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Star Citizen crowdfunding passes $700 million, 12 years after development began and still without a release date (www.neowin.net)
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Chris Roberts' vacation fund has reached a new milestone. soypoint-2

so-true With your help we can get this up to 1 billion, which will ensure that Chris gets to visit more places and can enjoy more of the local cuisine. Oh, yeah, and it helps the game get finished sooner, of course.

In other news, they finally reworked the game's UI after 12 years of R&D, and it now looks worse than it did before. Progress. soypoint-1

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[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 34 points 4 months ago

Where is @UlyssesT@hexbear.net when you need him?

[-] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm sure he still browses the Star Citizen hate subreddit and is frothing at the mouth at this very moment.

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago

He's guarding the gates of hell to make sure Kissinger doesn't get out. He best not get distracted

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

wasting time on reddit but not hexbear? I wouldn't wish such an awful fate on him

[-] GoebbelsDeezNuts@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago

I had to double check the name on this post because the sentence structure / meme usage / topic were so similar I was sure he came back.

[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago

Someone has to critique those treats, especially when it comes to Star Citizen. I'm simply taking over his job and responsibilities while he's away. im-doing-my-part

[-] the_itsb@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

tyfys ❤️

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

But when the world needed him most, he vanished.

[-] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I have actually met a star citizen guy IRL. Deeply embarrassing guy. He works in tech as a product manager and is a new landlord who loves to talk apropos of nothing about how nice he was to his tenants during covid.

[-] shitholeislander@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

fundraising idea: establish a front organisation which appears to be a game developer making a wildly unfeasible but tantalising MMO; funnel 90% of donated proceeds to underground anti-imperialist cells across the west instead. based on Star Citizen, the gamers will never realise where their money is actually going

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago

What I hate about this is how cliche the premise is. Why couldn’t they make it into a cowboy bebop-type jazzy dystopian hell instead of an annoying ultra serious MUH MEGACORPORATIONS!! dystopian hell

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago

There are two key reasons:

  1. Something like Cowboy Bebop would require a lot of effort to make every area unique and characterful, while making things generic will be easier to copy-paste.
  2. Tech bros are libertarians.

Also IIRC it's supposed to be more "muh spacerome", which is probably worse.

[-] theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Rebel Galaxy is the closest you're gonna get.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 4 months ago

Damn that was a great game but short, pity that second game took a giant dump over that.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

Outlaw Star would be so cool for a game but anglos wouldn't like it because of the heavy chinese influence in the aesthetic.

[-] moncharleskey@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You mean the popular Japenese anime that aired on Toonami, the same network space that carried Cowboy Bebop?

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

And also had some bewb scenes that managed to escape the UK censors.

Sorry...

[-] nothx@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

I know a few rubes that have donated multiple times and won’t shut up about how great the game already is in its current state.

[-] space_comrade@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I've watched a few recent gameplay videos and ngl they made a pretty cool engine. The "game" is basically still in the tech demo phase but it's pretty cool tech, I hope somebody actually makes a game out of it some day.

Definitely not $700 million worth of tech but oh well.

[-] nothx@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago

I don’t think any part of that studio is $700 million worth of tech unless you count all the toys the CEO has been buying himself for 12 years.

[-] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

The kind of game Star Citizen claims to eventually be fundamentally doesn't work. An open world space sim is a concept that sounds cool in your head but if you think about how it would actually play, it's simply not good. Space is impossibly large and 99,99% empty. Even a single planet is way, way, waaaayyyy too big for an open world game, and Chris Roberts hilariously promised 100 star systems at one point.

Star Citizen, were it to ever come out, would first and foremost be a fast travel simulator. Sitting in loading screens waiting to be teleported to the 0,01% of the ingame world where there are actual things to do and see. Flying through space in your starship would be fun for a few minutes before you press the warp speed button to get to your destination already. Because again, space is empty. There's nothing there. Planets would either be desolate wastelands or contain a single activity hub where 100% of players are at any given moment.

There is no way to do the scale of space justice. Cyberpunk 2077 and GTA 5 are gigantic games and each take place in a single city. You can run across all of WoW in a couple hours. Star Citizen would, at best, have the same amount of content as those games but spread across 100,000,000x the surface area. Flying your ship around would become very old very quickly.

[-] space_comrade@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Elite Dangerous literally has a whole 1:1 scale galaxy you can explore and it kind of works. Sure it's a pretty niche game and not for everybody but people are having fun with it.

[-] fox@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

Elite also lets you fly from point to point if you really really want to and it is indeed terribly boring and impossibly long without some sort of FTL

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

Or even FTFTL. I remember travelling for two hours to a star system because it wasn't far enough for fsd (big one) and I ran out of fuel

[-] fox@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

The running joke of getting players to go to the one space station in the Proxima Centauri system to get a free spaceship. You drop in near Proxima A and need to fly to Proxima B, the other member of the binary system. But it's like a four hour trip with the in-system FTL maxed.

[-] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

I really, really, really, really genuinely love how Outer Wilds solved this problem by just making the solar system 30 km big. Like you can just fly wherever you want. It's so good. By the way, play Outer Wilds.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Star Citizen, were it to ever come out, would first and foremost be a fast travel simulator.

That could be even worse. Once upon a time there was a game called Naval Action, where you spend hours trying to travel because the travel was slow and there was no option of fast travel. Like it could take literally hours of real time.

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

I enjoyed naval action for a bit. I was really into age of sail at the time though. I'd read some Jack Aubrey and then get my ass whipped by some Dutch bastards

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I am extremely pumped up for the final release in 2014. Any day now!

biaoqing-copium

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago

That girl from the nightclub's name? Alberta Einstein.

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You have to respect and be disgusted by a grift this successful. Normally you'd have to scam a dozen or so VCs to get that much money, but doing it to more or less regular people is some next level manipulation.

[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

Back when I craved for a super cool spaceships game where capitalism unfortunately survived and moved into space I played Elite Dangerous, which I got for free and enjoyed every fucking minute of it.

imagine paying for this garbage game "star citizen". Citizen of my dick and balls.

[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

Citizen of my dick and balls.

peltier-laugh Gottem.

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

For over brief, beautiful moment I thought UlyssesT was back

[-] Yor@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

$100 million in lees than a year... sadness-abysmal

[-] Grandpa_garbagio@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

having a conversation at a night club

That's how you can tell it's a real story

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

No release date, but I can buy a star ship for more than the value of my house...

Healthcare plz.

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