• Technus@lemmy.zip
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      4 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.

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        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.

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          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

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          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.

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            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.

      • SendPicsofSandwiches@sh.itjust.works
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        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

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      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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        LOL and here i am feeling dumb when i buy a game at launch that turns out to be shit

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        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

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          Isnt this the same company that got called out for how wrong and out of date its public project plan was, who then committed to a project improving the public project plan, which was then also incorrectly tracked and posted on its public project plan?

          They planned to improve the plan, but then didn’t plan it.