>>725976196>sell half assed games and scam retardsthis has been the industry standard for almost a decade
>>725976196>close to 1billion $There is NO WAY this game isn't just a money laundering scheme.
>>725976196Who is them still giving money? For what?
>>725976603>she doubts retards would give them moneythere's a reason DLC MTX Gacha Battlepasses etc are so prevalent
>>725976196when is mandalore making is star citizen sequel video
>>725976365Which industry? All of them.
>>725976196Lol
>>725976603It has always been money laundering. They got like 2 million in the real crowdfunding campaign
>>725976196They have to invent the technology used to make the game as they make the game. It's understandable it's taking so long and using such massive funding.
>$1 billion dollars >15 years of programming with 100 staffhow did they not accidentally make a videogame yet?
>>725977625THIS!!!They had to invent the GAME ENGINE for FREAK'S SAKE!!!They need another $900,000,000 now!
The game just has a lot of engineers and nerds that make systems but no one on the team actually knows how to design the game. The game is *interesting* but it's not really fun
>13 fucking yearsIs this the biggest scam ever pulled off? outside of 9/11 and the HolohoaxI don't think even that Japanese musician that pretended to be deaf that made the Resident Evil 0 Dualshock Edition music lasted that long.
What's the appeal?
>>725978005I wouldn't go that far, you're exaggerating. They need time more than money at this point obviously.
The worst part about all of this is that the developers of Star Citizen apparently have run out of development money or are close to it and are absolutely desperate because they need way more money to develop the game they want to make.They haven't even added dogs yet, for crying out loud.
>>725978132Mostly hopium. There aren't a lot of games that does everything SC does or plans to do lol. It's trying to ride the line between a space sim and an actually accessible game. Everything is physicalized, meaning you have to manually put cargo on your ship, change components on it, walk around stations, pick shit up, throw it, etc. but it's sold as this huge space game where "you can do anything" and people are still waiting on that "everything" to actually be engaging or mean something
>>725977882Because each of the 100 staff has a $14,000 coffee machine and a personal barista making them coffees every day.Also don't forget the $2,500 premium wood TV easels and automatic doors for every staff.
>>725978610complaining an office has expensive shit in it is retardedthe post itself might have even been an advertisement that they received for freewhoever made the pic or got mad about ti has never worked before
>ACTUAL Nigger Citizen shills ITTHow much have you donated?
>>725978950just the bare minimum, I've had fun playing it a bit
>>725976196
Fuck man Imagine the high fantasy RPG I could find with that money included are the engine from ground up and a autistic detailed dev kit for modders to play around with
>>725979935NOOOO YOU COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT THERE'S NO WAY YOU COULD'VE MADE A SINGLE GAME WITH $900,000,000+ AND 13 YEARS OF DEV TIME THEY NEED DOUBLE THE MONEY AND DOUBLE THE TIME DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT INFLATION IS YOU STUPID NIGGER FUCK $900,000,000+ IS BASICALLY LIKE $90 AND 13 YEARS IS BASICALLY LIKE 13 MONTHS NOW YOU CAN'T FUCKING MAKE A GAME ON THAT BUDGET AND TIME YOU FUCKING NIGGER THAT'S WHY THEY NEED TO SELL BATTLE PASSES AND COSMETICS AND MICROTRANACTIONS ON A GAME THAT ISN'T EVEN FINISHED FAGGOT
>>725978839they spent several million on some retarded sliding door for their office instead of making the fucking video game
>>725976196I bet there is a guy in that community that has every possible piece of content purchased.
>>725978429Best post so far
>whaling on a game that isn't even outLol
Buy me and my 100 employees new yachts, you stupid NIGGERS!
>>725976603Its not a money laundering scheme, its a cult similar to Scientology.
>>725976196>880mil raised>6mil suckersSo thats 147bucks per sucker. Thats.... surprisingly less than I would have expected. I think 45bucks is the minimum buy-in, iirc.Considering the whales, super whales, giga whales, and cosmic whales the game has, you'd think it would be more than 147bucks per sucker.
>>725980564kek
>>725981168>a cult similar to ScientologySo a money laundering scheme.
should have just made squadron 42 and went from there
>>725980564>they spent several million on some retarded sliding door for their officeYou literally can't soend that much money on a door without being money laundering.
>>725976196I like how blatant the scam is.>Release overpowered ship>Cucks buy it>Nerf it, release an even more overpowered ship>Cucks buy it
>>725980564>they were literally in there GASSING MILLIONSSS of them i saw it with my own eyesyeah okay dude... i believe that
I still don't even know what Star Citizen is lol
The total received by this scam is now at least $1.2B including investment.
