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Hosted Projects - FS2 Required => Blue Planet => Topic started by: sunnyB on December 02, 2015, 10:07:39 pm
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Just finished Act 2 War in Heaven and it far exceeded my expectations or any of my other buddies expectations. Gameplay was phenomenal. Thank you team.
Not expecting Act 3 voice anytime soon, but any ideas on when it will be out?
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We quite honestly can't tell you. We have no idea how big the script for Act 3 is, we do not know how long casting and recording and mixing would take. Any date we would give you would be baseless speculation at this point.
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Obviously. Still looking forward to it though, would even wait longer if the release would be voice acted from the start. Of course, the great thing about the text-only-release is that feedback can go into the voice-acted one, like with the dreamscape trainings (which give SSSSOOO much more lines and depth to these characters).
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I'd definitely audition for a few roles if we could get some steam rolling on a voice acting effort.
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Might I suggest we donate money as well? I gave some to Battuta when the VA push for Acts 1 and 2 was underway, but I think it turned out to be only a drop in the bucket compared to how much he ended up spending.
If you look at some of the lead actors' profiles (Simms (http://www.timothylaurelharrison.com/), for example), these are professionals who do high quality work, and I doubt they come cheap. Good VA is expensive!
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I'd donate towards BP development and voice acting. My voice my sound like a 10 year old huffing Sulfur Hexafluoride but at least I may be able to help pay for someone whose vocal cords are less off putting!
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I'm down for donating. Let us know how you want it Battuta!
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considering that I had more fun with the voice-acted Blue Planet than with ANY other game this year (including the Witcher 3), this might actually be not a bad idea. Why am I paying for content that is not as good as Blue Planet? :-)
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considering that I had more fun with the voice-acted Blue Planet than with ANY other game this year (including the Witcher 3), this might actually be not a bad idea. Why am I paying for content that is not as good as Blue Planet? :-)
Such truth to these words. I'd also be willing to pitch in a couple of lines if needed, though I have absolutely no background with voice acting so finding someone better than me might not be a better idea.
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BP is my favorite mod for anything ever. I'd absolutely be willing to chip in with both money and awful voice acting.
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Perhaps start a Kickstarter to help fund further voice acting? I know I would chip in a few bucks at least. :D
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I'm very hesitant to attract funds using the BP name (or anything related to FSO). That's why we paid our actors out of pocket with money raised through normal work.
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Totally random question, does the guy who voice acted for Samuel Bei have his own Youtube channel? I swore I recognized the voice when I heard it. I do not remember what the name of his channel was though.
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I'm very hesitant to attract funds using the BP name (or anything related to FSO). That's why we paid our actors out of pocket with money raised through normal work.
Well if you just happened to have a Paypal and I just happened to give some money to it...
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I understand the hesitation from Battuta - once people outside the production crew start funding a project, suddenly there's an unfair arbitrary burden on the producers to deliver something for a certain date that may not be feasible.
Given the production quality of the BP series so far, I'm very much inclined to trust that this team will keep delivering phenomenal work, once they have the time and the energy to work through Acts 4-5 and do voice for Act 3. Whether that's in 2 months of 2 years from now, I think this is the only way to ensure quality.
And I'm sure once the time comes, everyone in this community will step up and be happy to help, as always.
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I understand the hesitation from Battuta - once people outside the production crew start funding a project, suddenly there's an unfair arbitrary burden on the producers to deliver something for a certain date that may not be feasible.
I think the bigger concern is that as soon as money starts flowing from players to the BP team, Interplay might take notice.
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I understand the hesitation from Battuta - once people outside the production crew start funding a project, suddenly there's an unfair arbitrary burden on the producers to deliver something for a certain date that may not be feasible.
I think the bigger concern is that as soon as money starts flowing from players to the BP team, Interplay might take notice.
not only that but it gets significantly more difficult to argue against copyrights as per songs used in the game itself (which from what i've noticed the devs are taking steps towards using unlicensed music now but there's still a fair amount of it even in the latest release)
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I think the bigger concern is that as soon as money starts flowing from players to the BP team, Interplay might take notice.
exactly...
