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

[Mímir]

Apparently Derek Smart has something to say about Star Citizen. You guys might want to check the Zoner level drama that's unfolding. I see it as a clash of two inflated egos - just that one of them has a huge army of fans that do all the work for him.

I almost agree with Derek (despite his obnoxious bragging about his previous games). We didn't ask for an all encompassing game in 2012. Just a good space sim in the spirit of FL and Wing Commander. In 2015 there is only Elite.

By the looks of it the majority of people who played Freelancer since 2003 will never actually play Star citizen, as we'll be too damn old to have time for games.

He looks like a bit of an attention whore tbh, trying to make the most possible drama out of some email. Very internet.

Elite is utter garbage, it's a tech demo and it will for sure never be anything but that, with no content but some dumb grinds with no thought or purpose behind them. No interesting places to go, no interesting things to see or interesting people to meet. Just generic and bland nothingness - yes, not even that cool kind of space 'nothingness', because there's still randomly generated generic crap around. And not even varied crap, there's like a handful different space station designs and that's that - once you've seen those few, you've seen them all. Every storefront looks the same. Everything is the same. Suns comes in a variety of colors, not that many - once you've seen each one, everything will just be more copy paste. Each system have randomly generated factions fighting civil wars for reasons no one knows, all demanding you to do the same missions more or less. "Go there, kill that", "Take this, drop it off there", "Congratulations, you increased your faction standing" and on you go to the next piece of randomly generated generic universe to do the same thing again, unless you fall asleep first. I don't know who thought it would be a good idea to just copy/paste the same 30 different things in random configurations to infinity, but it's utterly ridiculous. Don't buy it. Not even for 10 dollars, you'll still end up disappointed after you've spent a few hours and seen everything there really is to see in this near-infinite universe.

It will surely never be a "game", really. I even installed the new hyped 'Power Play' update, and all it was was more grinds and progression bars for factions you couldn't care less about. "You can influence and change the universe around you" - no, you can influence yet another stupid progress bar in your menu screen... A huge disappointment, and the worst part is that the dev acts as if they've completed the game and everything they add now are just extra presents because they are so kind-hearted. It's gross, and generally a lot of crowdfunded projects have a habit of becoming a bit cult-like with a die-hard clique of fanboys cheering at everything that gets thrown at them, even when it's turds. Both RSI and Frontier exploit this total lack of judgement to the extreme, and it's difficult to really get behind even if you want to. On paper 'crowdfunding ideals' sound so great though.

At least there's a chance Star Citizen might become something (I bought both, and I thoroughly regret Elite, while there's still some excitement regarding what might come in SC).

----------------------------

For all its shortcomings, it's really showing how great a game Freelancer is/was. Gripping atmosphere, thrilling story and a universe and characters you actually cared about. Fun combat and PVP as well, more so than some newer games even if less complex. Should have spent the money on Disco rather than Elite

---