Come on bro, just one more billion, it will be great, just a few more billions and another 20 years....
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That first dude was pretty big when he said he was the host at the beginning.
Then the game bugged out and they could't continue and suddenly it was the other guys show and he needed to wrap it up.
What an ass.
He’s been a piece of shit for eleven years. I’ve dealt with that fucking asshole.
Story time?
Oh I love these shitty presentations, so happy there is a new one to rubberneck
The only thing I enjoy about Star Citizen is when Bruce and Lawrence on Inside Games cover it once or twice a year whenever a new story about what a shit-show it is pops up. https://youtu.be/oWJh8EfVRrw
holy shit how long have they been doing legally distinct inside gaming! love how YouTube has decided to never recommend them to me ever, not like I have watched hundreds of hours of Inside Gaming and Funhaus.
This game has been in development for a decade with near-unlimited funding. Jesus christ guys, this has been plenty of time to get your shit together.
I think you pointed out why they don't get their shit together.
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14 years of development, 1 billion dollars, and the tech demo is all they have to show for it. Bruh.
It's also the friends they made along the way.
Which there wasn't. All those people in the video hate each other. You can tell by how they were making snide comments and nobody was supportive of anybody.
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Everytime i see star citizen it frustrates me because the comments are 90% dumb. It has predatory monetization, it has been in development hell, it has been a great disappointment to many people.
Its not a scam. You can pay money and log into the game right now and play. Theyve done some technically very impressive stuff (that doesnt help the game at all, potentially hurts it, definitely contributes to the devlopment hell), and people do have fun. There is an actual game with mechanics. I would argue those mechanics arent fleshed out or fun enough and dont work well, but thats subjective.
I paid like $20 very early on knowing backing things is a risk. It didnt really pay off for what i wanted, but i still had some fun flying ships around, racing them and exploring. I dont recommend it, its ran terribly and performance is bad for obvious reasons, etc. but its still not a scam or equivalent to slop.
I played it a bit during a "free weekend" a few years back. It felt lifeless and dull. Then I discovered how long it was going to take to get to the next planet/asteroid/whatever the objective was in my ship for the sake of "realism" and I was out.
Definition of scam: to deceive and defraud (someone)
I dunno man. They made a ton of promises in the past decade. Wasn't there supposed to be a first person shooter?
That's pretty deceiving.
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It’s a scam like a Ponzi scheme is a scam. Nothing they have promised has been delivered in over ten years. They have lied countless times to get more backer money. The original concept for the Kickstarter was tossed out long ago, those people definitely got scammed! They were told too bad the scope changed after the kickstarter! It is a fucking scam and I’ll die on that hill.
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I wouldn't call it a scam either. Just another shitty game farming whales. They actually refunded me so there's that. I wasted an hour of my life on that thing.
It's a shame because you can see the potential, there's nothing else quite like it. You can wake up in your apartment, walk around the city/base you're in, take a train to the spaceport, find your hangar, get in your ship, start your ship, take off and go somewhere. It has potential to be incredibly immersive but it's beyond clear the devs don't care about making it into a good game.
The controls are totally bizarre, unintuitive, and poorly designed. Everything you do is bugged in some way. The performance is ass. Terrible and confusing HUD design. The game is a complete chore to play. Got my refund and I'll never even consider going back.
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Just because you're okay with it doesn't make it not a scam.
False advertising is a scam.
SC is a scam.
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No, it's a scam. Hard disagree.
It's hard to disagree with such a compelling counterargument
If fairness: nuh uh
It's less a game and more a sim. They'll not fix broken box missions, but spend weeks on fart mechanics. Either they are incompetent or intentionally stalling. I personally believe the latter.
They don't intend to leave alpha because they're making money from ship sales. It's pretty, but it's not fun when you run, and boom, you dead. 45 mins to get back there.
Even scams have valid products behind them.
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I can't wait for people to STFU about this game.
Most people already have. It is just that it has a small hardcore fanbase, which behaves oddly cult-like. As long as you don't move in those circles you will never hear of the game except for when they fuck up so badly that even game journalists are reminded that the game exists.
fanbase, which behaves oddly cult-like
Sunk cost fallacy?
Their first two albums were great, after that they watered down and lost the edge.
I don't know if you're joking or not but "Sunk Cost Fallacy" sounds like a great band/album name.
I keep joking with a buddy we're gonna start a bagpipe ska punk band. Need to use this name somewhere if we ever actually do it
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SCM levels of jank. Chris Citizen should've went into business enterprise software, he'll feel right at home
Maybe they will finally release it just as gaming computers become totally unaffordable and everyone gets into yo-yoing instead.
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did it surprise me that Star Citizen is still a buggy mess? no, I expected as much.
What surprised me was the sheer unprofessional-ism from everyone involved in that stream minus the Ollie guy. That Jared is a HUGE douche nozzel and if he ever worked on one of my teams and acted that way towards other employees I'd throw is ass out of the door. the fact he acts this way on a LIVE stream is truly mind blowing. I mean your company is funded literally by the people watching your stream and you act this way? The tree other devs sitting there couldn't give a rats ass about any of this. They know the game is broken, they know the game will never get released, but why should they care as long as they get paid? they know it's a joke and treat it as such.
If you continue to pledge/support this game you're a bigger idiot than the people on that stream.
You can FEEL how much they hate each other.
What a toxic relationship.
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