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• Schmuppes@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I still chuckle when I think about my buddy getting himself the new GTX 970 so his rig would be ready for the upcoming release of Star Citizen.

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  • Melobol@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I got my Star citizen with a hundle for AMD radeon r7… Yep. Totally game ready.

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  • commander@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I know how your buddy felt. When I got a 970, I was worried that you’d need at least a 980ti to play Star Citizen well at 1080p. Luckily I’ve never spent a dime on the game so don’t have any strong feelings about how development has been going. Just see a news headline every couple months

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    • Schmuppes@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Whenever I was reading threads on Reddit, there were those fanboys who would write stuff like “No no, they’re right on track and the game is already more than we were hoping for. You haters just don’t get it.”

      I always used to wonder whether they actually believed that, when the game was at least five years overdue already and Chris Roberts just kept milking those poor suckers.

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  • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh this made me chuckle too

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• Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The actual statement has too many qualifiers:

  “As we get imminently closer to launch—and I say that in game development language—it’s very hard to keep it under wraps”

  “As we get” is not “we are”. He is saying that in some inteterminate future where they are getting closer to launch, they will say more.

  By not having more to say, the implication is that they are not close. They also soft-cancelled the 2026 release estimate, and did not put forward a new one. If they were anywhere near getting it done, they’d be talking which quarter of 2027 by now.

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  • Nora@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I remember being so excited for the then upcoming 2014 release…

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    • fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They still have some time to make it before the late last moments of the quarter for a year of some number.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I got so hyped for the seriously any day now you dudes 1985 release

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  • osprior@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When did they soft cancel the 2026 release?

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    • Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Soft cancel” as in stopped talking about it long ago and dodging questions about it.

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• Soulphite@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This fucking game is approaching TWO decades of development… I do gotta hand it to the devs, they know how to keep suckers… I mean, players on the hook for a long time and keep the fomo alive with their outrageous pledge pricing model. They must’ve been excellent dairy farmers in past lives…

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  • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I grabbed it on sale for like $10, even for $10 it wasn’t really worth it. So much broken shit, and then almost nothing to do.

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the honest living farmer meme, but the crop is hopium

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• shittydwarf@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean.. this shit was funny YEARS ago.. I can’t believe they’re still able to milk it

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  • luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Elite dangerous is 90% of star citizen with 1% of the bugs, and it’s already released, gets frequent updates, costs a fraction, and is super fun. I’m highly addicted

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    • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Having played both, Elite: Dangerous is a very different game.

      Is it good! Yes.

      Is it fun? Absolutely.

      Does it have more merit than Star Citizen in many ways, while not being a predatory hellhole? Hell yeah.

      But it falls short in a few things where Star Citizen delivers - most notably, immersion. That’s their strong suit. You can actually freely walk aboard your damn ship, you can visit glorious stations and entire cities, leaving your starship far behind. The world is more alive, cities are filled with NPCs, ads and neon screens are blasting around, you can ride a subway or hop into a bar with friends! And then you walk your friends aboard your ship, and you have a cozy night at the kitchen - talking, sharing life stories, and having fun. The game feels very…real.

      Perhaps, this is exactly how it extorted so much money from the gamers: making them feel at home, build social ties to the game, and then making them feel they can’t progress and do more and be a worthy part of this society without putting in hundreds and thousands of dollars. Gotta admit - they almost had me, too, to spend $400 on a cargo vessel, and that’s almost my monthly income. Common sense took over, though, as I saw people throwing their life savings into the game.

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    • Yggnar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Elite is no where near 10% of what start citizen has promised to eventually produce. Elite is a better game, yes, but to say it’s “90% of Star Citizen” is downright delusional.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I want to make a game about star citizen, except it’s about getting money out of kickstarter not about space battles

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  • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There is a playable MMO with an active playerbase: mmo-population.com/game/star-citizen

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    • Agent_Karyo@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      CIG shares stats from which you can derives their average concurrency; it’s about 5,000 average for 2025. So somewhere ranked #150-200 in the Steam concurrency rankings (which often exclude MMOs and/or 1st party launchers).

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• Noite_Etion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh did I say closing stages of development… No no no, you misunderstand, I was talking about the closing stages of the ‘pre-alpha test build’ development, we still need more money support to finish the project.

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• kureta@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Many years ago, I was this close to buying this game because they were saying that the single player campaign was almost ready. I am glad I didn’t. Now, I wouldn’t give a single cent to this guy.

