Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12
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Viajero
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No one is stopping you from having fun with what little or broken is there so far, man. By all means. Dont think anyone is arguing that.
But trying to suggest SC or SQ42 are anywhere near complete when compared to all the committed (and paid for) features with your "here now" is just willful misrepresentation. Or simply lying, take your pick.
10+ years on and $350 million later this project is still in alpha. Where is SQ42 first penciled in for 2014, then 2015, then Answer the Call 2016 then 2017 then alpha for Q2 2020 then Q3 2020 then "done when it´s done" ? Reasonably stable physics? Exploration gameplay? Salvage and repair? Theaters of War? Quanta? Player controlled stations? 100+ systems? Even just 1 finished system after 10+ years? Subsumption AI? Server Meshing for hundreds or thousands of players instancing together? I can go on but hopefully by now you understand.
Is all that also "here now"?
But, by all means, enjoy your
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I still think there should be a topic here where people who actually play SC can talk about it and another topic where the same six or so dudes can repeat for thousands of pages how evil Roberts is.
Hmm, there could be a SC thread and a CiG thread .. then again you could do the same with the main forum as the people complaining about fdev's wrongs drown out conversations about actually playing the game 
I thought you were trying to grab as many as possible to show how ED bad, SC good.
I can definitely see the pluses of interiors to ships and i think its a good thing CIG have done with the interiors and seamless transitions. But i think they focus way too much on the foot side of things rather than the ship side of things.
Just my opinion of course.
Didn't we (or someone else) just discuss this some pages back?
All games generally just get one thread. There has been a spate of alt SC threads recently, but they all tend to end up going the same way anyway
Hmm, there could be a SC thread and a CiG thread .. then again you could do the same with the main forum as the people complaining about fdev's wrongs drown out conversations about actually playing the game
And there could be a thread about how bad EA are as well!
Why ?
If that was my goal, I could have posted hundreds of comments and a lot of videos of ED refugees in the same way some here post collections of SC's bugs or collection of SC's player comments/posts grabbed from everywhere.
Yes, crowd funding puts all the risks on the consumer, which isn't healthy for either party.
Hmm, there could be a SC thread and a CiG thread .. then again you could do the same with the main forum as the people complaining about fdev's wrongs drown out conversations about actually playing the game
Main forum already works this way, people who actually play the game are in Features of Elite.
Because that's what I thought you were doing. But apparently not, so ok.
I fear we'll just have to disagree on the wisdom of supporting undeveloped games with considerable amounts of money
I too have occasionally poked this thread on the basis of the same material being repeated ad infinitum.
I've never used Star Citizen, so I don't make any pronouncements on either its various plus or minus points. However, I don't intend to use self declared alpha software.
I think crowdfunding is ok to get initial funding. Get the idea into a first working version that can be sold, and from there on build on it from sales of the first version.
CIG could have focused on producing the game they said they would produce for 5.5 million, got that out there, and from sales of the amazing super duper BDSSE they promised they could deliver in 2-3 years, then gone on to expand it. That way the risk would have been with CIG after the initial crowdfunding.
This is effectively what FD did, although they also stumped up most of their own cash to make it, plus a loan. ED was make or break for FD i guess, they invested a lot in it. And it worked out for them.
Whether CIG could have made a successful release for 5.5 million is questionable, but they said that's what it would cost. But we will never know. Instead we have a 9 year old alpha that to date has cost somewhere in the region of 400 million with no release date is sight.
Still, it provided years of entertainment for fans and skeptics alike. Here's to the next 9 years of alpha!
The first hit is always free.
In this case I think the first hit would cost me $35 as I believe under the terms and conditions of the time, I am entitled to a refund as long as I don't actually use it.
Freefly cost 0, just make another account
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We all have different view but for me there is no other game like it.
Tell your friend to watch the SC videos from here, she can do a far better job than me explaining why.
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That's pretty cool.