>reaches one billion in donations
>>739606657Apparently the most recent patch is the buggiest the game has ever beenAnd that's after their "buckling down to do a solid bug fix pass" lol
>>739606657I remember I guy I used to work with was really excited about star citizenThat was literally 12 years ago, that was my first job. I now have a wife and kids.
>>739606657You know what to doYfw
biggest scam of all time?
>>739606871i had two friends in high school who each saved for months to put $250 towards star citizen i wonder where they are now
just one more year guys
>>739607030No, according to this board Exanima is worse.
At what point does like the government get involved here?
>>739607147Everything is bought and paid for, they're paying taxes. Why would they get involved?
What do you even do in Scam Citizen?
>>739607147it's funny and if someone is dumb enough to give them money they deserve what they get
>>739606657>I got my money's worth.Amazing that the game is still so fucked and people continue pouring money in
>>739606871A lot of oldfag wing commander/privateer fans were really interested and excited for it. At first. I'm not sure who's actually left in the cult at this point.Certainly all the people I know who were excited, just threw up their hands and wrote it off years ago rather than dump money in. Most of those types are the ones who believe you pay into a kickstarter once and it's on them to fucking deliver after that, though. I guess you gotta be in the everything's-a-subscription generation to keep paying in and feel ok with that.
how did he fuck up the wing commander movie so badly when he had total control
>>739608083It has most of the EVE Online boomers in their pocket too, who are happy throwing money at space games.
>>739608214Incompetence.
>>739606791It's a shame it took so long for many, and some absolutely delusional people are still in with it, but this is basically a Ponzi scheme and a massive fraud operation.Roberts is too stupid or autistic to set any real deadlines or realistic milestones to make this whole thing into a cohesive, functioning game. All what people wanted back when the Kickstarter launched was a modern version of Freelancer.And look at what it has become! A Frankenstein of loosely fit together workarounds and barely functioning gameplay slices that build around milking the biggest whales in the playerbase.And a Ponzi scheme in that people buy into concept ships that might or might not ever exist (there are still ship concepts that still don't exist while we get new ships on a monthly basis) only to finance building more concept ships in the next round, while some of the money might be going into the core systems and a big cut goes into building a golden spaceship for Roberts and family as a main goal of the operation.I'm serious, this should be investigated. Only because new financers do not finance dividends of old ones directly doesn't mean that goods conversion isn't happening here.
Is the VR mode good? What kind of a PC you need for it?
>>739608264Not really.Most of the old guard of EVE players are the ones who have ridden the Star Citizen wave with nothing but their single purchase, or AMD free key.I played EVE from 2004 to 2021, and everyone I know from EVE who is in Star Citizen knows it's a scam and laughs at the cunts who pour thousands into it.Not saying there isnt outliers/whales, but the majority of EVE players aren't.
>>739607182donate
>>739608757the VR mode is great, it's not like Elite Dangerous where you leave your ship and you're suddenly fucked into a grey room with a 120" screen in front of you, it's seamless and works well, but you need a pretty dank PC to run it smoothly.it's quite CPU intensive at the best of times.
>>739607170>Why would they get involved?We are a first world country, we have things such as trading standards.
so is the game good now or what
>>739609034Or what.
>people actually bought ships that cost several thousand bucksFor what reason?
>>739609113so they can fly around in them in their own private and safe lobby
i got all i need from the sale anyway
>>739609278Legally mentally disabled person right here.
>tfw you didn't
>>739608730 Not really. A game is being produced and progress is being made on every update.
>>739607103They probably have jobs and can afford $250 without much drama
>>739609382>progress is being made>break elevators>fix elevators>break elevators>fix elevators>break elevators>fix elevators>break elevators>fix elevators
>>739606791my buddy got me to try and play with him for the free weekend. I lost track of how many times I fell through surfaces and got comletely stuck, how many times we got bugged or glitched trying to leave and undock, buggy npc interactions and softlocks. We went at it for about two hours before giving up, didn't manage to do a single mission. Was kinda fun in its own right though
>>739609437Is the core gameplay around elevators or is that just a bug?