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Couldn't each member of the BP team just open up a patreon account?
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I don't think the method by which the money flows would matter as much as the fact that money was flowing.
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I suppose they could always ask interplay nicely about possible monitisation, though I doubt it would go anywhere
Man copyright law is so outdated, it is in dire need of rewriting
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Be that as it may, BP largely manages to fly "under the radar" because no money is exchanging hands. Private offers of assistance might possibly be accepted. (This is mere speculation on my part, as I do not speak for the BP team in any capacity.) But public solicitation of funding is not, in my opinion, worth the risk.
Like blood, money has a tendency to attract sharks once it is in the water.
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Plus the SCP is licensed under terms which forbid commercial use, which would almost certainly include a project asking for donations.
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All of these are reasons why we're not planning to ask for funds. There's also another one: Adding money to something that ran well when it operated without it is a source of drama we would very much like to avoid.
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Yeah, we survive almost entirely on our team chemistry.
I paid the Act 1+2 VAs out of pocket and will hopefully do the same for Act 3 if it ever becomes reailty. But that's an obstacle to be tackled after generating a good script.
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It is a free mod and you guys put a lot of time in to it so I don't really feel like giving any critique, but I imagined some of the characters to be voiced a bit differently in my head when I played WiH the first time, but in general I'm thrilled to finally be able to play it with VA.
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Meaby Wrong Topic, Meaby post not at thema, or language but...
I want to thank you guys and girls, for realase one of my dreams.
Iv'e already ended Age of Aquarius, War in Heaven part1,2.. and I'm waitng for voice acting part 3.
what I've seen was outstanding work. Storyline, scripts, graphic enchantments, voice acting, music. Everything was reworked, remodeled. I've see passion in this, years of work of many people, the love in doing this.
*spoilers*
I may be disappointed what happend to GTVA, my beloved alliance, fighting against them makes me sad. But gaming experience was awesome. Thank you
*end of spolers*
I will wait with play part 3 of war in heaven until voice acting will be added. I want to fell the same immersion that gave me freespace2 and Yours Blue Planet.
What iv'e seen was proffesional, no excuse. Now i know why i will never see Freespace 3 in shop/sell. It would be to hard to beat Blue Planet
for a while i feld again like a child, playing F2
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:D
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So, essentially, if I read this right:
No form of payment should be accepted by the BP devs from any of us plain ol' players. Doing so at all would put them in a bad spot that could interfere with the development of BP. (In a number of ways)
However the devs can pour pocket money into the project. Its because they're not profiting and they're producing this thing (BP). Only Devs (those listed in the credits) can safely put pocket money into this project.
Or to state it differently:
If we were all given a question, such as "Can pocket money flow into BP development?"
The answer would have to be - "You'd have to be a dev."
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Ok, so "all purpose" dotations would be banned. And trademark owners can be really unhappy.
How about specyfic purpose? like
John Smith (proffesional voice actor) blablabla will give his voice for 1000$, we gather money for this, and we have already 422/1000.
Owners/Modders of Blue Planet has no "profit" in this. See billing
Or, go around it (dotations for server webside maintenance) and noone asks where finally money goes?:D
Or Just Ask trademark owners for premisson or "paid help" with finnishing project.
Or just ignore me, i'm new, ideas isn't new. Things goes like it goes and it's fine. Just time.
In the other hand,
I'm pretty sure, where money goes, expectations raises. "I paid for this, blahblahas, and id dint..! *complaint* *complaint* *complaint*.
For Me,
i've already played a really great part of game and i know someone did it for me for "free" . I feel i took some debt, so dotations would be the simplest way for "repay" even if unfair with $/hour.
(Im sorry for my english, what you see above it's just years of playing "online", not proffesional lessons, i hope it's understandable)
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The problem here is they have no ability to survive on technicalities currently. If someone decided to make trouble for them they are somewhat boned.
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Our stance on this is pretty final. We do appreciate that we have fans willing to part with their money to make our weird little campaign better, we really do, but we won't be accepting donations.