This game seems more like a life replacement than an actual game, which makes it more of a religion than a way to enjoy one's downtime.
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This game seems more like a life replacement than an actual game, which makes it more of a religion than a way to enjoy one's downtime.
Hard to think of an MMO that isn't like that.
It's a belief system evidenced by the hostility received by both critics and those backers who become doubtful of CIG's intentions and abilities.
The majority of discussion online is around the tech/progress but the most interesting parts (to me) of the whole enterprise are:
1: How the money has been spent
2: The social phenomenon that is the Star Citizen community
I mean the tech is a lost cause - discussion in that area is circular and mostly redundant given that you can get your hands on what they have built. There isn't any information on financials (there were rumours floated in private discussions in late 2015) so that leaves you with the marketing and social aspects, which are the biggest, most public and most successful elements of the entire project. This is to my mind where the discussion would be interesting and fruitful - that discussion is yet to be had.
I thought I'd had enough of this game but...
They have an Idris with racing stripes [woah] ! ?
Gotta get me an Idris
How to sell fake stuff and make people stick to it? I hear these successfull marketing activities can even make demented morons claim presidencies.
Well from what I can see that's been working quite well for 30 odd years.
The problem there is that we can't play at Star Citizen marketing and social module any more than we already do
Sure - we could engage in meaningful Referral Code Warfare - but look where that got them. We could sign up for the Star Citizen Merchandising Militia - but look at all the nonsense well-known video creators are slopping out on video media. We could join the hordes of Them Vs Us screamers on various social media channels and hope that brings more attention to the project - but it's purely empty posturing and handbaggery from both "sides" until 3.0 is in our hands and eagerly vivisected.
It is still, of course, definitely worth keeping a steady supply of lulzbuckets - because if nothing else - CIG are absolutely guaranteed to continue filling them.
The problem there is that we can't play at Star Citizen marketing and social module any more than we already do
Sure - we could engage in meaningful Referral Code Warfare - but look where that got them. We could sign up for the Star Citizen Merchandising Militia - but look at all the nonsense well-known video creators are slopping out on video media. We could join the hordes of Them Vs Us screamers on various social media channels and hope that brings more attention to the project - but it's purely empty posturing and handbaggery from both "sides" until 3.0 is in our hands and eagerly vivisected.
It is still, of course, definitely worth keeping a steady supply of lulzbuckets - because if nothing else - CIG are absolutely guaranteed to continue filling them.
I get that, honestly.
The bigger and (to me) funnier story is how the most successful crowdfunded project of all time with some of the best marketing anyone has ever seen, has created a militant community promoting (mostly to each other) a product which has so far failed in every technical manner it possibly can. That's my best attempt at staying out of both sides and trying to grasp a bigger picture for discussion.
My feeling is that a discussion at that level, rising above the two entrenched camps, out in the open, may bring to light a lot of information and people to fill in the blanks.
Having said that let me say this - I am very much looking forward to 3.0 being laid out on the slab for all to see.
Yep. Right now SC backers are looking at the plate of turds they've been served up but in their minds it will somehow transform into a Michellin star 5 course meal, even though the kitchen is on fire and the head chef is clearly bonkers. Until the restaurant burns down they believe in it's potential to somehow transform into a plate of truffles. This will only end when the restaurant is a pile of ashes and Roberts has to say, "Yeah, what you've got on your table? That's what you're getting."
aka the MVP
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It is really hard to tell at this point. Last year's message was "we are just getting started". Tech wise it is firmly in pre-alpha.
No, not yet. They're still setting up the fidelity pipelines and diffusing the back-end infrastructure and subsuming the physics grids and itemising (2.0) the netcode and hand crafting the procedural generation, and then once that's done they'll be able to pump out systems and biomes and Big Benny's and Nyx and mocap and grabby hands and farming and sataball and sand worms at an amazing rate which will put other AAA developers to shame.
It's taking a little longer than expected, because of the incredible scope and fidelity which has never been attempted before, but when it comes it will be bigger and better than the more feature-rich version they originally planned to deliver a year ago. But that's how game development works, and everything's fine because the schedule has been updated to push all the deadlines back, so technically it's not late. Weeks, not months.
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But how much is the price for a "Retribution" super dreadnought with LTI?
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Well, step two now is to weaponize the militant community. Step three is unclear but step four is obviously profit!
Well, step two now is to weaponize the militant community. Step three is unclear but step four is obviously profit!
Afaik for Chris profit step has happened long time ago.
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Maybe even longer, but my impression is that the frequency became way higher.
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