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.
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I think you pointed out why they don't get their shit together.
Wait why the hell did I think they've in development for nearly 20 years lol
Announced in 2012
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Come on bro, just one more billion, it will be great, just a few more billions and another 20 years....
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
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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.
He’s been a piece of shit for eleven years. I’ve dealt with that fucking asshole.
Story time?
14 years of development, 1 billion dollars, and the tech demo is all they have to show for it. Bruh.
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.
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.
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Maybe they will finally release it just as gaming computers become totally unaffordable and everyone gets into yo-yoing instead.
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.
Yep, you’re totally right.
leading to a deeply uncomfortable moment where Jared Huckaby, content director on the game, leans behind Hull and says: "We're at time—it's your show, wrap it up."
Doing this to someone in public is something a dickhead would do. When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time.
what's even more of a dick move is in the beginning it was all "we" "us" "the team" etc and then when things go south, as those fucking idiots SHOULD have expected it would, suddenly it's "your show".
These people aren't building a game for market. They're a bunch of children that have managed to covince other children to give them money to the tune of $1billion dollars. I mean hell you can look at their pledge tracker for the proof in the pudding. the stream was august 3rd and 2-3 days later players pledged another $500k in a day. ONLY NOW that people picked up on the fact that this steam even happened are people ranting and raving over it.
Just take a look at the starcitizen subreddit. Someone should study that subreddit because everyone there has stockholm syndrome. So many posts of "maybe now they'll start to produce something" like these fools are going to KEEP giving them money.
Just provide a user base the bare minimum with pretty graphics and the cash will flow.
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Star Citizen is the biggest scam in gaming.
Is a heavily mismanaged game. Calling it a scam would be a misuse of the word.
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.
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!
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.
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SCM levels of jank. Chris Citizen should've went into business enterprise software, he'll feel right at home
I can't wait for people to STFU about this game.
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.
fanbase, which behaves oddly cult-like
Sunk cost fallacy?
Oh I love these shitty presentations, so happy there is a new one to rubberneck
For anyone who wants to play an actually developed space game that has many (not all) of the features of SC, I recommend checking out Elite:Dangerous. It was a fully released game 10 years ago and is still receiving content updates regularly.
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As someone that has wasted 100s of hours into Star Citizen I don't think I ever really liked that game as much as I convinced myself I did. Turns out I liked the game only because of what I thought the game could be instead of what it actually was. All my friends are trying to get me back into it but I just can't do it anymore. I probably only ever enjoyed 10% of my total playtime on that game as the other 90% was spent fighting the gargantuan technical issues, performance issues, game breaking bugs, and general jank. The game is all vibe and promises without an actual fun experience underneath.
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