But, but, SQ404 simply has to exist! There have been actors in it! There exists mocap footage! Nylon Wigchin played all the missions! The script leaked! I own a copy!
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It's taken them 12 years to get less than one star system, so at present rate your expecting Beta in 2072?
Chris Roberts will be 104.
It's a little confusing.
You think CIG is lying on the tracker about SQ42 or not ?
You believe it will be 10 years for each system once the alpha will be over ? That a car manufacturer that makes a prototype in 4 years will need 40 000 years to make 10 000 cars once in production ?
Well, there's a one hour video of SQ42 from 5 years ago. Depends on what you define as "game-play" - so long as you think that between cut-scene 'moving to way points, talking to people, putting things in inventory, moving to way points, flying to way points, moving to way points" - is game-play then you should pre-order now..except you can't. Oh...There's one bit about 50 mins in where they shoot a couple of pirates or something....
Actually car manufacturers measure work in velocity, much of that methodology has made it's way into IT through Lean based approaches like Agile & Scrum.
If Toyota hadn't finished the first car in 10 years - what would the velocity be?
At least that way they can predict when work is done by. Sound familiar,? probably not - CIG don't answer questions about when do they?
Toyota has already a company ready to manufacture cars when they start a new prototype. CIG started from scratch. 10 years for a multi mmo with AAA ambitions and a complex scope while building the company is not too long.
How do you know what the scope of this project is?
Anything more than three years and things begin to get stale.
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How many missions was that?
A car manufacturer that doesn't release a car will go out of business.
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Do you think CIG was lying when in 2015 they announced SQ42 for 2016?
If CIG was a car manufacturer, their prototypes would have square-shaped wheels, engine taken from a submarine, deadly razor-sharp door knobs, but the most exquisitely embroidered car seat covers and flushable toilet. There would be no security crash tests made, and "thousands, if not millions!" fans would've died crashed on the road.
Squadron 404 Episode 1 is supposed to contain 28 chapters, and from the $5m stretch goal it apparently will have 50 missions.
Every car manufacturer has started its company one day without having delivered any vehicle
They have apparently lied about it in the past, release dates for the beta and all, claimed play throughs and all, yes and info on the tracker and all. The more some person/entity lies about something the less credible their claims become, they don't become more credible. Now some may claim these were just premature announcements and they weren't lying, they were just mistaken, but we are talking about years ago, not a few months or under a year, but coming on close to 4 years ago was the last claim of a beta release for SQ42, why should anyone believe them now? Surely past history indicates we should be less likely to believe them, not more. Unless of course we are so heavily invested in SQ42 that not believing becomes a mental struggle, I mean SQ42 must be nearly finished right? It's been so many years, I have spent so much money (not me of course) that for them to not release it would be mentally traumatizing.
My guess is it was not lies at the time and they really played through the game. But this version was certainly less than average and the amount of money coming at the same time make CR simply restart almost from scratch or heavily change the initial scope. Chris Roberts' ego probably couldn't take the real quality of the game but also couldn't tell to the community that SQ42 was restarted because too average or too bad. So they say nothing about it.
