Just checkin in again

[Laz]

Don't bother here, the discovery community is full of anti SC toxicity.

So I've noticed. Just a bunch of freeloaders who dont want to pay for their games =P

Yeah. We're all a bunch of freeloaders because we don't pay for a game that is literally impossible to buy from the publisher anymore. Quite evidently.


For the sake of of clarity (and being argumentative), here is why I (and a good many others) have little to no respect for Star Citizen. Development of the game started in 2011 and was formally announced in 2012 as part of Cloud Imperium's crowdfunding campaign. The promised release date was 2014. This crowdfunding campaign ended up being the largest in history, raising (as of this year) over 190 million US dollars¹.

The first form of playable content came about near the end of 2013, very close to their planned release. Known as the "Hanger Module"², all this allowed players to do was roam around a hanger and look at what they'd spent their money on. It was massively exaggerated and significantly more was promised than what was actually provided at this point. However, at this point, people were still hopeful as the release date had not been reached and the campaign had been very successful. It would be assumed that all that money went to good use, you'd think?

Within very close proximity to what was the expected release date, the first proper module was released. The Arena Commander module. This time people were actually allowed to use ships and test the game and physics and such. It was at this point for many of us that the realisation set in that the chances of a full game being released in time for the promised release date really set in. The game wasn't even close to being finished and what little they published needed a lot of polishing.

While I am paraphrasing and simplifying things a lot for the sake of an easy explanation, the core points and facts remain the same. It's almost 2019 now and Star Citizen is a joke. It's been in development for 8 years and there are entire game series that have been released, sold, and continued within that space of time; with half the budget.

The budget of SC is so high that there is literally nothing they can release that would explain the amount of money they've had for the project. It's a similar case to Half Life 3 I suppose. If Valve ever made HF3, there is no way they could make it meet people's exceptions due to how high they are; similar case here. To pile things on, Cloud Imperium have been sued by CryTek, further removing any confidence people may have placed into it.

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