Star Citizen reaches $600 million raised but the game future is really worrying

Anybody still putting money into this is a sucker. For 50mil they should have had some game out and ready

Fuck, the entire time SC was worked on we had Elite Dangerous get funded, released expanded and crash and burned. No man's sky launched from being "Sean Lied People Died" to the biggest redemption story in gaming and Starfield went from a twinkle in Todd Howards eye to complete. Two Everspace games. Rebel Galaxy 1&2. X4!! Fuck me.

I was an original backer, I've played various iterations over the years and it really takes a lot of rose tint to find the game as it is enjoyable. The core loop isn't even in place yet. The systems that do exist and work are interesting, the graphics and aesthetics are top notch, in parts, and at times it feels like we're going to get something revolutionary. But then you play for a while and the unfinished jank gets to you, it's not very fun. It's cool, it's impressive, the scope is insane and you can get lost in the vastness of space in ways that other games just can't even approach. But it's not fun. You can make it fun with friends or by setting up your own goals disjoined from the gameplay loop. Like try and jump a vehicle into the cargo bay mid flight or see how tightly you can race around asteroids. But if you just play the existing little loops it sucks. This is of course my subjective opinion. You might love the bounty system and the combat. You might love the salvage runs and transport missions but to me it's like Euro Truck Simulator which is about the most boring shit I can imagine. And both the space and ground combat just isn't even remotely as good as other games that just focus on that, which is understandable but I'm always left with this feeling of "will I really enjoy the finished product?" And I'm not sure. The game they said they were going to make in the Kickstarter, that game I would've enjoyed. I loved Chris Roberts games as a kid, but this monstrosity it has become? I just don't know.

That said I really do believe they're trying to make the best game ever. They just don't fundamentally understand why we need deadlines and a fixed scope to get things out the door.

That number is mind boggling. I can’t believe how much some are willing to spend on this “game”.

Anyone who has donated to that in the last 5 years is an idiot.

Is this article written by AI? It has all sorts of strange errors and repeated words. Like the sentence at the end of this paragraph. I know it is popular to call out everything as AI right now but this article is suspicous.

If you need $600m to make a genre defining game over the course of decades, maybe it isn't worth it.

Stop giving them attention. Seriously.

This game won't ever come out. At this point, the devs just steal money and see how much they can get away with.

Likewise, there is a subscription model that allows you to maintain access to the title and is divided into two types: Centurion (€12.22 per month or €134 per year) and Imperator (€24.44 per month or €268 per year). The Imperator offers, unlike the Centurion, exclusive events and an allocation of in-game money per month to rent ships and weapons.

Some pretty sloppy work here. The subscription options have nothing to do with playing the game; it's a buy once product with no subscription system at all. The Centurion and Imperator subscriptions are better thought of as a kind of "backstage pass", they mostly just give you patreon style content and extra in game flair items. Are they worth the money? Unless you're a die hard fan, absolutely not. But it's not like you have to pay up "maintain access" as the article puts it.

It’s because its grift. They’re cashing in on it through donations. If it releases, that stops.

I mean who would ever suspect that the man who wrote and directed the Wing Commander movie could be incompetent?

Woah. I got Gary Oldman confused with Alan Rickman. Rickman died back in 2016… and the article STILL made sense.

That alone makes me think they’ve spent way too long on the goddam game.

I supported it but, I stopped playing, not enough to do. Graphics are insane but, little to no actual content aside from ships that you need to pay real money for. The constant dB resets prevent me from ever really grinding the game, what's the point of it will just reset next major update. I personally think the game is going to flop due to this.

I think it will fully come out in at least a perpetual alpha mode like 7 Days to Die one day.

I also think it will probably flop.

When are we gonna get the single player version of Star Citizen (Squadron 42) with Mark Hamill??

How much of this is from confused people who thought they were buying Starfield?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Those who want to get lost in its universe can explore at their leisure a wide variety of space stations, moons and planets of the Stanton System that are home to wildlife, large futuristic cities and that are as beautiful as they are dangerous in equal measure.

In mid-May, Cloud Imperium Games released the Alpha patch build 3.18.0, the most complete and largest update that Star Citizen has received to date, with the intention of calming all those players who had been demanding news for the title for some time.

Today, the relationship between the creators of Star Citizen and some of its patrons is so tense and unstable that there are those who do not hesitate to point out that the video game will never be completed and that it is a scam , while on the other side On the balance we can find players who still believe in the project and support it financially.

The aforementioned former employee of Cloud Imperium Games has commented that the development studio has “incorrectly calculated its trajectory and the players’ expenses” , in addition to the fact that managers should be somewhat more transparent with some decisions and that a significant amount of money has been wasted.

Focusing again on aspects related to the budget, Ryden-55 has highlighted that both Star Citizen and Squadron 42 need a constant flow of money to stay afloat, although he has assured that in recent months income has decreased due to growing distrust of the users.

However, in October, CitizenCon 2953 will take place in Los Angeles, California, a two-day hybrid conference – in-person and online – in which the Star Citizen development teams will gather to discuss their future plans for the title .

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SC is a money laundering scheme.

Everyone who donated even one cent to this project is a fucking idiot.

The game is playable now, although not perfect and not feature complete. The folks whining have not played it, no matter what they claim.