Ukerric
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Star Citizen Online - The search for more money
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Grim1
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About time they get some pushback. Dipshits giving them thousands of dollars and carrying their water when all it is is a fucking tech demo have allowed Chris and company to do nothing but spurge. The game makes great pics, but you can get AI to create that slop for free.
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Chersk
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Is this a copy/paste of a post in this thread from 5+ years ago?
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Brikker
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Mao
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I'll bite and give serious answer.
Chris Roberts has no incentive to launch it, really. He appears to be getting fully funded to pursue his passion/hobby to make whatever his latest whim desires with no external force like a publisher or investors that are forcing him to a market launch. If you look at the funding model it would appear the game is actually incentivized not to launch.
Its income year over year is increasing currently and a launch would theoretically limit the amount of ships and other pledge items they could continue to sell. Instead, he has come close to discovering an infinite money glitch that lets him indulge in his desires to just continuously develop his personal dream project and employ and pay his friends as long as he keeps showing some sort of progress and releasing new ships for backers to purchase. Eventually there will come a potential reckoning when his payer base gets angry enough to revolt, but so far to his credit he has done a good job of releasing enough new content and progress to keep the people paying the money coming back.
Eventually I think the game will hit a 'launch' that will have it slapped with a '1.0' label that in essence will functionally mean nothing. The game will still continue to get updates and new content and try and cling as close to its current funding model as possible until Chris Roberts decides he wants to retire. Then he will either pass it off to someone else to continue the grift, or transition it to some more live service MMO type game.
But... yes. Chris Roberts has been given permission via the constant flow of income to scope creep until either he or we die, whichever comes first.
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What if it's just a giant front for money laundering by cartels / black budget entities or whatever the hell else? I mean they have space drugs in space don't they.
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Mao
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They said the same day they made the 'announcement' of release date that they were trying to dodge GTA6. So not like they didn't preface their excuse at the start, but anyone that had two brain cells to rub together knew they were never going to make 2026.
It was obvious, so obvious at some point I have to wonder if they release bullshit dates and timelines in order to get the press talking about them and making noise. As it is, their payer base seems rather isolated from all drama and only the youtubers that rely on the drama for their views and income seem to care. At this point there is a cottage side industry of social media creators who make their living talking shit on Star Citizen and as far as I can tell, they have a 'working relationship' with CIG itself. Its happened so much that if someone got conspiratorial and told me it was on purpose I'd be tempted to believe them. Anyone of us could make more accurate release date predictions.
Tuco
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For me the conspiracy runs deeper than that. I think there is no golden goose and people aren't buying these ships in the quantities they claim. The current burn rate is sustained by "something" whether it is private $$$, money laundering, whatever. Eventually the game will be marked as "released", a marketing blitz will try to sell whatever it can and then the game will quickly die under the weight of the massive maintenance costs for such a giant, unwieldy game.