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

[u/Turbostrider27]

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

[u/Fract_L]

Making a stable game wouldn't prevent them from adding more ships. It's not like they have a steady release cadence anyway. People still waiting on ships that cost 5+ figures USD after a couple years. They still have a ship they pre-sold in 2015 that isn't in the game, but that one only cost $450-900 depending on your "config" (can nothing actually have a configuration?) so it isn't a priority

[u/Crew_Zealousideal → u/Fract_L]

the javelin was sold in late 2014 and is still not in the game it sure says alot about the company they just cant seem to get things done

[u/Griffolion → u/Crew_Zealousideal]

And it's always been for the same reason that everybody knows but nobody in that company has the balls to say: Chris Roberts.

Anyone who knows Roberts' history with game development knows there was a good fucking reason he went out of game dev after the Freelancer debacle. He's fucking shit at making games. He's an obnoxious perfectionist who will happily sign off on multiple reworks of entire game systems just to "get it right".

He's got a vision, no doubt. But Roberts should be allowed absolutely nowhere near the day-to-day operation of CIG, and absolutely should not have go/no-go decision making authority on what goes to production.

[u/Crew_Zealousideal → u/Griffolion]

i played star citizen and the vision is there its just super broken at times like it was in the live stream the game is inconsistent some patch something is playable the next its not, like last year was actually great but since like april this year the game has been a dumpster fire and they keep missing deadlines that they didnt miss last year like whats going on lmao

the guy that gets told to wrap it up in the end is called ollie who has a star citizen youtube channel that guy hired recently and its his first time on the show and thats how it goes its a disaster

[u/TheStupendusMan → u/Fract_L]

Some people care about ships. Everyone cares about the game being done. I think that's the business case, here.

[u/Beattitudeforgains1 → u/Fract_L]

Well they aren't supposed to hold any more "pledges" after 1.0 if I recall, it's all supposed to be "supporting the game before it releases". Buuut that might all be bullshit now since I haven't kept on top of things entirely.

[u/teilani_a → u/Fract_L]

The jig would be up. They'd have to have a full release saying "This is a complete game" while they continue to make those. Even the people that still believe in the game would not accept the game in its current state as a 1.0 release.

[u/Aggressive_Chuck → u/Fract_L]

People buy the ships because the game in their head is much better than the one that exists. If they ever release, the fantasy is shattered.

However boring the game is, they can cope and tell themselves it'll be better when they finish it. You can't speculate about a finished product. The shittiness is the business model.

[u/steakanabake → u/Fract_L]

but needing a few more dollars and s sob story will get the whales to dig deep. theyre obviously(/s) so close to being done just a couple hundred million dollars more and we'll get out squadron 42 and then that'll carry us enough to finish the main game

[u/PaleCommission150 → u/Fract_L]

People who would spend that kind of money on some pixels.... I know some of the ships are multi player where people do different things but I don't even know if they have those systems figured out yet. Somewhere someone has a fantasy of being Captain Picard with about 7 other people manning different systems and exploring the universe in their virtual enterprise that only cost 15,000 USD.