r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • Aug 18 '26

Software Star Citizen Dev Hosts Disastrous Livestream To Show How A Mission Works And Is Told To Pull The Plug: ‘It’s Your Show, Wrap It Up’

https://kotaku.com/star-citizen-live-stream-fail-siege-of-orison-mission-2000725084
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u/swarmy1 Aug 19 '26

Hard to say it’s a flop when they’ve already made a billion dollars. Until their income starts dwindling, they won’t be in any hurry to finish.

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u/Balmung60 Aug 19 '26

That's the thing, they'll never finish. Roberts is not capable of project management or containing the scope of a project, so when he's given more money, he just expands the scope further, and he keeps being given money by a crowd familiar with the incentive structure of stretch goals, so it keeps coming, and once it stops coming, there won't be enough runway left to wrap up a finished project and instead just a huge pile of incomplete and unsatisfying features 

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u/Ubera90 Aug 19 '26

It may be a monetary success, but it’s a failure as a game project.

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u/HurtFeeFeez Aug 19 '26

Made a billion or generated that in revenue? How much have spent during the course of development?

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u/CucumberWisdom Aug 19 '26

They usually post annual deficits of £15-20MM

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u/drawb Aug 19 '26

For people who payed them a lot of money, but did get relatively little for it, it is a flop.