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  • ericwdhs@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I actually did buy in and don’t regret it, but I definitely had to make sure my expectations were in the right place. My rule for buying all games, early access included, is only buying for what’s in a game now, never on promises. Star Citizen as it is now is a very expansive sandbox sim with a lot of unique tech and mechanics already functional, but I’d hesitate to recommend it to anyone without massive caveats.

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    • kureta@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, I get it. I was expecting a complete single player game, at the latest, within a year. But I do understand people who willingly give money to them knowing exactly what they are paying for. It is an interesting concept worth taking a risk for.

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• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The 42 in Squadron 42 stands for the year 2042. Compared to Star Citizen, it’s truly imminent to release.

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  • fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Someone should patch Cyberpunk 2077 to include billboards for the upcoming release of Squadron 42.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Now that is a good idea for a gimmick mod.

      Also… there are actually are mods that figured out how to make player flyable AVs. Its jank, but it ain’t nothin.

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• pno2nr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They probably need another billion dollars.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My first golden battleship sank to the bottom of the swamp!

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So… they did more mocap / voice recording / whatever this is called… Hamill and Oldman gave their initial performance to be digitized, in October of 2015.

  I think that if you go with all the celeb mocap sessions, they added more celebs and had finished ‘shooting’ by around 2018.

  So… this is like… a movie that’s been in production hell for a decade. Thats… another way you can try to look at this. You’ll be watching performances initially made over a decade ago.

  … assuming… this… comes out … this year.

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• KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s been in the closing stages for a decade.

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• MrNesser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Even if it gets released in at the end of 2027, i won’t touch it until a patch has been pushed to fix the inevitable issues that will pop up.

  I assume this statement is about pushing investors for more money.

  It’s pure sunk cost fallacy at this point.

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• Summzashi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I remember this was supposed to release in 2015

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• ulkesh@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Frankly I’m not too revolted by the ever-shifting deadlines, if people are paying for it and enjoying what they have it’s all good by me.

  What boggles my mind is how bland you can make a universe with such funding. I watch the trailers, and it’s a long string of cringeworthy tired militaristic tropes, alien bad guys that look so generic it’s not even funny… a dystopian world ran by companies, but not in a self-aware/anticapitalist way…

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t want to rub it in the faces of the folk who spent so much money on space nfts but I’m having a fuckton of fun in No mans sky. Just overthrew (okay saved from sentinels then got elected but overthrew is more fun) my first settlement! Upgrading my office and the community toilets whenever I find them, my settlement has poisoned air and water

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is any of that stuff true?

    I tried no man’s sky again a few months ago but didnt give it more than an hour before getting bored and giving up. Reading that gives me regret and I might need to give it another push. Like medically need. Doctors would recommend.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      give it more than an hour. i made up the community toilets part

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• kurcatovium@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Best vaporware ever!

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• Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t worry, the devs will crunch for a few days around release so that they can put out a new trailer with a new promised release date.

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is it just me or does she look like Gillian Anderson?

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  • Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yea that’s her. They got Luke Skywalker too, I forget the actor’s name. And Gary Oldman !

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    • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No you’re thinking of Dana Scully. Gillian Anderson is an actress best known for her co-staring role in the popular TV series X-Files.

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  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My first thought as well, def feels inspired

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• oxideseven@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sure it is.

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• cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well, maybe we’ll get another animated space action short out of it, which is entertaining in it’s own right. I wouldn’t hold my breath for an actual release.

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• DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Tried it on a free weekend just last year and it was awful. UI was awful. Performance was bad. Ran into various bugs. Clipping through floors. Every single thing, and I mean everything, is tedious to the point of comedy. No guidance whatsoever for how to do anything. Had to endlessly hop between the game and a browser to figure out how to do anything at all.

  For the numbers of years (decades?) it’s been in development, the thing was a joke.

  The scope was impressive and everything looked really pretty. But I couldn’t find a way to actually enjoy any of it.

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• titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And I can’t even remember for sure but I would have to say it’s close to 10 years ago now that I had a friend and him and I used to play Eve online we started out with dust 514. He was incredibly into Star citizen put a lot of money towards the game over the years. I heard at one point in time he actually won the lottery and spent a lot of money on the game. He ended up committing suicide. It’s heartwarming to know that even 10 years past that point this game is still not anywhere near finished.

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• Soulifix@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Okay, Grift Citizen.

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• BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Are these guys responsible for the iranian nuclear project as well?

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And earth’s core cooling

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• sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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