According to CIG: Star Citizen is in early alpha development (essential core tech still required, e.g. Dynamic Server Meshing), in early access, and playable now. With micro and macro pay2win/pay2skip transactions.
Meanwhile, Theaters of War, SATABall, and Squadron 42 are vaporware.
So it's early alpha development, ok.
Just giving facts you can read by yourself don't make me priceless.
SC is not yet at the status of the Valheim's alpha.
The alpha need at least all core mechanisms in game. SC still lacking some important ones (mainly SM), it's not yet near the beta phase.
Valheim having all of them in game, the game is near the beta status.
You want to call SC a beta in its current state ?
So it can't be alpha since it needs all core mechnisms in game? Like a galaxy map?
So basically their legal department allready says it is released game, not an "early" alpha, like our LittleAnt says. So why not review it with same standards as other released games?
No matter the talks of SC, they keep raking in the moneys. I'd say even releasing it would have no effect, or maybe sell more even. Why not then? CR doesn't wanna hear it.
Chris thinks its released.
Remember when he was interviewed by Gamestar.de in 2017 was it?
When asked about a 1.0 release, Chris said something along the lines of: what do you mean 1.0? We have 3.0 coming out soon!
I believe the ToS thing you have to agree to with every update now is solely for CR. Everyone else on the planet knows this thing is barely alpha, so it's only for that 1 fella in denial.
SC "large scale mmorpg" by 2027, Squadron 42 out within 1-2 years
Looking forward to its release. Will that be straight from alpha to release then? Another game seemed to do that earlier this year, but has a few hiccups.
It's not a tech demo anymore. Game breaking bugs are less frequents, stability is good and there is enough content and working gameloops to play it full time (if you can stand the bugs).
It's a working and playable alpha.
I never (like in never) said that Valheim and SC as equally playable. I said they are both alpha and both playable, nothing more.
Valheim is close to beta stage and SC is still pre-alpha with a lot more bugs and less stability. I play both and have fun in both.
So it's a playable alpha, or it's pre-alpha with a lot more bugs and less stability?
Ahh...
You can also read what is clearly written on the website
You see, it's written "ITS ALPHA" everywhere. And "ITS ALPHA" is not a ultimate defense but a perfectly valid point on a lot of critics (like "the game crash every minutes", "the FPS are low" or "there is just ONE system").
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Ok then, 100% Alpha and can be reviewed as such.
Bearing in mind it's alpha, it sucks they have no core game or galaxy map etc.