I want you to provide evidence of this "50 hours".
Star Citizen surpasses $100 million dollars in funding
- Thread starter Aselith
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I want you to provide evidence of this "50 hours".
It is literally every star citizen threae (except the alpha 2.0 thread for some reason)
Page after page of aggressive, angry individuals who aren't informed, demanding things that have already been released, bitching about lack of updates when the damn thing updates tri-weekly, etc.
Every. Damn. Thread.
How so? PC gaming was in great shape before Star Citizen. It would still be in great shape if the entire project vanished from earth (or, perhaps more fittingly, our universe) tomorrow.
I'm not going back thorough all the chairman episodes for you.
Backers were originally promised 5 episodes of 10 missions each, Roberts said these would ruin around 50 hours around episode 42ish
Now we are getting ep1 and 2 and they run around 20. It was discussed on GAF around April iirc
Regardless backers paid for " Squadron 42" not 2/3 of Squadron 42.
Totally. As i have mentioned those people like me who frequent to these threads to get the digested updates by gaffers are bombarded with all the whine might as well read the official forum and updates which in the first place we wont read because they are goddamn too many!!!! Hhaahah
I love it when arguments conflict. Space sims are niche titles with limited appeal and (as people on neogaf are so keen to point out) without mainstream appeal, your product is toast.
Oh, but also, the entire platform's success hinges on it.
The worst irony is calling the game vaporware, when the largest update yet is currently 100% free right now. You dont even have to be a backer to know it's not vaporware, anybody can play it.
Aggressive, willful ignorance.
You know video games are not like babies where you conceive them within 7 minutes and they get released 9 months later?
AFAIK just the cinematics and character interaction portions of episode 1 are 7 hours, are you telling me that there are only 3 hours of space flight?
Evolution of Metal
Member
What about a different perspective?
If the most famous/funded title fails the community, we aren't going to trust another developer to do the same. Where smaller kickstarter projects can burn you, a $100m burn would be forever attached to any other community funded project. I am unsure if that connects to PC gaming only, but it seems like most Kickstarter projects are PC focused.
I get so many updates for star citizen that I actually have a filter on my email account for the term "rsi" that puts them in a folder for me to read later, so it doesnt clutter up my normal inbox.
I read the updates frequently, and yet, even then, right now, I have 17 unread updates.
I read the updates frequently, and yet, even then, right now, I have 17 unread updates.
Ok. You want concise and dense information, go through the monthly reports. Helpfully provided here:
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/...s=monthly-report&type=&text=&sort=publish_new
That's dumb dumb dumb. So one projects failure dooms the platform? Am I supposed to close my eyes and pretend the hundreds and hundreds of successful kickstarters didnt happen? That one of the main draws of star citizen - virtual reality support - is a kickstarted project in and of itself?
No, nothing hinges on star citizen's success beyond star citizen itself.
For free.
derExperte
Member
GAF's motto should be changed from 'Believe' to 'Abandon all hope'.
This. Again.
Seriously, we're literally at the point where backers can fly through our solar system, land on a space station and shoot each other up on foot. There are also missions that people can take part in. There's a pvp module specfically made for pvp.
There's a game here. Shocking, I know.
Their voice cast is amazing. Mark hamill has been attached to chris roberts for decades, but everyone else was legitimately surprising.
Heh.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
You have to convince me now that backers of the game don't make these threads with the very intention of baiting ignorant replies and laughing at them.
Evolution of Metal
Member
Well I wasn't arguing that it is going to fail. I just explained the perspective that IF it fails to deliver, there isn't going to be another 100m community funded project. And it doesn't even have to completely fail as in the developers disappearing: anything can happen that will ruin its reputation: more delays, crap balance/economy, bad optimization, huge amount of bugs, bad netcode etc. In the end, if majority of the people who funded SC were disappointed, I don't think that they would do the same thing again.
That sonic guy is a bit of the fanboy.There is no precedent to SC funding, it is the first AAA budget game that is community funded. You shouldn't compare 500k KS projects to 100m one. We both can't know how big of the hit it would be, because it never happened before. SC failing is an equivalent to 200 different $500k projects failing.
It works both ways. If SC delivers and people are happy = they are much more likely to fund another 20m+ project.
You speak as if another 100m project is possible any time soon.
Again, dumb dumb dumb. Nobody donated 100m, people donated $30, $60, $100. The usual people donate to other projects.
If I'm a fanboy, then you are just a concern troll.
Why do you post concerns about games you are absolutely clueless about?
Though I appreciate the sentiment, there is a lot more there than simply "promises".
Have you tried looking up the game?
Again, they may not achieve all their goal, but it's not nothing. There are plenty of videos out there that show the gameplay.
You can even try it yourself, it's free until December 14th.
Eh, I think the thread went better than expected. Not as much shitposting as usual.
Yep. Reflective of society today in general, unfortunately. Optimism isn't cool today.
Well in a way yes, but people also pre-order millions of copies of single game based on "nothing but promises", except there is actually something to show and play for SC.
God you're such a unique and special person for posting this. Why don't you go and look at the thousands of updates and the DOWNLOADABLE PLAYABLE parts of the game that are available right now.
Not a high bar to climb.
Yes... I'm one of those people! Because of the positive experience I've had with Star Citizen I've gone ahead and backed another couple of Kickstarter projects... Bard'sTale IV and Crowfall. I also backed a third, but that project did not meet the initial Kickstarter goal... oh well, can't hit a homerun every time.
Denton
Member
That is hilarious.
You know the game has a single player component, right?
What am I saying, of course you dont.
Majukun
Member
I know.
doesn't mean I'm gonna pay for a game where I have to limit myself to only half of the whole package
even dragon age inquisition had micro transactions on the multiplayer part alone.. didn't bought that either
Oh look, next console gamer shitposting in this thread. I've counted three already ...
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So You are saying that You do not play MMOs other than on launch?
Also having different ships do not give You advantage.
The game is in full alpha where you can fly through our solar system, land on space stations, play the FPS mode, shoot each other out of space, etc.
It is not based on nothing. What is based on nothing is the concern trolling around this game.
The sandbox part of the game already exists. It's not like all we have is a few pretty screenshots.
inpHilltr8r
Member
Is it bad that I want this game to succeed because of the haters?
I'll probably play the campaign at some point.
Might even build a PC for it.
I'll probably play the campaign at some point.
Might even build a PC for it.
Dictator93
Member
I wonder what Cloud Imperium Games will show off this coming week to celebrate the milestone as well as for the December 16th holiday stream.
They seem rather excited about it and so do some of the fans who saw it early.
BTW, amazing how people can claim vaporware of a game that literally shows you any and everything and releases crazy ambitious alpha products.
They seem rather excited about it and so do some of the fans who saw it early.
BTW, amazing how people can claim vaporware of a game that literally shows you any and everything and releases crazy ambitious alpha products.
Coulomb_Barrier
Member
What's the budget of No Man's Sky for comparison?
TheVoidDragon
Member
It's not that sort of game at all, there is no "starting advantage" by getting a different ship - they're used for different roles. There's no clear line of progression, you can do what you want in the game. Someone getting a ship like a Hornet or Retaliator has no impact on you if you want to do things like exploring or trading, and even the players with ships for the same role as you aren't going to make any difference. Having a different ship does not give them any direct advantage. There's also that it's a skill-based game so having a 'more expensive ship doesn't mean they're going to win at everything.
Besides, it would be no different from starting to play the game a while after launch and finding other players aren't using the 'starter' ship anymore.
The F2P argument has always been shaky, but people like to cling to their delusions.
MrCunningham
Member
The final product better be AAA caliber at this point. That is a huge pile of money.