Starbound pre-order news around the Net

Greetings all.

The news about the Starbound pre-orders opening up have begun appearing in all of the usual places. Below is a partial list of the ones I have found, for those interested.

• Pre-Orders Open for Starbound Terrarias Successor @ The Escapist
• Starbound pre-orders raise $200,000 in first day; meteoric success @ PCGamesN
• Starbound Pre-Orders Prove Somewhat Popular @ RPS
• Starbound pre-orders bring in over $230,000, game seems ‘bound’ for success @ PC Gamer
• Starbound pre-orders open @ BeefJack
• Starbound pre-orders surpass 10k in less than 24 hours @ Polygon (Thanks popbot!)
• Starbound Open for Preorders @ Leviathyn
• Pre-orders Now Open for Starbound @ HardcoreGamer
• Starbound Pre-orders Available @ Zombies Ate My Games

 

(The Escapist) "Terraria felt almost like a classic RPG, with levels, NPC shops, randomized weapons and boss battles. "
Randomised weapos in terraria: did I misse something or do they mean the Modifier.
Levels in Terraria : There weren't levels, you were able to increase some stats but not to level.

(The Escapist) "with the most expensive tier, platinum, immortalizing the buyer as a statue in-game"
that's wrong it is called Impervium

(Hardcoregamer)"Starbound, developed by Chucklefish, has been generating a lot of buzz because it plays similarly to Minecraft and Terraria"
I don't think there are a lot similarities to miencraft you place blocks Wow how similar.
In Splinter cell an in MW3 you shoot bullets out of a gun totaly simmilar gamplay of course .

 

Dat Journalism.

Let us hope that they do not manage to give out anymore false information like that!
Hopefully this will bring in more people that will pre-order or those that that have forgotten it's existence.

 

There is now.

 

Still Starbound needs to gets to the Big Media Sites. That some of them just Ignored Starbound.

More Attention in Media = More Pre-Orders

 

The Escapist article.........
Ugh.

"It's hard to overstate my (dis)satisfaction"

 

When did that update come?

 

Well there's no harm in contacting the various gaming sites. I just sent a message to Eurogamer about the pre-order. They ran a story about Prison Architect reaching $100,000 in 72 hours, and Starbound has p****d all over that.

 

i do find it funny how a lot of them point to a video that is quite old, one of them even said it was recent.

 

Dat escapist article. /eyeroll

 

Still. I also send EuroGamer a Tweet and posted in Facebook.
Sometimes they post things as new that aren't a big new.

May be because There isn't enough content like Trailers or Info in BETA launch or ETAs to the game launch itself.

 

I would like to know this also.

 

$300,000 in less than 24h is still newsworthy in my opinion! I think in a way the lack of info and trailers etc. make it even more of a cool story. It just goes to show how psyched the Starbound community is about the game.

 

Lack of info and trailers? Have you not been following this ting? There has been a lot of info and trailers. But we've only seen THE TIP of it all!

 

Heh, heh, just the tip.
On topic: Scanning the articles, it seem like the writers haven't been following much of anything.

 

Most ''journalists'' are totally out of the loop.

It's all about putting up something quick and simple, and often times they'll even copy other articles just rephrasing it a decent amount of course.

 

Yeah I've been following it! I don't recall a lot of proper trailers though? I know there have been videos on Twitch and YouTube etc. Maybe I missed those. Quite often pre-orders like this have a some kind of 'Official' video pitch (much like a Kickstarter would), and I think that some people have come to expect that. I know there's been a fair bit of information on this forum, but Starbound hasn't got a huge amount of exposure elsewhere that I've seen. Would be nice to see a proper feature on the major gaming sites.

But like I said, it's really cool how the community is getting behind this game. That was the main point I wanted to make.

 

Perhaps when the beta is released an actual trailer will come with it? Or perhaps the devs have been too busy to make one or thought that considering the info and videos they share a trailer wouldn't be needed? *shrug*

I'm sure there will be an official trailer at some point. Maybe someone who is good at editing can download the videos the devs have shared and make a sort of trailer in the meantime.

 

Polygon put up an article (and Philip Kollar tweeted at Mollygos!) : http://www.polygon.com/2013/4/13/4220798/starbound-pre-orders-surpass-10k-in-less-than-24-hours

 

Added to the list.