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Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' (wccftech.com)

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[-] Cagi@lemmy.ca -5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Squadron 42 is feature complete and is in optimization and polish phase. 30-40 hour campaign. It looks amazing. This was released this weekend, played live not prerecorded.

https://youtu.be/1H-0x4xk2Xk?si=Q3SmA_skltVVUkiy

[-] Banzai51@midwest.social 11 points 2 weeks ago

They claimed it was feature complete in 2023. And now they claim it is two years away from release. You really think polish and optimization takes three years? Of course, they've claimed it is just two years away every year since 2016.

They are lying to you.

[-] Cagi@lemmy.ca -4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Lol, one of us certainly has been lied to. Your last point is blatantly false, your first is based on your guess about how AAA game design works. Maybe it does take 3 years with a game this big, I don't know. I'll trust the many, many game devs who actually play the game and roll their eyes at comments like yours.

I've actually played the game, bought it and have no regrets. Hundreds of hours, new friends, new experiences. You passively absorbed the groupthink. I don't care if it ever finishes, I've gotten more than enough fun per dollar out this game already. Cry about it if you want, just do it quietly.

[-] Banzai51@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

I've played the game since 2015 when all we could do was walk around a hanger. When it comes to where SQ42 is at, we are being lied to about where it is. Them saying at Citcon that SQ42 is just 2 more years away is a dead giveaway that they are absolutely no where near a release, and the 2026 year is pure fiction. Like I said, they've been saying 2 years away since 2016.

[-] Cagi@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I remember that one hangar! Oh nostalgia. You should try it again there's a game there now.

They haven't been saying two years away every since since 2016. It's a running joke that they say it every year, but it's not actually happening. That one in 2016 made everyone facepalm, even employees. Chris Robert's is pathalogically optimistic about a lot of things, lol. Even in the Star Citizen community, we make fun of that sort of thing. We paid for Star Citizen early access, we have Star Citizen early access. If we get Squadron 42 as well, great! If not, it's not that big a deal. Disappointing, but the world will go on.

I think they believe their times when we say them. The scope of things said after the 2 years thing in 2016 increased by quite a bit when their funding had another boom. They aren't intentional lies so much as just being wrong an feature creep making dust of previous plans. But they have a lot more to show now than they did before, it is being made in good faith. It's just had a slow start to build the studio from nothing and a lot of budget increases.

It's definitely got a Duke Nukem Forever type problem. We will see a finished game one day, but the development has seen a lot of design changes partway through. We'll see if we end up with a mess, but we will end up with something, I believe. And again, if not, it's still just a videogame. We'll live.