Star Citizen

[Doc Reeves 6434]

Anyone else playing this? I’ve been dabbling for about a yr and a half and have finally started to make a little progress. It’s just such a massive open universe and can get crazy costly with real world money. It has first person shooter, exploration & space dog fighting facets. 
 

 

[atomheartbevo 89618]

They just hit $350 million.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals

Hopefully they have enough money to finally finish it.

[atomheartbevo 89618]

They have hit $400 million.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals

On 3/15/2021 at 12:33 PM, atomheartbevo said:

Hopefully they have enough money to finally finish it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_games_to_develop

 

Edited November 23, 2021 by atomheartbevo

[ztejas 43411]

Yeah - where does this thing sit? It's been in development for 10 years now. I think Bernie Madoff did more with his client's money. 

[0xdeadbeef 1645]

On 3/15/2021 at 12:33 PM, atomheartbevo said:

They just hit $350 million.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals

Hopefully they have enough money to finally finish it.

 

The first computer my oldest son bought himself when he was in high school was built specifically so it could play Star Citizen when it came out....That was around 2015 or 2016 and that computer has already been retired.

I'm convinced that the whole thing is a crowd-funding scam....Are they working on something? Sure.  Are they really trying to finish it? No way.

 

The link in the OP now says they are up to $403 Million in funding.

 

 

Edited November 23, 2021 by 0xdeadbeef

[atomheartbevo 89618]

4 hours ago, 0xdeadbeef said:

I'm convinced that the whole thing is a crowd-funding scam....Are they working on something? Sure.  Are they really trying to finish it? No way.

I can't decide what to call it.  Technically, there is a lot of content you can play. It's basically an early access or live service game.

But if a game has not technically been released, and is only in early access/beta testing, then the game can't be judged as a completed game.

[CurlyDumps 4466]

So what’s the deal with the playable content? What can you actually do? And Is it good?

[atomheartbevo 89618]

They are changing up how they handle their roadmap, and what they will say they are working on or planning on delivering in the future, versus what's in the next update.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/18520-Roadmap-Roundup-February-2nd-2021

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However, at the same time, we felt that while the focus should be on development progress, we also still saw value in showing players what features and content they could look forward to down the line, and when they could get their hands on them. Thus, the Release View remained. Instead of removing the Release View, we opted to add new functionality, where cards could be marked as Tentatively Planned or Committed. And in trying to preserve the legacy and maintain the precedence of the old Roadmap, we decided to still hold to a four-quarters-out Release View. In hindsight, after living with this new Public Roadmap for the past 6 quarters, we’ve come to realize that this was a mistake. It put too much attention on features that had a high probability of shifting around. It has become abundantly clear to us that despite our best efforts to communicate the fluidity of development, and how features marked as Tentative should sincerely not be relied upon, the general focus of many of our most passionate players has continued to lead them to interpret anything on the Release View as a promise. We want to acknowledge that not all of you saw it that way; many took our new focus and our words to heart and understood exactly what we tried to convey. But there still remains a very loud contingent of Roadmap watchers who see projections as promises. And their continued noise every time we shift deliverables has become a distraction both internally at CIG and within our community, as well as to prospective Star Citizen fans watching from the sidelines at our Open Development communications. 

Rather than continuing to display release projections that carry a high percentage chance of moving (those multiple quarters out), we will no longer show any deliverables in the Release View for any patches beyond the immediate one in the next quarter. Even though we always added a caveat that a card could move, we feel now that it's better to just not put a deliverable on Release View until we can truly commit to it. 

"But there still remains a very loud contingent of Roadmap watchers who see projections as promises. And their continued noise every time we shift deliverables has become a distraction both internally at CIG and within our community, as well as to prospective Star Citizen fans watching from the sidelines at our Open Development communications."

11 years in active development.  $430 million in funds.

I can understand why people are loud.

 

[UT_OB1 2213]

On 11/22/2021 at 6:08 PM, atomheartbevo said:

They have hit $400 million.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_games_to_develop

 

Kickstarter has been around over a decade?  Fuck that makes me feel old. 

[Hozz 1017]

This is a huge scam right?

[MillerEP 30446]

5 hours ago, Hozz said:

This is a huge scam right?

Maybe. Jury's still out if they'll actually deliver anything. For now it's jokingly called "used car salesman online." It may end up like Chronicles of Elyria, which WAS fraud. The guy in that case basically took the money, called it his salary, and kept that grift going for like 5-6 years before people started lawyering up, realizing that he never actually released anything real. It's a fascinating story, you can find the details on YouTube. The dude there is still trying to keep it going, even though he was exposed, funny stuff.

Edited February 4, 2022 by MillerEP

[Rivers 80]

I bought this years ago and forgot what I paid. Installed the version at the time and was just a glitched screen of lag and unplayable. I haven't tried since and yes, what a scam!