looks like shit

I swear social media people with a very limited grip on what "scam" and "grift" means are more obsessed with Star Citizen than us who actually play it. I log on to do some space trucking when I need to relax, or want to check out whatever new has been added. I've gotten more value out of that game in the last couple of years than any I've bought since. Many AAA games I don't even remember playing.

I backed it a lifetime ago and have gone back and forth between “it’s a scam” and “maybe it could happen” so many times that I just don’t care any more. As broken as it is and as slow as progress has been, there has never been anything like it. I check in a couple of times every year and usually have fun seeing the sights for a week or two. I think I’ve had enough enjoyment from it to justify my original cost.

Even though their goals are unreasonable, irrational, and completely mad, they have somehow managed to fund stable development for over a decade and have actually made meaningful progress. Will I live to see it realized? Who knows. I wish them luck for both their sakes and the people who spent big money on this ridiculous dream, but unlike many others, I have no hard feelings personally. I’d like to see it realized someday, but I have no more money to give them even if I wanted to.

I spent 40$ on it back in 2013. I looked forward to playing the single player campaign.

Then I found a girl. Went through university. Got a career. Had two kids. Got a divorce. And now I have time to play it again, but feel like I've mostly grown out of gaming.

GG Chris Roberts.

My friends were very excitedly talking about setting up a corp in this when it was first announced.

They wanted my buy-in, and I asked if I could be head of HR, to which they said "yes".

So I bought it, created our corp, and performed my ideal goal: set up a corp recruitment posting called "entry-level Star Citizen player" which required 10+ years in Star Citizen.

We're now at the point where I have to find my log-in and change that to 20+ for the joke to make sense again.

Gonna get Senior Citizen before full release Star Citizen

Average Store Citizen player

We just need to buy another ship guise, they're so close to release!

$1 billion !?

That is insane.

Elite Dangerous had a budget of £8m... if Cloud Imperium Games can't release SC for a hundred times that amount it's because it's a grift.

That’s cause Star Citizen is a grift.

I can somehow understand the people who funded it in the first place, but who invests now in a project which has already been in development hell for more than a decade and produced barely anything playable. Every whale has already been milked - what return of investment can an investor expect of Star Citizen?

Game development as a service.

Me having spent zero dollars on this. Only interaction ever was installing that hangar thing back when it was the only thing. Maybe there was some demo when the space station first became available and some fps gameplay test.

Still looking forward to it. If the story is good, works on Linux, I'll buy it. I remember a decade ago being worried the Haswell and Maxwell PC I was putting together wouldn't be good enough when Star Citizen would drop. Not very concerned anymore

I love how they say "next year" like that was the expected release date to begin with.

I am ashamed to admit that I fell for the scam. It was 2019, and Pyro was right around the corner (except it wasn't, and wouldn't make it into the game until 2025). They showed off jump points with a super amazing megastructure ring, an in depth economy simulation, and lots of other really interesting stuff that has still not made it into the game.

Over time, I began to realize I had been scammed. The game just continued to be broken and lacking in features, update after update. Eventually I had enough and sold my account for good in 2024, with the 4th consecutive year of failing to deliver Pyro Since then, I have continued to check in and have not once regretted my decision to cash out of the scam. It is still a buggy and unfun mess. They have scaled back their projections for 1.0 from 100 systems to 5. Their idea of science and exploration is "go here and scan". It is a shell of the game that was promised years ago, and will never be able to live up to the hype. Overpromise and underdeliver is their mantra.

Man I wish I knew how to scam idiots like this

yeah but how sick is the game gonna be after $1 billion in funding

Note that Duke Nukem Forever released (poorly) before this travesty.

I've played elite dangerous for 4k hours. Done everything there is to do in that game. Had a great time. Glad I chose that game instead of the SC scam.