enemies around him relative to how much of his shell was remaining at the end of X seconds.

Original Eggman

I have more faith in 2GD creating an fps "refresh" than id...

Same here ... for 2GD this has been a kind of passion project.
id will just be after the money, because they saw what happened with Overwatch. The thing is that this is just a new wave (like MMOs were a decade and like MOBAs are still) 1-2 games rule the scene and wannabes create clones every other week/month, hoping to cashin.

There will be alot of hype, a huge amount of preorders ... id will get their money, the scene will be disappointed, true believers will try to create the scene and will sware the game is excellent.
We'll all be back the playing QL in notime.

After years of vaporware and nothing? LOL

You didn't understand me, maybe I explained myself badly. What I meant is that 2GD is more likely to innovate the fps genre with good, fresh ideas than id, who didn't bring anything new to the table for the last 15 years.
When it comes to the probability that 2GD or id will release a game in the next 2 years, it is a whole different story though based on the different financial backing they have.

Not if the game is never fully made though, and he is very much likely to never finish making his vision a reality.

the thing is, all esr wants anyways is a reskin of q3

GL with new kickstart :-)

Gratulation 2 reaching the first amd most important goal 110.000 €

2GD won