Derek Smart won.
I played for free for a week and whatever they had was worth $45 to me, and that was 6 years ago. All the shit they made since, is just a bonus now.
>>725980879and star trek sliding doors in the officeand $10k coffee machines
is it still basically the same as years ago where you run around in first person buggy cryengine having to click buttons on things and wait and doors often don't work etc.
>>725977882By making ridiculous goals that no game needs to make, like having all instances existing at once,meticulously creating every ship poly by poly with autistic detail etc.
>>725983657They have burrito shops now.
>>725983657Yes, but now it's on Battle Pass.
>>725980879You retards know you can charter yachts, right?
>>725976196Where's my fucking Squadron 42, Chris?Literally the only reason I gave you any money was to receive an actual successor to Wing Commander. Not an MMO. Not Freelancer (and especially not original, bloated monster of a concept you had in mind before Microsoft kicked you out). Not an imsim. Not Battlecruiser 3000AD with a bigger budget. Not a "journey for a decade".A fucking Wing Commander game. How can that be?How did you even make 5 (five!) of these back in the Origin days with this kind of remarkable inability to get anything done?
>>725984994Why the fuck would you charter yachts to shot photos on instead of working on your 1 billion dollars, unfinished, decade old game? Retard.
>>725976365>Half assedThe game isn't even done yet and already has more features and gameplay than most other games released this year.
>>725985065Star Citizen is $900,000,000 and Squadron 42 is another $900,000,000.Now pay up, goyim.
>>725985223jews are right about goyim. literal subhuman cattle
>>725985329Hello kike.
>>725985279He's >>725984994 >>725985223 this nigger
>>725985383You didn't say he was wrong
I think they should take as long as they want. A wise dev once said: "A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad"
>>725985452posts with this meme are always so retarded
>>725985329There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up - Proverbs 21:20
>>725985452>delayed gameBut it's not delayed at all. It'll never be finished. Finished games don't get money.
>>725976196I don’t think people buying non-real assets should be called donating.Like is it donating every time I give Mcdonalds money for a burger and fries when they aren’t done yet?
>>725976603Why would they need to launder money using this game?
>>725985424picrel me when i see what gamers are spending money onhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH968S26YNQ
>>725981589I dont understand why they are laundering thr money to begin with
>>725985614The chinks do it on purpose to demoralize you and invoke an innate sense of revulsion to depictions of your fundamental rights. Instead of complaining about the image you should call the poster a retard.>>725985452You're a retard.
>>725985452And if they delay too much, they hype for the game diminishes to a point where it will fail at launch
>>725984994chartering a superyacht still costs several hundred thousand dollars a week
>>725985452Its already graphically behind lmao
>>725980564Less than 30,000 I think, and it was just a frame around an actual sliding door installation took most of the money.
>>725976196https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDG3r_jpIEI
this game earnings are nothing compared to the scam mobile games with $100 to $1 item backs being bought daily to level their castle to 25/30 or whatever such as whiteout survival.ive played a few or them and asian whales mainly jap/kor/chinese can drop thousands of $ weekly and thats just on one server (there are hundreds)the previous game i played had an italian whale with an account worth $200k and my guild leader was some swiss banker contemplating dropping $100k just to be strong enough to fight him off and defend the guild>https://lf-2.store.koppay.net/encurrency shop to buy stuff in game avoiding google play etc tax
>>725988528This guy is in this thread defending Scam Citizen right now.
>>725976196Its NOT A SCAM it's an investmentif it was a scam you wouldn't be able to play bozojust say you're poor and can'nt afford a starship lol
>>725978610Kojima has a hallway with a huge astronaut in it and the entire thing lights up and I've never heard anyone cry that he's wasting Sony's money At some point you just get these things when your company gets big and you want to keep your worker bees alert and firing on whatever cylinders they have left>>725988528I tried to watch this and a few other videos of his and I don't understand how he even gets people on the show when he's just yelling at them and calling them fat and ugly, why do people subject themselves to this? Is he paying them? Do they get a cut from the revenue?
