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State of the game - How is KSP doing?


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On 1/30/2019 at 3:05 PM, wumpus said:

I'll admit that I don't think I have any working non-64 bit CPUs

I do have an old 32-bit, windows 7 machine chugging away in the corner and you brought it to mind so I checked - yes it has KSP on it!  (Version 1.04)

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51 minutes ago, Lord Aurelius said:

In the meantime, the current crop of updates that's causing me to be cautiously optimistic might be an attempt to win back trust from the community before they announce the next big thing. The Kerbal franchise still has a huge amount of potential for spinoff games that could appeal to a much wider audience, and Take Two might very well have some secret development projects behind the scenes with a different studio entirely.

Well, I don't want to seem cautiously pessimistic on that matter, but, again, I reckon that this next big thing that could appeal to a wider audience (the most probable commercial decision, sadly for hardcore simulation enthusiasts) would be focused on that part of the audience supposed to fill in the gap to the "wider" step. So there would not be a lot of point in winning back the trust of the existing community in that regard.

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5 hours ago, PunkyFickle said:

it is a bit too niche as a concept to appeal to a broad audience

I think people underestimate how many copies KSP has sold.  Before Squad started hiding their numbers, it had sold millions.  A more polished version of KSP with a decent career mode could sell quite well.  I trust Take Two was thinking the same when purchasing KSP.

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9 hours ago, Pecan said:

I do have an old 32-bit, windows 7 machine chugging away in the corner and you brought it to mind so I checked - yes it has KSP on it!  (Version 1.04)

I'm at least somewhat surprised that windows 7 supports 32 bit machines, but I think Intel made a few mobile/laptop parts that were 32 bit specific.  I think the last 32 bit desktop chips were the [early] Pentium 4s.  But plenty of machines past that worked a lot better in 32 bit mode, at least in windows.

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1 hour ago, wumpus said:

I'm at least somewhat surprised that windows 7 supports 32 bit machines, but I think Intel made a few mobile/laptop parts that were 32 bit specific.  I think the last 32 bit desktop chips were the [early] Pentium 4s.  But plenty of machines past that worked a lot better in 32 bit mode, at least in windows.

AMD Athlon 64 - based system, originally with Vista and updated to 7 soon after it was released.  It has never been one of the prime machines, which is why it's survived almost unchanged for so long and is still going.  Just checked its maintenance record - bought 2007 it got 7 in 2011 and a new graphics card (nVidia 610, £50) in 2014.   Hmmm, it's otherwise the oldest machine here still in use.

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I have nothing to say really.

Just 'cool thread and comments'. Good to know these things. I started playing at 1.0.5. So I don't know that much about the history (or much of what is going on today). So thanks!

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