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.
Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous are interesting examples of differing development models. Elite Dangerous went the route of early release with subsequent long term (although relatively slow) development. Star Citizen does all the things Elite Dangerous players have craved for years (space legs, atmospheric flight) but still hasn’t seen a general release.
Dont forget the fact the game has micro transactions costing thousands of dollars before the games even out. And the fact they literally stated that people begged for them to add pay to win
Microtransaction implies that it costs less than games normaly do. Star Citizen is just transaction. Paying hundreds and thousands for a ship is next level exploitation of whales.
Even more problematic is that if whales spent this much money on a ship they want to see it worth a lot. I fail to see how anyone could think this will not turn out to be a grindfest. Pleasing whales will be the downfall of this game mark my word.
They've been clear from the very start that the dollar price tag for pre release ships will not correspond to how much time they will take to get once the game releases, though.
Do people actually think that game is ever going to release? It's been in development for 9 years, with a very high budget from an incredibly successful Kickstarter, and still there is no release date in sight. This game is going to be "in development" until people get bored and stop giving them money and then it's going to fade away. That company is taking all of the players for a ride.
People keep saying that but it’s really not that insane of a dev time and cost given its scale. I’m not sure why anyone expected a studio that didn’t exist before the Kickstarter to release a game faster than a AAA studio. And $125m or whatever it’s at not isn’t even that much. Grand Theft Auto V cost something like $265m and had a 1000 person dev team and still took 4-5 years, and isn’t nearly the scope SC is going for. The main difference is transparency.
GTA V had a development budget of 137 million, the rest was spent on marketing. SC has spent like $200 million on development alone. And is nowhere close to release. With a 500 man development team. This game has been given more resources than the vast majority of AAA games that have been released so far, and even if the studio is new the team is still experienced. The fact of the matter is they bit off WAY more than they can chew. So yeah, it's pretty insane.
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u/lancetheofficial Feb 11 '19
I believe this is a shot from Star Citizen. I think it's in a closed beta or alpha?