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[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 8 points 2 days ago

Come on bro, just one more billion, it will be great, just a few more billions and another 20 years....

[–] weps@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That first dude was pretty big when he said he was the host at the beginning.

Then the game bugged out and they could't continue and suddenly it was the other guys show and he needed to wrap it up.

What an ass.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He’s been a piece of shit for eleven years. I’ve dealt with that fucking asshole.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago

Story time?

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The only thing I enjoy about Star Citizen is when Bruce and Lawrence on Inside Games cover it once or twice a year whenever a new story about what a shit-show it is pops up. https://youtu.be/oWJh8EfVRrw

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

holy shit how long have they been doing legally distinct inside gaming! love how YouTube has decided to never recommend them to me ever, not like I have watched hundreds of hours of Inside Gaming and Funhaus.

[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

SCM levels of jank. Chris Citizen should've went into business enterprise software, he'll feel right at home

[–] itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Oh I love these shitty presentations, so happy there is a new one to rubberneck

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

This game has been in development for a decade with near-unlimited funding. Jesus christ guys, this has been plenty of time to get your shit together.

I think you pointed out why they don't get their shit together.

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[–] mrbigmouth502@piefed.zip 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I can't wait for people to STFU about this game.

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Most people already have. It is just that it has a small hardcore fanbase, which behaves oddly cult-like. As long as you don't move in those circles you will never hear of the game except for when they fuck up so badly that even game journalists are reminded that the game exists.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

fanbase, which behaves oddly cult-like

Sunk cost fallacy?

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 3 days ago

Maybe they will finally release it just as gaming computers become totally unaffordable and everyone gets into yo-yoing instead.

[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

14 years of development, 1 billion dollars, and the tech demo is all they have to show for it. Bruh.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They have more than a tech demo though, right? I haven't been following, but isn't the game technically already playable with people? It's just full of bugs and missing features.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's playable like the way a early access game is playable.

There's streams out there. From the streamers and fans who donated over 10k, it's playable.

For anyone with half a brain... No.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

That's still more than a tech demo. Just wanted to be sure I had the right idea.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

It's also the friends they made along the way.

Which there wasn't. All those people in the video hate each other. You can tell by how they were making snide comments and nobody was supportive of anybody.

[–] rozodru@piefed.world 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

did it surprise me that Star Citizen is still a buggy mess? no, I expected as much.

What surprised me was the sheer unprofessional-ism from everyone involved in that stream minus the Ollie guy. That Jared is a HUGE douche nozzel and if he ever worked on one of my teams and acted that way towards other employees I'd throw is ass out of the door. the fact he acts this way on a LIVE stream is truly mind blowing. I mean your company is funded literally by the people watching your stream and you act this way? The tree other devs sitting there couldn't give a rats ass about any of this. They know the game is broken, they know the game will never get released, but why should they care as long as they get paid? they know it's a joke and treat it as such.

If you continue to pledge/support this game you're a bigger idiot than the people on that stream.

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[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Star Citizen is the biggest scam in gaming.

[–] Skipcast@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Is a heavily mismanaged game. Calling it a scam would be a misuse of the word.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s a scam. They scammed the original Kickstarter investors. Ffs i had a whole campaign TEN YEARS AGO that started the refunds! Like I FUCKING STARTED THAT SHIT! If you get a refund in star citizen- YOU’RE WELCOME. It took hundreds of emails of people claiming they were scammed for them to allow refunds!

Now over ten years later you chucklefuck losers want to defend that. Get the fuck out! You don’t know what the fuck you are talking about!

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

14 years and they have almost figured out how to have a reloadable rifle. This whole project has become a scam not due to having nothing people can play, but that they have crowd funded over 1 billion dollars (and counting) without (I feel) any real expectations internally of ever having a finished product.

Chris Roberts has cemented his legacy as the sole person to ruin his own games. In fact he may have done the most damage to space games then anyone else.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You only have to visit the secondary market for SC in-game merch to find the scammy bits. The funny this isn't that this game is fully of overpriced, stupid bullshit. It's that six developers who fell out the back of the Wing Commander franchise found a way to bilk people for billions of dollars by creating the thing Mark Zuckerberg has been losing 10x as much on for just as long.

Digital real estate. Digital in-game businesses. Digital currency. A clumsy interface with dogshit codebase to match that's sagging under its own technical debt and still ten years behind the development curve. Star Citizen is the Metaverse.

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