Everytime i see star citizen it frustrates me because the comments are 90% dumb. It has predatory monetization, it has been in development hell, it has been a great disappointment to many people.
Its not a scam. You can pay money and log into the game right now and play. Theyve done some technically very impressive stuff (that doesnt help the game at all, potentially hurts it, definitely contributes to the devlopment hell), and people do have fun. There is an actual game with mechanics. I would argue those mechanics arent fleshed out or fun enough and dont work well, but thats subjective.
I paid like $20 very early on knowing backing things is a risk. It didnt really pay off for what i wanted, but i still had some fun flying ships around, racing them and exploring. I dont recommend it, its ran terribly and performance is bad for obvious reasons, etc. but its still not a scam or equivalent to slop.
It’s less a game and more a sim. They’ll not fix broken box missions, but spend weeks on fart mechanics. Either they are incompetent or intentionally stalling. I personally believe the latter.
They don’t intend to leave alpha because they’re making money from ship sales. It’s pretty, but it’s not fun when you run, and boom, you dead. 45 mins to get back there.
They can still sell ships after releasing the game. Sure there will be a bit of a shitstorm they promised not to do that but their cult will survive it.
It’s a scam like a Ponzi scheme is a scam. Nothing they have promised has been delivered in over ten years. They have lied countless times to get more backer money. The original concept for the Kickstarter was tossed out long ago, those people definitely got scammed! They were told too bad the scope changed after the kickstarter! It is a fucking scam and I’ll die on that hill.
I wouldn’t call it a scam either. Just another shitty game farming whales. They actually refunded me so there’s that. I wasted an hour of my life on that thing.
It’s a shame because you can see the potential, there’s nothing else quite like it. You can wake up in your apartment, walk around the city/base you’re in, take a train to the spaceport, find your hangar, get in your ship, start your ship, take off and go somewhere. It has potential to be incredibly immersive but it’s beyond clear the devs don’t care about making it into a good game.
The controls are totally bizarre, unintuitive, and poorly designed. Everything you do is bugged in some way. The performance is ass. Terrible and confusing HUD design. The game is a complete chore to play. Got my refund and I’ll never even consider going back.
You can. And you can also make yourself a bearded lady avatar. I recommend trying it out during one of their periodic free play weekends. You’ll either quickly work out what you hate about the game, or you have a higher tolerance for glitches than I did.
They have that. There is first person shooting. Theres an entire separate game mode for it ontop of it being in the world. That was like one of the very first things they added. And one of the first dumb huge time consuming things they did was make first person and third person visuals line up completely
Correct, it is a development nightmare yes, it is beyond ridiculously delayed, it is overhyped, it is overpriced, it is predatory, it is stupid in countless ways, but a scam is intentionally fraudulent and anyone making that claim of Star Citizen is being disingenuous. It is a game being actively developed by idiotic, toxic, malignant narcissists powered largely by self-absorbed vanity, but that’s not the same thing as a scam perpetrated by fraudsters. They’re both very, very bad, but they’re also very, very much not the same thing and we should stop confusing such basic concepts with each other.
Bernie Madoff and Sam Bankman-Fried didn’t start their companies with the intention to defraud their customers. But they quickly found themselves in too deep and the only thing they could do was ask for money to keep it afloat as long as they could. The only difference between those ventures and Star Citizen is that Star Citizen hasn’t collapsed under its own weight yet.
I played it a bit during a “free weekend” a few years back. It felt lifeless and dull. Then I discovered how long it was going to take to get to the next planet/asteroid/whatever the objective was in my ship for the sake of “realism” and I was out.
It’s no different than all those NFT based games from 6 years ago, only this is 10x bigger than any of them ever got. No actual game will ever be released, everyone who paid as much on a digital ship as an actual used car will ever get to properly fly it as they were promised.
That is obvious nonsense. While it is an everlasting beta version it contains a lot of content and innovative stuff. It just doesn’t really work and likely never will. NFT cash grabs on the other side had little to no content, certainly no innovative code at all. The comoarison diesn’t fly.
Everytime i see star citizen it frustrates me because the comments are 90% dumb. It has predatory monetization, it has been in development hell, it has been a great disappointment to many people.
Its not a scam. You can pay money and log into the game right now and play. Theyve done some technically very impressive stuff (that doesnt help the game at all, potentially hurts it, definitely contributes to the devlopment hell), and people do have fun. There is an actual game with mechanics. I would argue those mechanics arent fleshed out or fun enough and dont work well, but thats subjective.
I paid like $20 very early on knowing backing things is a risk. It didnt really pay off for what i wanted, but i still had some fun flying ships around, racing them and exploring. I dont recommend it, its ran terribly and performance is bad for obvious reasons, etc. but its still not a scam or equivalent to slop.