>>725985223>and some of my favorite gaming moments of all time have happened in SCof course, if you only play that shit for your whole life it might be the case
>>725976365You guys won't believe this but the man himself is very hyped to release SQ42 next year and go toe to toe with GTA6. The MMO part is planned to release soon after that's why they are rushing to add full roster of 5 systems with Pyro and Nyx already released
>>725984994That’s no better. Either way he’s wasting backer’s money/time instead of delivering the product he promised when they invested.Same thing with the coffee machine, and the door, and all the other unnecessary expenses. Nobody would care about if the game was out. The investors would have gotten what they bargained for: a completed game. If it had come in under budget, or they’d turned a profit and spent it on frivolous luxuries it’d be a non-issue. Plenty of businesses do that sort of stuff. But when they’ve been given orders of magnitude more funding than they originally needed, and are years behind schedule, it no longer looks like a normal business. It looks more like Elizabeth Holmes spending Theranos’ money on her lavish lifestyle.
>>725977353>>725976603You're retarded and know what money laundering is, how it works and what it's supposed to achieve.
>>725976196More like Scam Citizen, am I right, lads?
>>725976196Doesn't No Man's Sky more or less already does everything that SC promised?
>>725991838>hypedHe's got a hard deadline for SQ42 to be shit out, especially since they also got extra funding from a private equity firm.
>>725990803>Kojima has a hallway with a huge astronaut in it and the entire thing lights up and I've never heard anyone cry that he's wasting Sony's moneyBECAUSE HE MADE 2 FUCKING GAMES
>>725994547I remember this game being laughed at when it first launched but people are saying its actually good now and that they've delivered even more than what their original promises were. Is it a cozy game to play by yourself?
>>725976196I like it
>>725976196I fell for it... in 2013.It was so promising back then.Now it just looks worse than everything else while also running worse than everything else.
>>725994770The only downside is how often you run into planets discovered by Greg_Thundersavage_1995 or whatever.For as big as they were touting it to be, you sure do run into already-explored planets a lot.
>>725995195You're either flying too close to the core or incredibly lucky, most of the time I never see any discovered planets.
Why finish the game when you can keep making pointless ships and retards buy them for hundreds of dollars?
>>725995341You mean unlucky.I want to be alone.I'm nowhere near the core - I could go start a game now, and there's a pretty high chance that I could find a player-discovered planet within 20 jumps.Also, check your log thing (can't remember the name - the thing that lists all your visited places), I bet dollars to donuts that it's got "discovered by xxxx" where xxxx is not you.
>>725994209You're correct, I do know how money laundering works.
>>725985304>Everyone takes a big ol' shit on the dinner plate>"WELL MY SHIT HAS CORN MEANING IT'S LESS SHIT THAN THE OTHER SHIT"Ok shitmouth.For 900 million dollars, yeah, it SHOULD have more features.
>>725995638How is the money being laundered and for what purpose, where is it coming from? Now if you said embezzlement you could have a point, but given the fact that you didn't say that I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're really just a retard.
>>725994770If you get it on sale it's not bad. The game is overall pretty bland. In practice you can do everything they say you can do, but it ends up being more or less the same all the time. Every abandoned freighter is identical, every combat encounter is the same with the same enemies, every mission is the same (get the McGuffin, put it in the slot) the assets for the procedurally generated planets end up being recognizable very quickly, every space station is identical, every pirate encounter is identical. Wide as the ocean, shallow as a puddle. There's just not enough assets, the artstyle is kinda lame, the guns have no impact, and the ships steer like toy boats instead of fighter jets. I feel like NMS could be great if the scope was smaller believe it or not. If it was a scripted campaign that really took it's time in the initial base building and resource gathering, or even if it just made hyperdrive fuel exorbitantly expensive it could be an excellent game. You just get to the end game ripping between systems with a freighter fleet too quickly, and most of the meat of the game become trivialized. On that not it CAN be comfy if you're into base building and ship design.
>>725994209>CR has dirty money or friends with dirty money>Here, buy this totally legit digital space ship for $20,000>[Then] Oh, I'll buy that coffee machine off you for $14,000It's obviously a scheme to launder money.
>>725994209You made a critical blunder in your spergout post
>>725995860>It's obviously a scheme to launder money.Do you even know what money laundering is? Are you implying that Chris Roberts is falsifying the income that Star Citizen is generating to wash an income that he is making through drugs? prostitution? What?
>>725976196its a jewish money laundering scheme
>>725976196Is it good, at least?
>>725996532>unfinished game that bugs out, with tons of glitches, with unfinished quests and storylines everywhere, with things that don't match up and looks like they were written by a dozen people that don't meshYeah, it's "good".
>>725976196I did unfortunately fall for the Project Zomboid scam.
