Everyone here should go to YouTube and watch the investigative journalism docu “Sunk Cost Galaxy”. It’s EXCELLENT. I think the dude making it had to stop because of legal threats, but the parts that are out are VERY enlightening.
I generally wonder, how the hell can you get almost a billion dollars and still not have a functioning product after 13 years?
There is a functional product. I played it years ago.
But it ain’t finished yet, which is the insane bit given the breadth of funds and length of time.
Well, if they release it they’ll stop getting money shortly after, so why would they?
They could still make more ships and skins and whatnot after release
I keep watching YouTube content about the game every few years, just to keep up with what’s going on. Once the game hits 1.0, has all the rave reviews, and changes gaming forever, I’ll put in money.
If you think about it, SC did change gaming forever. Now everyone release unfinished games and calls them “alpha” while they use the money from sales to finance development. Many games are perpetually unreleased now. Their model has spread like cancer and made gaming worse for everyone. Meanwhile their stinking pile of garbage still has you falling out of elevators 13 years into development.
Star Citizen didn’t start that trend. Star Citizen was one of the “me too” games that jumped into crowdfunding after Mount & Blade saw success with the model. The only way SC has changed gaming is by being a joke the way Duke Nukem Forever was.
They were among the first and popularized it. Their success with it fueled what we see today. They may not have been be first but they were clearly the most popular example (and continue to be)
Tried a free weekend of Star Citizen a year ago.
It was awful.
Everything, and I mean everything, was insanely tedious. The UI/inventory was god awful. The movement felt clunky. There were bugs galore. The learning curve was extreme.
Initially the scale and visuals drew me in, but then I started experiencing all the awful and couldn’t believe I was playing something with over a decade of development.
Major pass on this one.
Damn, a lot of hate for a game no one apparently plays
It’s reasonable to be outraged over a scam, or a ‘scam adjacent’ project. They’re everywhere, and literally screwing up the world.
That being said, I wouldn’t want to criticize the gameplay, either. If it’s fun, it’s fun; that’s very personal. But the predatory FOMO aspect is completely fair game.
I never spent any money but I remember being pretty excited back in 2013 or so. Luckily I’m not a huge idiot in this respect and decided to wait until it was at least mostly done before I got it. There’s a few things that have come out of the crowd funded R&D program that this turned out to be, like trim sheets and such that are kinda neat though.
I backed the Kickstarter back in 2012 or so. Maybe I’ll be able to play it when I retire :D
Thats me, backed it when it came out, play it a bit every couple years.
In totally unrelated news Everspace 2 and Rebel Galaxy have been great additions to my Steam Library.
Picked up the latter for like 3 dollars on the latest Steam sale.
The grift is the buisness now
Yup I got suckered in 2016… You know the year Roberts said everything was going to be released… If by sone odd chance i ever come across Mr. Roberts he and I are going to have an adult conversation about how much I like being lied to to get my money…
“Record breaking” is not necessarily a good thing.
I was more excited about Squadron 42. I backed it a decade ago. Been waiting. Download and installed it a few months ago. Couldn’t even get it to launch. Gave up. I have written it off as a lose and moved on.
What kind of system are you running it on? If its Linux there’s a community Installer that simplifies things.
If its windows… good luck. Their forums are cesspool of bad help.
I remember watching the first trailer they released more than a decade ago and thinking wow, those are some nice graphics and I am a sucker for space stuff. But at the time, my 1080ti didn’t look powerful enough for such a game.
Then some 4 years ago or so, with a brand new 3080Ti there was a free weekend to try the game and, after cranking every setting to max, what I remember is, wow these graphics are outdated AF and it is a stutter fest. Uninstalled after a couple hours never to think about it again.
Your CPU also matters a whole lot for this game.
It’s weird to me when gamers only mention GPU.
I had (And still have) a 5900x, which, at the time, was high end.
What CPU do you have? When you said stutters did you mean like low fps like me? I’ve had my game crash many times because I was travelling through different planets
My experience was 30-40 fps during hub > takeoff > crash > veryfying files
A 5900x. At The time it was top of the line. I didn’t experience any crashes but the stutter was crazy and the FPS were, as I remember, always around or below 60 at 3860x1600. Problem is the maxed out graphics were meh at best, so that level of performance wasn’t justified at all in my opinion.
That was a good buy. Those big Ampere GPUs are aging like wine.
I put in £30 early on almost a pound per year at this point
How have I never even heard about this game?
That is genuinely surprising, but I’m terminally online so maybe it shouldn’t be. These articles get trotted out every 6 months or so when Star Citizen passes whatever milestone. Lots of people enjoy it, some people complain about it, but it’s certainly an anomaly in the gaming space.
If Bernie Madoff went into game development
