One day before CitizenCon 2024, Tom Henderson posted an expose on Cloud Imperium Games that doesn't paint a pretty picture for Star Citizen.
  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    It’s been that way basically since it first was available, they make so much money on whales buying the expensive ships that they really don’t seem to care about finishing the game.

    They keep adding more and more paid content you can buy, while the game is barely playable with incredibly poor performance, and constant bugs like not being able to finish missions, cargo randomly disappearing, cargo glitching into ships and causing them to explode, etc… And the game is generally just extremely unstable with lots of crashes.

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      and constant bugs like not being able to finish missions

      And since it’s online, you can’t just install a community fix.

      • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        2 months ago

        That’s where Derek Smart went wrong, I guess. He actually released his game, not realising that you can just sell the hype vapour on its own. Rookie move.

  • Phegan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I like the idea of the concept behind star citizen. I also like not getting scammed.

    For that reason they will not see a cent from me.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Chris Roberts isn’t a very good manager. Dude isn’t a finisher. He was forced to release every game he ever worked on. Now Roberts is in charge and he lacks the ability to complete a project. It must me something deeply psychological.

  • Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    October 28 new Elite Dangerous Odyssey patch lets gooo… Fuk Frontier tho for the ARX inflation and gatekeeping new ships behind it tho lol.

      • Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        They re-did reskinned power play, so all powers have all modules. Just at different ranks. And no more rank decay.

        New early access exploration ship gate kept behind premium ARX but, after 3 months buyable with in game credits.

        Supposedly a completely new game feature coming…

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      One of them is for rich kids though, who have overpowered gaming rigs, and money to throw away on fictional space ships. Sure Elite Dangerous has the whole galaxy, but when it just repeats itself, it kind of is just as good as one solar system really.