>>725996325There are many ways to launder money, like there is a certain limit an individual can spend without attracting undue attention from the tax authorities. Unknown persons(with IDs of hobos) donate exactly this sum, and then the front company spends all of them on current "operations".Everything is legal, and retards like you don't see the issue
I put $40 in about 10 years ago and I sometimes play the beta when a big new feature comes out. If it doesn't end up panning out I'm only out $40 and if it does end up being this amazing game they're making it out to be then I have a cool space game. I don't really care about anything else but it is kind of funny what's happened.
>>725990803Kojima Productions has made 2 critically acclaimed games in 10 years, it's not a lot and you may not like his eccentric walking sims with extra steps, but they were successful
>>725977882gonna save this post because its the perfect summary of the problem
>>725997615Okay but how is it happening with a company with a staff of a thousand people? Whose money is being cleaned or where is it coming from? Who would use a company that's often in both the media and tax mans spotlight to launder money, wouldn't it be smarter to use a company that doesn't actively lobby the British govt for tax breaks or have people talking about it at all in the media?
>>725976196It's a cult, like Ashes of Creation apologists
>>725977882Need I remind you they opened the project for private corporate funding on two occasions, so the real total is already probably more than one billion.
>>725990803he talks about it in his podcast, hundreds of losers come out to him and he warns them multiple times he's gonna yell and humilliate them in front of millions of people, and they kinda don't care
>>725978521>physicalized, meaning you have to manually put cargo on your ship, change components on it, walk around stations, pick shit up, throw it, etc.Just like oblivion in 2006 with a bit more stepNo reason for it to take 15 years
>>725990803>Kojima has a hallway with a huge astronaut in it and the entire thing lights up and I've never heard anyone cry that he's wasting Sony's moneyKojima went from>Fired from the company he worked at during the last 30 years>Got his dream project deleted from existenceTo>Make his own studio>Release 2 AAA tier gamesIn only 9 yearsAnd nobody care if he use sony money
>>725991838>SQ42 next yearOh yeah, the 3 part shit whose chapter 1 was planned for...2016
>>725997615Hang on - I've never given any money to Star Citizen. I'm actually HAPPY to find out that no one else is either as you're implying, because otherwise there would need to be tens of thousands of people buying multi-thousand dollars of ships every single year for the numbers to make sense.Gee I'm glad that isn't happening and what is actually happening is Chris Roberts is running a Sci-Fi MMO developer as a front for his uhhhh fentanyl bathtub hormone child prositute ring?Really raises my faith in gamers that no one has fell for this shit and spent $5000+ on a space ship they can't use for 3 years.
>>725999229Did you know the concept of front? Yeah, it's a real company, they are making something, they got % of those shady transactions, probably even all real donations, but their role just to stay in the business and do the paperwork>Who would use a company that's often in both the mediaCheck hollywood accounting, Warned Brother lost money on Harry Potter, if you trust them, allmost all movie business was a front for laundering and scamming
>>726006707>croberts is doing this because of reasons and also it happens other places so he must also be doing it Wild, I believe in a break away civilization ruling over the planet and enslaving us all for their own gain more than I believe your retarded theory.
One of my life's biggest regrets is that I backed this shit in 2012 and /v/ will eternally make fun of me for it.I was a retarded teenager back then and got swindled by the marketing please forgive me.
>>725985279>underageb& learns what a vacation is for the first time.txt
>>726010070At least you don't defend this shit like half the retards ITT
>>725976196All the clickbait around this game is tiresome. Game has been out in early access since 2017 and they're not "donations", it's revenue from the game. Any live service game with as many devs working on it (700+ last I checked) as Star Citizen would cost the same.
>>726013117Over a decade working on a game that got outdated years agoHundreds of employeesMillions of dollarsYachtsPromised eternally delayed shooter spin-offEagerly throwing away money on whimsy purchases like a fancy new officeGame still is just a broken alpha
>>725976196DId something happen in the last Citizencon? Two years ago we had a cool tech demo video out of it.
>>726003942Every online game has issues with player churn, players lose interest after 2 weeks on average. That's why so many adhd shit with daily activities and other bullshit but it only slows the trend, to keep online, they should get new players, so they burn money on ads to keep the balance of influx and outflow of players. Even if we assume that Chris Roberts has a sect of anonymous whales, it wouldn't last so long.
>>726013702>Over a decade working on a game that got outdated years agoThat's retarded. The tech is a decade ahead of competition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWm_OhIKms8>Game still is just a broken alphaIt's very buggy, but it's way beyond the alpha stage. They could release it as is right now, or even years ago. They have the engine and the world, but the game lacks content, which is the main reason why it comes off as unfinished. It's obvious that the reason they don't want to release it and why they keep it in perpetual early access stage is because they know it would not live up to the massive expectations and promises in the current state.