>>739609382>progress>"Buy our new concept ship!">Takes money, builds ship>Money dries up>"Buy our new concept ship!"They are not interested in finishing the game. They take the ship money to build more ships while two people and a dog are trying to bring the delusions of the dictator alive, all while siphoning off as much money into the pockets of the Roberts family and friends as possible.I was in your shoes like three years ago, and even that is embarrassingly long for how the "progress" was made the past 10 years.
>>739606657this image depicts the people who buy $50000 ships flying over the lowly peasants who merely pay $100 to play the game
>>739607008
>>739606657>in dev now for over 14 years>1 billion buckaroos>people still defend itactual cult behavior
>>739606871I was in the military when I backed the original kickstarter, before they had reached 1 million. This was 13 years ago. I gave up on the game like 9 years ago.
>>739607145Its worse but it also more fun somehow
>>739606657If the game ever comes out the scam cannot continue.What roberts has discovered is the magic of stoking people's imagination and then selling them back their own imagination. No real game could ever live up to what boomer forum whales imagine. Everyone would have to be collaboratively roleplaying.
>>739609382>progress is being madehow much of a progress has been made since twenty fucking twelve? it's gonna be 2 fucking decades soon, with this amount of "progress" this game is gonna fucking cure cancer or some shit. except it won't because you're a lying shill motherfucker and you know barely any "progress" is even there.fucking dwarf fortress had entire systems implemented in that time that are complicated as fuck, on top of being released on steam, and that's made by two fucking dudes, that's ithomm had 2 expansions released and that's mmade by an unpaid team of some randoms from kamchatkayou had games released that have extremely complicated systems implemented, like noita with it's wandbuilding and terrain simulation, you had factorio release a huge expansion, you had fucking path of exile release 20 different leagues in that timeand you have the audacity to come here and say "progress is being made" of fucking star citizen?
>>739609667It really is fucking weird.It's over 11 fucking years late. And that's with the ton of money they've gotten.If you can't finish a game in 11 years with millions in funding you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
>1 billion>14 yearsstill no game
>>739609886Did anyone buy it thinking it was a completed game? NoDid anyone recently buy it not knowing it was taking its time? NoDid anyone get forced to buy it? NIf you don't want early access don't buy early access.
>>739606657>>739608083>>739606871>>739607103I don't understand what's taking so fucking long to shit out Squadron 42.You don't need all the MMO bullshit because it's supposed to be a mission based game no? Surely they've had the technology to fill a skybox filled with space ships and script out some missions and events. They could even put in a fake planet in the background. It's not like the player will ever reach it, if they go out of bounds just have them fail the mission. You're supposed to be a military guy right? That's perfect justification for not straying from the bounds of the mission. Hell you don't even need to get the balance perfectly or map out the internals for every ship. If the bad guy ship is supposed to be hard, just do it the Ace Combat route and pull some bullshit maneuver. Pretty sure the "hero ship" Gladius is already considered "gold standard".
>>739608821Damn. Can you role play as a broke bounty hunter and hitchhike to your targets? That would be fun time wasting
>>739606871I knew a guy like that but he already have lost all hope the last time I've seen himthat was probably like 10 years ago
>>739607113just one more billion guys
>>739610626it's mostly a shitty boring movie anywayhttps://youtu.be/1H-0x4xk2Xk
>>739608757>>739608821They added VR support?
>>739611749they did, full VR support, no more weird workarounds with opentrack and virtual desktop etc, or dumb anticheat blocking, eye tracking and head tracking, and FOIP as well, enable it in the launcher and it's good to go.
>>739610130If the devs market their early access game saying it will be done in October 2014, I would be fine with reasonable delays.Spring 2015? Understandable.Fall 2015? Less understandable, but things go awry sometimes so it could happen.2016? 2017? This is some bullshit. The devs have fucked up inexcusably. But at least severe incompetence explains the delay, and people who bought into the game have been betrayed in trust but not fully in deed.It is now mid-2026. There are no words for how fucked this project is when held to the same standards you would hold any other dev to. But at least they still have their brainless defenders who will never ever stop sweeping.
>>739610554lmao get fucked shill, hope your company burns
