The Star Citizen Thread v9
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as developer themselves said, they don't start to work on Cyberpunk 2077 untill the end of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt development, the video they shown was to announce they have bought the rights of the board game.
Jacques d'Orleans
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Well, let's put a positive spin on it, this likely means that CIG won't have to waste resources on developing a functioning in-game economy. That should shave a few years off the release date.... .....no?
If it releases in 2020 ...that'll be 8 years of development plus Witcher 3 in the same timeframe
Right now, SC is at 6 years or more with no design, no completed engine, and a game perpetually stuck in a preAlpha phase with a release date of 2023...if we are lucky.
A nice trip down memory lane to August 2016 https://www.pcgamer.com/star-citizen-30s-planetary-landing-blows-no-mans-sky-away/
Just to add some more history from an air combat perspective - Falcon 3 was released in 1991 and 1993 saw the MiG29 and F18 addons (with new theatres of operations). What became Falcon 4 was also in its early stages of development from about that point onward. Those were truly game changing from an environmental development stand point.
What I will credit Chris Roberts for (because he kept banging on about it in the press) was pushing the whole cinematic cut scene, story based progression style of game vs. open world, realistic, "simulated" experiences into the industry. In a large way (especially after the WC IV with its well known actors) this led almost directly to COD and that whole paradigm, which the money men love(d) and was a contributory factor in the drying up of the simulation genre in the early 2000's. No publisher/financier wanted to fund nebulous game world concepts when you could pitch and get funding for "big explosions", "cool" stories and characters in a 2-3 hour game package with some MP arena based modes tacked on and enough player interaction to make them feel like they are "in control", but really you're watching a b movie (plus the rinse and repeat annual release cycle).
Of course, once you run out of "cool" stories and the graphics technologies get to a point of diminishing returns, development of engines with open worlds and avatar control and interaction come back to the forefront, but unless the time and money investment has been made then the clock has almost been wound back to the early 90's and you're starting again in a different direction with very few avenues to short cut the game of "catch-up" if others are in the market with an say an engine that has "open world" built into it from 20-30 years ago, cough...COBRA...cough.
I love how the arguments made in defense of SC usually backfire spectaculary
But maybe it was triggered by boredom and meant as a joke??
Ohhhhhh more then 1300 comments the first few are only minutes old
/rubs hands
I ll be away for a couple of hours. I HAVE to read this
edit: dangit false alarm, the majority of the posts is older then a year /sigh
I fail to see how people are getting outraged at Chris and the fanbase. How can CIG and its most rabid fans possibly be taken seriously when their response to all this is "well what is Pay2Win really??"
That is just one more sign of irredeemable failure. There is no way back from this. The reason we don't hear about it more in the main gaming press is because no one cares what a profoundly incompetent CEO of a company says, much less what his biggest fans say. The goons, true to form, have no idea when to stop. Why are they laughing at CIG?
It's like laughing at a clown. What are you going to laugh at? His tiny car? His floppy shoes? It just doesn't work.
That is just one more sign of irredeemable failure. There is no way back from this. The reason we don't hear about it more in the main gaming press is because no one cares what a profoundly incompetent CEO of a company says, much less what his biggest fans say. The goons, true to form, have no idea when to stop. Why are they laughing at CIG?
It's like laughing at a clown. What are you going to laugh at? His tiny car? His floppy shoes? It just doesn't work.
Indeed. And despite the press' excitement for the imminent 3.0 patch it didn't arrive for another 15 months and now NMS has leapfrogged on again.
I'd imagine most people probably think, 'yeah Star Citizen fans defending pay to win, that sounds about right...' and give their head a rueful shake.
Everyone knows it's an exercise in frustration arguing with people being wilfully stupid
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I'd imagine most people probably think, 'yeah Star Citizen fans defending pay to win, that sounds about right...' and give their head a rueful shake.
Everyone knows it's an exercise in frustration arguing with people being wilfully stupid
Yeah, I agree. I guess the vocally upset group is self-selecting; they're the ones who *don't* shake their heads ruefully and go "what??! How crazy!!"
I guess me posting like this is contributing as well. It's just a different tier of outrage. It just all seems so pointless!
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I really didn't expect to like Space Legs that much. After playing SC I love them. How much fun would GTA be if you were always attached to a car?
Is this the results of a poll or just a personal opinion?
Not sure if serious or being facetious?
It has no system in place. If it's "better" for you, so be it, but dont be dishonest about it.
Video proof, please.
I can play ED at 90+FPS and in VR. Please show me someone doing the same in Star Citizen.
It does.