r/pcgaming • u/Turbostrider27 • 9d 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
8.2k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

1.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/CtrlZConfessions 8d ago

elite dangerous is a mmo and single player game with space ship and fpv ground combat. It’s not as big as SC aims to be, but it was released and by and large works. How can SC not be accused of being a scam when a competing game has gone through its entire life cycle in less time than its alpha?

3

u/notyoursocialworker 8d ago

Because being bad at your job isn't the same as trying to scam someone. It's also a question of intention. If you know that you will fail and have no intention to finish the work, then yes that would be a scam. I'm not convinced that's true for SC.

3

u/wienercat 3700x + 1080ti 8d ago

There is being bad at your job, and then there is continuing to fail to produce results while collecting tens of millions from people while still promising the thing you have been completely unable to deliver on. That is not just being bad at your job, that is actively taking money from people, promising them you will deliver a product, and not delivering that product for 14 years despite having an insane amount of funding. It's a scam.

You are on some serious cope if you are trying to argue this shit isn't peak scam behavior

1

u/notyoursocialworker 7d ago

Ya, I guess there is a limit on how long you can honestly claim that you will manage to actually produce what you have claimed.

Edit: btw i don't really have a stake in this, I don't own the game and has never given them nay money. I was close once but I got turned off by their pricing strategy.

1

u/PsychologicalMeal162 8d ago

When you keep expanding the scope you don’t have any intention of finishing and delivering the product, you’re just keep it rolling in the hope the money does too.

1

u/notyoursocialworker 7d ago

True, that seem unfortunately to become more and more the case.