I really don’t see it as a scam. I think I paid $30 for the game and they’re continuing to develop it. I’ve played it a bit and while it definitely feels unfinished, I’d say they’re certainly onto something, it has serious potential to turn into something cool.
Dirk@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
I wonder for how many more years people will continue to not only accept that scam but also wholeheartedly defending it.
such as procedural world-building
So no longer “it takes time to build planets”? Just slap on some algorithmic generation and call it a day?
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
philipp_@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
Planets have been in the game for years and years and have always been a mix of proc gen and artist crafted stuff. Also the proc gen of the newer planets is the best I’ve ever seen.
littleomid@feddit.org 13 hours ago
Horribly managed, shitty company taking on more than they can chew lead by a guy who might as well be a cult leader, sure. But you can’t call SC a scam.
FatVegan@leminal.space 9 minutes ago
I’m not really defending the game, but i bought a ship like a decade ago during a kickstarter promo or something. I “played” the game maybe once a year ever since then. I got my money out of it a long time ago. The game isn’t great. It’s probably not even good, but i have never seen anytging like it. It looks insane, (runs rather poor) the space flight sim part is fantastic. The ship detail is something that hasn’t been there before and will never been seen again. (Makes sense, since that’s where their money goes). People are really nice in the game, and i had the best interactions i ever had in any game.
Long story short, i hate what happens to a game that i generally like, and the idea behind it. The amount of money put into is bizzare. On the other hand, there are “real” scam games, that made 250 million dollars and are genuinely just unreal engine 5 assets scattered around, with no game in sight, and generally people don’t talk about it the same way they talk about star citizen.