How is Starbound being funded?

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Pretty sure more than 2 people were working on Terraria.. When Redigit announced that Terraria updates would be stopping he said he argued about it with "the team" and that he and "the team" came to a collective agreement about it..

He and Tiy are a team.. But Tiy himself isn't a whole team. Or maybe he is..

EDIT: Apparently there was 1 other guy named "Blue"

 

I produce money from my ass. If you need pigeons call me.

 

Maybe chucklefish is secretly hacking into our pcs and stealing a dollar a day >.>

 

Nah, Molly has become a professional ukelele player and holds concerts regularly.

 

Tiy made a lot of money from terraria, if my understanding is right

 

Yes, and he's a mod on these forums now.

 

Vader, release him!

 

I also agree about the preordering, im very new on the forums and i had to register just to get in on this game, OMG! when i heard terraria was being stopped i admit i was really really REALLY pissed off, i was like WTF is going on you have a hit indie game and you just dump it?!?!?! BUT honestly i now see why... after the terraria thing i totally gave up on this company as a whole and stopped paying attention to it... and last night i stumbled on a link on youtube and well today is monday and i didnt sleep much last night LOL i searched i bet every link on youtube about starbound and i must say to me it looks like a masterpiece i love the style of it (as terraria) im very very old school growing up playing SNES id rather have beautiful 2D artwork over 3d anyday. anyways any info on a release date (im sure no but hey) and id would preorder this game TODAY for 50$ US no problem....... you all dont like money or what?!?!?!? and any chance this will not be on steam.... i dont mind but at least give us a option i really prefer not using steam.

 

Here's a link that answers most, if not all, of your concerns:

http://community.playstarbound.com/...nnounced-game-information-updated-jan-28.450/

 

I would like to clarify that Starbound is being developed by a different company than Terraria.

Also, it will be possible to buy and download the game directly from Chucklefish.

 

Muhammad Yunus won a Nobel Peace prize for giving people loans. Every time a person charges something on a credit card, they are technically taking out a small loan. Anyone who has a mortgaged house is effectively taking the house on loan, then gradually paying that loan back with money instead of the house. Loans and the credit system are an enormous part of how the global economy is even possible. Insurance is supposed to work in a similar fashion, with you "loaning" your money to the company as a monthly fee, then the company pays you back by covering your expenses as contracted situations occur. Loans and Insurance are essentially the oil that allows the economic machine to operate effectively. They allow people to soften the heavy burdens of large payments such as those required by paying for home/maintenance, accidental damages, healthcare fees, vehicular repairs, or even starting new businesses. If the recent credit crisis is why you are so afraid of the credit system, I suggest you do a little more research on exactly why it happened.

 

I am afraid of the credit system because I do not trust loan companies. I live perfectly well as I am, so why do I need to plunge myself into debt by letting someone else manage it? That right there is a recipe for disaster. And the credit crisis happened because people took credit out, thinking it was free money of sorts.

Not so in the slightest. In fact, Im leery of even racking up tabs in restaurants where Ive been a regular at for years. Im a proponent of the good old fashioned idea that if you want something really really bad, you save up for it.

 

Okay, I don't really want to have an argument over this, and you are entitled to live however you like, but you certainly do not have a very accurate understanding of why the credit crisis happened. It had nothing to do with people taking out loans on credit, which people have been doing for centuries without much trouble.

It started because of a combination of a peaked housing bubble and irresponsible investments by bankers. Valuations of real properties were unsustainably high, and investors bought up prime rate mortgage bundles thinking that the prices would rise. When the real estate market readjusted pricing to match demand, these investments rapidly lost value-- That is effectively what happen to Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac, which had a massive number of shareholders themselves. When they took losses, it had significant financial impact on the businesses that had dealings with them as well, creating a sort of domino effect or an economic shockwave of sorts.
Technically speaking, the foreclosures were due to prime-rate mortgages being offered and even encouraged for subprime borrowers-- The equivalent of the bank giving someone a larger loan than they can handle when that bank should know they won't be able to pay it back (although the borrower should know the loan is too big for them as well, an example of when you should not take a loan). No bank would intentionally do this because it means they would have to put in tons of extra effort in the foreclosure process and they probably wouldn't even recoup their losses. However, this mistake alone would not have caused the crisis. It was bassically a perfect storm of big corporate investors making really really bad investment decisions all around.
To use a colorful analogy, pretend your friend next door (the bank) is borrowing money from you (because you have a savings account, right?), and decides to go to the casino and bets ALL the money on 00 at the roulette table (making poor investment decisions in general). Naturally, he loses the money and realizes he can't pay you back, so he asks his dad (the government) to bail him out. Then his dad realizes that if he doesn't help, then you'll have lost all of your money because your friend was a jerk, and you'll never trust him again (total credit colapse). The dad's solution is to help out your friend by giving him a few loans (bailout packages), under the condition that he never plays roulette again (new government regulations) and he's grounded. The aftermath is that now your little sister can't take out a loan from your friend to buy more lemonade to sell on the street corner because your dad only paid him just enough to set him square with you, which means all of her assistants are out of jobs and the economy is weak.

To some degree I agree with you that banks are untrustworthy, but that's because of their investment practices and not their lending practices. The real problem isn't that we shouldn't take out loans, it's that we need to have methods of preventing banks from making really bad investment decisions.

Also, I really don't want this to get political, so let's just drop it. It isn't even on topic for this thread anymore, so who cares?