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Whatever happened to the Retaliator commercial? I remember that was supposed to be finished months ago, but we still haven't seen anything?asked by Solis Obscuri

TL;DRThe Retaliator commercial never happened because the ship is to be shown with the multi-crew release instead, and cinematic talent is currently focused on Squadron 42.

Good question, No. So you guys saw some commercials early on, even saw back in the kickstarter campaign it was showing off some of our stuff. The goal of those was to bring to light exactly what we're working on and what we've got what we're doing, but we've kind of shifted the way we do that now right? We do these, we show you in the livestreams, we've got all kinds of ways to show you the content we're working on.The Retaliator as it came to make more sense to go into the multi-crew release that would be when we would show it off. So we don't necessarily need a commercial for that. That's a big part of production is we're' always evaluating what the needs of the business are, what the needs of what we're delivering are, what marketing is requesting from us. We're still developing a lot of the stuff so I know they're always working on, Sandi is working with their team and with development and they're always kind of going back and forth about what makes sense and what would help you guys see the content we're working on.So things change all the time and specifically like commercials which I was working on when I first got here. It was kind of getting the scope of what we really wanted to show and what resource we need for it because we want to keep it minimal, we want to show you the cool stuff with keeping minimal resources. So that one, it did not happen. But it's because we showed the Retaliator to you in another way.

And I think that the thing is also our commercials are pretty awesome right? I mean I love them and they take really talented people to make those commercials and a lot of the time we were able to use those commercials to also make the art required for like Squadron 42 and stuff like that so right now we're so heavily invested in Squadron 42 as far as our resources concerned and we're like nose deep, grinding on that thing that a lot of our talent, especially our Cinematic Team who are absolutely awesome, they are currently concentrating on cinematics for Squadron 42. It's also a resource thing, it's not like you hit a switch or just like here's some money, go make it happen, it actually requires certain talents of people.

Totally, Totally, good question. That was a good pull, that was from awhile ago.

10 for the Developers›Episode 03·
Published on this date.19 Jan 2016