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Star Citizen's first-person shooting is getting backpack-reloading, dynamic crosshairs, procedural recoil, and other improvements to 'bring the FPS combat to AAA standard' (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Carighan@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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Well, I mean, I would have launched it first (as an AAA game), but I'm no game developer. 🤷 And neither are they, from the looks of it. Good at perpetually raking in money for himself and his family, though!

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[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

What I mean is, "early access" is just release with the makers openly admitting that everything is unfinished and broken, instead of people finding out on release day. It's still a product X being sold money Y, just like a "real" release. And hence it should always be evaluated for what you get vs what you pay, not the promise of what you might get later. See also: Preorders (at least these are protected by a lot of laws in some countries), Kickstarters, Religions.