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 3 months ago
i remember when this game was announced 12 years ago. is it done yet?
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
LOL and here i am feeling dumb when i buy a game at launch that turns out to be shit
barrbaric@hexbear.net 3 months ago
I think they have one solar system “done” (not really) out of 100.
ElHexo@hexbear.net 3 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
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 3 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Isnt this the same company that got called out for how wrong and out of date its public calendar was, who then committed to a project improving the public calendar tools, which was then also incorrectly tracked and posted on its public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?
Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Star citizen dev plan: advertise content that doesn’t exist. Collect more money.
ElHexo@hexbear.net 3 months ago
Technus@lemmy.zip 3 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.
Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 3 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.
Technus@lemmy.zip 3 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.
Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 3 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.
treadful@lemmy.zip 3 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
Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Correct, it is a game currently in Alpha.
Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 3 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
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They took grifting to a whole other level. Which you can get to, with $200.