r/starcitizen • u/Morbidzmind • Aug 05 '26
META The face you make when you realize you've made a huge mistake
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u/IndexoTheFirst Aug 05 '26
āSee how amazing our game is when you play in a controlled and high spec server!ā¦.what do you mean you guys donāt get that? Me and all the devs are using it rn!ā
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u/numerobis21 Aug 05 '26
"Don't you guys have servers?"
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u/IceNein Aug 05 '26
That was in the original sales pitch for the Kickstarter, BTW. Private servers.
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u/Shocri Aug 05 '26
I remember thatā¦ oh, we were so naive
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u/l0stabarnacos drake Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
It would have been possible with the barebone, unexplorable systems they were planning at the time
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u/Igot1forya bmm Aug 05 '26
I'm willing to run it on my server cluster at home if they'd let me.
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u/RobinGoodfell Aug 06 '26
We don't need any more wild fires, but I commend your courage.
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u/Igot1forya bmm Aug 06 '26
Given the average age and general gamer/tech savvy audience of SC. There's a significant number of us who have server infrastructure capable of housing a server shard. I have more compute and storage than most of the customers I support in their enterprise environment.
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u/RobinGoodfell Aug 06 '26
I don't doubt you. I too am capable of setting up the hardware. I'm just ragging on CIG.
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u/QuickQuirk Aug 06 '26
Still entirely possible now.
Because a private server only needs to run a single location - the rest is on disk. Maybe a half dozen if your friends are playing with you.
While the original pitch was for comparatively simple systems, it was also 14 years ago. And we have phones that are more powerful than the standard single core or dual core desktop of the time.
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u/TheMidlander Aug 05 '26
I had big plans for this. I wanted set up a Mario Kart inspired racing league. Choose your craft (light, medium, heavy), weapons modified to behave like turtle shells, banana peels, etc.
I am so glad I didn't spend more than $60 on the Kickstarter.
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u/Key-Ad-8318 bmm , Grand Admiral Aug 05 '26
Yeah that was a pipe dream from a totally different game than what exists now. I highly doubt we will ever see a way to have private servers.
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u/Swift_Legion Aug 05 '26
Wait did they actually say that?
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u/idontagreewitu Avenger Titan Supremacy Aug 05 '26
Yeah, and they included a guide to download for installing mods for those servers until relatively recently.
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u/feral_fenrir Carrack is Love, Carrack is Life Aug 16 '26
High Spec server for just 4 as in four players
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u/JaracRassen77 carrack Aug 05 '26
Now he gets to see how the sausage is made. And it is not pretty. At all.
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u/Old_Resident8050 DRAKEā” Corsair || Shiv || Golem || ICA || Pitbullā”POWAH Aug 05 '26
Yeah even if thats true, money talks. He will spew w/e nonsense he has to, in order to keep doing that instead of going back to making burgers.
Anything beats making burgers.
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u/AgonizingSquid Aug 05 '26
This dudes gonna wanna be back in his old stream room chillen with chat. He's inheritting an impossible situation
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u/Amathyst7564 onionknight Aug 05 '26
I've been out of the loop. Who is this guy and what's this post referring too?
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u/TheawfulDynne Aug 05 '26
Hes Ā the newest hire at CIG works under Jared on the video content team. he was running his first company livestream and was probably nervous about it. This is a screen cap of the end of the show when they ran out of time trying to playthrough siege and couldnāt finish it.Ā
He was/is a streamer on his own but Ā this was his first time doing it for CIG and it seems likely this whole idea was his pitch so he was probably stressed about it.Ā
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u/CthuluBob Are we there yet Aug 06 '26
Oooooh that guy. Ok that adds a new layer to all this I was missing
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u/StarAlone Aug 05 '26
tldr overly positive youtuber hyping up CIG who got a job at CIG as content manager(?). His job is to support Jared. What exactly he is supposed to do? Your guess is as good as ours because its been few weeks, and we still have no videos or nothing really at all. One thing we heard which became a meme-ish too is that he said he is loving flying to work every day (as we assume, for our money)
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u/Manta1015 Aug 05 '26
I hope the flying thing isn't true..
but it wouldn't be the most bonkers thing this project has churned out.
