DEFIANCE game and TV show - sink or swim?
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You know me...I dont mind spending the money USUALLY. This time, it feels like I have been anally raped with a roto rooter.
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I imagine this is so. In most games with an MMO component, you have lengthy cutscenes/mini-episodes which give backstory and serve to define the characters in the game as well as the locaales. This is missing from the Defiance game, which means you have to get that from the show. This appears to be intentional.
It got two seasons out of the gate, so it does not need to be "renewed" after the first season. Stargate Universe was never "renewed", it got its two seasons from the start, but this did not become known until Craig Engler confirmed it. I think the show will be cancelled before its second season run is over, and they will play out the episodes. The game will most likely die quickly after that, since without the fill-in from the show the game becomes meaningless.
shavedape
Well Known GateFan
This is exactly what I was thinking. For how much they hyped the show and for how much they put into production (initially) there's no way they wouldn't require that SyFy (or whoever) green lights at least 2 seasons.
My only question now is, how many episodes are there per season for this turkey? Hopefully it will be a low number. I can't see them going 20 full episodes per season on something so untested. At least with SGU it had the other Stargate shows to give it cache' but with DEFIANCE it's flying solo. That's why I think the seasons have to be shorter, especially when you consider the amount of money that someone is pouring into producing it. Either it starts raking in the cash via ratings or the investors will get spooked and angry at being ripped off.
The price tag on this pig is ONE HUNDRED MILLION. They have already flushed that much to bring it to Syfy (as well as the game).
Some annoying wishes from its creators: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/a...ies-and-a-video-game.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Really? Aint gonna happen. That is like asking people watching a reality series to drive to a certain location and do something there, then return to the game to see the result. Not gonna fly. I usually play my games later at night. Why would I want to watch Defiance on TV, then overdose on it by playing the game? If the game was GOOD, then I might be interested, but its just not. It is a middle-of-the-road third person shooter. Nothing special.
About its $100 million price tag:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffber...ets-100m-on-convergence-of-tv-and-videogames/
Big risk? More like this:
Jim of WVa
Well Known GateFan
I do, but not for the reason you may suspect.
Bluce Ree
Tech Admin / Council Member
Bro! We know you're rich but did you really have to flush cash down the toilet just for the shocking picture you took with your 22" Galaxy Note? Sheesh!
OMNI
My avatar speaks for itself.
Gatefan1976
Well Known GateFan
Nah, you are the Romney rich dude around here....my relatively paltry salary you could pay just by vacuuming your couches!
According to the current American definition of "rich", I am only middle class. 
Gotta be 250K and above to be considered "rich" these days.
Jim of WVa
Well Known GateFan
Nah, you are the Romney rich dude around here....my relatively paltry salary you could pay just by vacuuming your couches!
Rich is $1.00 an hour more than one is making. Poor is $1.00 an hour less.
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It has to do with his use of the f-word.
In a very basic sense, you are correct! If one bases things on the quality of life (wealth), then being rich is never equated with being wealthy. The trick is knowing the difference between the two. Many rich people are not wealthy, and many wealthy people are not rich.
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Well...you use it too. But what I want to know is if you are seeing it as an insult or a request?
Jim of WVa
Well Known GateFan
Well...you use it too. But what I want to know is if you are seeing it as an insult or a request?
No, I am seeing it as a joke.
Bluce Ree
Tech Admin / Council Member
Nah, you are the Romney rich dude around here....my relatively paltry salary you could pay just by vacuuming your couches!
Yeah, well, my private chopper broke down and I had to take a "car" to the office today like the rest of you 99%. How do you people live that way?!?
Gatefan1976
Well Known GateFan
But who is Felix and who is Oscar???
OMNI
My avatar speaks for itself.
fuukfukeli fuuk faafuukelikookellikuu fack famfukkamukka megaphone!
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admit it that made you cum didnt it
Ubitchu!
heisenberg
Earl Grey
I think they are only doing 12 episodes with defiance.13 if you count the pilot as being 2 episodes.
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WTF? 100 million? That is flushing money down the toilet on a mediocre fiction series.
Jim of WVa
Well Known GateFan
I am Oscar.