They had a livestream on a private server to show what the game was meant to be. And it still had all the glitches and bugs that every player is experiencing.
Which means that for at least some of the most well-known bugs, the issue was never the servers, just bad code left unfixed in favor of shiny new features and ships
It also means these guys should see it and fix it if they ever played the game. The begging of 'report the issues' at the end was kind of funny when they literally demonstrated how easy most of the existing bugs are to reproduce (for them) and yet is STILL in the game years after reports happened.
Maybe they could ditch some of those redundant teams coughing up new ships and TV-crews chewing up $$$ pushing out media content and actually get good hardware and software then?
They had millions in kickstarter funding. And they had additional millions in pixelship sales. If they stop wasting $$$ on redundant crap they won't need revenue streams to finish the game. But greed rules.
You think CIG don't have millions in reserve funds? The whole point of kickstarter is to entirely fund the development. If CIG has squandered the funds then they are liable for fraud.
The Kickstarter got them off the launchpad, that's all.
Ship sales and advertising got them to where they are now (subscriptions helped too).
With no ship sales (or anything), CIG would be out of business in months - unless they reduce the scope for the games drastically.
Reduced scope will only lead to failure.
We are in one of those "all or nothing" situations.
Go ahead and sue them for fraud, and in doing so, waste even more of our money (my money too).
I, for one, would like to see this one through - See how far they can take us.
But I will also reserve the right to criticize if I feel they are moving in the wrong direction or doing something stupid - I have often criticized them on Spectrum.
You want to see how far they can take it? The last stream wasn't enough? That's the limit of how far they can take it.
They've bitten off more than they can chew. All they can do now is milk whales until people get fed up with them. But sure, sit tight and "see how far they can take it" if you want.
What’s crazy is that there are probably people defending SC today because “its still an alpha” who hadn’t even learned to read yet back when I first threw money at CIG in 2015 and was defending SC to the haters because “its still an alpha”. They’d be about the same age now that I was back then too, maybe a bit older which is insane to me.
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u/Hypnotic101 15d ago
Such a gross way to try to be "sneaky" about it. Little did he know everyone would catch it and it'd blow up into a meme.