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That's amazing that 10 years ago it was obvious... and here we are...

Amazing things happen when you get 100x more funding than expected

Still may be released before gta6

It's like religion or something.

Well yeah, people putting money to buy several ships (instead of only 45$ for the basic game package) are buying into a dream. The dream of the perfect space sim, a sim where you can be anything you want. That dream has been growing since Elite in 84 and the X-wing games in the 90. So yeah, kinda religion for the space sim nerds.

Im certain they will deliver, no idea when, but they will achieve it so that’s cool for future gamers. If earth still exists that will be awesome as I will probably be near retirement and will have a shit ton of time to play.

PS: I only own a medium ship that I bought from the kickstarter funding back in 2010-ish ? I wanted it to be my flying space home.

It's coming soon! You'll see! It will come riding on the clouds with fire. And the backers will meet it in the air, and it will take them to be with it in the stars forever.

It's often middle aged men with lots of money planning to run fleets of tens or hundreds of future players that will never arrive in the number they plan for. The few who do drop by won't accept their terms, so the middle aged man with lots of money will have to either play alone or play nice to get enough people to fully crew his second most expensive capital ship. He won't be able to crew his most expensive one because he can't convince the crew to fill the roles of 3 necessary "engineers" who run around the ship during combat staying on top of changing blown fuses and maybe a shield generator if it blows.

Sometimes it's not middle aged men, sometimes they don't have lots of money, there are definitely a lot of backers who are financially exploited and respond to a lot of the bullshit SC's marketing regularly does.

I've played SC a lot. It's got some cool shit but it's absolutely unstable and fundamentally broken in a hundred ways, and the design is kinda stupid and incredibly naive in terms of attracting and retaining players.

I liked piracy and PvP dogfighting. I also liked having a medium large gunship with a little Fury in it. (TIE fighter) I used to stuff the gunship full of drugs (cargorunning but supposedly cool) and jump in the Fury I'd hidden (powered off) if a ship arrived, and chase them off or kill them. I got really used to that little shit, it was incredibly satisfying to barely keep my shields up while G forces were almost blacking my guy out, and whittling down larger ships. I fucking miss that patch. 3.21 was kinda sweet, despite it's Star Citizen-ness. Tbh in some circumstances it plays a bit like an even slower Tarkov.

Don't play Star Citizen, unless some time down the line there's a Free Fly where you see reports of good stability. I think that's very unlikely, but I'd like to see it.

I'm personally $90 in. For a long time I stuck to the $45 starter. You shouldn't buy either of them.

Maybe wait and see if the single player spinoff "Squadron 42" comes out and is well reviewed.

Box missions still bugged? Flying out the aircraft? Not completing? Dying while running?

I played a few years ago and refunded because even basic gameplay loops were bugged to non functional. It didn't feel pretty fun. Ended up playing No Man's Sky which was functional and fun.

They should just call it live service instead of early access.

That's my takeaway of the game. I kickstarted like 80 dollars almost a decade ago, still to this day the only thing ever. I got a ship and access to a pretty mind blowing tech demo. So far i probably played like 60hours per year, and it's time to download it again. I just think it's very fun and one of a kind. It can be super janky, and i don't think people should spend as much money as they do on this "game" that may or may not ever see the light of the day. people spend hundrets of dollars on call of duty skins and they then take them away with the new game that is always around the corner. There are nft games that cost 300million dollars too, and they are not games at all, just asset flips and blatent scams.

Some mates and I backed way back in the day and only really started putting some decent play time into it recently. While it’s definitely still in-progress we were all surprised at what they’ve done and what’s been accomplished.

It’s an absolute shame about the amount of feature creep the game has experienced but even the experience available now is decent.

Best I can do is three fiddy.

Bro stop teasing and just tell me where to send my savings

Idk I imagine that machine could bring in way more than 800M

That’s your example for 800mil…?

But Duke Nukem Forever was released. Star Citizen is more like Beyond Good & Evil 2.

He lets it poke out to give bystanders a whiff if they pester him about release dates and bug fixing and stability, then he promptly sucks it back in.

Honestly not a bad idea. He could slap SpaceX on half the ships, and the timelines of star citizen releasing are about the same as SpaceX getting to Mars

I'm sure we will