Star Citizen - Did you pledge & what do you expect?

[Dusty Lens]

What they plan to do in 2015:

Howdy gents. Spotted Narcotic posting on the SC forum so I thought I'd follow him here to poke fun and I spotted this thread as a result.

While things are moving ahead with SC I would treat any set of release dates with the most tremendous grain of salt that you can lay hand on. I'm talking planetoids here. Something that has the kind of gravitational pull that you can use for landing in Kerbal Space Program.

Here is where things are as of now.

If you missed out on an alpha pass you will need to pay $5 to access each of the modules. Arena Commander. FPS. Social and so on. Each module will cost an additional $5 when it's released.

Arena Commander is online and running. It is tremendously pay to win at the present and the systems to earn equipment that is on sale has not been incorporated, nor has a system to reclaim stuff that you purchased that turns out to be garbage. This side of their business model is firmly set in cashgrab mode and it's a steaming pile of shit.

However the flight is improving, though still shockingly poor and lacking in what you might consider a firm design direction for its months of development after being released over half a year late. I believe that it's rather fun to fly around and that a quality game is in there, but man is it super alpha at present.

I believe that the Beta will be pretty sick and, based on the pace of the game, either at the end of this year or sometime in the next. Being said if they meet their goal of a gold release by 2016 I'll volunteer to gently lather my unmentionables in the boiling magma flow of a volcano that we can select through community vote. My personal prediction is commercial release in 2018 (or when the money runs out).

Being said I believe that simply buying an Aurora level pledge with beta access is a really sweet deal if your mindset is "don't care until it's done". It'll be cheaper than the game on release and you can walk away without spending thousands of dollars on a lifetime of horrific attempts at justifying your life choices.

P.S. Star Citizen is very, very Freelancer 2.0

Those who approach it from that perspective will not be let down, I believe.