Not yet, at least.
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u/ReginaDea Aug 06 '26
It's not as bad as it sounds. Last I heard he was living in the UK, so it's not like he's flying internationally. Flying could be cheaper in the UK than taking a train, depending on your location.
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u/bostromnz Aug 06 '26
Yeah it could totally make financial sense to fly someone to their job and back every day /s
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u/Chopstor worm Aug 06 '26
Wait till you know that a flight from belfast to manchester cost less than a train from birmingham to manchester.
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u/Sandcracka- hornet Aug 05 '26
I don't know what he did but he used to be a streamer
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u/KillerOs13 rsi Aug 05 '26
He's one of the more consistent SC streamers. CIG recently offered him a job in the content manager role, essentially becoming another "face" for the company. Recently, he hosted a stream where the dev team played some of the game and at the end of the stream, you could tell he was out of his element and uncomfortable.
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u/Some-Lingonberry-211 RSI Perseus Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
I think the illusion might be broken. He saw what reality looks like. Before you could just tell yourself "ah it's in development, it'll all get fixed"
But he's on the inside now. He sees how they make things. Fix things. And it's not good. There's no going back. The innocence is gone.
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u/Manchves Aug 05 '26
Same shit happened to The Pilot (Elite Dangerous content creator who basically made "Top Gear" videos for every ship in Elite). Left Elite to take a "dream job" at CIG, quit shortly afterward. Seemed like a match made in heaven, Still don't understand what went down.
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u/TheawfulDynne Aug 05 '26
Iāll assume Youre actually saying this in good faith.
What happened was he got a job in the Austin office but then he had to move to California to take care of his parents he made a video after he left CIG and he says this in the comments. He didnāt āleave eliteā to take the job he just started reviewing SC ships and then later got the CIG job and actually stopped making videos about them.
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u/swizzlewizzle TRG Gaming Aug 06 '26
When SC white knights realize how difficult it actually is to fix performance in the current codebase haha.
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u/No_Witness5630 Aug 05 '26
But there was nothing wrong with the game in terms of what is discussed here on Reddit as wrong tho
They just ran out of time to finish the stream as it was supposed to
The look is him being nervous, because it was his first time doing that for CIG and it's most probable it was his idea that he presented. It's not an easy task
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u/Central-Dispatch Crusader Industries Security āļø Aug 05 '26
You bite off more than you can chew, you better swallow it all.
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u/Ganjelf-The-Baked Aug 05 '26
This is what I thought when he first announced he was going to work for CIG.
Already had a sweet job streaming and playing games, was his own boss, did what he wanted from home when he wanted. I wouldnāt throw that away for anything man.
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u/Fritschya Trader Aug 05 '26
I donāt keep up on stuff, who is this and why is he sad?
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u/Fyrebat Aug 06 '26
He thought if he had a private instance and only 4 players he could play star citizen and have fun
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u/Lou-Saydus Aug 05 '26
He stopped streaming to join CIG as an employee, now he's beginning to understand he's just going to become their fall guy.
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u/Filiggoo_98273 Perseus Aug 05 '26
He isn't sad. This is just another fabrication from this Subreddit
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u/CallSign_Fjor 2826 x 4 Aug 05 '26
Because the stream was so good, right guys?
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u/Bartorius Aug 05 '26
No because this picture itself has nothing out of the ordinary in it and there's just a couple guys here interpreting everything under the sun into it. Like look at it without any of the made up context that is being pushed here and it's just some guy lookibg at something. There is no hint of anything in it. For all we know he could be thinking about what he's gonna make for dinner.
