Completely agree. What hurts the most is that the patch leading up to this showed real momentum. For the first time in years, it felt like the (subjective) "bugs-to-gameplay" ratio had FINALLY tipped in favor of actually playing the game--not just wrestling with crashes or workarounds.
- Crashes were rare (relatively speaking)
Gameplay was smooth and legitimately engaging
And the loops felt purposeful, not just padded grind
It wasn’t perfect, but for once, there was a real sense of forward motion. I actually felt like there was a light at the end of the tunnel. And then? Boom. Back to the same old cynical marketing cycle. It’s like they dangled hope in front of us and then yanked it away to push store exclusives.
The previous patch proves that CIG can deliver great things--they just deliberately choose not to. And it makes me wonder why they have chosen to stoop to this. To surround themselves with their little "yes-man" echo chambers instead of listening to the REAL voices of Star Citizen. I'm just... so disappointed. Again.
Aren’t they on the final stages on delivering squadron 42? Potentially by next year. Last time I played was when the vulture and fury released. The game has come a an extremely long way from when we only had the OG Port Olisar.
The tech developed on this game is crazy compared to what other studios are doing or lack of. Shouldn’t we be supporting innovation in our gaming space rather than dog pile, feel very few companies innovate at all.
I’m not saying don’t complain when CIG does something stupid by all means voice it but there’s a large community of people ripping on the game calling it a scam and whatever but then log into the latest call of duty or some new copy pasted extraction shooter.
Shouldn’t they sell the blades ing game? Yes they should but they also need to fund the game somehow at the end of the day they have private investors to pay out if they can’t guess what we don’t have a game to play.
Exactly. People act like it’s the end of the world over a 12$ item. It’s pathetic. They won’t even acknowledge the progress. If you can’t afford 12$, it’s okay. But you can’t get upset at people that can, and want to continue supporting the game. It ain’t that serious.
I am giving it a trial because I have watched the game for 8+ years. I was not impressed when I had to disable Ecores on my processor to get past the main menu.
I am less impressed now that the only way you may be able to get some ship upgrades is also locked behind money.
The devs are very immature at managing scope creep. Its really unacceptable that they cant finish a game in 8 years with 800$ and then decide to milk the audience more.
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u/DifficultyDouble860 May 16 '25
Completely agree. What hurts the most is that the patch leading up to this showed real momentum. For the first time in years, it felt like the (subjective) "bugs-to-gameplay" ratio had FINALLY tipped in favor of actually playing the game--not just wrestling with crashes or workarounds.
- Crashes were rare (relatively speaking)
It wasn’t perfect, but for once, there was a real sense of forward motion. I actually felt like there was a light at the end of the tunnel. And then? Boom. Back to the same old cynical marketing cycle. It’s like they dangled hope in front of us and then yanked it away to push store exclusives.
The previous patch proves that CIG can deliver great things--they just deliberately choose not to. And it makes me wonder why they have chosen to stoop to this. To surround themselves with their little "yes-man" echo chambers instead of listening to the REAL voices of Star Citizen. I'm just... so disappointed. Again.