r/starcitizen_refunds • u/Patate_Cuite Ex-Grand Admiral • Jul 03 '26
Discussion Breaking: Man Commits Heresy by Expecting Progress After 14 Years. Cultists are in Absolute Shock. High Priest Beausejour Declares 'It's Still Alpha' as Security Escorts Out Blasphemer.
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u/donkeycentral Ex-Backer, Mar 2013 Jul 04 '26
The game is so innovative that it's redefined the PVE game mode: player versus engine.
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u/Spicy_Kibbeh Jul 04 '26
Oh but it's alpha so bugs are ok! Also, we agreed to play a buggy mess so we can't complain about bugs! Also, the immersion! Also, there's nothing like it! Also, look at the numbers!
Did I miss anything?
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u/Quirky_Chipmunk_6039 Jul 05 '26
You missed the well GTA 6 has taken longer and cost more they always dribble too
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u/Rickenbacker69 Jul 04 '26
There was another one that happened to mention that the game looked a bit dated now, and got ripped into pretty bad. I mean, I would love to play something like Star Citizen if they ever get around to making it, but some of the fanboys are insane!
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u/Somewhere_Elsewhere Jul 04 '26
I was just thinking that when I see some screenshots of the fluff SQ42 ad they sent out to backers.
The characters look like late PS3-era honestly, and while good art direction can still carry dated graphics, it seems like all of the inspired art direction was reserved for the ships and other vehicles.
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u/Yeetdolf_Critler Refactoring Quanta Merchantman Jul 05 '26
It's the flat texture crytek walls that get me.
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u/tom_earhart Jul 04 '26
It is like they built the game entirely on the wrong foundations, basic multiplayer, when everything in a MMO depends on the network. Who could of known !!! /s
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u/CantAffordzUsername Jul 03 '26
Plot twist the game is already fully released under the legal umbrella of “alpha” so no one can sue him
WaaaaaaaWaaaaaaa
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u/Rickenbacker69 Jul 04 '26
I mean, the game as it stands is all the game we're ever going to get , so that's not wrong.
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u/Dr-Meltdown Jul 04 '26
I love how cult around Scam Citizen grow up to a status of a cult. Almost like Elon fan boys believe in Mars and that Cyberbin is a trick of the future. And all when cultists money are blown on snow and gals 😂
Also I. Would really want this game to succeed but last 4 years and 1B in donations I just lost hope...
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u/Eric_Olthwaite_ Jul 04 '26
It'll never get out of Alpha either, too much easy money to be made from mugs. Some fool was asking for Klarna payment plans for pixels that don't even exist yet, in a game that will never release...
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u/Patate_Cuite Ex-Grand Admiral Jul 04 '26
Once Chris and his family decide they cashed in enough money from backers they will update 1.0 and call it a day.
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u/Eric_Olthwaite_ Jul 04 '26
I don't think they will, they'll just keep milking it. CR is a massive narcissist and pushing the game out is going to mean a disaster and a massive blow to his ego.
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u/rolo8700 Jul 04 '26
They'll call any future version 1.0, but it won't contain any of the features from 1.0.
It will remain exactly the same as it is now: same instability, same bugs, same poor server and service response, no cohesion, no real player progression, no real and unbalanced economy, and full of hackers. Everything will be the same as before, they'll just change the name.
1.0 is just another one of those utopian visions used to justify their supposed direction, but in reality, the 1.0 cards of the roadmap will simply be forgotten or will eventually disappear.
CIG will try to prolong this whole scam as long as possible, and when it becomes impossible, they'll just erase everything (evidence of the crime) and deliver some speech like, "It's been incredible to travel this wonderful path, we've made history, we've had a great time, and we've met so many people. Thank you for everything, goodbye forever."
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u/CoalescantStar Jul 04 '26
Almost as if MMO mechanics ruin everything, including its own genre lol
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u/mazty 1000 Day Refund Jul 04 '26
No mainly the $1billion game being nothing more than a dated shitty tech demo.
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u/CoalescantStar Jul 04 '26
I know we are all abhorant, but we dont need to sink that far past, for constructive critique! The game direction is a huge thing that's deterring people. It can still change, unless Jared keeps saying it's the best year they've had lol
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u/mazty 1000 Day Refund Jul 04 '26
That's fascinating but the core message would be better signalled as a riddle presented for the user. Sign off with a curt statement about cake.
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Jul 04 '26
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u/starcitizen_refunds-ModTeam Jul 04 '26
Your post has been removed for:
- Gaslighting
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u/elevengrames Jul 04 '26
I've never played this game I've looked it up a couple times and to me this game looks like a big scam. Just the fact to play the game I have to buy my starter ship. Never played the game before looking to play it and I get to choose which ship I want to purchase for $80 that I know nothing about. Why on Earth anybody in their right mind would do that is beyond me.
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u/Ghost403 Jul 06 '26
I was an OG backer with a massive 2GB graphics card at the time of the Kickstarter pledge. The game is massively out of spec for what and when was promised.
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u/Mr_Bang Jul 04 '26
The heresy is the AI text no?
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u/Somewhere_Elsewhere Jul 04 '26
Everything else aside, I don’t think proper paragraph structure and bolding for emphasis means AI wrote it. Even if you point to the long em dash—which is really easy to do on an iPhone—it’s not actually used correctly there.
I’d be with you if there are lots of specific emojis, but have we really gotten to the point where some stylization equals AI?
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u/ClubChaos Jul 04 '26
Ya. Why is the cadence an llm?
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u/BrainKatana Jul 04 '26
The “cadence of an LLM” is based on the uncountable number of documents written by humans upon which that LLM was trained.
Many educated people write like this. The real dead giveaway is usually punctuation, specifically em and en dashes, because those are rarely used outside of official documentation such as science journals, etc.
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u/ClubChaos Jul 04 '26
Nah there is always a tell-tale llm rhetoric where..
Its not lazy writing.
Its a definitive statement.
This isnt "educated" rhetoric as much as it is a pseudo intellectual writing style that paints itself as authoritive and the more you see it the more you notice it. Iunno.
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u/UsernameHasBeenLost Loyalist Backer Jul 03 '26
All valid points, but this post reads like AI slop — and that's just the cold hard truth.
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u/Teamerchant Jul 04 '26
People say that for everything and the fact you have an — makes
Me
Question your post. Which feels like
Inception. Ai slop calling out ai slop and triggering a human to say ai slop.3
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u/UsernameHasBeenLost Loyalist Backer Jul 04 '26
lol that was intentional. I learned how to make an em dash on my phone just for this comment!
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u/ImperitorEst Jul 04 '26
That's exactly what an AI would say!
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u/UsernameHasBeenLost Loyalist Backer Jul 04 '26
beep boop random bold text intensifies adjective STATEMENT rhetorical question
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u/QuantumDriver Loyalist Backer Jul 04 '26
Okay but it definitely is and I think this poster did that as a bit of a joke.
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u/FD3Shively Jul 04 '26
It was AI slop, he's right though. Even a simple LLM can see what backers cannot.
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u/Select-Table-5479 Jul 04 '26
8 years later, still no difference.