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This game is a scam at this point. Half a billion dollars and all people have gotten is a glorified tech demo. Yet they continue to sell ships for hundreds of dollars a pop.
I used to be a believer, one of my worst purchases ever.
I was so excited 10 years ago for star citizen. I played eve online and was in a corporation there with my best friends at the time, I couldn't wait until the day we'd all be standing together on the bridge of a ship and actually fly together for a change.
It's just been a downhill disappointment since then, with CR seeming more of a scam artist with every lie he'd make over the years and SC getting further away from that initial dream. I tried it a year or two ago and it's barely functioning, and even less of a game. I thought that by 2020 we'd have at least SQ42 for sure, but not it looks like they can't complete even that.
And the community still eats it up and defends the project vehemently. I've never seen such a fanatical fanbase that can't see what's in front of their eyes. And I'm still not even angry about it... just sad and disappointed.
I always wondered if Star Citizen became something that, in an effort to fulfill the ridiculous laundry list of Kickstarter promises, just got away from CR. It seems like an impossible project that was doomed from the beginning.
Without a doubt. You don't get to these numbers without trying to throw money at problems. But without proper planning and proper project management, that's all it is. Throwing money.
I used to think that too, give them the benefit of the doubt and attribute it to ambition and lack of experience. I just don't buy it any more, there's a years long list of evidence pointing to outright lies and misinformation done by CIG, cases of nepotism within the company and overall mismanagement. Even few years ago youtube videos documenting all of these in detail started popping up, not that I need them since I was there in 2016 for the "SQ42 demo was only hours away from being ready but canceled due to animation issues lie", followed by a sob story weeks later and then years of silence about state of sq42.
It's just too much to excuse at this point, at least for me. If other people don't mind it good for them but I'm done with CIG, even if the game is completed one day I don't see them successfully managing and maintaining it so it's fun to play.
Almost bought it when they posted the first Squadron 42 trailer in... 2019? The one with all those great actors. I thought it was almost ready at that point, at least the story part. Then I remembered to never preorder anything, when it comes out, it comes out, and if it's good, then great, I'll get it then.
I got in pretty deep for a teen without a day job, 375 bucks or so. I eventually saw the writing on the wall and sold my account on the grey market, but even then part of me was saying "what if it finished and I regret the stuff I have up?". We're years later now and I'm glad I played it safe.
Same.
I wasn't convinced at the very beginning, but once they had the hangar demo out, with that insanely detailed, intractable spaceship, I was so impressed I spend about a hundred dollars on it to "help development".
At this point I've long since given up hope this mess will be finished in a reasonable timeframe. I'm just glad Starfield is coming up and from the trailers and interviews it's looking like a suitable replacement.
And since it's the creation engine again, any major or minor mistakes will have a mod that fixes them sooner or later.