>>726015030Nothing ever happens with Star CitizenThe scammers just go out once in a while to be like "uh yeah stuff is totally happening, Star Citizen will totally come out within our lifetime" and the cultists go "YEAAAAH WE WON HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE WRONG HATERS?!" then it all goes quiet and nothing happens
>>726015146>That's retarded. The tech is a decade ahead of competition.PFFFFFFFFTTTT HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAlso thanks for agreeing that it's more benefitial for them to keep scamming retards forever than actually release the game and get sued into oblivion once the cultists realize it really was a huge scam.
>>725976603Learn what money laundering is, retard.This is just a good old scam.
>>725994547NMS is still shallow. That said it has full VR motion controls and is immersive.Elite dangerous + odyssey is a better example with more complex ship systems and ground gameplay.
>>726015030not really. they showed a bunch of nyx stuff which was all pretty cool but i don't really give a shit until i see it and it doesnt run like ass. the biggest news is instancing for specific contracts and events that can be progressed and then left for the next time you log on.
>>725995839Make it a system with like 20-30 planets top, but flesh out all of them more, and it would be a better experience. It's always a problem with open world games, where a more focused game would put more interesting content into a single city than open world one into a whole country/continent/planet/universe.
>>726015030>CitizenconA con where citizens are conned.
>>726015146>but the game lacks content, which is the main reason why it comes off as unfinishedI don't know how much content you expect?>ships fly and have interiors and subsystems>characters have armor and guns>cargo can be moved as physical boxes and traded at bases>shoot rocks receive cargo items>shoot salvage receive cargo items>shoot ships they blow up receive cargo items>clunky FPS gamemodes on planetsWhat more are you expecting? Scam citizen is a scam, but I don't know what's missing from it gamewise.
>>726010070That was before Chris Roberts made it apparent that he would never finish the game in any way. Plus you were a dumb teen. Everyone has that game that they wee disappointed by There are grown ass adults still paying for this shit TO THIS DAY and who still think the game will come out. That's beyond defensible.
>>726017873base building and crafting, the most basic of basic features that every game has
>>725976196GTAVI's budget is bigger still lol
>>725976196>Post YFW You Didn't Fall For the Star Citizen ScamBeing proud of not falling for SC is like being proud for not buying into Cryptoland.It's not something you should be proud of, it's merely a display that you don't need a legal guardian to make all monetary decisions for you.
>>725976603the entire vidya industry is a money laundering schemethere isn't a single big budget game that people remember more fondly than a modest sized classic made on with a lean team on a tight budget
>>726010070meh, at least you can sell your account for more money than you paid for right?Just in case you have family or go bankrupt.
>>725990803Kojima clearly likes making games.Star Citizen isn't a game, more like an engineering project as such it is only natural they would try to embezzle funds and delay it as long as they can while doing minimum work.
>>725977206>Which industry? All of them.it's because of the shareholders, I'm a dev and we are currently building an app, shareholders stressed so much about releasing it we couldn't even do proper testing lmao.
>>726010070I wanted to buy the starter vehicle as well, something felt wrong when they announced the 20,000$ spaceship which implied the game would be very p2w.35 years later the game isn't even out lol.
>>725985452>Mom I've posted this shitty meme again
>>726019043Crafting is for preindustrial settings. You're not making sub 7nm chipsets at home. Even with 3d printers, cnc, picker-placers and other desktop manufacturing the product is limited. Same with ship repairs that should be All that tweaking, customization and "crafting" should be done at a hangar facility or planetary shop/lab.Shipboard pre processing should be wasteful gross concentration to reduce mass and volume and inferior to a facility smelter. Same with everything else craftable. The exception should be replacing wire harneses and parts like what car modders do to make things lighter or gain extra horsepower with aftermarket upgrades.Basebuilding should be colony planning and decorating.
>>726019796I almost bought in with a $40 ship or the $60 3-ship pack...13 years ago. Glad I did not.
I love the game and have a big ship collection :D
>>725978950go treat yourself to a walk in the star citizen subreddit, they're the easiest people on the world to troll because they ALL spent hundreds, if not thousands, of burgermoney on ships and they're addicted to it and will compete with each other like good little consoomercucks. There's literally another subreddit for people breaking their addiction and refunding the game. It's the most pathetic group of people you'll ever find.
