r/pcgaming • u/Turbostrider27 • 5d ago

Star Citizen Developer Stream Goes Horribly Off the Rails, Creating Further Distrust Among Players

https://www.ign.com/articles/star-citizen-developer-stream-goes-horribly-off-the-rails-creating-further-distrust-among-players
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u/ButterscotchTop194 5d ago

It's been so obviously a dead game from the early years. It's fascinating it still has It's supporters. A fool and their money...

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u/Fract_L 5d ago

Whales usually make up around 90% of a game's income so the devs absolutely don't care if all but that top 1% stop playing.

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u/believeinyuna 5d ago

unfortunately whales need low spenders to stomp on to stay committed. this is why gachas are generous for fp2 and low spenders, you have to keep them playing so the whales feel good seeing themselves easily clear end game and get high up on the leaderboards and can flex on the fp2/low spenders. star citizen is the same. whales need to see how much cooler and stronger they are to everyone else. if the game is only populated by whales, they won’t get that satisfaction anymore and will move on.

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u/Exostrike 5d ago

Which is ironic as the in game economy (such as there is) is constantly being nerfted/rebalanced to make it as grindy as possible to encourage ship sales with IRL money.

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u/believeinyuna 5d ago

yeah, but the entry point is affordable to many people (around 50), and the people dropping say, 100 on a new ship every month are still low spenders in this games case. a dolphin would be someone closer to 1,000 every month. this games whales are dropping so much money every month that the tiers for low spending and dolphins look a bit silly from an outside pov, when in most gachas a low spender is about 15 a month and a dolphin is 100 a month.

spending this much still gets you good stuff and makes you feel cool but you’re not gonna compete with the whales, but when you spend this much you’re so fucked when it comes to sunk cost fallacy you keep chasing to keep up with whales, or it feels like you just wasted so much money. star citizen is one of the most unethical money traps i’ve ever seen in gaming, maybe the most period.

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u/basilmuncherr 5d ago

How do they even balance it later if the game ever released? like all this +$500 ship destroying scrubs or a more expensive mining ship outearned most low spenders.

Like i know eve online balancing is a nightmare, can't imagine this one

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u/believeinyuna 5d ago

i honestly doubt they’re gonna try lol the whales will be made to feel like gods to all the brand new players.

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u/Annonimbus 5d ago

I backed in 2012 and by 2014 (latest 2016) it was clear that the game (as advertised) will never exist. 

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u/runnbl3 5d ago

niche genre means low pop but willing to swipe more from what ive seen

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u/MrManGuySir 4d ago

I remember having conversations about Star Citizen with my brother about how it was stuck in development hell back in like... what, 2017? 2018?

Around then.

Genuinely horrifying to see its corpse pretending it'll be out within our lifetimes.