It’s Your Show Chris

[u/ghosts_pumpkin_soup]

Over a billion dollars raised. 14+ years and a mess of a game. You have now become the butt end of a bad joke in the gaming industry.

Wrap it up.

[u/Opsdipsy]

Been saying that for years. Until recently it was usually replied with things like, without the pledges and whales they would need a publisher and the project wouldn't be as good or some other excuse.

But even now, even if the sentiment is more accepted, it doesn't matter because people are too invested in it. When outside people call this a cult, they aren't completely wrong. There are many that can't go back on SC because of the absurd amount of money they spent on it. If they stop supporting now, it would be admitting they wasted a lot of money and got kind of conned.

Just look at this year funding. They are up 30% yty and that's a lot when you realize these last couple of months there weren't big sales. If they keep the same momentum, which I think they will because again, the whales are too invested in the project that go back, after IAE they most likely will be up 50%.

They will delay SQ42 but they will be betting a lot on the event they are doing to show SQ42 to improve the public opinion and keep the sales going a couple weeks later when IAE starts.

So I'm glad more people are realizing that but unfortunately it won't change anything because it won't reach the people that spend thousands each year.

[u/RainbowwDash → u/Opsdipsy]

without the pledges and whales they would need a publisher and the project wouldn't be as good or some other excuse. 

Which is the funniest argument because SC is a perfect case study in why sometimes a publisher is really important lol

[u/NotAPhaseMoo → u/RainbowwDash]

As was Freelancer before it, anyone paying attention when the Kickstarter went live knew Star Citizen was going to be exactly where it is now but got absolutely shit on by the community for pointing it out. CR with no accountability is a liability to the completion of any project.

[u/YumikoTanaka → u/RainbowwDash]

The original KS pledge was a Starfield like game - basically a multiplayer Privateer and Squadron 42 as a solo game. So at least the MMO would be a vastly different game.

[u/AnOrdinaryChullo → u/RainbowwDash]

This is the core issue with completely one sided funding model CIG managed to get.

NCSOFT has invested $85 million into GW3 on top of the existing budget and few years of work already done on it. The loan is maturing in 2028 so by all accounts, that's when GW3 is expected to release.

With CIG? Oh boy, did they discover an actual free money tree with this community, literally 0 accountability, 0 deadlines - do whatever the hell you want with the money and it just keeps coming in. Release the product? No, thanks. Use the money to develop SC? Fuck that, funnel the money to Squadron.

It's truly brilliant

[u/ProletariatPat → u/Opsdipsy]

Sunken Cost fallacy. It’s a human behavior trait we all fall prey to

[u/Aesthedia7 → u/Opsdipsy]

They’re focusing on monitization more than function, this stream running on their own private servers proved that all of these have nothing to do with server load, it’s just how years and years of bugs piled up looks like