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Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours (techraptor.net)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You know you can literally play the game right now?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You can play an alpha build of an unfinished game.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

Pre-alpha build. After more than a decade.

If Star Citizen is a person it would be starting junior high/middle school now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The state of Star Citizen is right now is on par with a lot of games on "release." This is as much an insult to the gaming industry in general as it is a compliment to Star Citizen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

it's just a straight-up fact that games ARE more complex now than they used to be, you can recreate og DOOM in just a few weeks, but RDR2, a game that had a ready engine, and a lot of assets was already in development while the first RDR wasn't out yet, that's 8 years of straight up development

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Technically true, you can play the current build of a game that's been in perpetual development with distractive milestones continually added so as to distract you from the promises made in years past.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It's so frustrating to see people in this thread posting objectively false statements about SC. Yes, it's behind schedule and yes it suffers from scope creep. But it's not a scam and it's not vaporware. People who give them money know exactly what they are getting into. You can buy a ship now and fly it immediately. You can spend hundreds of hours in the game in it's current state. Even pointing out that it's playable gets downvotes.