Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12
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When you eat your own dirt, do you need to convince yourself it tastes like grilled chicken?This def won't come back to haunt them
4 couches to kill a Connie!
I'm sure that by throwing a Pico Plushie a hundred times you'll also blow it up....
I have no concerns about the project's overall viability.
Zero whatsoever *
* which neatly applies to both
I like how some of these people clearly believe Chris Roberts came up with the concept of an open world. No, it's not other people coming up with ideas, it's people stealing Lord Roberts genius idea of having a space sim that allows for trading, flying, fighting, and other open world options. It's never been done before!
Also, honestly, at this point, any game is going to be seen as a "cheap knockoff" because none of these games cost $800 million while still in development. Star Citizen is a very expensive knock off, thank you very much!
I would love to produce a proper knock off of SC: you give me 1B dollars, I give you Garry's Mod.
You just don’t understand game development.
You don’t give people things after you’ve got their money. Just buy a yacht
LOL, Star Citizen isn't a knock off.
Wow, wait, what? I had to check funding tracker and it's still only at an affordable $721mil.
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You couldn't make PacMan with that. Too complex. For an ambitious project like SC? They need at least 10 times more!
Of course not. Chris has been dreaming of making Star Citizen since he saw Star Wars as a wide-eyed little boy!
Ah, but you're missing the Calder investment at over 60 million, the money earned through partnership deals, merch, sales of aUEC, subscriptions, none of which are reflected in the funding tracker.
Yop, that game that was supposed to come out on a tighter budget because of the lack of noisy publishers and the respect for the backers and their wallets? It has burnt through around USD 850M and is still in a tech demo state compared to what it was marketed as.
Now factor in Chris' claim of every dollar spent is worth 5x as much as with a traditional publisher and its the first multi-billion dollar alpha.
I'm sure after the big con they will pull in a few tens of millions selling habs or something.
And if the publicly available financials from CIGs UK-shell company is any indication, the Roberts Clan has siphoned away at least 10% of that via their Hollywood Accounting Shell Company Shuffle.
Still can’t help but contrast Star Citizen with another Kickstarter project I backed. The author of a webcomic I enjoyed wanted to make a graphic novel from it, and between being taken advantage of by shady printers, underestimating costs, and life problems in general, I’d written it off as a loss. Imagine my surprise when a package containing the graphic novel, plus some extras and an heartfelt apology about how long it took, arrived eight years later.
Especially the following year, when I discovered exactly how he raised that money.
It's pretty amazing the amount of money they have 'raised'. Coming towards $1 billion, makes your eye's water. Lets hope they celebrate the billion mark and tell the players they have a new goal, to raise the next billion.
For the game to be finished.. of course.
For the game to be finished.. of course.
Imagine the concept ship they will announce for the 1 billion mark con!!!