Improvements in the flight model!? How is such a thing possible? Hadn't they already honed it to perfection with plenty of Calixing and the roundtable? That sorted out everything.
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Sure, but even if you compare those timelines you'll see Gates and Zuckerberg were far more successful. Five years after Zuckerberg started Facebook, it was worth $11 billion and used by... um, way more people than have ever played Arena Commander? Are you going to pretend CR's "vision" is worth $11 billion to anyone right now?
I mean, even in the current time period the likes of Oculus started kickstarting at the exact same time, sharing venues with Roberts even. In the same time period $2 billion entered the picture and almost every tech giant on the planet has shifted huge resources in VR's direction, changing the industry already with almost everyone in the business agreeing it goes truly mainstream in a few generations. Way more impressive than endlessly selling pictures of unmade spaceships.
I mean, I guess that's nice and all. But don't count your revolutions before they hatch -- or are at least snatched up by other revolutions for a few billion.
In 3-5 years I think Star Citizen will be worth about 8.99 on a Steam sale, if you like janky FPS games with toxic fanbases. Lesnick will still lord it over a thinned out forum fanbase, but it's going to remain pretty niche with the cost of ship jpgs at alltime lows. The big publishers will do much better numbers with COD:IW, ME:A and the like while ED will scratch the space sim itch for those who prefer a less Santa Monica view of space. Much better space projects will emerge that aren't hopelessly shackled to incredibly dated graphics engines. Better VR systems will be out requiring much greater performance than a decrepit CryEngine could provide. Proper X-Wing/Tie-Fighter games will be around that would appeal far more to people than Gary Oldman doing a bad voice and some colorless universe cobbled together from other people's ideas. Let's see, an X-Wing and John Williams compositions vs. an Aurora and Pedro Camacho. Gee, what a tough call.
That stuff will pound his shallow imitations into tar just like Larry Holland's work made the actual gameplay of the Wing Commander series look pretty hollow in the 90s.
Of course, by then Sandi Gardiner will have broken out to be the greatest actor of her generation along with the greatest saleswoman on the planet since she was a little girl so CR won't need to bother with his visions any more and can enjoy a relaxing retirement as Ben keeps up the good fight!
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That last sentence isn't going to actually happen. Sorry.
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Sure, but even if you compare those timelines you'll see Gates and Zuckerberg were far more successful. Five years after Zuckerberg started Facebook, it was worth $11 billion and used by... um, way more people than have ever played Arena Commander? Are you going to pretend CR's "vision" is worth $11 billion to anyone right now?
I mean, even in the current time period the likes of Oculus started kickstarting at the exact same time, sharing venues with Roberts even. In the same time period $2 billion entered the picture and almost every tech giant on the planet has shifted huge resources in VR's direction, changing the industry already with almost everyone in the business agreeing it goes truly mainstream in a few generations. Way more impressive than endlessly selling pictures of unmade spaceships.
I mean, I guess that's nice and all. But don't count your revolutions before they hatch -- or are at least snatched up by other revolutions for a few billion.
But what do you think SC will be worth in 3-5 years
In 3-5 years I think Star Citizen will be worth about 8.99 on a Steam sale, if you like janky FPS games with toxic fanbases. Lesnick will still lord it over a thinned out forum fanbase, but it's going to remain pretty niche with the cost of ship jpgs at alltime lows. The big publishers will do much better numbers with COD:IW, ME:A and the like while ED will scratch the space sim itch for those who prefer a less Santa Monica view of space. Much better space projects will emerge that aren't hopelessly shackled to incredibly dated graphics engines. Better VR systems will be out requiring much greater performance than a decrepit CryEngine could provide. Proper X-Wing/Tie-Fighter games will be around that would appeal far more to people than Gary Oldman doing a bad voice and some colorless universe cobbled together from other people's ideas. Let's see, an X-Wing and John Williams compositions vs. an Aurora and Pedro Camacho. Gee, what a tough call.
That stuff will pound his shallow imitations into tar just like Larry Holland's work made the actual gameplay of the Wing Commander series look pretty hollow in the 90s.
Of course, by then Sandi Gardiner will have broken out to be the greatest actor of her generation along with the greatest saleswoman on the planet since she was a little girl so CR won't need to bother with his visions any more and can enjoy a relaxing retirement as Ben keeps up the good fight!
That last sentence isn't going to actually happen. Sorry.
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