What does you having fun with friends in star citizen have to do with it being a scam?
These things are unrelated.
There are companies with 50K employees with working delivery (no JPEG of an barrel) where the management was found to engage in fraud.
Greddan@feddit.org 2 days ago
I think the people claiming this game is a scam, don’t know what scam means. I paid for this game years ago and sometimes I go online and have fun with friends or just drink beer and do cargo hauling to relax. Like any other game really. Early access or not, people are having fun.
Sunk cost fallacy? What cost am I putting in, and what am I expecting in return? This game cost me a night on the town years ago that would’ve been forgotten at this point, and gained me a fun space game.
Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Umm, I bought it because Gary Oldman said squadron 42 was coming out next year. I want a modern freelancer. That was over a decade. That really seems like a scam…
Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Gary Oldman said squadron 42 was coming out next year
Mark Hamil said that something called “Squadron 54” was coming out soon, this was half a decade ago.
ripcord@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Horribly mismanaged? Incompetent project management? Horrifyingly bad predictions, even lying? Big mess of a project? Sure.
Scam? No. They really are trying to do the thing they said they are.
And as you say, even though they’re never, ever going to deliver what they promised because they can’t, they have delivered a thing that a lot of people like
But god DAMN. They said most of the PU features would be done in 2016/17. 9 years later 80% of what they promised still isn’t there. Multi crew has been walked back. Etc etc.
Defectus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A scam would be that Chris Robert just took the kickstarter money and ran away. They are actually trying to make the game… Poorly.
Having said that, It amazes me that they get away with selling ships for 1000s of dollars. That feels somewhat scam-ish
Nilz@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Ok, so preordering what promises to be a motorcycle but years later getting a bicycle instead that you happen to enjoy riding is also acceptable?
Greddan@feddit.org 1 day ago
I never pre-ordered anything. I saw a YouTube video of people having fun in a space game, and then I bought said space game, and played it.
I swear you guys are more obsessed with Star Citizen than the people who play it.
hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Last time I hate the patience to soldier through a sad attempt at playing this game felt more like buying some next gen bike, but getting the chassis that looks like the bike I ordered, but had tech from 10 years ago and every time you try to park it in your garage, both wheels fall off.
It’s pretty sad really.