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.
EvaUnit02 on 24/10/2024 at 04:09
2026? Sure, Jan. Four years needed to polish apparently.
[video=youtube;KS2IDmjDbts]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS2IDmjDbts[/video]
[video=youtube;1H-0x4xk2Xk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H-0x4xk2Xk[/video]
EvaUnit02 on 20/3/2025 at 16:56
Power loaders from Aliens? Endless feature creep!
[video=youtube;a4ZFqDYRHQA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4ZFqDYRHQA[/video]
Hanover Aldercash on 20/4/2025 at 17:50
Star Citizen dream:
I am watching a video where people cram a small spaceship down an elevator shaft like it is the best thing since sliced bread. Then I go to the Star Citizen website. A banner pops up with black and white photos of the biggest donors. Behind it is a video of Chris Roberts dressed like General MacArthur, yelling in a hoarse voice like a carnival barker:
"Bobby Spades! Bobby Spades!"
In my dream, "Bobby Spades" are the ingame currency, named after a famous donor. He is advertising some giveaway. Then he imitates Willy Wonka, singing:
"Come with me, to a land of hope and misery... Stop your damn complaining..."
The camera zooms out to show he is on a mountain of player-made structures seemingly related to crafting. A banner advertises a new feature, something to do with "vassals".
End dream.
Hanover Aldercash on 11/5/2025 at 15:44
Star Citizen dream 2:
I am entering a deserted station on a planet: vast dark blue-grey angular metal trapezoidal halls. I enter a room off a main hallway, both of which have walls 2-3 storeys high. The walls in the room are concrete except for a thin gap, which is inlaid with a tall fish tank. Chris Roberts is standing behind a desk. He is a quest-giving NPC, the only NPC in the station.
I leave the room and go up a long, steep ramp in the main hall that reminds me of Brainchild. Above this are gaps to the outside and a sort of runway area, where I see a couple distant players shooting at each other.
The station fades away somehow and I am watching a 2-hour video by Cr1tikal about how Star Citizen isn't a good game any more.
I am back in the station (so it seems), in a dark metal storage room, and have joined the skirmish, unloading on another player with an assault rifle. It does no damage. I turn tail. He chases me through similar rooms into some kind of generator area, where I find a shotgun. I unload on him again. It does no damage.
End dream.
demagogue on 11/5/2025 at 19:54
Quote Posted by demagogue
28th Oct 2013 20:41
There are two big swords hanging over its head now that have chopped lesser games, over-hype and feature-creep, or more like feature-sprint at this rate.
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
20th Mar 2025 11:56
Power loaders from Aliens? Endless feature creep!
While this thread is up, I guess I can throw in a quick: Lol, these posts are 12 years apart.
Hanover Aldercash on 22/5/2025 at 11:54
Star Citizen dream 3:
I am climbing around the rocky blue hills of an alien planet. Giant worms pop out of the ground to spit at me. Could these be Star Citizen Dune worms? There is also a giant miniature golf course, but no Chris Roberts. Maybe he is lurking behind a rock.
Later that night, I am playing with a toy revolver in front of the post office, spinning it on my finger and pointing it at a security camera, which I then realize is tracking me specifically. I start to be worried about the police, so I get in my car and drive home. Day turns to night and I am driving beside a pitch black lake above which the stars are moving weirdly. A crowd of people is gathered halfway in the road, including a woman with her ear to the ground in the path of my tire. I veer around her. The other people are staring at the sky. I park my car, which is now a bike, and look up to see a flying saucer. It wheels around and disappears.
Star Citizen?
End dream.
Hanover Aldercash on 6/6/2025 at 14:25
Star Citizen dream 4:
I and a handful of others are scavenging the wreckage of a large, multi-level spaceship - evidently a capital ship from Star Citizen. I wander through small cabins off a compact grey corridor, looking for something.
The lower decks are glistening dark metal and still inhabited by the ship's owners, spacefaring Star Citizen monkeys. They are hostile to me because I stole something from the ship, which I just now realize I didn't need to do. I escape through a muster room opening onto a jungle clearing strewn with wreckage. When I get far enough away, I turn back to find the ship guarded by a sea monster with a gaping maw, flanked by other monstrosities from the mind of Chris Roberts.
I follow a path carved through the jungle, along which alien organic technology assembles itself. Then I leave in a bus.
Later, I am standing in the parking lot of a glass-fronted office building by the ocean, in the rain, with a computer that probably couldn't run Star Citizen on a small wheeled desk. Someone helps me carry the CRT into the building while I carry the rest. Inside is a handful of people, tall white plastic cafe furniture and two elephants, one with an abridged trunk.
End dream.
