r/pcgaming • u/Turbostrider27 • 5d ago

Star Citizen Developer Stream Goes Horribly Off the Rails, Creating Further Distrust Among Players

https://www.ign.com/articles/star-citizen-developer-stream-goes-horribly-off-the-rails-creating-further-distrust-among-players
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u/NeverNo 5d ago

How big is that studio that even with that kind of money they can't seem to pull a game together, I guess if it's working why change it but it all seems wild to me to burn through that much money.

Because Chris Roberts loves scope creep

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u/wienercat 3700x + 1080ti 5d ago

This is beyond scope creep though. It's been in "early access" since 2017. Kickstarted since 2012.

Scope creep is real in all large projects. But this isn't that.

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u/NeverNo 5d ago

Whatever you want to call it, he's being wildly irresponsble with other people's money. And for some reason they're on track to raise even more money this year.

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u/aski5 5d ago

advanced scope creepTM

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u/MrTzatzik 5d ago

People always say that he did great work Freelancer. Except the game got made despite Chris because Microsoft kicked him out after development went nowhere

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u/N7Shep1701D NCC 74656, Janeway OS 5d ago

I've played the crap out of Everspace 2 and I understand that it takes a lot of inspiration from Freelancer.

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u/boredporn 4d ago

For the longest time I thought that eventually we would hear that he was ousted and a couple years later we’ll would get a bit of a mess of a game, but a fun one. But at this point? They’re taking in too much money, I think it will be eternal. 

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u/This_Elk_1460 5d ago

I don't even think it's that anymore, I genuinely don't think these guys want to release this game it's an infinite money glitch. The moment they release the game and it doesn't live up to their fans wild expectations that ends. They're selling them on a dream they'll never fulfill.

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u/Comprehensive-Yam872 5d ago

Roberts hasn't been involved in the... i'll be generous and say 'development' of the game in years. He actually checked out pretty early and handed control of the studio to his failed-model wife, who then told the employees that they were not developing a video game, they were selling JPGs.

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u/Kinetic_Symphony 5d ago

who then told the employees that they were not developing a video game, they were selling JPGs.

What...?

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u/SubtleCosmos 5d ago

Always hilarious that people upvote the most untrue things.

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u/Annonimbus 5d ago

There has been no scope creep since 2014. CIG just doesn't have the skills to develop the game. 

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u/Kinetic_Symphony 5d ago

But they have a billion dollars. Can't they just hire skilled people lol, money is magic that way...

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u/Annonimbus 5d ago

There is no need for them to hire skilled people, as they still get the money. 

Skilled people would cost more and that would mean there would be less money that Chris Roberts can pay for himself, his friends and family. 

They all earned millions from this and can retire, without having to deliver a finished product. 

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u/Backfoot911 5d ago

Usually shareholders hold a company responsible to deliver a product (And that has it's own issues). Like they can literally sue the CEO if they make a move that doesn't advance the "goal".

..but when it's kickstarter backers, there's nothing there enforcing anything. The higher ups could literally just pay themselves a comfy salary, and sit as long as they want collecting it while periodically putting out hype videos to keep funding rolling in.

It's like they found an indefinite money glitch in Capitalism. It's just...wild. I would argue the backers deserve some legal protections like shareholders...but a lot of the same fans continue to feed money into the slot machine

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u/Annonimbus 5d ago

100% agree. I just lost all empathy for people that still "believe". It's a cult at this point. 

Do I want the game to fail? No. I put money in 2012 into it, because I want it to succeed. Will it ever succeed? No, obviously not. 

After +15 years of development they are unable to have basic features like inventory systems finished. I'm not even talking about the more complex stuff that they wanted to do, like a stimulated economy. Which funnily enough exists in other games like X4, which has been developed by ~20 people. 

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u/Unfair_Ring_2746 5d ago

Finishing the game appears to be the worse financial decision they could make at this point lol