Why do that when doing nothing and stringing people along works just as fine? Remember you release something if you feel its good (enough) or living up to its promise. Releasing something disappointing might hurt your work and/or future far more than any delay ever could. CIGs constant "SQ42 is coming along very nicely" doesnt match the lack of footage, information, a roadmap or any kind of visual beartrap...it all screams "we have nothing" at me.
Maybe CIG doesnt know how an alpha works and tries to offer everything to everybody? Early Access, alpha, released game, doing great, we are not there yet, early days etc. This is groundbreaking really or rather, whoever tried to do this before got terminated by the investors or the community. Somehow Star Citizen manages to keep people on the hook despite all its shortcomings and the answer is probably only known to those into it same as an addict is the only one who can tell you what the fascination is about doing something he knows is bad for him (I d say CIG cut out the controlling factor and relies on clueless people for fuel - seems to work fine to me. Most criminal organizations work the same way ^^
CIGs focus to finetune existing stuff and enhance experience/performance over content or lacking features is supporting that suggestion IMO
Thats really hard to believe. Either most people discussing SC havent played SC than or they dont know the first thing about the project to begin with. Your sugegstion that this is "common knowledge" simply isnt true when you take a look at whats happening right now. What I agree with is that I didnt would ve called it that a few pages earlier but since its been brought up and it makes a lot of sense from a logical point of view I would agree with it. Yet many wouldnt because that would take away CIGs primary defensive strategy.....ITS ALFAAAAA
Star Citizen being sold as an "alpha project" where people pay through the nose to get a chance to participate NOT offering any kind of dev tools to support/enhance testing capabilities never made any sense to me to begin with. The project also lacks any kind of appearant structure or logical order in regards to development. It looks like the devs work on whatever comes to mind, stuff usually doesnt match in hindsight or lacks the required design/planning beforehand. Real project development also has a lot of boring stretches, stuff that isnt exciting, isnt great looking or "fun" but equally critical to the projects success rate. Maybe CIG is working on that too but because its as unopen and untransparent as it is nobody knows. As such Star Citizen isnt the opportunity for the average joe to "participate in its development" or "have a chance to affect how its going to be" but a hamster wheel only. Keep people "busy" and spending money. If thats the intention of SCs alpha thats quite fine also. But they need to "own" that than not parrot conflicting statements or do things that go directly against what they promise instead.
Words have specific meaning. Its not like Chris thinking that "soon" can mean whatever he needs it to mean at any given time. Given enough friction based on CIGs extremely bad communication its no wonder that at some point people will assume the company has no clue, no idea or even understands what they are doing. THAT is why CIG today is an industry joke.
Such things happen in live development yes. But usually at the very end when you try to prove/test consistency or viability of the whole. As far as we know Star Citizen is a long way away from that as it would suggest completion or being close to completion. An alphas priority should be to get the pieces in and working. How many of those pieces match or edge with each other depends to a great deal on the design paper dictating a base and ceiling in which stuff happens.
SCs bad coding has been named a lot for being the main culprit for the tech demos bad performance. While that can be true CIGs inability to change this (based on observable experience) suggests that its either A) not true or B) being outside CIGs capabilities. In case of A I would expect CIG to provide a reason that makes sense tho. And for all we know CIG doesnt have the first idea themselves. Because keeping the reason a secret makes no sense to be honest.
No doubt and them trying to get as much fun out of this before it ends despite all the shortcomings or impossibilities is called negotiating
Thats Sovapid earning his spot in the games development credits ^^
While thats true projects in pre-release usually dont even come close to the potential cash-out value they could aquire on release. Thats the point of development developers work toward. The point at which their obligations are complete and they get rewarded for their hard work. Pre-release participation is rather used as a marketing tool these days. Alpha testers "can" be a critical source of information or feedback influencing development but in reality most private people going for those spots simply lack the qualification and remain worthless noise instead. Take a look at Star Citizen. Most people describe their activity as "playing" and "fun" being the most important factor. Thats not how testers sound and thats not feedback that the creator can use either. People who sink hundreds and thousands of dollars into this project thinking they somehow support it or are responsible for its advances are glorifying a rather sad truth instead. They are addicted and look for excuses to spend more money. Thats about it.
The only project that I can remember that was going against that formula was RUST which was sitting in "alpha" for years unchanging while charging hard cash on its alpha state. And when RUST released the game world didnt even notice much because there wasnt much of a difference anymore. Maybe SC is going for that approach? I remember thinking that Rust was simply "cashing out" by refusing to call it done and ready and thinking rather badly of the devs for that. I do the same in regards to Star Citizen. Star Citizens dynamic worked back then as well. Whoever wanted to experience RUSTs potential had to pay full price and lots of people did that basically "throwing money" at the devs. And development slowed down to a crawl to a point where it seemed the devs simply didnt care anymore and why would they? They are already getting the money, they were not obligated to finish what they had at all. So RUST today isnt a whole lot different to what it was during its years in alpha. If Star Citizen manages to reach release I predict its going to be the same. What SC is today is what its going to be on release....quite the horror scenario ^^
Reminds me a lot of todays society as a whole creating flat earthers or similarly asinine assumptions (the virus is a hoax to control the public through fear). People who have access to all the required information but not bothering to educate themselves or finding an explanation. Especially when you are provided with explanations but opt to disregard, blindside or ignore them because they either make too much sense or cripple your own argument so you fake ignorance and bewilderment. Pretty much what revenant was doing just a few pages ago
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