Are you seriously still saying SC is a scam? In 2022? That meme died like what, 7 years ago?
So they had it right 7 years ago? And CIg is proving it right. But not everyone who is new to SC or ED would know it's a scam till after...so its good always to make folks aware before. Over and over again, since there's always new people. Do free fly's, and you never have to give them another penny, and they have enough to finish the game. Or, they go away.
FDev does not have a very good track record of expanding upon features they implemented, ED is running on an outdated engine and years of tech debt, and they'll atleast spend another year updating Odyssey.
With a base game purchase AND another $40 purchase required to even get a taste of SC's spacelegs, FDev certainly is not giving SC a run for its money, at all. Lol.
They're taking that old engine probably further than they thought they could, already. And of course they'll continue to, since at the same time, they'd be making sure the new engine filled with the latest greatest stuff possible before switching to it. And with everyone saying the current engine is outdated, they must be making a new one right? Thats what some game developers do...make their own engines. Some dont...some use current ones like unity or Unreal, etc. Some use ones that were outdated before they even started, like CIg with SC.
And are you actually bringing up game and add-on prices? Go to your mirror, look in it, and ask yourself if you even believe you just asked that. LOL. SC has 2 things you can pledge that are under $50. Have you walked around the interior of those ships?
Many of us are disappointed we don't have two good space sims to play but that's neither here nor there, what CIG and SC are doing is creating a bad rep for space sims, and bad rep goes a lot further than good I can tell you that. There are people out there already comparing FDEV's current communication blackout to CIG's recent communication...um...disaster, and that's not a good thing!
Yeah, thats what will happen. When/if CIg stop getting free money, I bet they'll start saying how space games suck and noone should make them. It's not their fault, its eBobs and everyone elses fault.
Funny how you cannot cirticize FDev without needing to mention CIG...
Is FDev a crowdfunded company? No? Nobody needs to buy those ships to get the full game experience either, as you can just buy them ingame! Whereas FDev locks you out of Planets & Gameplay behind a paywall! No thanks.
Still at it? Look, we all bow down to CR and CIg's ability to deliver nothing, while getting millions of dollars. Just like giving a baby a toy when it goes poopy. Wait, the baby is still producing more than CIg, so not the best analogy. But all other gaming companies, who are far out of the crib, have to resort to things like delivering products and adding content to garner money to pay their staff. There is literally no other company on the planet that gets millions of dollars for actually removing things from their deliverables other than the big baby CIg. So stop bringing that up as some sort of issue lol. And while you keep spoiling that big baby, they aren't going to develop.
Less blatant? In what way? EA Sony and Sega are much bigger companies than CIG, they probably do it to an even larger extent, lol.
Zero! And they never claimed to have released any. I fail to see your point. Game company that released games has released games, game company that is working on games that are bingo still under development and not ready for release has not released games!
Are you trying to say CIg never claimed to a release date, so it's ok for them not to release anything?
My issue is CIG's
management, which is driven by Chris himself - he's a visionary and a perfectionist, which is a combination that often clashes with effective leadership and management skills. Furthermore, we've seen his management in-play in the past - with dubious results. Couple that with wildly optimistic projections of what CIG can accomplish within given amounts of time pushed by CIG's PR folks (and then pushed hard to the right), and backers like me who began really optimistic have become either hostile or jaded.
My frustration often manifests itself in humor or snark, so I share it here and over on Spectrum. Others seem to like it, though the resident white knights often waste no time rage-pecking that report button on me.
Look, I want to see SC successful, or I'd have not poured over ten grand into it. But my track record on backing stuff ain't great. I was a huge proponent of the Timex Sinclair home computers, which went defunct, the Handspring handset series - which was bought out and then went defunct, and the Blackberry handsets - which went defunct. But don't let that get you down - I'm sure Star Citizen will be different.
This is the thing, the management is to manage a scam. It's not that it isn't nice to look at and that it has a bunch of ok stuff in it. It's that what they promise is impossible to deliver. At least until someone else develops ways to achieve it. CIg focusses on jpg sales and making money. Fine. But they should just stop promising the stuffs they cant do. (which is a lot). CR was a visionary right after he saw Star Wars and played Elite. He had the ability to fix complex code with a single key press, while looking at a camera. But now? Visionary skills applied to taking money and delivering nothing. Perfectionist? Nothing is perfect, from a certain point of view so he's delivering that.
So here is a simple question. Do you, or do you not, find it somehow ethically questionable?
Yeah, but what can you do about it? Nothing.
Ahh, some clarity. You've thrown in the towel and now want others to spend towards CIg, so they've thrown in the towel too.
I mean, I bought the game when it was Alpha 3.8 or something? And I do believe I got what was in that Alpha. Thankfully, CIG provides free updates, so eventually, whenever that will be, it may include all of the kickstarter promises! NOT locked behind additional DLC!
No, you paid for a pledge, right? Can you actually buy the game? And are you still on the whole FDev is asking for money than CIG? What a troll lol.
lol, im doing the same thing. stuff looks so much better in odyssey though (runs and hides in case people are still mad about what the planets look like).
I'd say FDev is heading in the right direction with Odyssey, etc, yes? We want those awesome jpgs too, in addition to all the amazing stuffs the game has already.
you said this:
You use the term "backer", what does that mean? If people are just buying a product, why not use the term "customer". "Backer" has the donation/fundraising connotation attached it to.
CIG sells people access to an alpha game, assets (ships that are in the game), or assets that will be in the game in the future in which case they give you a substitute ship.
CIG isnt "asking" for more money. "Asking" also has the connotation of donation/fundraising. They sell stuff for more money like any business.
CIG sells stuff, customers buy it. Customers give their money for stuff to CIG. It isnt "backer money". Its the money CIG got for selling stuff.
Am I a Elite Dangerous backer sitting around while FDev asks me for more money while I wait for the promised "meaningful pvp"?
What is the state of that? I got an Aurora package way back in the day. At that time, I was under the impression it was a pledge. Is that different now? Or is it now considered buying an Aurora? Are there actual things to buy, or is it all pledges? Or is it a mix where some of it is pledging, some of it is buying?
I ask, because if you buy something, like Odyssey, it's different than pledging towards promises. The SC scam exists, to me, because what they promise, I dont believe they can deliver. But if they sell the game, no matter what they promise, you can only buy what is present. Buyer beware always, but you own it, no matter its state.
There's 3 firsts: discovered, mapped, stepped on.
In reality, that means Neil Armstrongs name is on the moon hehe and an ameoba for Earth named Frank...probably still around.