When you back a project. You give them your money. They can do whatever they want with if they are actually delivering your product. In this case Star Citizen is actually delivering a bigger and better product. Yes later.
This is questionable. This is depends of your taste. The excuse that they are delivering a "better" product have not too much weigh. It depends of the consumer. That is why its important to hold yourself in what you promised in the original campaign. Deliver that, and if you want, grown beyond that later, after delivered into your promises. That's why FTC says that "its your doom" doing crowdfunding in the CIG approach.
Sadly you still believe that the singleplayer will feature 10 hours of cutscenes. I gotta tell you man you are so wrong. Yes there will be big cutcenes but not all of them will be rendered and those who are will be rendered live in Cryengine through your PC. Actually a majority of will be in character and you will be totally immersed in the situation. You as the player actually get to interact with your crew during the mo-capped scenes. These scenes are live gameplay. The mocap data is played in the game as you are playing your character moving around and talking to people.
I agree. Squadron 42 is actually the only thing that they have chances to deliver and "live to the hype". But it will depend of people buying more ships that they are buying today. And the promised sequences, have good chances to become vaporware.
All this talking about not delivering a game of 6 million dollars but delivering a game of 90 is non-sense, since in fact, the additional funding was always justified, ad nauseum, that would be money to guarantee the pos-release development and the development of feauters that would not come in the day one... so, this is just a whole new set of bullsh... cof cof... excuses that the fans and CIG have created recently and a big risk, since now, what was a certainty, depends of future income, and a lot of more future income, to keep updating the things in the "high-level" that they are going now.
Could some people just stop and think for a second, reasonably, that CIG only makes this money from ship sales, expensive ship sales, and that it was promised to stop on release? IF they are spending all the money now, to what was supposed to be a money to sustain the game years later after release (and that was a freaking STATEMENT of Chris Roberts), what is the point of "increasing graphics", "incresaing the number of moving parts", "increasing the detail of the face of the character", to have this suppposed 90 million dollars game on day one, when all this is jeopardizing the whole future of the game, that was freaking guaranteed earlier and was the whole point/objective why most of these whales pledge as themselves continuously stated in the forums and CIG backed up such statements many times???
See? These people does not make sense at all. They are like, puppets of the CR current wishes, not mattering the past, or the future. It's all about doing whatever he wants, regardless if it really represents a better game or not. If CR says that its a better game, it is. This is the kind fo thing that make everyone to look to these people and claim that they are in a cult. Because what they do, does not make any sense. They are not even thinking in what they are doing. Just been milked.
Here's the thing. IF CR came and wrote a letter that SC will have less graphical fidelity to benefit the gameplay from now on, seriously, ALL these annoying fans would suddently make a wipe in all that they said in the present/past and would claim:
"oh, make sense you know, because its reality, you know, that is just how AAA games do.. did'nt you see Fallout 4? Why should you want a better graphical game, when that could jeopardize the future of the game? Much better having more cool gameplay. You can't make the things coming always slowly while competitors advance. And they have to save the money for future development, as they promised. Why you are asking that they do not accomplish their promises? That's what the community paid for, for the future of the development. Here's the link where CR stated just that. Community did not paid to get a 90 million dollars game in the day one. MMO is important to have retention and quick updates, meaningful updates, so, its the right decision. You are just uninformed. You don't know anything about dev. Because if you did, you would know that you have to balance graphical fidelity vs. gameplay. I always knew that it would be necessary."...
seriously...
that's what they would start to say and repeat, probably using the same words that Roberts described in his letter too. I have absolutely no doubt of that.
