Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

Borzak said:

The actual story. Pretty much sums it up. But we've heard it over and over.

Exclusive: The Saga Of 'Star Citizen,' A Video Game That Raised $300 Million—But May Never Be Ready To Play

Video game legend Chris Roberts has spent seven years building "Star Citizen," drawing in money from average gamers in the world's biggest crowdfunded project outside cryptocurrency. The game is still not done.

www.forbes.com

Rough playable modes—alphas, not betas—are used to raise hopes and illustrate work being done. And Roberts has enticed gamers with a steady stream of hype, including promising a vast, playable universe with “100 star systems.” But most of the money is gone, and the game is still far from finished. At the end of 2017, for example, Roberts was down to just $14 million in the bank. He has since raised more money. Those 100 star systems? He has not completed a single one. So far he has two mostly finished planets, nine moons and an asteroid.

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Why not make it one solar system, nix the light speed travel and make it a la The Expanse. At least you might be able to deliver on your promises.

If you deliver on your promise the money stops flowing in. Keep the hotdog on a stick and holding it in front of them. Then the money keeps coming in. Why give them the cow when the milk is free.

Gonna guess once the game actually gets published as an actual game the party is over.

I remember many years ago( 7-8? ) when I was playing big in World of Tanks that people on our rank teams yapping about this nonstop. Some of them invested THOUSANDS and would constantly say that in a 1-2 years all other games would be dead and the investment was solid. I wonder how those idiots feel now?
Hopium is a hell of a drug.

There's been a free fly thing going on for this that I've been checking out for a few days.

Join server and see I can try out 5 or so different ships. I think it's been a few years since I've played the alpha so I pick the mining ship. After 15 minutes of making my way to some random moon, I scan for some stuff to mine. Find a mining deposit. Waste about 10 minutes trying to figure out how I'm suppose to mine. Watch a youtube video. Ok, so mining is a mini game of sorts where you shoot a laser beam at the deposit, then carefully increase and decrease the power output to get it in the sweet spot so it can be broken apart and then extracted. Fill up up my ship with some random assortment of ore. Ok cool...let's go sell this shit. Get back to an outpost and they keep telling me I'm blocking an active LZ and I need clearance from ATC to land. Ask in chat how I do that. Open up comms menu and click on the outpost and I get permission to land. Land. Go to vendor. No one wants my ore. Ok, let's try another outpost then. Take off and my ship explodes.

Respawn. File insurance claim to retrieve my ship. It'll be about 8 minutes before it's ready.

Finally get a respawned ship.Take off. Explode.

Respawn. Quit.

OK, fire up the game later on. Let's try out some of these contracts.

Pick the courier ship. Accept a contract to go pickup something and deliver it somewhere else in the system. Well I must have managed to pick the furthest pickup location on the map since I engage the quantum drive and I've just traveling for at least 10 minutes across the system. Arrive outside of some moon or planet that I need to engage the quantum drive again to get closer to my pickup waypoint. A few minutes later, I arrive 50km away from the pickup, no more quantum drive so it's just slow decent above the planet's surface. Feels like it takes another 10 minutes to get to this place. Get out of my ship and look around, talk to the NPC who tells me to F off and doesn't know what I'm talking about. Oh, I see there's a vending machine that you click and gives you a package to pickup. Literally pickup a box and slowly walk back to my ship with a box in my character's hands. No running allowed.

At what has to be at least 30 minutes into this quest I get to the drop off point. Open my ships cargo ramp, pick my box up, walk down the ramp and I fall through the planet's surface..

Respawn. File insurance claim. Let's try some Vandal swarm. I liked the X-Wing and the Freespace games, this should be fun.

AI is absolutely retarded and flies in circles and flies directly at you. Die a few times. Make it to wave 6 out of 9 and the next wave never spawns. Combat is tedious and all the background art is just distracting and serves no purpose to the combat.

Let's try some Star marines. It's slow and clunky. I play a few rounds and it's just meh for a shooter.

TL;DR
You really have to hate yourself to enjoy these Alpha builds. Everything is just unnecessarily tedious and slow for no reason. The real game is spotting where they've cleverly disguised load screens, which is pretty much any time you go through an airlock, sit through a pointless animation, or come out of quantum drive.

Aaron said:

So... Working as intended?

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They just need 7 more years and another $300,000,000 to get to beta.

Playing Elite Dangerous recently. Good game, has been for a while. SC has a long ways to go to beat Elite. At this rate, I'm seriously doubting they can do it before we all reach retirement age.

Playing the free demo for Eve many years ago for all of about 15 minutes mining an asteroid was enough to make me not even think twice about saying HELL NO to the idea of Star Citizen in the first place. I have no idea what you people see as fun in these spaceship games.

Elite or no mans sky? Been tryin to figure out which one is for me. Really considering NMS cause of their regular game support and the coming multiplayer patch.

ALL I WANTED WAS FUCKING FREELANCER 2.0