Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12
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The backers are the testers.
They pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for the privledge to test buggy software.
Personally i'm waiting for the fianancial sector to catch onto this.
You had to buy in to test ED beta, too, at first.
is this special tho? Other companies offer closed alpha or beta access for hard cash. Granted...usually its for the whole product you purchase up front and it entitles you to the whole deal but the procedure itself (charging money for testing access) is nothing new. CIGs pricetags and mumbo jumbo are special and unique but not in a good way.
I just kow that the "its a pledge, you are not entitled to anything" preachers are the worst cases of fanatics out there. Anybody who sunk any kind of money into this project expects the product. I simply dont believe that people hand out money for nothing in return. They want what they pay for. The ships, the extra benefits, the game. Whoever says his money was a "gift" is at best justifiying his expense so hard that he denies reality. Most people are demanding results for the up-front investment they made. And I cant really see that as "hate". Companies take their bloody times but CIG takes the cake in this case. When you could have argued back in 2015 or 2016 that people were simply impatient its abundandly clear by now that this has nothing to do with patience anymore.
Have you considered the possibility that you might secretly be a very horrible and evil person. Don't give them ideas!
Also, isn't that essentially Tulip mania or Beanie Babies?
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You obviously dont understand game development
Mind you, Im not sure I do anymore, they are making money hand over fist for now....
If they catch on and do bundled CTFs and the rest it'll be another 15 years before it collapses and somehow brings down the entire PC Gaming market.....CR on cover of Time Magazine 'The Man Who Killed PC Gaming!'....I can see it now
But everyone will be back when the next big update will hit
I predict too that we'll see a massive come back to ED when Odyssey will be out !
What are fans looking forward to as the next "big" update for SC? Adding a new ship or two isn't a big update. Tinkering with delivery missions isn't. Even adding a second system would ultimately just be more of the same. What upcoming addition am I, as a backer, supposed to be excited about right now? Or are we supposed to be pinning all our hopes on Squadron 42? I'm not being (entirely) facetious, it's been a couple of years of almost zero gameplay development progress, the "roadmap" has been gutted and replaced entirely, Roberts has been MIA for the best part of a year, and it's been a long time since what I would consider the last big update, 3.0 in 2017. It was awful, but it was undoubtedly a big step forward for the game. Everything since has been lipstick on a pig.
That is a long-time ED streamer trying SC for the first time.
In 6.5 hours, I think he flew twice. He fell through the floor by the elevator. He got a 30K. He gave up waiting for the bartender to respond. Objects fell through the floor.How the stream ended: ( twitch clip )
OMG I never realised the game was that realistic, that is true immersion!
But not for thousands of dollars, except for a select few. And as i recall, the top most backer is now one of the saltiest people about ED.
Also, the combined alpha/beta period was about 1 year wasn't it? 1.5 years?
Too late.Have you considered the possibility that you might secretly be a very horrible and evil person. Don't give them ideas!
Also, isn't that essentially Tulip mania or Beanie Babies?
"This is a portfolio in development. Changes in the the finished product are likely. Expect inferior performance and high cost. In exchange you can test this innovative and new investment approach before anyone else can."
@LittleAnt here's some info about one of CR's earlier projects.
Would you say that development only really started in 1992 because they had to reboot it?
Would you say that development only really started in 1992 because they had to reboot it?
24 for the chairman.
I like it. Not often that video games make me go "What the... How did he do THAT?"
Pyro system. And hopefully high risk / high reward pvp gameplay.
Why is his head upside down?That is a long-time ED streamer trying SC for the first time.
How the stream ended: ( twitch clip )
Not arguing here. Only stating there is already a trend to make customers pay for what should be "getting paid" if we take the 'test the build' thing serious.
Same here