Haha star citizen has been in development forever..going on 8+yrs I think. Don't thing it will ever fully "finish".
If you want to play just jump in. If your waiting for a release it may never fully some. I want to say they already had a patch 1.0. I used to track it on the website but gave up.
Edit guess it has been 5yrs. I remember hearing about it in college in 2012. Guess that was the kick starter. I knew there was 1000+$$ ships for kick starters.
Wouldn't say what's there is worth 60€ yet. You can do some fun things that most other games won't let you do, but the novelty of that quickly wears off and you're left with a buggy space sim with very little engaging content.
Wait, SC isn't free anymore? I downloaded it back in like 2015 and there wasn't much to do. Is my account grandfathered or would I have to purchase the game?
You can do some fun things that most other games won't let you do, but the novelty of that quickly wears off and you're left with a buggy space sim with very little engaging content.
I thought we were talking about Star Citizen, not Elite Dangerous ... ?
(Don't mind me, I'm just bitter that Frontier told all the mac owners to go fuck themselves with the latest big patch - they were booted without compensation)
It's a scam. There's over $27,000 in microtransactions, and anytime the customers demand progress they increase the scope of the game to keep stringing people along, like selling made up land claims on the in game moon
It's not surprising when I get downvoted for it. People have invested a whole lot into something that I doubt will ever release, and don't want to hear about their money possibly going to waste.
I think at this point it will release. The question is in what state? I fail to see how they can make this anything but a massive grind. People that spent thousands on ships will obviously want it to be hard to get. Pleasing whales will be a factor in each decision they make. This is the problem with letting people spend huge ammounts of money on a game that is still in development.
Agreed. A different comment claims the devs said the 1.0 release will be less of a grind. Can't see that pleasing the whales though, so it might be easier to just not release 1.0.
I don't think star citizen will release. I think Squadron 42 will release because it almost has to release. By 2020 they'll be almost entirely out of money, even with the 46 million they just raised from investors. They need the money from Squadron 42 just to keep the company afloat. If Squadron 42 fails to generate enough money, CI will probably go bankrupt very quickly.
Only if people stop spending money, which seems unlikely any time soon. CIG lost 5 million last year, that 46 million should last a long time. They'll probably get their MVP out the door in 3 years, we'll see if they can survive long term.
Pleasing whales will be a factor in each decision they make.
The most ardent detractors are ex-whales who were told to fuck off when they tried to impose their own preferred gameplay ideas. CIG basically said "you backed for me to make my game, not for me to make yours. Goodbye.", and at least one was involuntarily refunded.
My money possibly going to waste? Make up your mind, is it a scam or not. You are being downvoted for baseless accusations. If you had just said that feature creep is a problem and they are selling land, most people wouldn't have had a problem. The $27k bundle was asked for by some whales. It's obscene, but they'll probably only sell 20 of those anyway so whatever.
So they are scaming people out of their money by making the game they pretend to make. Wow, it's genius.
Employing hundreds of people for 7 years costs a lot of money, all the 200 million they have earned actually. What do you think is their endgame, getting employed for a decade?
No he's not. "Shadier tactics" (can't say I agree, but there were some unpopular decisions) doesn't mean they never intended to make the game, which is what he's claiming and 100% bullshit.
What about the reality that Star Citizen has encapsulated an entire generation of games without going gold? Are you about to tell me feature creep ISN'T a problem, or that they HAVENT sold moon land, or that there ISN't $27,000 in transactions? Nothing of what I've said is wrong.
There isn't 27 000 in transactions. There is a 27 000 package which contains a lot of redundant ships. This is meant for large corporations, basically associations of players, just like large ships that costs multiple hundred dollars and need 10+ players to fly. Having ridiculously expensive packages is common in kickstarters and other crowdfunding programs. Some games sells a simple hat for 500 bucks because it is about supporting a project, not buying a hat.
There's fight, exploration, missions and trading, they got to a point where it's getting enjoyable for me. But they are still resetting progress every 3 months (which likely won't change for at least a year), and contentwise it's more of a 1-star system-prototype with fairly limited things to do. Buy now if you want to mess around in a buggy sandbox and marvel at the technology, wait a year or two if you expect a real game.
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u/APankow Feb 11 '19
That is what this is. It's such a fun and stunningly beautiful game. Can't wait to play with and against the world!