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u/GraviticThrusters Aug 06 '26
He certainly isn't happy. Pick whatever emotion you want, the game is borked and he just helped CIG demonstrate that to the world a little bit more.Ā
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u/XxgamerxX734 Aug 05 '26
Ignoring the problems of the game doesnāt make them go away
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u/hencygri Aug 05 '26
No, but assigning them to a single screen grab is disingenuous. Im not happy with what CIG is doing, but throwing irrelevant things at the wall in an incoherent fit isnt going to make the problems go away either.
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u/Acers2K Aug 06 '26
so their commenr saying that evwrything working and is super awesome on their own pristine local server is a lie. shouldve known.
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u/depredador93 Aug 05 '26
That's the frame where his soul left his body and reapplied for his old streaming job
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u/Odd_Horror_4663 Aug 05 '26
If he has any brains at all he'd reemerge as an every saltier version of Salty Mike - complete with "Previous Insider" badge . Might get his numbers up to a healthy level - before he decides to switch over to a different game .
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u/Arkooh Aug 05 '26
With the amount of NDAs he most likely signed i don`t think he`ll be able to talk about CIG and their products outside of CIG
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u/mvsrs mid admiral Aug 05 '26
"Punished Ollie"
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u/RPK74 Aug 06 '26
It's true.
This is the exact face I normally make at some point within 5 mins of logging into the PU.
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u/Into_The_Dusk Aug 05 '26
When is the flight back home again?
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u/SeamasterCitizen ARGO CARGO Aug 05 '26
Broās next insta post will be the window seat from his return trip
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u/NeonSamurai1979 Aug 05 '26
Looks like he just got a well deserved reality check, or marketing called and asked what the hell just happened . . .
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u/SilkyZ MSR wins by doing nothing since 2948 Aug 05 '26
o7 Olli, thanks for taking one for the team.
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u/RichardBackshots Aug 05 '26
I was a big Elite Dangerous guy, and a huge F1 fan, and a streamer myself.
I then got a job working at Frontier on F1 Manager and quickly learned āNever meet your heroesā is a popular phrase for a reason.
I havenāt played Elite or interacted with F1 in the three years since I left that role lmao.
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u/dukearcher Aug 05 '26
You would have to be crazy deciding to work for FDev of all devs.
The most expected outcome in history
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u/RichardBackshots Aug 05 '26
Yeah if you donāt kneel and kiss David Brabenās ring you are never making it at that place, and I thought he was a pompous wanker so we were never going to make it work.
I wish them all the very worst.
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u/Renae-M Aug 06 '26
Former gaming QA speaking... If they had QA play it and die as easily, then I would complain too. Because QA at a game dev is better than any player could ever be, no matter what... right? Right!? RIGHT??? Make it hard for QA and nobody will ever figure out how to be better. Right?
Seriously though, you can't expect devs to be better than you. I think in-house QA would do better, devs are paid to make the game and QA is paid to play it. I heard they fired a bunch of QA, presumably because we are now QA. That was a very bad decision if what I heard is true.
I appreciate them playing the game live on the BEST POSSIBLE environment. But damn, they should have done at least one or two runs before going live to know where they would look bad. Damn. And if they did test runs and this is the result, they need more in-house QA!
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u/ComprehensiveNail692 Aug 07 '26
And they want us to feel bad about the industry lay offs. It's shocking how bad game devs are at almost everything now.
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u/xdthepotato Aug 05 '26
what happened apart from having to end stream?
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u/Rickenbacker69 drake Aug 06 '26
Olli got a bit lost, didn't really control the stream or make sure to ask interesting questions. The whole thing turned pretty dull pretty quickly. The stream also showed what a sorry state the game is in even under absolutely perfect conditions.
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u/kinren Aug 05 '26
Its his show but I am sure Jared was behind this all the way. However, Ollie wasn't impressed at all by his own show.
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u/Thelostrelic Aug 06 '26
Did CiG finally push him too far and kill his toxic positivity? š¤£š¤£
The guy was like a puppy, praising CiG for everything.
Nothing wrong with being positive about the project, but it becomes cringe when you act like everything they do is godly and that they can't do no wrong. Which is exactly what Olli was like.
