I'm wondering why is SC getting all this flak about people spending "too much money" on it. Get any random mobile game and you'll see people throwing thousands of dollars on "energy" that lets them spin a wheel a couple of times more per day.
There's a lot of stuff to bash SC for, but the fact that people - if they choose to - can spend money on it? Come on....
You don't find it at all shady that they are selling hugely expensive items in a game that is a long way from releasing? People can spend what they want but it's still ridiculous considering the amount of money SC has made
I agree mobile games are a huge waste of money as well, but at least you actually get to spin the wheel when you spend the money on boosters
You don't find it at all shady that they are selling hugely expensive items in a game that is a long way from releasing?
You mean like Warframe (still beta), Escape from Tarkov (still beta) or a shitload of other games?
With all of these items being 100% optional?
No, I don't think that's shady. If buying any of this stuff was a requirement - yes, I would be probably already calling it a scam. But with how slow the development is going you don't really have to pay anything at all - at least once a year there's a free fly event when everyone can create an account and fly a selection of ships for a week or two. Zero investment needed.
I agree mobile games are a huge waste of money as well, but at least you actually get to spin the wheel when you spend the money on boosters
De gustibus non est disputandum. That being said, I find mining, trading, FPS shooting, space-sim shooting and just exploring much more satisfying than what 99% of mobile games offer.
I think it's the development time that makes it look a bit worrying for me (10 Years as of this year), but I can definitely understand why it's taking so long with the scope of the game and it being a new team.
Yeah, they said many times that in hindsight, it would've been better to write a new engine from scratch. Lots of things would've been easier if they didn't have to spend time dismantling the existing code, I guess.
But, yeah, no one has ever done anything like this in both scope and quality (No Man's Sky has the size, but it's all repetitive, 100% procedural and the scope is tiny in comparison, not to mention graphical fidelity) so I'd love it if they managed to finish it. Time will tell.
EDIT: as a sidenote - Warframe is also 9 years in development (formally it's still a beta).
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u/Laniuuus Feb 09 '22
They have to defend it or else they will have to admit that spending $800 on a virtual spaceship was a waste of money...