It is late. They missed every deadline that they set themselves. Let me repeat that. They set themselves.
I'm not some idiot who just follows the crowd of "haters", nor am I a blind white knight who praises CR like the second coming. I've played every version they have put out. They have all been late and terrible, even after months of working on them after release. Star Citizen already has more funding than most major films and their quality, both of the game and how they present it, is laughable. I'm not asking for a full game. I'm asking what they promised at the time they promised it. They have little to show in the terms of work and what they do have is laughable. People are praising them for buggy networking that only allows 16 people in the same instance, even then it fails half the time.
Their art department is outstanding though. They make wonderful settings, models, and artwork that should be put into a different dream and not wasted on this. From rumors of how the actual development process works, it's poorly managed and that's even clear if you watch the quality of anything they do that isn't pre-rendered. Saying someone doesn't understand the game development process when you don't even know the person is funny as all get out.
Star Citizen was originally due to be launched at the end of 2014. They pushed back the game, and have said;
Quote:“[Then] an alpha of the single-player game, and then finally a beta of the persistent universe by the end of the year (2014)."
–Chris Roberts, Forbes May 2013 Interview
Quote:“Further out is the single player alpha (roughly August 2014) and the alpha for system universe (again, roughly December 2014).”
–Chris Roberts MMORPG.com Interview, PAX East 2013
These are long past due. Hardly anything is of the quality that it should be, and the original pitch has changed drastically. Stop being a white knight for something that can't even keep a promise it makes itself.