It’s less a game and more a sim. They’ll not fix broken box missions, but spend weeks on fart mechanics. Either they are incompetent or intentionally stalling. I personally believe the latter.
They don’t intend to leave alpha because they’re making money from ship sales. It’s pretty, but it’s not fun when you run, and boom, you dead. 45 mins to get back there.
Even scams have valid products behind them.
They can still sell ships after releasing the game. Sure there will be a bit of a shitstorm they promised not to do that but their cult will survive it.
That’s a fair point. We’ll see. Do they even have a viable post-release business model?
My guess is that if they get there (a very big if) then they will just copy a microtransactions model that every online game has.
No, it’s a scam. Hard disagree.
It’s hard to disagree with such a compelling counterargument
If fairness: nuh uh
It’s a scam like a Ponzi scheme is a scam. Nothing they have promised has been delivered in over ten years. They have lied countless times to get more backer money. The original concept for the Kickstarter was tossed out long ago, those people definitely got scammed! They were told too bad the scope changed after the kickstarter! It is a fucking scam and I’ll die on that hill.
Whether it’s technically a scam or not, the naming just makes it far too easy to refer to it as Scam Citizen.
I wouldn’t call it a scam either. Just another shitty game farming whales. They actually refunded me so there’s that. I wasted an hour of my life on that thing.
It’s a shame because you can see the potential, there’s nothing else quite like it. You can wake up in your apartment, walk around the city/base you’re in, take a train to the spaceport, find your hangar, get in your ship, start your ship, take off and go somewhere. It has potential to be incredibly immersive but it’s beyond clear the devs don’t care about making it into a good game.
The controls are totally bizarre, unintuitive, and poorly designed. Everything you do is bugged in some way. The performance is ass. Terrible and confusing HUD design. The game is a complete chore to play. Got my refund and I’ll never even consider going back.
Can you make yourself a ridiculously hot avatar? If not, I’m not interested.
You can. And you can also make yourself a bearded lady avatar. I recommend trying it out during one of their periodic free play weekends. You’ll either quickly work out what you hate about the game, or you have a higher tolerance for glitches than I did.
That’s ThirstCitizen
ThirstCitizen is a great movie by the way.
I think you can lol, but it’s been a couple years now. I’d say it’s not worth it anyway. Stick to bg3 if you want to be hot and bang other hot people.
Definition of scam: to deceive and defraud (someone)
I dunno man. They made a ton of promises in the past decade. Wasn’t there supposed to be a first person shooter?
That’s pretty deceiving.
They have that. There is first person shooting. Theres an entire separate game mode for it ontop of it being in the world. That was like one of the very first things they added. And one of the first dumb huge time consuming things they did was make first person and third person visuals line up completely
Squadron 42 is what they are talking about. And its not out yet. https://starcitizen.tools/Squadron_42
Please keep in mind that 42 was to be the quick thing that was to tie people over until star citizen was further along. It was announced 13 years ago.
Correct, it is a development nightmare yes, it is beyond ridiculously delayed, it is overhyped, it is overpriced, it is predatory, it is stupid in countless ways, but a scam is intentionally fraudulent and anyone making that claim of Star Citizen is being disingenuous. It is a game being actively developed by idiotic, toxic, malignant narcissists powered largely by self-absorbed vanity, but that’s not the same thing as a scam perpetrated by fraudsters. They’re both very, very bad, but they’re also very, very much not the same thing and we should stop confusing such basic concepts with each other.
Bernie Madoff and Sam Bankman-Fried didn’t start their companies with the intention to defraud their customers. But they quickly found themselves in too deep and the only thing they could do was ask for money to keep it afloat as long as they could. The only difference between those ventures and Star Citizen is that Star Citizen hasn’t collapsed under its own weight yet.
Yes scam citizen is intentionally fraudulent. It’s a scam.
They did go all in on false advertising, so I’d consider that intentionally fraudulent
I played it a bit during a “free weekend” a few years back. It felt lifeless and dull. Then I discovered how long it was going to take to get to the next planet/asteroid/whatever the objective was in my ship for the sake of “realism” and I was out.
It’s no different than all those NFT based games from 6 years ago, only this is 10x bigger than any of them ever got. No actual game will ever be released, everyone who paid as much on a digital ship as an actual used car will ever get to properly fly it as they were promised.
That is obvious nonsense. While it is an everlasting beta version it contains a lot of content and innovative stuff. It just doesn’t really work and likely never will. NFT cash grabs on the other side had little to no content, certainly no innovative code at all. The comoarison diesn’t fly.