Tbh I feel like things StarCitizen was promising: explorable galaxy with detailed ships and space to space combat with social components and some kind of economy, games like Elite Dangerous and Eve delivered years ago.
For anything beyond it’s highly unlikely they ever will deliver.
The scope and pace of delevopment is just too large to come close to any kind of completion those games have even in 10 or 20 years. Anyone sane enough to see this has moved on to actual, real games either MP ones like the ones mentioned or singleplayer ones that fulfill the fantasy of being a trader in space like No Man’s Sky or X4 foundations. So now all that’s left is the believers.
As long as it’s a pipe dream the game can be anything to anyone. It doesn’t need to have functioning combat, physics or even run on most hardeware. All in-game problems will eventually be fixed just a little further down the road and SC can be exactly all the things you dreamed of! You’re invested since 2012 so what do you have to worry about, it’s come such a long way since then!
Especially since like with small indie games or competitve games at the highest level you can interact with people in the community: other financially or emotionally invested people just like yourself and you can meme fringe opinions about what changes they should make to the game into existence. Especially since the community of actual players is quite small…
I personally don’t think SC will ever be close to any kind of finished product. They will probably be releasing new ships for people to buy for as long as someone will pay for them and they legally can but there will be no finished game. Not in 10 years nor 20.
To finish the game would be to kill all the individual hopes and dreams of every SC backer, anyone emotionally invested enough to make or watch content of the game, anyone who bought in when it was on kickstarter.
Maybe SC is the only true forever game, that is developed for the rest of the humanities existence. Even a narrow slice of the pie, a single player story campaign with a start and finish, Squadron 42 was originally set to release in 2014 (yes fourteen) and then delayed again and again until 2020. We have 2026 now and the game is still not released. If they don’t even manage that, how on earth will they get the basics done for the actual big MMO Star Citizen?
I do, but with little hope only. Will not pay or waste time in the current stage.
Tbh I feel like things StarCitizen was promising: explorable galaxy with detailed ships and space to space combat with social components and some kind of economy, games like Elite Dangerous and Eve delivered years ago.
For anything beyond it’s highly unlikely they ever will deliver. The scope and pace of delevopment is just too large to come close to any kind of completion those games have even in 10 or 20 years. Anyone sane enough to see this has moved on to actual, real games either MP ones like the ones mentioned or singleplayer ones that fulfill the fantasy of being a trader in space like No Man’s Sky or X4 foundations. So now all that’s left is the believers.
As long as it’s a pipe dream the game can be anything to anyone. It doesn’t need to have functioning combat, physics or even run on most hardeware. All in-game problems will eventually be fixed just a little further down the road and SC can be exactly all the things you dreamed of! You’re invested since 2012 so what do you have to worry about, it’s come such a long way since then!
Especially since like with small indie games or competitve games at the highest level you can interact with people in the community: other financially or emotionally invested people just like yourself and you can meme fringe opinions about what changes they should make to the game into existence. Especially since the community of actual players is quite small…
I personally don’t think SC will ever be close to any kind of finished product. They will probably be releasing new ships for people to buy for as long as someone will pay for them and they legally can but there will be no finished game. Not in 10 years nor 20.
To finish the game would be to kill all the individual hopes and dreams of every SC backer, anyone emotionally invested enough to make or watch content of the game, anyone who bought in when it was on kickstarter.
Maybe SC is the only true forever game, that is developed for the rest of the humanities existence. Even a narrow slice of the pie, a single player story campaign with a start and finish, Squadron 42 was originally set to release in 2014 (yes fourteen) and then delayed again and again until 2020. We have 2026 now and the game is still not released. If they don’t even manage that, how on earth will they get the basics done for the actual big MMO Star Citizen?