Comment on Star Citizen is free for the next few days, please don't accidentally buy a $300 spaceship

solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Technus@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Star Citizen isn’t a game. It’s a carefully crafted enterprise product designed with a single purpose in mind: to separate fools from their money.

  Source: they took me for $30 almost a decade ago and I’m still not over it.

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  • Codilingus@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can literally go download the game in its current state right now, and fly around your $30 spaceship. I last checked in ~4 years ago and it was insanely impressive what they’ve done.

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    • Technus@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They do just enough to fend off any serious allegations of fraud.

      The fact you haven’t felt compelled to check in 4 years says everything.

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      • Codilingus@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I haven’t checked in 4 years because I only invested $25 year 1 lmao. I don’t know about you, but spending $25 knowing it has a chance to faiI, or be an out right scam, isn’t something I worry about in the slightest. I l have not the slightest idea if they’ll ever pull it off, either. Until I see some article that’s like “New SC update releases much anticipated mechanic, and is a major milestone reached.” Mind you I don’t subscribe to anything strictly SC.

        Other than that I’ll see it on Twitch every few months and tune in, and those are usually a massive group doing planned content. Like a 50v50 battle at some base on a planet, with tanks, ships, fps shooting, etc. It’s always impressive to see the scale and capabilities of the game that way.

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    • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Last time I checked, about a year ago, things were still unfinished in the starting city, and the game was unoptimized and crashed often. Super impressive. /s

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      • Codilingus@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Correct, it is a game currently in Alpha.

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  • Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly. These assholes never planned on actually releasing anything but with the amount of money they got they figured fuck it lets see how far we can take this, and have been suckering marks for more than a decade since

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    • Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They took grifting to a whole other level. Which you can get to, with $200.

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• hydroptic@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Very much not done but somehow making ridiculous amounts of money, which doesn’t seem to help at all with the development process

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  • solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    LOL and here i am feeling dumb when i buy a game at launch that turns out to be shit

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• barrbaric@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think they have one solar system “done” (not really) out of 100.

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  • ElHexo@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You don’t understand, they’ve spent the last decade and a half developing the tools to develop the tools to develop the tools to develop more than a single system

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    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Isnt this the same company that got called out for how wrong and out of date its public calendar was, who then committed to a project improving the public calendar tools, which was then also incorrectly tracked and posted on its public calendar?

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      • Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Star citizen dev plan: advertise content that doesn’t exist. Collect more money.

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      • ElHexo@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        After years they actually published something here but then immediately stopped updating it

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