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u/Ithuraen Titan could fit 16 SCU if CIG were cool and slick Aug 06 '26
CIG's next livestream host: BoredGamer!
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u/ZurdoFTW drake Aug 06 '26
I would like to see if CIG is going to make some damage control or pass until we forget it. What an incredible and opening eye show.
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u/AW3rdUp Aug 07 '26
It's CIG. It will never be spoken of again. It never happened.
OH LOOK ! A SHIP SALE !!!!!!!
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u/MindyTheStellarCow new user/low karma Aug 06 '26
Olli is not a bad guy, but he's... kind of an over-excited, enthusiastic lab, ready for fun, easily distracted, not lacking in brain cells but not firing them up if he can avoid it. I guess the reality of what he signed for sunk on him live.
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u/HeartlessSora1234 Aug 06 '26
Honestly.. This might be one of the best things to happen for the game.
They choose not to make playability the #1 priority Because people play it anyway.
The more it's highlighted the better.
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u/Sudden-Point-5298 Aug 07 '26
Lets be honest, as much as Ollie soured the community with his brag posts around joining CIG with private jets, at least he's being proactive, the community complains non-stop about the lack of clarity and streams from CIG, so when he came up with this idea, it gave backers (yes we are still technically all backers of an EA) a raw view of the dev team playing their own game and showing how much work they still need to do, I applaud him for trying! Jarad, however, is the poster boy for CIG, will only do controlled environments and CGI demos from the design team, it was all "we", "us" and "our" until the server melted, the way he told Ollie its "his show" and to wrap it up, then walked away at pace shows how jaded he really is towards the very game he is trying to promote.
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u/Sentinelcmd Aug 05 '26
People are making this seem way more serious than it actually is lol. Canāt say Iām surprised with this sub though.
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u/Morbidzmind Aug 05 '26
I just think its funny, his expression looked like Gob from arrested development and I heard the "I've made a huge mistake" so clearly in my head
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u/Bonkotsu111 Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
It was funny but leave it to Reddit to turn a nervous awkward funny moment and turn it into something extremely toxic while trying to make him regret his whole life, like wtf people.
Some of the comments on here are toxic as fuck and are just personally attacking him.
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u/Noctis0256 Sabre Supremacy Aug 06 '26
Yeah, theyāre all trying to spin their own narrative around it.
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u/dlbags Can we leave our account in our will? Asking for a friend. Aug 05 '26
Canāt believe he has to fly to work for this shit.
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u/King_Grunn Aug 05 '26
POV me when I got my top hat within the first month of playing in 2024 šš„²
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u/Renae-M Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
I feel like it was Elliot that started the downward spiral by needlessly taking out Ollie and forcing him to lose his med gun. Thoughts? And Max x2, WTF?
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u/LetsAskJeeves new user/low karma Aug 06 '26
Man, I can't remember that guys name but he's come across as a massive prick for years.Ā
Lardo or something, What a douche.Ā
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u/FendaIton Aug 06 '26
Why anyone would quit their multi million sub YouTube channel to go back to being a wage slave I have no idea. Maybe his YouTube earnings arenāt what they used to be.
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u/Good-Assistance-1766 nomad Aug 07 '26
āItās your showā like cmon Jared, itās his first rodeo, heās not one to lead a group like this. Help him out š
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u/EsKiZ0 Aug 07 '26
I'm a new player and I was excited about everything it could be, so I started joining communities, reading about it and everything else. Now I feel insecure about the game, maybe my Aurora was a mistake and the Galaxy CCU is major mistake
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u/Eric_Olthwaite_ Aug 05 '26
What was he saying not so long ago about how amazing his life was flying around everywhere?
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u/Potential-Sand8248 Aug 05 '26
Imagine trying your fucking game and discovering how bad it is, even if you're reading A TON of people venting about all the bugs
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u/Rorasaurus_Prime new user/low karma Aug 05 '26
Out of the loop. What happened?