Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

You'd think the SEC would start asking questions at some point.

Just join up in No Mans Sky it's actually out and has the exact same features that this game won't have either

Kiroy said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/...on-from-fans-now-its-raising-issues.html?_r=0

Oh. NOW it's raising concerns. Got it.

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“I’m already building the best game I can,” said Mr. Roberts, who acknowledged the bumps. “But imagine — the game I can build with $140 million is going to be very different to the one I could build with $10 million. If I can build a bigger and more robust experience, I will.”

This game is never going to be finished.

Tuco said:

I think if I saw an "actual work done" chart at the end of 2017 that compared the 2017 schedule, and it matched in any way, I'd be feeling much more confident about SC coming together.

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It does, though. This was their 2017 schedule:

Continue fund raising
Scope creep
Poorly spliced gif showcase of model

They're already done!

Can anyone tell me what is actually in the Alpha that people can do right now? I tried watching a stream for a bit but it is hard to tell what is going on other than some sort of capture point multiplayer fps map and some guy shooting at icons in empty space.

Denaut said:

Can anyone tell me what is actually in the Alpha that people can do right now? I tried watching a stream for a bit but it is hard to tell what is going on other than some sort of capture point multiplayer fps map and some guy shooting at icons in empty space.

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Sounds like you have the gist of it.

The sooner they admit that this game will not be an MMO, with MMO economies or game-play, and at BEST will be some Shroud of the Avatar "multi-player" space shooter, the sooner we can all stop giving a shit about it.

Brodhi said:

The sooner they admit that this game will not be an MMO, with MMO economies or game-play, and at BEST will be some Shroud of the Avatar "multi-player" space shooter, the sooner we can all stop giving a shit about it.

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I have lost even this level of optimism at this point. It is truly amazing that all anyone wanted when this started out was a modernized Freelancer --and here we are 3 years and milllions upon millions of dollar later all we have seen is a handful of shitty buggy modules, none of which remotely resemble what the original backers even wanted.

The whole 'We didn't know how much more money we were going to have for development!' excuse worked year 1... it does not fly over 3 years later when they have had a steady cash flow over the entirety of development. I lol every time I think back to people wondering if this or Elite: Dangerous was going to launch first....

This video sums up the current state of SC.

HE DID IT AGAIN

Well, that was at least 5 dollars worth of funny.

I got an email today about another shipsale, the Aegis Eclipse Stealth Bomber. I am sure some people will jump on this stuff but all I can ask is; Bombing? Stealth? How? When? And also, why? Please explain me why I should want a Stealth Bomber. Is there anything on the development roadmap about conquering (NPC) bases at all, right now, in the near or far future?

Bombers in the Wing Commander series were heavy fighters strapped with torpedoes that were necessary to slice through the shields of capital ships. Bombing runs involved a vulnerable crawl toward the target, waiting for torpedo lock while contending with support fighters and point defenses.

It's the sort of thing that you can do in an actual game, instead of just fantasize about in a tech demo pixel showcase.

I am at the point now that I know longer give a fuck if the single player game comes out and actually want this to fail to see the fucking fallout of the Madoff Virtual ship ponzi scheme. Ship sale after Ship sale, Larping ship shows with parodies of Top gear. That is fucking shit you add after you are successful and swimming in cash to add value in your game to create more money.

Mad props to them for skipping right to the swimming in cash part. History is written by the winners, as in, after this burns up they write a book about it and make even more money off it.

its like this Studio hired ZERO producers who could walk into the room and say, SCOPE CREEP!

I'm pretty sure the only producers these guys hired are Bialystok and Bloom. It's been a long con.