Star Citizen (and Squadron 42) - Chris Roberts' space flight sim SP game and MMO - by EvaUnit02
WingedKagouti on 24/10/2023 at 06:47
Quote Posted by henke
What, selling $10 000 dollar videogame spaceships? I don't understand why anyone actually
bought them,
From the talks I've had with people who
are invested in SC, it seems that new ships are partially being sold on having the newest features of the pre-alpha available long before older models get those features. Older models get shoved to the back of the queue for updates, often with the excuse "We don't want to implement feature X in them before we've finished feature Y for everything because it will make feature X better" (which then gets repeated with feature Y six months later).
And the people invested in SC at most try to joke about it, as if they're afraid the game will never be released if they start to be critical about the state of things.
TL;DR: It's a cult.
Sulphur on 24/10/2023 at 14:17
Quote Posted by henke
What, selling $10 000 dollar videogame spaceships? I don't understand why anyone actually
bought them, but hey, who am I to tell people what dumb shit they should spend their money on? If there actually IS a game at the end of all this I'll take that as proof if wasn't all just a big scam.
I suppose if you were paying attention, you'd know it's not just the ships: it's selling them before they even exist. It's (
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/star-citizens-refunds-process-just-got-more-complicated) changing the TOS on refunds so that if you were unhappy with how long they were taking, you couldn't do jack about it because they said they'd refund you only in case the game was never made. It's about (
https://starcitizentracker.github.io/) broken promises and the bordering on parody ever-ballooning feature creep that made the game (as of <current year>) 9 years late. It's (
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2019/05/01/exclusive-the-saga-of-star-citizen-a-video-game-that-raised-300-millionbut-may-never-be-ready-to-play/?sh=5157116d5ac9) using a $46 million cash injection for
marketing. It's massive project mismanagement and incredible hubris. And it's the things WK said, and the unapologetic nature of them.
I mean, again, you're free to buy it, and I'm not judging you if you do. But at the very least, do so with your eyes open.
henke on 24/10/2023 at 14:43
Wow, I had not heard that. Yeah that is scummy.