Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it'

9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Carighan@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think the fact that they are very very glacially slowly delivering on things at least, all the while self-discovering software development instead of learning it, that aggravates me even more. Bloober Team could finish this faster and more competently than these clowns...

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Glacially is OVERstating how much and how quickly.

    Especially compared to their original predictions.

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    • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s not even about predictions or estimations - everything’s so many years late everyone stopped counting. They just… don’t seem to understand “scoping”? The pitch is “ultra-realistic life-size universe sandbox simulation” and they keep hitting walls because they’re using tech that’s completely inadequate for the task at hand but they won’t let that deter them. They’ve probably reimplemented every subsystem of the Crysis 3 engine a dozen times by now, and it’s still not anywhere near capable of achieving even a tenth of their ambitions. Fuck, they just very recently got their server meshing thing barely working after like a decade of development (at the cost of rewriting everything again of course).

      It’s like watching a team raising billions to build the Burj Khalifa but all they have is a bunch of dry sand and some spoons. Deadlines aren’t really the issue.

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• reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  well, they are drip feeding the content as they are still slowly actually adding more stuff to the game. I dont think they intend to scam anyone since they occasionally allow people to play the game for free and without that i would have been inclined to buy it many times now to see what kind of game it is (and would have felt scammed). Now i just keep waiting for them to add enough stuff for the game to be worth getting, but after hearing they might add somekind of p2w shop crap i think i might just forget about the whole thing if it really bad.

  Its too bad if the game collapses at some point since it really has promise. I resent them for first fucking around with the money they were given and making it all seem like a scam even when there is potential for it to not be.

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  • homoludens@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Its too bad if the game collapses at some point since it really has promise.

    No one denies the game has promise. The problem is that it does not have much else. Having ideas is the easy part in game development.

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    • reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      the promise i see comes from things that are actually in the game. Though it still needs more to be worthwhile, so i’m not risking my money yet. They just need to add more fun things to do and fix the problems with what they already have and it would already be kind of ok, provided they keep adding stuff.

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      • Greddan@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The times I’ve had with this game over the years I feel is well worth the cost of dinner at an fairly upscale restaurant or a night out drinking.

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• dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We already know what happens with long term sunk cost fallacy. It is a scam.

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